Lucille Maurer served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and as state treasurer. The collection includes correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. Mrs. Maurer's papers cover such subjects as legislation, women in politics, and fiscal affairs. The Lucille Maurer papers are unprocessed, but preliminary inventories of several accessions are available as external documents.
Brantz Mayer was a prominent nineteenth-century Baltimore citizen, historian, and writer. This collection provides supporting documentation for two of Mayer's works on the history of Mexico: Mexico as It Was and as It Is (1844) and Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican (1851). The Brantz Mayer papers include diaries and notes kept by Mayer during his travels.
