Harold O. Thomen was a member of the University of Maryland Class of 1928. This collection includes six photographs depicting electrical engineering students in class and driving a car to a football game. Several items, including commencement programs, were transferred to the University Publications collection.
Group of six handwritten business letters to and from James Thompson of Pennsylvania from correspondents in Baltimore and Havre de Grace. One of the letters, written to James Thompson by Magrew and Virdin, gives details of the damage to the Tide Water Canal and of the accidental drowning of its superintendent William Boyd.
Martin Tschudy (or Tschudi) (1740-1828) was born in Switzerland and came to the United States of America as a young man. In the early nineteenth century, Tschudy owned and operated a gristmill on land known as “Sly’s Venture” along Gwynns Falls, Baltimore County. The collection materials also record that Tschudy enslaved three people. This collection contains legal documents pertaining to the disposition of the estate of Martin Tschudy and his wife, Mary Magdalene Myers.
