The Joseph Raynes papers consist of correspondence from British immigrant Joseph Raynes to his family in Bonsall, Derbyshire, England, describing an Atlantic sea voyage; the Chesapeake Bay; Baltimore life in the nineteenth century, including buildings, prices, and Lexington Market; slavery; the failure of the Bank of Maryland; and the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Cincinnati. Also included is news of friends, family and deaths.
The Office of Registration was an administrative office of the Maryland Agricultural College responsible for recording information about entering students and students' classroom performance. The collection contains student and entrance registers and records of recitations of the Maryland Agricultural College.
The Resident Life scrapbook was created by former University of Maryland student John Krause in the 1980s and includes images of resident life in the Washington Hall dormitory. Washington Hall dormitory was constructed in 1940. The scrapbook contains campus maps, articles about the groundbreaking and construction, photographs, dormitory rules, information about the dormitory from the Building Data Books, and photocopies from various yearbooks.
