History of St. Mary's County, Maryland 1634-1990 by Regina Combs Hammett

Object/Artifact

St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

History of St. Mary's County, Maryland 1634-1990 by Regina Combs Hammett

Entry/Object ID

2010.011.0005

Description

History of St. Mary's County, Maryland 1634-1990 by Regina Combs Hammett is an 11" x 8 3/4" medium red book with white lettering on the front cover and spine. It is 546 pages with many illustrations and an index. This copy has the text bloc cut away from the covers and some pages were removed for corrections for the third and fourth editions. There are loose sheets and photos and information from Kirby Lithography. On the inside front cover sheet : Mrs. Hammett signed her name 2 pieces of blue rules school paper, one with a holographic assignment of copyright to Donald Franklin Hammett dated October 2, 1992 and the other a holographic assignment of copyright to the later additions of the book witnessed and dated March 1, 2004 Folded blank sheet with three columns meant to prepare the index to be camera ready Small (3 1/8" x 2 3/8") black and white photo of Ocean Hall in the 1930s when it still had porches Small (2" x 2") folded description of the Tercentenary medallion Black and white photo (4 3/4" x 3 1/4") of St. Michael's Church and parish hall P. 539 of the index folded in half as an example of camera ready copy December 14, 1990 letter from Pictorial Heritage Publishing Company with a price estimate for publishing the book in three quantities, plus the die, freight, and mailers Page iii, dedicating the book to Edwin Beitzell and Loretta Wise, iv-vi, 1-4, 13-18 Page 21-22 P. 24-29, 2 loose sheets, one a carefully inked plan for Leonardtown?, the other a drawing of the St. Mary's Townlands from 1640-1647, 30-50 Page 223-224 Page 450-451 torn nearly in half Black and white photo (3 1/2" x 3 3/8") of Ellenborough designated 135A P. 115 on one side, 116 crossed out and re-labeled 135, the page includes a photo of Ellenborough and the space next to the photo is cut out Black and white photo (5" x 7") of the Calvert Monument in the Trinity Church graveyard designated 7A Loose sheet cut from a copy of Ben Tippett's Record Book of the mid-1800s that is a map of Ridge designated 185A Half of page 135 and 136, with 136 re-numbered 160 Half of page 231 and 232 with 231 crossed out and 232 changed to 273 Page 125-126 with 125 changed to 146 Page 303-304 with 303 changed to 336 and 304 crossed out Black and white photo of Seven Gables Hotel (5 1/4" x 3 3/8") with instructions on the verso to use the photo on page 226 because this photo was too faded Camera ready copy of pages 12 and 13 Camera ready copy of p. 539 Page 195-196 with 195 crossed out and 196 changed to 230. The text at the top of the page was crossed out. Chart of Chesapeake Bay with its page numbers cut out. A 5" x 7" black and white photo of Jane Mattingly was taped to one part of the chart and the original location of the picture, page 297, was crossed out and replaced by page 330 Hole's map of Virginia called page 8-9 wrapped around other pages 8-12 with all the page numbers crossed out Hand-inked map of central Kentucky around Bardstown and Holy Ground Page 347-348 Page 420-421 Page 452-453 Page 361-381, 383-384, 387-388 Page 329-330, 337-346, 349-356 Page 424-433, 436-447 Page 393-398, 400-407, 410-411, 416-417 Page 50-60, 77-80 Page 81-82, 84-87, 89-110 Page 111-114, 117-122, 133-134, 137-140 Page 143-146, 149-164, 169-172, 175-178, 181-184, 187-194, 197-198, loose sheet with layout for page 196, 201-208, 211-222, 227-230, 233-238, 241-242, 245-246, 253-260, 263-280, 285-288, 291-296, 299-302, 305-314, 319-324, 327-328, 357-360, 389-392 Page 381-382 Page 454-519, 522-546 This batch of pages is attached to the back cover/spine

Collection

Regina Hammett Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1990 - 2005

Location

Container

Regina Hammett Collection, Box 1

Shelf

Rack 11, Shelf 3

Rack

Rack 11

Wall

West wall

Room

Archives 2

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Beitzell, Edwin Warfield (1905-1984)

Person or Organization

Hammett, Donald F.

Person or Organization

Hammett, Marion Regina

Person or Organization

Mattingly, Jane Gough

Person or Organization

Tippett, Benjamin (1805-1876)

Person or Organization

Wise, Loretta Combs