Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--1850 Agricultural CensusEntry/Object ID
2012.007.0058Scope and Content
24 sheets ; 14" x 25 1/2" in 16 1/2" x 27" folder
Bayly Janson-La Palme worked with Lois Green Carr on economic data about colonial Maryland. Ms. Janson-La Palme then did her own work on economic data about Saint Mary's County from 1790-1870. She relied on census data, assessment records, estate inventories, etc. Her dissertation was based on this material, although the analysis in the dissertation only went up through 1840. The voluminous handwritten data was later transcribed onto 5 1/4" floppy disks using PC WRITE. That data was run on the mainframe computer at the University of Maryland. The disks, spread sheets, and other printouts are at the Hall of Records of the Maryland Archives.
These large sheets represent the data about St. Mary's County found in the 1850 agricultural census, organized by county district. Some of the lines are numbered. The columns include the name of the landowner, a small column for occupation, two types of money values, acreage, undefined symbols, single letter abbreviations that may refer to crops, and a few columns for identified commodities like wine and butter.
3 sheets for 1st district, 5 sheets for 2d district, 7 sheets for 3d district, 4 sheets for 4th district, 3 sheets for 5th district, 1+ sheet for overseers, 1 sheet for additional namesCollection
Janson-La Palme CollectionLocation
Container
Janson-La Palme Collection Map Drawer 5Drawer
Drawer 5Cabinet
Map CaseRoom
BasementBuilding
Tudor HallContainer
Janson-La Palme Collection Map Drawer 5Drawer
Drawer 5Cabinet
Map CaseRoom
BasementBuilding
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Janson-La Palme, Bayly