Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--1860 Agricultural CensusEntry/Object ID
2012.007.0059Scope and Content
30 sheets ; 11" x 16 3/4" in 12 1/2" x 19" 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 are thermofax copies of the St. Mary's County data in the published version of the 1860 census. Most of the sheets have gone to dark gray on the outside edges and some sheets have faded enough so the data is illegible. The pages are arranged for the most part by election district. The name of the owner or manager of the farm is given, acres of improved and unimproved land, the value of the farm, value of the machinery, numbers and value of livestock, numbers and values of commodities, values of farm manufactures, value of slaughtered animals. Each farm's entry took two pages.Collection
Janson-La Palme CollectionLocation
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Janson-La Palme Collection, Box 15Shelf
Rack 03, Shelf 1Rack
Rack 03Wall
West wallRoom
Archives 2Building
Tudor HallContainer
Janson-La Palme Collection, Box 15Shelf
Rack 03, Shelf 1Rack
Rack 03Wall
West wallRoom
Archives 2Building
Tudor HallContainer
Janson-La Palme Collection, Box 15Shelf
Rack 03, Shelf 1Rack
Rack 03Wall
West wallRoom
Archives 2Building
Tudor HallContainer
Janson-La Palme Collection, Box 15Shelf
Rack 03, Shelf 1Rack
Rack 03Wall
West wallRoom
Archives 2Building
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Janson-La Palme, Bayly