Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--Early Menard MapEntry/Object ID
2012.007.0035Scope and Content
1 sheet ; 18" x 15 3/8"
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.
This is an early version of Russell Menard's map of the land holdings in the county in the 1600s and maybe the 1700s. The lines are drawn with a bright black pen, fairly heavy for the outlines of the shore and the hundreds and in an extremely fine point for the property lines. Some of the parcels are numbered, some are named, and some are named and numbered. Many parcels have no identification at all.
There is a compass cross on the right [which is not really correct] and a scale in the upper right quadrant. Some of the Virginia shore is outlined in the lower left.Collection
Janson-La Palme CollectionArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
1960 - 1971Location
Container
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, BaylyPerson or Organization
Menard, Russell