Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--InventoriesEntry/Object ID
2012.007.0015Scope and Content
1 folder ; 11 3/4" x 10"
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.
There are tabulations and graphs in this folder:
Land owners per district/Slave owners per district [graph]
Distribution of inventories
Inventoried wealth 1790-1840 [graph]
Percentage of inventories with wheat fans
Figure 5
I think she uses the term "persisters" to mean those who appear in more than one censusCollection
Janson-La Palme CollectionArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
1790 - 1840Location
Container
Janson-La Palme Collection, Box 14Shelf
Rack 11, Shelf 3Rack
Rack 11Wall
West wallRoom
Archives 2Building
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Janson-La Palme, Bayly