Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--Inventories of WatermenEntry/Object ID
2012.007.0056Scope and Content
23 sheets ; 16 5/8" x 11" in 11 3/4" x 18" 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.
23 sheets with watermen's names on the left. Columns include date of the inventory, [?], occupation, value, fishing equipment, oystering equipment, crabbing equipment, boat, other, TS, MS+. The lists cover different time periods; it sometimes takes two sheets to cover a time period.Collection
Janson-La Palme CollectionArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
1795 - 1865Location
Container
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