Janson-La Palme Collection--Saint Mary's Landscape 1840

Publication

St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

SMC map 1840 top

Name/Title

Janson-La Palme Collection--Saint Mary's Landscape 1840

Entry/Object ID

2012.007.0064

Description

1 sheet ; 22" x 17" 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 outline map that Ms. Janson-La Palme had made to use for various purposes. The lines are in a medium teal color. The lines for the hundreds were whited out and Ms. Janson-LaPalme used a fine point black pen to draw roads and indicate landings, stores, schools, taverns, tobacco inspection warehouses, churches, lighthouses, and mills. Only one warehouse was identified over near Chaptico. There were several more roads, especially in the lower half of the county below Cedar Point. More locations were identified using small adhesive labels. Leonardtown was a black block close to the middle of the sheet. Near the center of the lower edge was a Key sheet pasted on the map. In the upper left corner of the sheet, outside the "frame," in pencil "Chapter I 1840 Landscape"

Collection

Janson-La Palme Collection

Publication Details

Publisher

none

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

None

Date Published

1840

Publication Language

English

Location

Container

Janson-La Palme Collection, Box 18, Oversize Series, Box 9

Shelf

Rack 14, Shelf 5

Rack

Rack 14

Wall

North wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

Oversize Series, Box 9