Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--Statistical ledgersEntry/Object ID
2012.007.0051Scope and Content
6 folders ; various sizes
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.
Ms. Janson-La Palme did an incredible amount of work gathering data and creating tables. Computers and databases were new, untried and expensive, so what would now be an Excel file was on ledger sheets instead. She mined court and government documents for data on land holdings, land productivity, slaves, labor productivity, estate valuations, watermen and watercraft, and estate administration.Collection
Janson-La Palme CollectionArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
1780 - 1919Location
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, Bayly