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Items associated with name 'Mount Vernon (Md.)'

Eben and Mary Murray collection

by Murray, EbenMurray, Mary (1863, 1910)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

The Eben and Mary Murray Collection contain financial bills and documents for spouses Mary and Eben Murray. There are also photographs of Mount Vernon and Cambridge, Maryland. There are also letters requesting orders to local companies on the Eastern Shore. There is also a "The Season's Best" magazine from Kennerly and Mitchell Clothiers that gives images and descriptions of men's fashion for the Fall 1909 and Winter 1910.

Associated Subjects: Fashion
Identifier: 2009.132
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Louise Hopkins Dryden papers

by Dryden, Louise Hopkins (1906 – 2002)

1 box (0.25 linear feet)

The papers of Louise Hopkins Dryden document her experience as the first Somerset County woman to christen a Liberty Ship, the S.S. WILLIAM WELCH, March, 1943. Records include correspondence, photographs, and a booklet that documents the entirety of the Bethlehem Liberty Fleet. Also included are family photographs of Mrs. Dryden from her infancy in 1906 until a year before her death in 2002.

Associated Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 • Women's History
Identifier: 2014.024
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Somerset County Church Ephemera

by Unknown (circa 1930s)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

This collection consists of two pieces of ephemera from Somerset County, Maryland: a postcard of Asbury Methodist Church in Mt. Vernon and a brochure for "Deal's Island Joshua Thomas homecoming." The Deal Island brochure contains advertisements and a program of events that were intended to raise money for the church for debt incurred during the Great Depression.

Associated Subjects: Religion
Identifier: 2021.011
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment