MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21201

Entry #1

Author: Trussell, A. L.
Title: Trussell Photograph Collection, 1937-1950s.
Description: 1132 photographs: 792 photoprints and 340 photonegatives; 21 x 94 cm. or smaller (photoprints).
Summary: The collection of photographs of Maryland subjects by Dr. Allie L. Trussell includes photographs of county line markers, covered bridges, dams, rivers, a ferry, rural views with landmarks, farms, the Monocacy River, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Call No.: PP2.
Location: Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

Entry #2

Author: Wellington, John Louis, 1878-1973 (painter).
Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Series.
Description: Watercolor paintings.
Summary: A series of fifty-two watercolor paintings depicting activities aboard the canal boats that traveled up and down the C&O Canal at the turn of the century. Cumberland, Maryland, native John Louis Wellington painted this series of fifty-two canal paintings during a September trip down the 184 miles of the C&O Canal aboard the “Cumberland.”
Location: Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21201.
Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog: http://www.siris.si.edu/. http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=ariall#focus.

Entry #3

Author: Various. (Mostly James Shriver.)
Title: Shriver Family Papers.
Description: Textual documents.
Summary: These collections document the Shriver family primarily at their residence built in Union Mills, Maryland, in 1797 and lived in continuously until the 1950s. The majority of the papers concern the Shrivers’ economic and political involvement in Frederick County and, later, Carroll County. A number of the family members – primarily David Shriver, Jr., James Shriver, Joseph Shriver, and Thomas Shriver – were involved in civil engineering projects in the early nineteenth century; these projects included the National Road, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Documents relating to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal are found in MS 2085.1, Box l; 2085.2, Box 1; 2085.4, Box 2; and 2085.7. See on-line finding aid at http://www.unionmills.org/findersaid/contents.htm.
1. 2085.1 – Materials in the collection relate to the career of James Shriver, a surveyor who worked on the C&0 Canal, National Road, and Wabash Canal in Indiana. Materials in this group cover the principal work of James Shriver from 1823 to 1826 with a number of letters concerning the publication of a map in 1824 for the C&0 canal project.
2. 2085.2 – The papers of James Shriver relate to his surveying activities and include a letterbook of his (1824-26) while he was chief of the survey brigade for the C&O Canal in Western Pennsylvania, including letters to the Board of Internal Improvements in Washington, D.C., and a volume of letters from the Board of Internal Improvements to James Shriver, 1824; there are also miscellaneous letters of his relating to his survey work for 1817, 1819, 1824-26.
3. 2085.4 – In mid-1823 commences a long series of correspondence on the publishing of James Shriver’s map on surveys for the C&O canal, and the letters of that year and 1824 discuss his efforts to obtain an engineering position. There are a few items relating to his work for the C&O Canal in 1825-26 with comments of his brother Joseph’s assistance. The collection also includes letters in 1829 about a canal connecting Frederick County with the Susquehanna River.
3. 2085.7 – There is a letter from Andrew Stewart to David Shriver, Jr., about a Chesapeake & Ohio canal bill before Congress, 1827, and one about the sale of the canal, 1843.
Accession Nos.: MS 2085.1, l; 2085.2, 1; 2085.4, 2; 2085.7.
Location: Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21201.
Source: http://www.unionmills.org/findersaid/contents.htm