Canal Mileposts

Researching the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Frederick County

 

ARCHIVES

The contents of this archival inventory have been organized by repository. The following chart allows you to search the inventory both by repository and by type of archival material. Clicking on either "HTML" or "Word" under the name of a repository will open a page that lists its holdings. Click on "HTML" to open a web page; click on "Word" to access the same information in a Microsoft Word document. If you are interested in a particular type of material -- photographs, for example -- scan down the "Photographs" column and click on the repositories that have an "X" in that column. Then look through each repository's entires for photograph collections.

See the ARCHIVE INFORMATION page for information about each of the repositories listed below and about the various sources used to find the archival materials included in this inventory.

Archives
Mules towing boats down the canal. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center, NPS Historic Photograph Collection.

Click here to open the following table in Microsoft Word for easier printing.

Repository
Total Number of Entries
Business Papers
Letters and Diaries
Misc. Textual Records
Photographs
Maps
Newspapers
Drawings and Plans
Films
Visual Art
Objects
Delaware                      
Hagley Museum and Library
3
    
X
  
X
  
X
      
HTML Word
Maryland                      
Brunswick Railroad Museum
4
X
    
X
          
X
HTML Word
C&O Canal National Historical Park Headquarters
9
X
  
X
X
X
X
X
X
    
HTML Word
Frederick County Public Libraries (Maryland Room, C. Burr Artz Public Library)
2
    
X
    
X
        
HTML Word
Historical Society of Frederick County
12
X
  
X
X
X
X
X
      
HTML Word
Maryland Historical Society
3
  
X
X
X
        
X
  
HTML Word
Maryland State Archives
12
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
  
X
  
HTML Word
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD
5
X
      
X
  
X
      
HTML Word
Pepper Scotto, Private Collection
10
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
      
HTML Word
University of Maryland
2
X
X
X
              
HTML Word
Washington County Free Library (Western Maryland Room)
21
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
      
HTML Word
Massachusetts                      
Peabody Essex Museum
1
X
  
X
              
HTML Word
Radcliffe Institute
1
  
X
X
              
HTML Word
Smith College
1
    
X
              
HTML Word
New Jersey                      
New Jersey Historical Society Library
1
X
  
X
              
HTML Word
Repository
Total Number of Entries
Business Papers
Letters and Diaries
Misc. Textual Records
Photographs
Maps
Newspapers
Drawings and Plans
Films
Visual Art
Objects
New York                      
New York Public Library
1
X
X
X
              
HTML Word
North Carolina                      
Duke University
6
X
X
                
HTML Word
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2
  
X
X
    
X
        
HTML Word
Ohio                      
Ohio Historical Society
1
  
X
                
HTML Word
Western Reserve Historical Society Library
1
X
X
X
              
HTML Word
Virginia                      
Alexandria Library
1
    
X
              
HTML Word
University of Virginia
9
X
X
X
              
HTML Word
Virginia Historical Society
1
X
X
                
HTML Word
Virginia State Library and Archives
5
X
X
X
    
X
        
HTML Word
Washington, D.C.                      
George Washington University
9
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
      
HTML Word
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
2
X
X
  
X
            
HTML Word
Library of Congress -- Detroit Publishing Co. Photograph Collection
1
      
X
            
HTML Word
Library of Congress -- Edison Co., Film and Sound Recordings
1
              
X
    
HTML Word
Library of Congress -- HABS/HAER
6
      
X
    
X
      
HTML Word
Library of Congress -- Manuscript Division
6
X
X
X
X
            
HTML Word
Library of Congress -- Map Collections
4
        
X
          
HTML Word
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
13
X
X
X
  
X
          
HTML Word
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
1
X
X
X
      
X
      
HTML Word

 

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