Research Guides: ENGL 460: Archival Research Methods: Cultural Contexts

Agriculture and Husbandry

Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions by John Evelyn
Call Number: SD391 .E93 1664
Publication Date: 1664
London, Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Je. Allestry ..., 1664.
L. Junius Moderatus Columella Of Husbandry: In Twelve Books: And his Book Concerning Trees: Translated into English, with Several Illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius, and Other Antient and Modern Authors by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Call Number: SF69.L58 1745
Publication Date: 1745
London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1745.
A Compleat Body of Husbandry by Thomas Hale
Call Number: S509 .H3 1756
Publication Date: 1756
London, T. Osborne [etc.] 1756.
American Husbandry, Containing an Account of the Soil, Climate, Production and Agriculture of the British Colonies in North-America and the West-Indies; With Observations on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Settling in Them, Compared with Great Britain
Call Number: S441 .A5
Publication Date: 1775
London, J. Bew, 1775.

Sellman Family papers
The Sellman Family papers span the years 1828 through 1938 with the bulk of the material dating between 1850 and 1865 and 1886 and 1892. The collection contains several generations of Sellman family and business correspondence, bills and receipts, guardianship documents, handwriting exercises, household and farm account books, and diaries.

A Summary View of the Courses of Crops, in the Husbandry of England & Maryland; with a Comparison of Their Products; and a System of Improved Courses, Proposed for Farms in America by J.B. Bordley
Call Number: S603 .B72
Publication Date: 1784
Philadelphia, Printed by Charles Cist, 1784.
The Citizen & Countryman’s Experienced Farrier Together with a Valuable Collection of the Best Receipts in the Known World for the Cure of all Maladies and Distempers Incident to Horses of What Kind Soever, with Directions to Know the Ailment, or Disease by Gervase Markham
Call Number: SF955 .M34 1803
Publication Date: 1803
Baltimore : Printed and sold by S. Sower, 1803.

Government and Law

Praxis Criminis Persequendi, Elegantibus Aliquot Figuris Illustrata by Jean Milles de Souvigny
Call Number: BX1939.T65 M5 1541
Publication Date: 1541
Parisiis, Apud Simonem Colinaeum, Arnoldum et Carolum Les Angeliers, 1541.
A Relation of Maryland
Call Number: F184 .R26 1635
Publication Date: 1635
[London?], 1635.
Eikōn Basilikē: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings by King Charles I
Call Number: DA400 .C48 1648a
Publication Date: 1648
[London] : Reprinted in R.M., Anno Dom. 1648.
Eikōn Alēthinē, the Pourtraiture of Truths most Sacred Majesty Truly Suffering, Though not Solely: Wherein the False Colours are Washed Off, Wherewith the Painter-Steiner had Bedawbed Truth, the Late King and the Parliament, in his Counterfeit Piece Entit
Call Number: DA400 .C48 1649
Publication Date: 1649
London: Printed by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold by George Whittington at the blew Anchor in Corn-hill, 1649.
The French Kings Declaration of a VVar Against England: Published in the Manner Expressed Therein at Paris, 27 Jan. 1666: Translated out of French, and Published by Authority by King Louis XIV
Call Number: DA412 1645.C47
Publication Date: 1666
London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb..., 1666.
The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart.... by William Temple
Call Number: D273.A2 T4 1720
Publication Date: 1720
London: Printed for A. Churchill, 1720.
Early American Writings on Politics, Literature, and History
Call Number: E321 .E27 1800
Publication Date: 1800
[United States]: [Publisher Not Identified], [1800?]
Letters Under the Signatures of Senex, and of a Farmer: Comprehending an Examination of the Conduct of our Executive, Towards France and Great Britain, out of Which the Present Crisis has Arisen, Originally Published in the North American
Call Number: E331 .L48 1809
Publication Date: 1809
Baltimore: Printed by P.K. Wagner, 1809.
Discourse on the Life and Character of George Calvert: The First Lord Baltimore by John Pendleton Kennedy
Call Number: F176 .M34
Publication Date: 1845
Baltimore: J. Murphy, 1845.

Health and Science

Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Lesv Scrutinivm Physico-Medicum Contagiosae Luis, Quae Pestis Dicitur by Athanasius Kircher
Call Number: RC171 .K55
Publication Date: 1658
Romae: Typis Mascardi, 1658.
De Augmentis Scientiarum Lib IX by Francis Bacon
Call Number: B1170 1662
Publication Date: 1662
Amstelaedami, Sumptibus Joannis Ravesteinii, 1662.
Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses by Robert Hooke
Call Number: QH271 .H79
Publication Date: 1665
London, Printed by J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665.
Geometria by René Descartes
Call Number: QA33.D43
Publication Date: 1683
Amstelodami, ex typographia Blaviana, 1683.
A Plain, Elementary Explanation of the Nature and Cure of Disease, Predicated Upon Facts and Experience; Presenting a View of that Train of Thinking Which led to the Invention of the Patent, Portable Warm and Hot Bath by Samuel K. Jennings
Call Number: RM822.W2 J42 1814a
Publication Date: 1814
Richmond: Printed by Ritchie & Trueheart. 1814.
Observations on the Epidemic of 1819 by David Meredith Reese
Call Number: RC211.M3 R5
Publication Date: 1819
Baltimore: Published by the author, 1819.
A Series of Letters and Other Documents Relating to the Late Epidemic or Yellow Fever
Call Number: RC211.M3 B2
Publication Date: 1820
Baltimore, printed by William Warner, 1820.

Slavery and Freedom

Stoner, Anna: Manumission of Elizabet Samon, Witnesses Frederick Lampart and Jacob Stoner
Part of the Maryland Manuscripts collection.

Slavery in the United States; a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave by Charles Ball
Call Number: E444.B18 1836
Publication Date: 1836
Lewistown, Pa., J. W. Shugert, 1836.
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself by Josiah Henson
Call Number: E444 .H52 1849
Publication Date: 1849
Boston, A. D. Phelps, 1849.
Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana by Solomon Northup
Call Number: E444 .N87
Publication Date: 1853
Auburn, Derby and Miller; Buffalo, Derby, Orton and Mulligan; [etc., etc.] 1853.
Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball
Call Number: E444 .B18 1858
Publication Date: 1858
New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Dayton & Asher, 1858.
Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life by Josiah Henson
Call Number: 1858
Publication Date: E444.H523 1858
Boston, J.P. Jewett; Cleveland, H. P. B. Jewett, 1858.
Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life by Josiah Henson
Call Number: E444 .H523
Publication Date: 1858
Boston: J.P. Jewett and Company, 1858.
Some memoirs of the life of Job : the son of Solomon the high priest of Boonda in Africa, who was a slave about two years in Maryland, and afterwards being brought to England, was set free and sent to his native land in the year 1734 by Thomas Bluett
Call Number: E444 .J62
Publication Date: 1734
London, Printed for R. Ford, 1734

Travel Narratives

A Relation of a Journey Begun an: Dom: 1610: Foure Bookes.: Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote parts of Italy, and Ilands Adioyning by George Sandys
Call Number: DS47 .S2 1632
Publication Date: 1632
London: Printed for Ro. Allot, 1632.
A Tour to the East, in the Years 1763 and 1764: With Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks: Also Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom by Baron Frederick Calvert Baltimore
Call Number: DR425 .B17
Publication Date: 1767
London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1767.

Diaries and Scrapbook, 1820-1853
Part of the Brantz Mayer papers.
William H. V. (Cronise): Travel Diary, 1848, Tour Through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Niagra Falls, and Upper Canada
Part of the Maryland Manuscripts collection.
Pinckney, William. Journal, Includes his Impressions During a trip through New England
Part of the Maryland Manuscripts collection.
Quynn, D. M. and White, F. F. Account, Passage of Jerome (Emapaite) & Betsy (Patterson) Across the Atlantic [Baltimore City]
Part of the Maryland Manuscripts collection.

Utopias

New Atlantis. A VVorke Unfinished by Francis Bacon
Call Number: QH41 .B2
Publication Date: 1650
[London, 1650?]
The Oceana: And Other Works of James Harrington, Esq by James Harrington
Call Number: HX811 1656.B372
Publication Date: 1737
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1737.
Utopia: or, The Happy Republic; a Philosophical Romance, in Two Books by Thomas More
Call Number: HX811 1516.E743
Publication Date: 1743
Glasgow, R. Foulis; [etc., etc.] 1743.
The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq by James Harrington
Call Number: HX811 1656.B47
Publication Date: 1747
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1747.
Voyage de Robertson, aux Terres Australes, Traduit sur le Manuscrit Anglois by Robertson
Call Number: HX811 1767.R64
Publication Date: 1767
Amsterdam, 1767.
The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca by Simon Berington
Call Number: PR3318.B35 M4 1800
Publication Date: 1800
Baltimore, Bonsal & Niles, 1800.