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The Cheston-Galloway Collection

MSA SC 5991
Dates1681-1920
Mediumoriginal
RestrictionsRESTRICTED: Primary access to Series 1 through microfilm images, MSA SC 3541. Contact Department of Special Collections for access.
Storage00/26/08/shelves 6-8; 00/26/08/87; 00/20/04/shelf 8; 33/02/04/80
Location updated 2014/02/21: 00/09/08/50 [5991-1-4/6]; 00/09/09/50 [5991-1-8]
Description
Original correspondence of the Cheston-Galloway families, Anne Arundel County, including the eighteenth-century correspondence of Samuel Galloway and James Cheston; nineteenth-century correspondence of Anne Cheston Morris and Francina Augustina Cheston; and scrapbooks of Mary Morris Murray and a Murray family history scrapbook.

Series 1 containers: 27 clamshell boxes, 4 oversize, flat boxes, and 1 oversized bound volume.
Series 2 includes photographs and ephemera on deposit from the family, relating mostly to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, pertaining to the travels and life of Dr. Caspar Morris.

History
For microfilm images created of the collection, see MSA SC 3541.

An additional microfilm collection pertaining to the Cheston Galloway families may be found at MSA SC 633


Microfilm Inventory

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