| Research and Educational Projects at the Maryland State Archives |
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| Summer 2001 |
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Jen
18 June -- Learned ecpclio (2 hours) Toured Law Library (1/2 hour) Scanned and linked Laws of Maryland Chapter 281, 1947 (1 hour) Reviewed chronology and public history web site (2 1/2 hours) Created web page for project (15 minutes)
19 June -- Read general histories of Maryland to understand context of the 1947 Sales Tax Law. (5 hours)
Read the law and scanned an article from the 1985 Ledger about the Sales Tax Law. Interesting -- Lane asked the newest Senator to back the bill. Need to see if that Senator sponsored the bill. (1 hour)
Began looking at Comptroller's Annual Reports (1 1/2 hour)
June 21 -- Comptroller's Annual Reports (2 hours). Scanned article from News from the Comptroller's Office, summarized what I've found on ecpclio, and began linking (1 1/2 hours). Finished links on ecpclio and did links on sources pages (1 1/2 hours) Looked through Governor Lane's bio. file and linked relevant articles to Tawe's page (1/2 hour). Journal of the House of Delegates Proceedings (2 hours).
June 25 -- Reception with Archives staff (2 hours). In Journal of the House of Delegates Proceedings looked at Gov. Lane's Budget message, his message to the House on Feb. 19, 1947, the readings of the sales tax bill, H.B. 545, and the resolution opposing the bill (2 1/2 hours). Reviewed House and Senate Journals for the Extraordinary Session, 1947 (2 hours). Went home sick.
June 26 -- Searched the House and Senate Journals for the Extraordinary Sessions of 1947 and 1948, the Journals of the Special Sessions in 1949 and 1950, and the House Journal for the 1950 Session (1 1/2 hours). Entered information into the chornology (1 1/2 hours). Wrote general history of the law as html file 1947tax (4.5 hours).
June 27 -- Revised general history of the law (1/2 hour). Looked through Comptroller's Correspondence for 1947 and scanned documents relating to sales tax law (7 1/2 hours).
July 2 -- On vacation, came in late. Looked through and scanned Comptroller's Correspondence for 1948 relating to sales tax law (3 1/2 hours).
July 3 -- Looked through and scanned rest of Comptroller's Correspondence for 1948 relating to sales tax law (3 1/2 hours). Re-read, categorized and began to link scanned correspondences (4 hours).
July 5 -- Linked rest of correspondences (3 1/2 hours). Found, read, scanned and linked a few of Governor Lane's radio, television and public addresses about the tax (2 hours). Found Sherbow Report, scanned conclusion, linked it to tax page and cited it on Gov. O'Conor's page (1 hour). Cited Lane's speeches and linked them to his sources page (1/2 hour). Found and looked through Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly of Maryland for 1945 and 1947. There isn't much there except statistics about the incorporated towns and counties in Maryland. Both years report before the tax and there was no report for 1948 or 1949 (1/2 hour). Tied up loose ends and returned materials (1/2 hour).
July 6 -- Found newspapers and asked for microfilm copies (1 1/2 hours). Edited essay and included stats (1 hour). Skimmed assigned reading for talk on Monday (1 1/2 hours). Read microfilm of Somerset County papers (3 hours).
July 7 -- Read microfilm for the Peninsula (Crisfiled paper) but it didn't have much. Still have to print the articles and scan them but will wait until after check Annap. and Baltimore papers in case they say the same things (2 hours). Senate Journal 1947 (1 hour). House Journals for 1949-51, took notes, scanned, linked, and put on page (3 hours).
July 9 -- Came in at 1 - jury duty. Went to law library and found Sun articles (3 hours). Scanned articles and edited them (1 hour).
July 10 -- Sun articles, March 1-31, at law library (3 hours). Scanned articles and edited and sorted images (1 1/2 hours). Read and scanned documents in Governor's General File (2 1/2 hours).
July 11 -- Read and scanned documents in Governor's General File, there were lots (6 hours). Saved documents and linked Governor Lane documents to his sources page (1 hour).
July 14 -- Linked articles to Lacy's sources page and read obituaries and articles already there (45 minutes). Law library research of the Baltimore Sun and scanned and linked them, April, July 1-15, and June 16-30 1947 (4 1/2 hours).
July 16 -- Came in at 3, Jury Duty. Linked articles to Lacy's sources page (15 minutes). Microfilm of Sun articles, not much success (1 hour). Reviewed scanned documents and began working on essay (45 minutes).
July 17 -- Revised essay and linked new images (3 1/2 hours). Looked through papers here for Carroll County for Comptroller Hering and the 1902 case Shriver v. Hering. Didn't find much - 3 articles in the American Sentinel (2 1/2 hours). Looked through, scanned and linked 1902 Sun article (1 hour).
July 18 -- Looked through May 1902 Sun papers for information about Shriver v. Hering, no more articles there. Will go back to look at papers when appeal ended (2 hours). Went through Governor's General File for 1949-1950 for Sales Tax documents, scanned and linked (2 hours). Back to law library for 1902 and 1903 articles. Found two about the -Shriver v. Hering case. Scanned and linked them to Hering's page (2 hours).
July 23 -- Rob's presentation (1 1/2 hours), deciding what to do and eating lunch (1/2) hour. Naval Academy to read Capital for 1947-1948 (4 hours). Started work on Robert Jump (1 1/2 hours).
July 24 -- Looking through secondary sources for information about the bounty issue and Comptroller Jump (7 1/2 hours). Found some useful information but VERY little specifically about any comptroller during this period.
July 26 -- Found LOTS of useful information in Proceedings of the General Assembly 1866 including the Preface to the 1865 Comtroller's report. Read through the parts about the comptroller and bounties (5 1/2 hours). Scanned Capital articles for Comtroller Lacy (1 1/2).
July 30 -- Finished going through Proceedings of the General Assembly 1866 and also went through Comptroller's Reports for 1863-1870. Lots of helpful information about bounties and the Comptroller's office!!! (4 hours). Linked articles to Lacy's sources page (1/2 hour). Hannah's presentation (1/2 hour). Began looking through the 1863-4 Comtroller's Letter Book (2 1/2 hours).
July 31 -- Edited 1947 tax essay (1 1/2 hours). Finished looking through the 1863-4 Comptroller's Letter Book (6 hours).
August 6 -- Two seminars (3 1/2 hours). Looked through Letter Book some more and began writing bounty essay (5 hours).
August 7 -- Continued working on the essay (2 1/2 hours). Cleaned up Electronic Classroom 2 for Slavery Commission meeting and moved my things (1/2 hour). Read through and took notes on ecpclio documents from the comptroller's bounty papers (4 hours). Edited sources pages (1 hour).
August 8 -- Reviewed essays for meeting with Dr. Papenfuse (1/2 hour). Edited and linked to sources pages for the three bounty comptrollers (1 hour). Looked through the 1867 Proceedings of the General Assembly and added information to the essay (2 hours). Linked Capital articles to tax essay and scanned and linked the pages from the House Journals (3 hours).
August 13 -- Edited for the last time (I hope) Lacy's bio page and my essay on the sales tax (30 minutes). Seminar (1 1/2 hour) and end of the year evaluation with Dr. Papenfuse (2 1/2 hours), edited bounty essay (3 hours).
August 14 -- Edited essay, looked through later General Assembly Proceedings and added information, and linked Archives of Maryland references to the essay (3 1/2 hours). Continued working on the essay, linked Agnes Callum's bounty papers in ecpclio to my page -- I opened the images in paperport, tagged them with bibliographical information and resaved them in Goldsborough's file -- and scanned and linked the two bounty laws of 1864 (4 hours).
August 15 -- Edited essay, met with Karen about the essay, had to redo links because yesterday I made the images tifs and they need to be jpgs (3 1/2 hours). Went to law library and found the bounty laws and court cases about the bounty and about the sales tax (2 hours). Wrote Bulldog article (1/2 hour). Worked on essay (2 hours).
August 16 and 17 -- Summarized cases, revised essay, cleaned up, etc. |
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