Maryland State Archives

Probate Records from the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria. Estate Number 13275

obituary from The Washington Post, 13 May 1988

1981-1982 correspondence between Frederick Tilp, Ed Papenfuse, and Louis Goldstein. Taken from: MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES (Research Correspondence) 1939-1993, T200.

Writings concerning slot machines along the Potomac

Copies from Tilp Collection of research notes at Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD.

Note: Assigned biographical PIN number MSA SC 3520-13714. Paper file stored at 2/11/11/59

Search for his papers:

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:37:45 -0500
To: Ed
From: Karen Dunaway
Subject: Frederick Tilp Collection
Cc: Jen Hafner , Emily

Ed,

I spoke to Jennifer Pitt of the library of the College of Southern Maryland in LaPlata, Maryland (301-934-7765), who described the Frederick Tilp collection there. There is one legal-sized Hollinger box and one oversized box of material. She said there was only "2 or 3" photos, of the Port Tobacco Courthouse and of a boat. There are about 16 maps, about 10 of which are related to the Potomac River; ie. geological surveys and nautical charts from 1966 and 1973, labeled "U.S. Department of Commerce." There was also a highway map of Virginia from 1977.

Ms. Pitt seemed to think that Tilp's collection was split up, and that the College of Southern Maryland did not receive all of it. She believed that the Calvert Marine Museum received part of it according to his will (when I check the will, however, it looks to me like Tilp only gave the museum the copyright claim to one of his books if the first person he specified did not want it). She gave me the name and number of Paul Berry (410-326-2042, ext. 14) at the Calvert Marine Museum. I called his number and got voice mail; so I left a message explaining what I was looking for.

Lastly, I contacted the Loyola Retreat House in Faulkner, Maryland (301-870-3515), to whom was bequeathed all unsold books stored at Tilp's home at the time of his death in 1988. Once again I got voice mail, so I left a message explaining what I was looking for.

I will let you know if I hear back from the Calvert Marine Museum or the Loyola Retreat House .

Karen

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:04:41 -0500
To: Ed
From: Karen Dunaway
Subject: Frederick Tilp research notes and photos
Cc: Jen Hafner ,
Emily


Ed,

Paul Berry (410-326-2042) of the Calvert Marine Museum just returned my call and told me that they have "very extensive" notes made by Frederick Tilp on his Potomac book--five large file drawers full. He also said that they have "a lot" of photos that were probably the ones that went into the book, although he could not specify how many. Richard Dodds (410-326-2042, ext. 31) is the Curator of Maritime History there and is also in charge of the photographs and is not in today, so he could not tell me exactly how many photos they had or confirm that these were indeed the photos that went into the book, although he thinks they are. He also told me that Mr. Tilp donated his negatives to the Mariner's Museum in Newport New, Virginia and that they now claim copyright to them. The photos at the Calvert Marine Museum are actually copy prints made from the negatives and are stamped by the Mariner's Museum of Newport News. The Calvert Marine Museum also has some of Tilp's slides of sea scouts on the Potomac River as well as notes of lectures on the Potomac River delivered by Mr. Tilp. If we want to make a trip down there we should call first and make an appointment either with Mr. Berry (who works MWF) or with Mr. Dodds. The museum is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and are about twenty miles south of Prince Frederick in Calvert County.

Let me know if you want me to do anything more with this.

Karen

Mr. Berry just called me back with the number of Tilp photographs in the collection at the Calvert Marine Museum: 1100 (eleven hundred). He also specified that they are marked with different photo credits, not all from the Mariner's Museum, and that they are (obviously) additional photos other than the ones used in his book(s).

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:07:45 -0500
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Subject: Tilp photo inventories at Calvert Marine Museum
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Ed,

Here are the inventories of Fred Tilp's photos. They were converted to Word documents from Dbase files that they have at the Calvert Marine Museum. The items listed in the first Word document look the most useful; there are references to many of the names and places Jen has been working on, such as the Colonial Beach gambling piers, the "Little Reno" and the "Starlight Pavilion."
Karen

From: "Berry, Paul L."
To: "'karend@mdarchives.state.md.us'"
Subject: Tilp photos at Calvert Marine Museum
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:53:36 -0500
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Karen,

These three attachments in Word format give our catalog number followed by a descriptive title of the some 1000 Tilp photos in our collections. Try this out to see if it is of use to you. (Just ignore the "record number" line.) The record for each photo is in a data base, with a paper copy.

Paul Berry
Calvert Marine Museum


tilp.doc

tilp2.doc

tilp3.doc