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Cohen Civil War Scrapbooks 1861-1865, MS. 251.1 - MS 251.4
MS 251.2- Etting Albums 1826-1832
MS 251.3- Mendes I. Cohen Letters, 1829-1835
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Maryland Historical Society Library
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Baltimore MD 21201-4674
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Descriptive Summary
Cohen Civil War Scrapbooks 1861-1865
MS 251.1
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Scope and Content Note
Newsclippings collected by Dr. Joshua I. Cohen covering the years 1861-1865. Contains clippings on all phases of the Civil War including major battles, editorials dealing with the crisis, printed speeches of the President, Congressmen and Senators, articles of local Baltimore interest especially the arrest of Southern sympathizers.
VOLUME I
1861 - 1865
Box 2
VOLUME II
1862
Box 1
VOLUME III
1863
Box 2
2 boxes
Etting Albums 1826-1832
Maryland Historical Society
Descriptive Summary
Etting Albums 1826-1832
MS 251.2
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Scope and Content Note
Collection consists of 2 volumes owned by Richa Gratz Etting both containing poetry, notes, quotations, mementoes, and pictures. Volume I also contains some pen and ink and pencil sketches possibly done by A.J. Volck, and a number of silhouettes of family members. Volume II contains an addition to the poems, a small pencil and wash drawing of Shinah Solomon Etting.
Container List
Box 1
Miscellany
Box 2
2 volumes
Mendes I. Cohen Letters 1829-1835
Maryland Historical Society
Descriptive Summary
Mendes I. Cohen Letters 1829-1835
MS 251.3
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Scope and Content Notes
Collection consists mainly of correspondence written by Mendes I. Cohen (1796-1879) while on his protracted travels to Great Britain, Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Norther Africa. The letters, dating from October 1829 through August 1835, are directed to family members -- mainly his mother Judith Solomon Cohen, and his brothers David, Jacob and Benjamin. The letters present an in-depth account of the countries and cities visited by Cohen. As an astute observer, Cohen described his daily travels, his encounters with people, his opinions on architecture, the roads the seas, and his thoughts on the political, social and economic climate of the areas in which he lived. His travels took him to cities such as Liverpool, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Geneva, Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Florence, Athens, Constantinople, Smyina, Beirut, Cairo, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Brussels.
The collection also includes journals kept by Mendes I. Cohen dating from 1829-1833. Some of them contain lists of arrival and departure dates and places visited. Others are language journals listing important words and phrases in English with their foreign counterparts. The 1832 journal is an account of Cohen's trip up the Nile and his journey back to Cairo. [Also includes a catalog of Egyptian antiquities owned and collected by Cohen.]
To be found at Johns Hopkins University along with an [UNK] as the trip included are [UNK] as the nile (1832)
Container List
BOX 1
Map of Greece with marginal notes by M. I. Cohen
1829
Correspondence
1829 Oct 15 - 1830 May 10
BOX 2
Correspondence
1830 May 23 - 1832 Dec 8
BOX 3
Correspondence
1832 Dec 13 - 1835 Feb 16
BOX 4
Correspondence
1835 Feb 22 - 1835 Aug 24
J. J. Cohen, Jr. to M. M. Noah
1819 Feb 2
Misc. items not relating to Cohen's trip
c. 1820 - 1920
Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities
c. 1832
Journeys of M. I. Cohen
1829-33
Journal
1831
Journal
1832
Notes on journeys
1833
Journal
1834
Newspaper clippings
Items relating to M. I. Cohen's trip
n.d.
Cohen Collection 1818-1945
Maryland Historical Society
Descriptive Summary
Cohen Collection 1818-1945
MS 251.4
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Scope and Content Notes
Collection contains correspondence of Eleanor S. Cohen, Jacob I. Cohen, Dr. Joshua I. Cohen, Mendes Cohen, and Mendes I. Cohen. Includes information relating to civil right of Jews in Maryland; Cohen family genealogical material; Col. Mendes I. Cohen reminiscences of the bombardment of Ft. McHenry; material to Mendes Cohen's position as Chairman of the Committee on Car Fenders in Baltimore, 1894; poem entitled Address to the Children of Israel in Maryland; receipts, certificates, newsclippings; some assorted material relating to the Maryland Historical Society ca. 1910.
Container List
BOX 1
F. B. Mayer sketch, n.d.
Cohen Family correspondence
Eleanor S. Cohen
The Travellers Return - J[acob] I. Cohen
[Mendes I. Cohen] correspondence
Report on car fenders, 1894
letters re: position as reference librarian at Pratt Library
The Gratz papers, 1916
Jacob I. Cohen, 1181, 1856
Certificate, tickets - Israel Cohen
Reminiscences of the Bombardment of Ft. McHenry - Mendes I. Cohen
Mendes Cohen correspondence
BOX 2
Newspaper clippings
Jews in America
Dr. Joshua I. Cohen correspondence, 1844-59
Maryland Historical Society materials
Miscellaneous unrelated materials
Cohen Family genealogical notes
Receipts, stock certificates
Undated materials
Address to the Children of Israel in Maryland, 1819
Undated notes on the Jew Bill
Newspaper clippings
