| Title: | Baltimore Sun financial and selected labor records |
| Call Number: | Coll034 |
| Creator: | Baltimore Sun |
| Dates: | 1837-1986 |
| Size: | 168 boxes (79 linear feet) |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Contains information pertaining to Baltimore Sun finances and Baltimore Newspaper Guild relations. Financial materials include monthly statements, treasurer's reports, tax and payroll records, financial correspondence, and transactional files in both loose and ledger formats. Among the Guild materials are correspondence, meeting minutes, and documents from the Sun and Guild negotiations. Also contained in this collection are Guild newsletters, many of which were the personal copies of H.L. Mencken. Also present are legal documents, specifications for the Calvert Street plant, materials related to the Evening Sun, and radio and television documents. |
| Citation: | Baltimore Sun financial and selected labor records, Baltimore Sun Archives, Collection 34, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD). |
The Baltimore Sun was established by Arunah Shepherdson (A.S.) Abell in 1837. Abell and his partners, Azariah Simmons and William Swain, created the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1836, and Abell saw the potential of a penny newspaper in Baltimore. In 1904 when the Great Baltimore Fire demolished the Sun Iron Building, Walter Abell, grandson of founder A.S., was managing the paper. As the fire swept closer, Walter Abell ordered subscription lists, records, and bound copies of the paper removed from the building. While much was saved due to Abell's orders, the building itself and what remained inside was destroyed. In 1910, control of the company shifted from the Abell family to a Board of businessmen led by Crawford Black as Chairman. The same year also saw the first issue of the Evening Sun, which remained in publication until 1995. The Times Mirror Company acquired the Sun in 1986, and merged with the Tribune Company in 2000.
While the financial history in this collection dates to the paper's creation in 1837, the Sun's connection with the Newspaper Guild did not begin until the 1930s. Following the lead of Heywood Broun, who established the American Newspaper Guild in 1933, the Washington Newspaper Guild was founded in January 1934. The Washington Guild President, Dan DeSouza, spoke to Baltimore journalists in March and by the end of the month the Baltimore Newspaper Guild was established. The Newspaper Guild earned representation at the Baltimore Sun in 1938, but contract negotiations were not settled until 1949. H.L. Mencken served as the Sun's liaison to the Guild from 1941-1948. By the mid 1960s the Washington and Baltimore Guilds were working together and eventually merged to create the still active Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.
See Bibliography for sources.
Organized into twelve series: Series I. Financial statements and reports, 1904-1962, 1985. Series II. Transactional files, 1899-1942. Series III. Tax records, 1914-1962. Series IV. Payroll and wages, 1936, 1941. Series V. Financial correspondence, 1856-1963. Series VI. Sun executives and Newspaper Guild meeting minutes, 1941. Series VII. Newspaper Guild correspondence, 1934-1942. Series VIII. Newspaper Guild publications, 1934-1944. Series IX. Legal documents, 1910-1944. Series X. Calvert Street plant construction, 1946-1955, 1964-1966. Series XI. Radio and television, 1981-1986. Series XII. Ledgers, 1837-1980.
Series I. Financial statements and reports
Series II. Transactional files
Series III. Tax records
Series IV. Payroll and wages
Series V. Financial correspondence
Series VI. Sun executives and Newspaper Guild meeting minutes
Series VII. Newspaper Guild correspondence
Series VIII. Newspaper Guild publications
Series IX. Legal Documents
Series X. Calvert Street plant construction
Series XI. Radio and Television
Series XII. Ledgers
The Baltimore Sun financial and selected labor records collection contains information pertaining to Sun finances and Baltimore Newspaper Guild relations. The dates of the materials range from 1837-1986, with the bulk spanning 1837-1962. The 12 series collection is housed in 42 document and flat boxes, 2 flat file drawers, and 126 ledger boxes.
The Sun financial and account information is composed of 6 series, including 134 ledger books. Materials include monthly statements, treasurer's reports, tax and payoll records, financial correspondence, and transactional files. The bulk of the monthly statements (not in ledger form) range from 1904-1962, and provide information on various Sun divisions including the Evening Sun, paper sales and advertising, publishing, the magazine section, and the color comic section. Much of the financial correspondence contains statements for the Abell accounts with the Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore. Also included in this collection are financial statements regarding Arunah (A.S) Abell's earnings from the Public Ledger from 1860-1861. The ledger books date from 1837-1980 and include monthly statements, cashbooks, checkbooks, account records, stock ledgers, petty ledgers, and bank books.
There are three series related to the Baltimore Newspaper Guild and its relationship with the Baltimore Sun, as well as guild developments at the national level. Contained in this collection are Guild newsletters from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Among the other Guild materials are correspondence, meeting minutes from August and September 1941, and documents from the Sun and Guild negotiations (within the legal documents series). The correspondence series contains letters to and from H.L. Mencken, and the meeting minutes are often lengthy discussions between Mencken and Guild members. In addition to the Baltimore Guild newsletters, the collection contains H.L. Mencken's personal copies of The Guild Reporter, the official paper of the American Newspaper Guild, from 1938-1944.
The legal documents series, which ranges from 1910-1944 contains negotiations and agreements between the Guild and theSun in the 1930s and 1940s. Most of the remaining materials relate to the purchase of the New World Publishing Company in 1910, including information from New World stockholders meetings. Another series is devoted to the construction of the new processing plant on Calvert Street in the late 1940s and 1950s. The majority of the materials are agreements with contractors and subcontractors, but plant specifications, blueprints and machine drawings are also present. The last series contains all radio and television information from the 1980s, as well as documents from Vitapix Corporation (1953-1958). Included are radio station acquisition and appraisal documents with photographs, sale agreements, radio closing documents, and television licensing contracts for WRLH.
The collection was received from the Tribune Company in 2002. Arrangements were made with Sandy Levy, the Sun Librarian, to retrieve the records scheduled for destruction and the UMBC Collections Management staff packed materials and transported everything to UMBC. The items were in no particular order when retrieved from Sun offices. Physical property rights were transferred to UMBC but intellectual copyright is still maintained by the Sun.
A preliminary inventory of the collection was compiled by student assistant Adam Cohen in 2006. The ledgers were separated from the rest of the collection and many of the books, which were moldy when received, were cleaned. All ledgers were eventually housed in phase or flat boxes. Materials were divided into twelve series based on subject or type of document, though when possible the original organization of items in folders and folder titles were maintained. Initial processing was performed by Adam Cohen and graduate assistant Andrea Shahmohammadi. Processing was completed and finding aid was written by graduate assistant Amy Ciesielski in Spring 2009 under the supervision of Special Collections Archivist Lindsey Loeper.
Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)
Archives Processing Manual: Description (2015): The processing manual used in Special Collections for all descriptive platforms, including PastPerfect.
Finding aid available.
Finding Aid: http://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll034.php
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Copyright maintained by Baltimore Sun.
Baltimore Sun
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Baltimore (Md.) -- Newspapers
Baltimore (Md.)
Baltimore sun
Newspaper Guild
Date: 1904-1962, 1985
Extent: 16 boxes and 2 flat file drawers
Description: The financial statements and reports illustrate the Sun's growth and progress on both monthly and yearly scales. The monthly statements are often broken down by department, which can demonstrate the changes the paper made over the years. For example, the creation of the Evening Sun in 1910 is evident in the collection's monthly balance sheets beginning in April of that year, with reports of profit, loss, and operating expenses. Not all of the financial reports were loose records. Related information can be found in Series XII: Ledgers. Like this series, the ledgers series contains both financial statements and transactional files subseries. Much of the information in the monthly statements is summarized in the treasurer's reports, which are present in subseries I.B from 1917-1959.
Date: 1904-1962
Extent: 15 boxes and 2 flat file drawers
Description: This subseries contains monthly balance sheets, gross and net profit statements for paper sales, advertising, publishing, television, and radio, comparative reports, income and expense statements for the magazine and comics sections, operating expenses, and advertising earnings for the Baltimore Sun. Balance sheets for the Evening Sun begin in April, 1910. Files are grouped alphabetically by report, then arranged chronologically within each report type.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| General Balance Sheets, November 1904-March 1905 | 1 | 1 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April-August 1905 | 1 | 2 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1905 | 1 | 3 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1906 | 1 | 4 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1906 | 1 | 5 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1906 | 1 | 6 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1907 | 1 | 7 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1907 | 1 | 8 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1907 | 1 | 9 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1908 | 1 | 10 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1908 | 1 | 11 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1908 | 1 | 12 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-March 1909 | 1 | 13 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April-June 1909 | 1 | 14 |
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| General Balance Sheets, July-September 1909 | 1 | 15 |
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| General Balance Sheets, October-December 1909 | 1 | 16 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-February 1910 | 2 | 1 |
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| General Balance Sheets, March 1910 | 2 | 2 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April 1910 | 2 | 3 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May 1910 | 2 | 4 |
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| General Balance Sheets, June 1910 | 2 | 5 |
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| General Balance Sheets, July 1910 | 2 | 6 |
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| General Balance Sheets, August 1910 | 2 | 7 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September 1910 | 2 | 8 |
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| General Balance Sheets, October 1910 | 2 | 9 |
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| General Balance Sheets, November 1910 | 2 | 10 |
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| General Balance Sheets, December 1910 | 2 | 11 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January 1911 | 2 | 12 |
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| General Balance Sheets, February 1911 | 2 | 13 |
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| General Balance Sheets, March 1911 | 2 | 14 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April 1911 | 2 | 15 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May 1911 | 3 | 1 |
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| General Balance Sheets, June 1911 | 3 | 2 |
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| General Balance Sheets, July 1911 | 3 | 3 |
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| General Balance Sheets, August 1911 | 3 | 4 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September 1911 | 3 | 5 |
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| General Balance Sheets, October 1911 | 3 | 6 |
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| General Balance Sheets, November 1911 | 3 | 7 |
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| General Balance Sheets, December 1911 | 3 | 8 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January 1912 | 3 | 9 |
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| General Balance Sheets, February 1912 | 3 | 10 |
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| General Balance Sheets, March 1912 | 3 | 11 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April 1912 | 3 | 12 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May 1912 | 3 | 13 |
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| General Balance Sheets, June 1912 | 3 | 14 |
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| General Balance Sheets, July 1912 | 3 | 15 |
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| General Balance Sheets, August 1912 | 3 | 16 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September 1912 | 3 | 17 |
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| General Balance Sheets, October 1912 | 4 | 1 |
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| General Balance Sheets, November 1912 | 4 | 2 |
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| General Balance Sheets, December 1912 | 4 | 3 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January 1913 | 4 | 4 |
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| General Balance Sheets, February 1913 | 4 | 5 |
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| General Balance Sheets, March 1913 | 4 | 6 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April 1913 | 4 | 7 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May 1913 | 4 | 8 |
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| General Balance Sheets, June 1913 | 4 | 9 |
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| General Balance Sheets, July 1913 | 4 | 10 |
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| General Balance Sheets, August 1913 | 4 | 11 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September 1913 | 4 | 12 |
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| General Balance Sheets, October 1913 | 4 | 13 |
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| General Balance Sheets, November-December 1913 | 4 | 14 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-February 1914 | 4 | 15 |
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| General Balance Sheets, March-April 1914 | 4 | 16 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-June 1914 | 4 | 17 |
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| General Balance Sheets, July-October 1914 | 4 | 18 |
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| General Balance Sheets, November 1914-March 1915 | Drawer 1 | 1 |
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| General Balance Sheets, April-August 1915 | Drawer 1 | 2 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1915 | Drawer 1 | 3 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1916 | Drawer 1 | 4 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1916 | Drawer 1 | 5 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1916 | Drawer 1 | 6 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1917 | Drawer 1 | 7 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1917 | Drawer 1 | 8 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1917 | Drawer 1 | 9 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1918 | Drawer 1 | 10 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1918 | Drawer 1 | 11 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1918 | Drawer 1 | 12 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1919 | Drawer 1 | 13 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1919 | Drawer 1 | 14 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1919 | Drawer 1 | 15 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1920 | Drawer 1 | 16 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1920 | Drawer 1 | 17 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1920 | Drawer 1 | 18 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1921 | Drawer 1 | 19 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1921 | Drawer 1 | 20 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-November 1921 | Drawer 1 | 21 |
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| General Balance Sheets, December 1921 | Drawer 1 | 22 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1922 | Drawer 1 | 23 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1922 | Drawer 1 | 24 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1922 | Drawer 1 | 25 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1923 | Drawer 2 | 1 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1923 | Drawer 2 | 2 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1923 | Drawer 2 | 3 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1924 | Drawer 2 | 4 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1924 | Drawer 2 | 5 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1924 | Drawer 2 | 6 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1925 | Drawer 2 | 7 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1925 | Drawer 2 | 8 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-October 1925 | Drawer 2 | 9 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1926 | Drawer 2 | 10 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1926 | Drawer 2 | 11 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1926 | Drawer 2 | 12 |
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| General Balance Sheets, January-April 1927 | Drawer 2 | 13 |
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| General Balance Sheets, May-August 1927 | Drawer 2 | 14 |
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| General Balance Sheets, September-December 1927 | Drawer 2 | 15 |
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| Balance Sheets, January-July 1944 | 5 | 1 |
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| Balance Sheets, August 1944-January 1945 | 5 | 2 |
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| Balance Sheets, February-June 1945 | 5 | 3 |
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| Balance Sheets, July-December, 1945 | 5 | 4 |
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| Balance Sheets, January-June 1952 | 5 | 5 |
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| Balance Sheets, July-December 1952 | 5 | 6 |
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| Balance Sheets, January-June 1953 | 6 | 1 |
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| Balance Sheets, July-December 1953 | 6 | 2 |
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| Balance Sheets, January-June 1954 | 6 | 3 |
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| Balance Sheets, July-December 1954 | 6 | 4 |
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| Balance Sheets, January-June 1955 | 6 | 5 |
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| Balance Sheets, July-December 1955 | 6 | 6 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1928-1934 | 7 | 1 |
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| Summary of Income and Profit and Loss: Morning, Evening, Sunday Sun, 1934-1938 | 7 | 2 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1934-1939 | 7 | 3 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1939-1944 | 7 | 4 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1944-1947 | 7 | 5 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss: Morning, Evening, Sunday Sun, 1947-1950 | 7 | 6 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss: Morning, Evening, Sunday Sun, 1950-1951 | 7 | 7 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss: Publishing, 1953 | 7 | 8 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss: Publishing, 1954-1962 | 7 | 9 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1928-1934 | 8 | 1 |
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| Summary of Income and Profit and Loss: Morning, Evening, Sunday Sun, 1934-1938 | 8 | 2 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1934-1939 | 8 | 3 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1939-1944 | 8 | 4 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss, 1944-1947 | 8 | 5 |
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| Comparative Report of Profit and Loss: Morning, Evening, Sunday Sun, 1947-1950 | 8 | 6 |
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| Gross and Net Profit Statements: Radio/Publishing, 1947-1950 | 9 | 1 |
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| Gross and Net Profit Statements: Publishing, Radio/Television, 1950-1956 | 9 | 2 |
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| Gross and Net Profit Statements: Publishing and Television, 1956-1962 | 9 | 3 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Photo-gravure Section, 1934-1939 | 10 | 1 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Photo-gravure Section, 1939-1944 | 10 | 2 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Photo-gravure Section, 1944-1946 | 10 | 3 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Magazine Section, 1946-1950 | 10 | 4 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Magazine Section, 1950-1951 | 10 | 5 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Magazine Section, 1952-1956 | 10 | 6 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Magazine Section, 1956-1962 | 10 | 7 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: "This Week" Magazine, 1935-1939 | 11 | 1 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: "This Week" Magazine, 1939-1944 | 11 | 2 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: "This Week" Magazine, 1944-1950 | 11 | 3 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: "This Week" Magazine, 1950-1953 | 11 | 4 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Color Comic Section, 1934-1939 | 12 | 1 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Color Comic Section, 1939-1944 | 12 | 2 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Color Comic Section, 1944-1948 | 12 | 3 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Color Comic Section, 1948-1950 | 12 | 4 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Color Comic Section, 1950-1953 | 12 | 5 |
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| Statement of Income and Expense: Color Comic Section, 1954-1962 | 12 | 6 |
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| Summary of Advertising Earnings, 1934-1939 | 13 | 1 |
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| Summary of Advertising Earnings, 1939-1944 | 13 | 2 |
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| Summary of Advertising Earnings, 1944-1950 | 13 | 3 |
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| Summary of Advertising Earnings and Lineage, 1950-1956 | 13 | 4 |
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| Summary of Advertising Earnings and Lineage, 1956-1962 | 13 | 5 |
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| Summary of Advertising Earnings and Lineage, 1958 | 13 | 6 |
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| Color Advertising, 1958-1984 | 14 | 1 |
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| Earnings from Classified, Local, and National Displays, 1956-1978 | 14 | 2 |
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| Earnings from Classified, Local, and National Displays, 1979-1982 | 14 | 3 |
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| WMAR Lineage in Sunpapers, 1964-1977 | 14 | 4 |
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| Data from Monthly Advertising Balance Record, 1975-1979 | 14 | 5 |
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| Zoned Sections and Part Run Preprints, 1975-1983 | 14 | 6 |
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| Charges and Allowances, January 1983-January 1984 | 14 | 7 |
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| Summary of Operating Expenses: Morning, Sunday, Evening Sun, 1934-1939 | 15 | 1 |
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| Summary of Operating Expenses: Morning, Sunday, Evening Sun, 1939-1940 | 15 | 2 |
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| Summary of Operating Expenses: Morning, Sunday, Evening Sun, 1939-1944 | 15 | 3 |
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| Summary of Operating Expenses: Morning, Sunday, Evening Sun, 1944-1950 | 15 | 4 |
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| Summary of Operating Expenses: Morning, Sunday, Evening Sun, 1950-1956 | 15 | 5 |
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| Summary of Operating Expenses: Morning, Sunday, Evening Sun, 1956-1962 | 15 | 6 |
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| Summary of Property and Equipment Accounts, 1951-1952 | 15 | 7 |
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| Increases and Decreases, 1958-1961 | 15 | 8 |
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Date: 1917-1926, 1929-1959
Extent: 9 folders
Description: The annual reports summarize the monthly statements and succinctly illustrate the company's financial standing over a 42 year period. A handwritten note accompanying the reports indicated that there were no reports complied in 1927 or 1928 due to a change in the system.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| 1917-1923 | 16 | 1 |
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| 1924-1926, 1929-1933 | 16 | 2 |
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| 1934-1936 | 16 | 3 |
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| 1937-1940 | 16 | 4 |
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| 1941-1945 | 16 | 5 |
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| 1946-1949 | 16 | 6 |
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| 1950-1953 | 16 | 7 |
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| 1954-1956 | 16 | 8 |
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| 1957-1959 | 16 | 9 |
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Date: 1899-1942, undated, bulk 1899-1910
Extent: 2 boxes
Description: The folders in this series include receipts, cancelled checks, salary and automobile allowance slips. Also contains a handwritten analysis of credits and debits from 1917-1918. All files are arranged chronologically. There are no files from 1911-1916, or from 1919-1940.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Receipts, 1899-1903 | 17 | 1 |
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| Receipts, 1904 | 17 | 2 |
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| Receipts, 1905 | 17 | 3 |
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| Receipts, 1906 | 17 | 4 |
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| Receipts, 1907 | 17 | 5 |
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| Receipts, January-March 1908 | 17 | 6 |
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| Receipts, April-June, 1908 | 17 | 7 |
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| Receipts, July-September, 1908 | 17 | 8 |
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| Receipts, October-December, 1908 | 17 | 9 |
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| Receipts, 1909 | 18 | 1 |
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| Receipts, n.d. | 18 | 2 |
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| Calculated Slips, n.d. | 18 | 3 |
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| Cancelled Checks, 1905 | 18 | 4 |
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| Cancelled Checks, 1906 | 18 | 5 |
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| Cancelled Checks, 1907 | 18 | 6 |
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| Cancelled Checks, January-June, 1908 | 18 | 7 |
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| Cancelled Checks, July-December, 1908 | 18 | 8 |
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| Cancelled Checks, January-June, 1909 | 18 | 9 |
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| Cancelled Checks, July-December, 1909 | 18 | 10 |
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| Cancelled Checks, 1910 | 18 | 11 |
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| Analysis of Credit, Debit, 1917-1918 (see Box 14, Folder 8) | 18 | 12 |
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| Salary and Automobile Allowance Receipts, 1941-1942 | 18 | 13 |
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Date: 1914-1962
Extent: 3 boxes
Description: This series contains state and federal tax return records for the Baltimore Sun. All documents are arranged chronologically by year.
Date: 1914-1958
Extent: 3 boxes
Description: The declared value excess profits and excess profits returns are only present through 1945. From 1945-1958 are annual income returns and quarterly returns.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| 1914-1919 | 19 | 1 |
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| 1920-1922 | 19 | 2 |
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| 1923-1925 | 19 | 3 |
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| 1926-1928 | 19 | 4 |
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| 1929-1930 | 19 | 5 |
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| 1931-1932 | 19 | 6 |
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| 1933 | 20 | 1 |
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| 1934-1935 | 20 | 2 |
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| 1936-1937 | 20 | 3 |
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| 1938 | 20 | 4 |
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| 1939 | 20 | 5 |
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| 1940 | 20 | 6 |
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| 1941 | 21 | 1 |
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| 1942 | 21 | 2 |
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| 1943 | 21 | 3 |
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| 1944 | 21 | 4 |
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| 1945 | 21 | 5 |
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| Annual Returns of Income Tax Paid at Source and Quarterly Returns, 1945-1958 | 21 | 6 |
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Date: 1915-1961
Extent: 3 boxes
Description: The property tax returns span from 1915-1961 while the state returns only cover 1935-1946. One folder from 1916-1924 includes yearly petitions for reductions of property assessment amounts.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Tax Court Appeal: Petitions for Reduction of Assessments, 1916-1924 | 22 | 1 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1915-1923 | 22 | 2 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1924-1929 | 22 | 3 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1930-1935 | 22 | 4 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1936-1938 | 22 | 5 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1939-1942 | 22 | 6 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1943 | 22 | 7 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1944-1946 | 23 | 1 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1947-1949 | 23 | 2 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1950-1952 | 23 | 3 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1953-1954 | 23 | 4 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1955-1956 | 23 | 5 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1957-1958 | 24 | 1 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1959 | 24 | 2 |
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| Personal Property and Franchise Tax Returns 1960-1961 | 24 | 3 |
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| State of Maryland Emergency Gross Receipts Tax, 1935- 1936 | 24 | 4 |
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| Maryland Income Tax Returns and Worksheets, 1937-1939 | 24 | 5 |
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| Maryland Income Tax Returns and Worksheets, 1940-1942 | 24 | 6 |
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| Maryland Income Tax Returns and Worksheets, 1943-1946 | 24 | 7 |
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Date: 1903-1908, 1920-1962; bulk 1925-1962
Extent: 1 box
Description: There are no records from 1909-1924.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| State and City Taxes, 1903-1908 | 25 | 1 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1920s | 25 | 2 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1930s | 25 | 3 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1940-1950 | 25 | 4 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1951-1953 | 25 | 5 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1954 | 25 | 6 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1955 | 25 | 7 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1956 | 25 | 8 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1957 | 25 | 9 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1958 | 25 | 10 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1959 | 25 | 11 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1960 | 25 | 12 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1961 | 25 | 13 |
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| Annual Information Return, 1962 | 25 | 14 |
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Date: 1936, 1941
Extent: 1 box
Description: Materials in this series provide information on earnings of Sun employees in 1936 and guild employees at papers in various U.S. cities in 1941.
Date: 1936
Extent: 3 folders
Description: This subseries contains payroll and unemployment tax documents for the entire year of 1936. Payroll is divided by department and contains lists of employee names and earnings. All folders are arranged chronologically by month.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| January-April, 1936 | 26 | 1 |
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| May-August, 1936 | 26 | 2 |
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| September-December, 1936 | 26 | 3 |
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Date: 1941
Extent: 1 folder
Description: The compilation of wage scales illustrates weekly wages paid by newspapers in different cities across the country in January and June of 1941. Scales are organized by newspaper and subsequently divided by position and length of employment. Baltimore is not represented.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Wage Scales for Other Guilds as of 1941 | 26 | 4 |
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Date: 1856-1963, undated; bulk 1904-1909
Extent: 1 box
Description: The financial correspondence consists primarily of written requests for funds and account statements and receipts from the Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore. There are several items from the 19th century including a letter from a Mr. Bloomer dated 1856, entering his son into a six year apprenticeship with the Abell Company. Also present are several statements from the Office of the Public Ledger [Philadelphia Public Ledger] dated 1860-1861, regarding the Abell Company's earnings from the publication. Some of the correspondence pertains to earnings from auctions and the rental and sale of property. There are no files present from 1910-1962. The last document is a list of items, including ledgers and bundles of cancelled checks, found in a chest and repacked into a box in October, 1963. All items arranged chronologically.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Receipts, 1856, 1857, 1860-1861, 1865, 1866, 1870, n.d. | 27 | 1 |
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| 1899, 1900, 1904 | 27 | 2 |
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| 1905 | 27 | 3 |
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| 1906 | 27 | 4 |
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| 1907 | 27 | 5 |
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| 1908-1909 | 27 | 6 |
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| Box list, 1963 | 27 | 7 |
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Date: 1941
Extent: 1 box
Description: This series contains minutes of meetings between the Baltimore Sun executives and the Baltimore Newspaper Guild between August and September, 1941. The transcripts include extensive dialogue between H.L. Mencken and Myer Trupp, Baltimore Newspaper Guild Representative. Minutes are arranged chronologically by meeting date.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| August 5, 1941 | 28 | 1 |
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| August 7, 1941 | 28 | 2 |
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| August 15, 1941 | 28 | 3 |
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| August 18, 1941 | 28 | 4 |
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| August 29, 1941 | 28 | 5 |
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| September 9, 1941 | 28 | 6 |
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Date: 1934-1942
Extent: .25 boxes
Description: Folders contain correspondence pertaining to the development, maintenance, and requests of the Baltimore Newspaper Guild, and include many letters to and from H.L. Mencken. Some letters composed by Mencken lack his signature or name, but are obvious responses to prior letters addressed to him. Files are arranged chronologically.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| 1934-1937 | 29 | 1 |
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| 1938-1939 | 29 | 2 |
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| 1940 | 29 | 3 |
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| 1941-1942 | 29 | 4 |
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Date: 1934-1944, undated; bulk 1938-1942
Extent: 2.75 boxes
Description: Many or all of the publications in this series were collected by Guild Representative H.L. Mencken, and some bear his notes and handwriting. The series contains newsletters and announcements from the Baltimore, Philadelphia-Camden, New York, and American Newspaper Guilds, as well as a few pieces from other cities and publications
Date: 1938-1942, undated
Extent: .5 boxes
Description: The publication titles in this subseries vary, but all are connected to the Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The newsletters contain updates on Baltimore Guild progress, the status of strikes in other cities, meeting announcements, calls for new members, and open letters to people in prominent positions, including H.L. Mencken. All items are arranged chronologically by year, month, and day, when possible.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Guild Announcements and Memos, 1938-1942, n.d. | 29 | 5 |
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| Letter to Sunpapers Chauffeurs from George Engeman, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, July 20, 1938 | 29 | 6 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, August 3, 1938 | 29 | 7 |
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| Baltimore Guild News, February, 1939 | 29 | 8 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild "Guild Bulletin", Volume 1, Number 4; September 11, 1939 | 29 | 9 |
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| Sunpaper "Shop Talk", Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume 1, Number 1; November 28, 1939 | 29 | 10 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild "Guild Bulletin", Volume 1, Number 6; December 13, 1939 | 29 | 11 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild "Guild Bulletin", February 21, 1940 | 29 | 12 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, January 2, 1941 | 29 | 13 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, April 5, 1941 | 29 | 14 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild "Organizer," April 1, [after 1940] | 29 | 15 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, April 10, 1941 | 29 | 16 |
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| Guild Reopens Wage Talks, Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, [April-May?] 1941 | 29 | 17 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, May, 1941 | 29 | 18 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, [June?] 1941 | 29 | 19 |
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| [Baltimore?] Newspaper Guild Newsletter, June 4, 1941 | 29 | 20 |
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| [Baltimore?] Newspaper Guild Newsletter, June 4, 1941 | 29 | 21 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild "Organizer," June 21, 1941 | 29 | 22 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Newsletter, August 3, 1941 | 29 | 23 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 1; August 8, 1941 | 29 | 24 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 2; n.d. | 29 | 25 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 2; n.d. | 29 | 26 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 4; September 12, 1941 | 29 | 27 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Meeting Announcement, September 18, 1941 | 29 | 28 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 6; September 19, 1941 | 29 | 29 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 9; October 3, 1941 | 29 | 30 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 12, October 23, 1941 | 29 | 31 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 14; November 7, 1941 | 29 | 32 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 15; November 14, 1941 | 29 | 33 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 16; November 22, 1941 | 29 | 34 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume I, Number 18; December 8, 1941 | 29 | 35 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, December 13, 1941 | 29 | 36 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume II, Number 2; January 23, 1942 | 29 | 37 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume II, Number 3; January 31, 1942 | 29 | 38 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Volume II, Number 4; February 7, 1942 | 29 | 39 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, March 20, 1942 | 29 | 40 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild Meeting Announcement, December, [?] | 29 | 41 |
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| Sunlight, Sunpapers Unit Newsletter, Baltimore Newspaper Guild, n.d. | 29 | 42 |
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Date: 1940
Extent: 11 folders
Description: The Guild Letter was put out by the Philadelphia-Camden Newspaper Guild. Many issues are missing, but the included issues span most of 1940. All newsletters are arranged chronologically.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Volume III, Number 6; February 24, 1940 | 29 | 43 |
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| Volume III, Number 8; March 14, 1940 | 29 | 44 |
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| Volume III, Number 9; March 20, 1940 | 29 | 45 |
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| Volume III, Number 11; April 30, 1940 | 29 | 46 |
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| Volume III, Number 16; June 6, 1940 | 29 | 47 |
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| Volume III, Number 24; August 13, 1940 | 29 | 48 |
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| Volume III, Number 25; August 14, 1940 | 29 | 49 |
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| Volume III, Number 38; September 17, 1940 | 29 | 50 |
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| Volume III, Number 39; September 23, 1940 | 29 | 51 |
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| Volume III, Number 42; October 16, 1940 | 29 | 52 |
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| Volume III, Number 43; October 23, 1940 | 29 | 53 |
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| Volume III, Number 46; December 24, 1940 | 29 | 54 |
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Date: 1934-1941
Extent: .25 boxes
Description: Publications include an article from the Saturday Evening Post by Joseph F. Dinneen upon his retirement from the Newspaper Guild, and other guild related articles.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| News Dispatch: Newark Ledger Strike Progress, December 14, 1934 | 29 | 55 |
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| Clipping: "Guild Upholds 9 of 10 Questions," December 7, 1937 | 29 | 56 |
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| The Guild Progressive, January 30, 1940 | (See Box 30 Folder 1) | 29 | 57 |
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| Wage and Hour Reporter and Supplement, Washington D.C., Volume 3, Number 17; April 22, 1940 | 29 | 58 |
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| Overset, Journal-American Unit Newsletter, Newspaper Guild of New York, Volume 4, Number 21; July 18, 1940 | 29 | 59 |
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| Goodbye Boys, I'm Through, Saturday Evening Post Article, August 3, 1940 (See Box 30 Folder 2) | 29 | 60 |
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| Philadelphia Record Clipping, Article on Newspaper Guild, January 15, 1941 | 29 | 61 |
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| The CIO News Volume V, Number 5, February 2, 1942 (3 copies) (See Box 30 Folder 3) | 29 | 62 |
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Date: 1934
Extent: 2 folders
Description: There are only five issues present of the Newark Newspaper Guild newsletter, spanning most of November and December 1934. The focus of most of the articles is on the status of the strike at the Newark Ledger. Volume 1, Number 5 includes claims of intimidation of strikers by hired gangsters.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Volume I, Numbers 1, 3, and 5, November 1934 | 30 | 4 |
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| Volume I, Numbers 8 and 10, December 1934 | 30 | 5 |
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Date: 1938-1944
Extent: 2 boxes
Description: The Guild Reporter is the publication of the American Newspaper Guild, affiliate of the CIO. Several issues are missing, including from March-June 1938, and March-August 1939.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Volume V, Numbers 8-12, February 1938 | 30 | 6 |
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| Volume V, Numbers 30, 37-38, July and August 1938 | 30 | 7 |
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| Volume V, Numbers 39, 40, 43, September and October 1938 | 30 | 8 |
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| Volume V, Numbers 45-46, November 1938 | 30 | 9 |
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| Volume V, Numbers 47-48, December 1938 | 30 | 10 |
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| Volume VI, Numbers 2-3, January 1939 | 30 | 11 |
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| Volume VI, Numbers 4-5, February 1939 | 30 | 12 |
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| Volume VI, Numbers 18-19, September 1939 | 30 | 13 |
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| Volume VI, Numbers 20-21, October 1939 | 30 | 14 |
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| Volume VI, Numbers 22-23, November 1939 | 30 | 15 |
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| Volume VI, Number 24 and Volume VII, Number 1, December 1939 | 30 | 16 |
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| Volume VII, Numbers 2-3, January 1940 | 30 | 17 |
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| Volume VII, Numbers 4-5, February 1940 | 30 | 18 |
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| Volume VII, Numbers 6 and 24, March and December 1940 | 30 | 19 |
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| Volume VIII, Numbers 2-3, January 1941 | 30 | 20 |
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| Volume VIII, Numbers 4-5, February 1941 | 30 | 21 |
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| Volume VIII, Number 6, March 1941 | 30 | 22 |
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| Volume VIII, Numbers 8-9, April 1941 | 30 | 23 |
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| Volume VIII, Numbers 10-11, May 1941 | 30 | 24 |
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| Volume VIII, Numbers 12-13, June 1941 | 30 | 25 |
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| Volume VIII, Numbers 14-15, July 1941 | 30 | 26 |
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| Volume IX, Numbers 2-5, January-February 1942 | 31 | 1 |
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| Volume IX, Numbers 6-9, March-April 1942 | 31 | 2 |
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| Volume IX, Numbers 10-13, May-June 1942 | 31 | 3 |
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| Volume IX, Numbers 14-17, July-August 1942 | 31 | 4 |
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| Volume IX, Numbers 18-21, September-October 1942 | 31 | 5 |
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| Volume IX, Numbers 22-23, November 1942 | 31 | 6 |
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| Volume IX, Number 24 and Volume X, Number 1, December 1942 | 31 | 7 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 2, 3, and 5, January and February 1943 | 31 | 8 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 6-7, March 1943 | 31 | 9 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 8-9, April 1943 | 31 | 10 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 10-11, May 1943 | 31 | 11 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 12-13, June 1943 | 31 | 12 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 14, 16-17, July and August 1943 | 31 | 13 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 18-20, September and October, 1943 | 31 | 14 |
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| Volume X, Numbers 22-23, November 1943 | 31 | 15 |
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| Volume X, Number 24, Volume XI, Number 1-2, December 1943-January 1944 | 31 | 16 |
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Date: 1910-1944; bulk 1934-1944
Extent: 1 box
Description: The folders in this series pertain mostly to Newspaper and Guild negotiations and agreements, as well as the 1910 acquisition of the New World Publishing Company by the Abell Company. The Guild documents relate to the formation of the Baltimore Newspaper Guild and its relationship with the Baltimore Sun. There are also documents and news articles relating to the wage lawsuit brought by Charles Schroepfer, Fred Schroepfer, and Abraham Berry against the Abell Company. The plaintiffs eventually lost the decision. Files are arranged by subject and date.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| New World Publishing Company Stockholders Meetings, 1910 | 32 | 1 |
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| Purchase of New World Publishing Company, 1910 | 32 | 2 |
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| Baltimore Newspaper Guild and Sunpapers Negotiations, 1934-1941 | 32 | 3 |
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| Newspaper and Guild Agreements, 1938 | 32 | 4 |
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| Legal Documents: Sunpapers and Newspaper Guild, 1937-1942 | 32 | 5 |
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| Report in the Matter of New York Times Company and Newspaper Guild of New York, 1940 | 32 | 6 |
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| Wage-Hour Act Lawsuit: Schroepfer, Schroepfer, and Berry vs. Abell Company, 1942-1944 | 32 | 7 |
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Date: 1946-1955, 1964-1966
Extent: 4 boxes
Description: This files in this series pertain to the Sunpapers' construction of a new publishing plant on Calvert Street. Most folders contain proposals and agreements between the Abell Company and contracted companies.
Date: 1948
Extent: 1 box
Description: This box contains 2 copies of the plant specifications from 1948.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Specifications for Construction of Sunpapers' Publishing Plant, January 1948 | 33 | 1 |
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| Specifications for Construction of Sunpapers' Publishing Plant, January 1948 (duplicate) | 33 | 2 |
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Date: 1946-1955, 1964-1966
Extent: 3 boxes
Description: This subseries consists of agreements and proposals from companies contracted to work on the construction of the new publishing plant on Calvert Street. Folders are organized alphabetically by company name. When the company contained both a first and last name in the title, the folder was placed based on the surname.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| American Bridge Company, 1947-1949 | 34 | 1 |
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| American District Telegraph Company, 1947-1955 | 34 | 2 |
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| Beautycraft Kitchens Inc.; The Centre-Ammon Company, 1949-1951 | 34 | 3 |
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| Blumenthal-Kahn Electric Company, Inc. 1965 | 34 | 4 |
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| The H. Chambers Company; Chemco Photo Products Company, 1949-1951 | 34 | 5 |
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| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company; Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore, 1949-1954 | 34 | 6 |
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| Cutler-Hammer: Contracts and Proposals, 1947-1951 | 34 | 7 |
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| Fidelity Storage Company; International Business Machines Corporation, 1949-1950 | 34 | 8 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: Contracts and Correspondence (four story building), 1948-1951 | 34 | 9 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: Agreements with Subcontractors, 1949-1951 | 34 | 10 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: Agreements with Subcontractors, 1949-1951 | 35 | 1 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: Agreements with Subcontractors, 1949-1951 | 35 | 2 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: 5th Floor Addition Contracts and Estimates, 1949-1951 | 35 | 3 |
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| George A. Fuller and Company Cost Reports, 1949-1951 | 37 | 1 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: Insurance Coverage, 1949-1951 | 35 | 4 |
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| George A. Fuller Company: Data for Calvert St. Plant, 1946-1950 | 35 | 5 |
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| General Electric Company: 1947-1950 | 35 | 6 |
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| General Electric Company: Press Drives, 1966 | 35 | 7 |
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| George R. Hall, Inc., 1964-1966 | 36 | 1 |
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| R. Hoe & Company: Cancelled Contract, 1946-1946 | 36 | 2 |
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| R. Hoe & Company: Proposals and Scott Press Comparisons, 1946 | 36 | 3 |
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| R. Hoe & Company: Press Units, 1949-1951 | 36 | 4 |
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| R. Hoe & Company: Agreements, 1964-1965 | 36 | 5 |
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| Industrial Electronics (with Music by Muzak), 1950 | 36 | 6 |
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| Jampol Company, 1948-1951 | 36 | 7 |
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| The C.M. Kemp Manufacturing Company; Lorenz Printing Machine Company, 1949-1951 | 36 | 8 |
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| McDade Transfer and Rigging Company, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1950-1951 | 36 | 9 |
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| Lloyd E. Mitchell, Incorporated: Agreement, 1966 | 36 | 10 |
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| Niles and Nelson, Inc., 1947-1950 | 36 | 11 |
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| Palmer, Fisher, Williams, and Nes, Architects: Agreement, 1946-1950 | 36 | 12 |
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| Raymond Concrete Pile Company, 1946-1947 | 36 | 13 |
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| Riggs Distler and Company, 1949-1951 | 36 | 14 |
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| Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation, 1946-1950 | 36 | 15 |
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| Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation Machine Drawings and Proposals for Press Room Equipment, n.d. | 37 | 2 |
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Date: 1981-1986
Extent: 5 boxes
Description: Covering only the 1980s, this series includes materials relating to radio and television stations belonging to the Abell Company, as well as the Vitapix Corporation.
Date: 1981-1985
Extent: 3 boxes
Description: Most of the folders in this subseries pertain to the acquisition of radio stations by the Abell Company. After the purchase of the stations, the Abell Company conducted value assessments of the buildings and contents. Some of these appraisals contain photographs. Folders are organized chronologically.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| WDOQ F.M.: Appraisal Report, November 1981 | 38 | 1 |
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| WDOQ F.M.: Appraisal Report, November 1981 | 38 | 2 |
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| Acquisition of WDOQ (Sections 1-20), November 1981 | 38 | 3 |
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| Acquisition of WDOQ (Sections 21-40), November 1981 | 38 | 4 |
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| Acquisition of WDOQ (Sections 41-65), November 1981 | 38 | 5 |
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| Acquisition of WCRJ, April 1982 | 38 | 6 |
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| Acquisition of WCRJ, April 1982 | 39 | 1 |
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| WCRJ Jacksonville: Appraisal Report with photographs, 1982 | 39 | 2 |
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| Acquisition of WQRK and WTJZ Radio, June 1982 | 39 | 3 |
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| Acquisition of WQRK and WTJZ Radio, June 1982 | 40 | 1 |
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| WQRK and WTJZ Building and Contents Appraisal with photographs, 1982 | 40 | 2 |
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| Abell Communications/WMAR T.V. Value Appraisal, January 19832 | 40 | 3 |
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| A.S. Abell Company Ruling Request, May 1984 | 40 | 4 |
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| Agreement of Sale: Abell Communications and Belvedere Broadcasting, January 1985 | 40 | 5 |
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| Radio Closings, 1985 | 40 | 6 |
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| 1985 | 37 | 3 |
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Date: 1981-1986
Extent: 2 boxes
Description: Folders contain contracts between WRLH and movie and television show distributors. The agreements were already hand-numbered 1-267 and kept in their original order.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Contracts 1-28, 1981 | 41 | 1 |
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| Contracts 29-50, 1982-1983 | 41 | 2 |
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| Contracts 51-69, 1982-1983 | 41 | 3 |
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| Contracts 70-100, 1981-1983 | 41 | 4 |
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| Contracts 101-123, 1982-1983 | 41 | 5 |
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| Contracts 124-151, 1980-1984 | 41 | 6 |
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| Contracts 152-187, 1980-1985 | 42 | 1 |
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| Contracts 188-220, 1985 | 42 | 2 |
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| Contracts 221-238, 1985-1986 | 42 | 3 |
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| Contracts 239-267, 1985-1986 | 42 | 4 |
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| Invoices and Receipts (Radio and Television), 1984-1985 | 42 | 5 |
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Date: 1953-1958
Extent: 1 folder
Description: One folder of correspondence and other documents pertaining to the Vitapix Corporation, its affiliation with Guild Films, and WMAR television.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Vitapix Corporation, 1953-1958 | 42 | 6 |
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Date: 1837-1980
Extent: 134 ledgers (126 boxes)
Description: The ledger series is composed of individual books, including the Sun's first ledger from 1837, which is housed in the Marylandia collection in the reading room. The books contain a variety of information and include financial statements, cash and receipt books, tax returns, stock ledgers, and letters. They are divided into subseries, some of which correspond to earlier series, including financial statements and records, and transactional records. In most cases these books will contain similar information to the loose records, but from different years.
Date: 1855-1968, 1933-1986
Extent: 25 ledgers (17 boxes)
Description: The books in this subseries provide similar information to that in Series I: Financial statements and records, including monthly statements and earnings records. Also included are tax and depreciation schedules, and inventories and appraisals. There are no ledgers in this subseries between 1869 and 1932.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Monthly Statements, 1855 | 43 | Ledger 1 |
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| Inventories and Appraisals, 1856-1861 | 44 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Monthly Statements, 1868 | 45 | Ledger 1 |
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| Inventories and Appraisals, 1856-1861 | 46 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Advertising Earnings, 1935-1949 | 47 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Earnings Record: Subscriptions, Paper Sales and Advertising, 1935-1985 | 47 | Ledger 2, folio |
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| Confidential "Black Book" Records, 1935-1952 | 48 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Confidential "Black Book" Records, 1953-1959 | 48 | Ledger 2, folio |
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| Confidential "Black Book" Records, 1961-1972 | 49 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Confidential "Black Book" Records, 1977-1978 | 50 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Confidential "Black Book" Records, 1980-1986 | 50 | Ledger 2, folio |
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| Property and Depreciation Schedules, Federal Income Tax Returns, 1933-1950 | 51 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Property and Reserve for Federal Taxes, Gains and Losses, 1951-1957 | 52 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Monthly Advertising Balance Record, 1957-1974 | 53 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Property and Depreciation Schedules, Federal Income Tax Returns, 1958-1959 | 54 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Investment Credit, Property and Depreciation Schedules, Federal Income Tax Returns, 1963-1964 | 55 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Investment Credit, Property and Depreciation Schedules, Federal Income Tax Returns, 1965-1970 | 55 | Ledger 2, folio |
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| Investment Credit, Federal Property Distribution, Depreciation Schedule, 1971-1973 | 56 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Investment Credit, Federal Tax Property Depreciation Schedules, 1974 | 57 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Investment Credit, Federal and State Tax Depreciation Schedules, 1975 | 57 | Ledger 2, folio |
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| Fixed Assets and Investment Credit Analysis, 1977-1978 | 58 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Fixed Assets and Investment Credit Analysis, 1977-1978 | 58 | Ledger 2, folio |
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| Discounts, Allowances, and Commissions, 1970-1983 | 58 | Ledger 3, folio |
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| Data and Summary Regarding Construction of Calvert St. Plant 1948-1952 | 59 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Calvert St. Plant and Equipment Account Detail, 1950-1951 | 59 | Ledger 2, folio |
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Date: 1837-1980
Extent: 99 ledgers (99 boxes)
Description: The books in this subseries include checkbooks, cashbooks, petty cash ledgers, bankbooks, receipts, account information. There are no records from 1897-1901, 1955-1957, and 1961-1964. Books are arranged chronologically by the year the ledger was begun.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Journal, 1837 (on shelf in Howard/Arnold folio section) | 60 | Ledger 1 |
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| Petty Ledger, 1837-1841 | 61 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Cashbook, 1839-1840 | 62 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Cashbook, 1840-1842 | 63 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Cashbook, 1842-1843 | 64 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Journal, 1842-1845 | 65 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| S. Advertising Book, 1843 | 66 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Cashbook, 1843-1844 | 67 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Marine Bank of Baltimore, 1843-1844 | 68 | Ledger 1 |
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| Petty Ledger, 1844 | 69 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Advertising Book, 1844 | 70 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Advertising Book, 1844-1845 | 71 | Ledger 1, folio |
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| Receipts, 1844-1847 | 72 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Chesapeake Bank, 1844-1854 | 73 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1845-1846 | 74 | Ledger 1 |
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| Advertising Book, 1845-1847 | 75 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1846-1850 | 76 | Ledger 1 |
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| Journal, 1847-1852 | 77 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Marine Bank, 1848-1855 | 78 | Ledger 1 |
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| Marine Bank of Baltimore, 1848-1861 | 79 | Ledger 1 |
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| Receipt Book, 1849-1861 | 80 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1850-1853 | 81 | Ledger 1 |
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| Mechanics Bank, 1850-1869 | 82 | Ledger 1 |
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| Printing Office Cashbook, 1851-1855 | 83 | Ledger 1 |
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| Rent Accounts, 1851-1856 | 84 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook 1853-1855 | 85 | Ledger 1 |
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| Receipt Book, 1853-1868 | 86 | Ledger 1 |
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| Chesapeake Bank, 1854-1863 | 87 | Ledger 1 |
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| All Estate Accounts, December 10, 1855 | 88 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1855-1856 | 89 | Ledger 1 |
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| Rent Accounts, 1855-1856 | 90 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1855-1861 | 91 | Ledger 1 |
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| Journal, 1855-1861 | 92 | Ledger 1 |
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| Bank of Commerce, 1855-1868 | 93 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Marine Bank, 1856-1881 | 94 | Ledger 1 |
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| Copying Book, 1857-1868 | 95 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1858-1862 | 96 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Mechanics Bank, A.S. Abell Company, 185[?] | 97 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1860-1864 | 98 | Ledger 1 |
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| Advertising Accounts, 1861-1867 | 99 | Ledger 1 |
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| Receipts, 1861-1868 | 100 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1862-1865 | 101 | Ledger 1 |
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| Chesapeake Bank, 1863-1870 | 102 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1864-1868 | 103 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Bank of Commerce, 1864-1873 | 104 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1864-1881 | 105 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1865 | 106 | Ledger 1 |
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| Bank of Commerce, 1865-1883 | 107 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, "Continued from another checkbook, A.S.A." 1868-1870 | 108 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1868-1871 | 109 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1868-1872 | 110 | Ledger 1 |
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| Advertising Accounts, 1868-1873 | 111 | Ledger 1 |
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| Receipt Book, 1868-1877 | 112 | Ledger 1 |
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| Journal Ledger, 1868-1884 | 113 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1869-1874 | 114 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1871-1874 | 115 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook 1871-1874 | 116 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, NH Farmers and Planters Bank, 1872-1875 | 117 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1874-1876 | 118 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1874-1877 | 119 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Farmers and Planters Bank, 1874-1880 | 120 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1875 | 121 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1875-1876 | 122 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1877-1880 | 123 | Ledger 1 |
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| Cashbook, 1878-1881 | 124 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Mechanics Bank 1878-1881 | 125 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Mechanics Bank, 1878-1882 | 126 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, National Farmers and Planters Bank, 1880-1881 | 127 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1880-1882 | 128 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Bank of Commerce, 1881 | 129 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1881-1882 | 130 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, National Farmers and Planters Bank, 1881-1883 | 131 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Mechanics Bank, 1881-1886 | 132 | Ledger 1 |
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| Office and Individual Accounts, A.S. Abell, 1882 | 133 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1882-1883 | 134 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Mechanics Bank, 1882-1884 | 135 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Farmers and Planters Bank, 1882-1884 | 136 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1883-1884 | 137 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1883-1884 | 138 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, 1883-1884 | 139 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Bank of Commerce, 1884 | 140 | Ledger 1 |
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| Checkbook, Mechanics Bank, 188[?] | 141 | Ledger 1 |
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| Standard Diary, 1895 | 142 | Ledger 1 |
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| Standard Diary, 1896 | 143 | Ledger 1 |
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| National Marine Bank, 1902-1903 | 144 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger, 1904-1915 | 145 | Ledger 1 |
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| Account Book, 1905-1914 | 146 | Ledger 1 |
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| Plant Accounts, 1909-1937 | 147 | Ledger 1 |
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| Debits and Credits, 1915-1954 | 148 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger, 1916-1919 | 149 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger Number 4, 1927-1931 | 150 | Ledger 1 |
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| Voucher Check Record, Calvert Street Plant, 1948-1951 | 151 | Ledger 1 |
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| Daybook, 1958-1960 | 152 | Ledger 1 |
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| Expense Book, 1965-1971 | 153 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger Number 5, locked book, n.d. | 154 | Ledger 1 |
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| Ledger, 1967-1979 | 155 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger Number 13, 1969-1973 | 156 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger, 1971-1978 | 157 | Ledger 1 |
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| General Ledger, 1974-1980 | 158 | Ledger 1 |
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Date: 1879, 1910-1966
Extent: 6 ledgers (6 boxes)
Description: Ledgers in this subseries refer to Abell Company stocks. There is no information from 1880-1909, and 1913. Books are arranged by year.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| Stock Ledger: Class C Common, est. 1879 | 159 | Ledger 1 |
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| A.S. Abell Company: Stock Ledger Class A Common, 1910 | 160 | Ledger 1 |
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| A.S. Abell Company: Stock Ledger Class B Common, 1910-1912 | 161 | Ledger 1 |
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| Stock Ledger: Preferred, 1910-1912 | 162 | Ledger 1 |
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| A.S. Abell Company: Stock Ledger Preferred, 1914-1916 | 163 | Ledger 1 |
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| Stock Ledger: Common, 1914-1966 | 164 | Ledger 1 |
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Date: 1868-1886, 1910
Extent: 4 ledgers (4 boxes)
Description: This subseries contains copies of Sun business correspondence in bound books. Letters are often responses to such inquiries as the price of the paper. Copies were made at the same time as the original and are very fragile. Letter books are arranged by year. There are no letters from 1878-1883 and 1887-1909.
| Folder Title/Description | Date | Box # | Folder # | Additional Info. |
| 1868-1875 | 165 | Ledger 1 |
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| 1875-1877 | 166 | Ledger 1 |
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| 1884-1886 | 167 | Ledger 1 |
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| 1910 | 168 | Ledger 1 |
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All books listed below can be found in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections.
Abell (A.S.) Company. A New Home for the Sunpapers of Baltimore: Containing a Brief History of the Past 114 Years and a Description of the Modern Production Equipment in the New Plant. Baltimore: Abell Company, 1951.
The Baltimore Sun. "About the Baltimore Sun." baltimoresun.com. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.baltimoresun.com/about/bal-about-baltsun,0,2763999.htmlstory.
Johnson, Gerald W. The Sunpapers of Baltimore. New York : Knopf, 1937.
Rasmussen, Fred. "The Guild's History at The Sun: Our Common Past." Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.wbng.org/15-0627BaltNewsGuildHistory.pdf.
Warner, Henry Edward. The Making of a Newspaper: A Description of a Trip Through the Baltimore Sun Building. Baltimore: A.S. Abell Company, 1931.
Williams, Harold A. The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Related Archival Collections:
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections maintains a growing Baltimore Sun Archives which includes approximately 750,000 photographs, negatives, transparencies, and archival collections documenting the Sun's history dating to 1837. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/sun.php.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore is home to the H.L. Mencken Collection, which contains significant holdings of Mencken's personal library, papers, manuscripts, and other materials. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/mencken/index.aspx?id=7960.
The Reuther Library at Wayne State University houses the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, and is the official archive of The Newspaper Guild. The Newspaper Guild collection contains materials pertaining to Baltimore and the Baltimore Newspaper Guild. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3200.
