Gems

  One would think the Map Collection holds only maps… but one would be wrong! One of the interesting “non-map”

This month highlights an August 1774 letter (Figure 1) to the Freeholders of Alexandria Township contained in the Emley-Race Papers,

Note: All figures in the article were lightened on my computer to improve legibility. The original map is darker due

Collection Gem articles were broadened to include manuscripts in the Society’s holdings. This month features a letter stored in Collection