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Montevue Asylum, Diary (3 of 4), 1893-09-09 - 1897-06-21
File — Box 109: [Barcode: 39020030759503], Folder: 10
Identifier: 119_111_2
Scope and Contents
Record of missionary work at the Montevue Almshouse (a county institution officially titled the Montevue Hospital) performed for one-year terms by tertians (newly-ordained priests) stationed at Frederick. Their entries record their visits to the racially-segregated facilities of Montevue: the first of these was a hospital and workhouse that housed those impoverished because disability, illness, age, or insanity, and the second provided temporary shelter and relief for the itinerant poor...
Dates:
1893-09-09 - 1897-06-21
Found in Notes:
The old facility became a residence for itinerants who sought short-term relief. Both facilities were segregated by race.
Montevue Asylum, Diary (4 of 4), 1897-09-08 - 1898-06-05
File — Box 110: [Barcode: 39020030759511], Folder: 1
Identifier: 119_111_2
Scope and Contents
Diary of missionary work at the Montevue Asylum (a county institution officially titled the Montevue Hospital and often referred to as an Almshouse) performed for one-year terms by tertians (newly-ordained priests) stationed at Frederick. Their entries record their visits to the racially-segregated facilities of Montevue: the first of these was a hospital and workhouse that housed those impoverished because of disability, illness, age, or insanity, and the second provided temporary shelter...
Dates:
1897-09-08 - 1898-06-05
Found in Notes:
The old facility became a residence for itinerants who sought short-term relief. Both facilities were segregated by race.
Scrapbook I., 11/28/1885-10/28/1888
File — Box 1: Series 520, Folder: 1
Identifier: 41557
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren papers consist of one scrapbook intact, containing material dating from 1885 through 1888; a fragment of a scrapbook, containing material dating 1877 through 1879; and one tintype, possibly of the Irish statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell. The following description of this collection begins with the complete scrapbook, designated Scrapbook I. The fragmented Scrapbook II follows, with the tintype as the last item in the collection. Itemization of material within...
Dates:
11/28/1885-10/28/1888
Found in Notes:
Also mentions a portrait sketch of MVD then in circulation, which erroneously shows her "as tall, slender, and youthful, with superb flashing dark eyres, erect figure..." when in fact, the article goes on to say, "she was of short stature, and much inclined to embonpoint since the almost fatal accident of a few years since.