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decided whether it would be economical to treat film as library materials.
Perhaps the form of the material should be ignored altogether and the
content made the sole criterion of whether material is archival or library.

The purchase of Maryland printed books, however necessary for our
work, is generally beyond our means. We are therefore especially pleased
to receive such gifts as the History of Western Maryland by J. Thomas
Scharf, which was presented to the Hall of Records by Mrs. Heister
Hoogewerff, and The Sun Almanacs, which came from Mr. Charles L.
Shipley.

ABELL, A. S. & Co., A New Home for the Sunpapers of Baltimore, Baltimore,

January 1951. Gift.
——————, The Sun Almanac, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1892, 1894, 1896,

1901, 1905, 1910, 1914, Baltimore. Gifts of Charles L. Shipley.
American Jewish Archives, Vol. III, No. 2, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1951. Gift

of the American Jewish Archives.
BARRETT, EDWARD J., Disposition of Illinois Records. Reprinted from Illinois

Libraries, Springfield, Illinois, May and June 1950. Gift of the Illinois State

Library.
BELGIUM, La Restauration des Documents aux Archives, Generates du Royaume, by

Jacques Bolsee. Extrait de Archives, Bibliotheques et Musees de Belgique, T.

XXI—No. 1, Bruxelles, 1950. Gift of William J. Barrow.
Berlin Township Program of the Delaware County Historical Society, compiled by

Mrs. Anna Smith Pabst, 1949. Gift of the compiler.
BROWN, EVERETT S., Manual of Government Publications: United States and

Foreign, New York, 1950. Gift of the author.
Bulletin of the American Association for State and Local History, Vol. II, No. 4,

Where are the Historical Manuscripts?, by Herbert A. Kellar, William N.

Bischoff, Harry C. Bauer and S. K. Stevens, September 1950. Gift.
CANADA, Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Water-Colour Drawings by

Alfred Jacob Miller in the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1951.

Gift.
CAPPON, LESTER J. and STELLA F. DUFF, Virginia Gazette Index,, J 736-1780, 2

Vols., published by The Institute of Early American History and Culture,

Williamsburg, Virginia, 1950. Purchase.
CARTER, CLARENCE EDWIN, editor, The Territorial Papers of the United States,

Vol. XVII, The Territory of Illinois, 1814-1818, Washington, D. C., 1950.

Gift of the Library of Congress.
The Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,

1827-1927, Baltimore, 1927. Gift of Charles L. Shipley.
Charter of Public Local Laws of Baltimore City, compiled and edited by Horace E.

Flack, Baltimore, 1949. Gift of the Department of Legislative Reference.