Gallery 7
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PEOPLE, PLACES, ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICS |
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Where do you want to go next?Red numbered items have multiple images |
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 701. Oldest known portrait photo of Frank (Home Run) Baker taken in 1908 when he was 22. |
 702. Frank (Home Run) Baker's boyhood story as told by childhood friend, 1913 (1 MB .pdf download) |
 703. J. Frank Home Run Baker and his wife Ottilie circa 1909 |
 704. Norman, Agnes and J. Franklin Baker at their parents home on Howell's Pt. Rd. circa nineteen-teens. |
 705. Frank (Home Run) Baker baseball trading card, American Caramel Co. 1921. |
 706. J. Franklin Home Run Baker at his home in Trappe, c. 1958 |
 707. Graves of J. Franklin Home Run Baker (1886-1963) & first wife Ottilie (1888-1920) |
 708. John K. Caulk, Sr. with horse and buggy, downtown Trappe circa 1860's |
 709. A very early street scene of Trappe taken in the 1860s |
 710. Very early Trappe area photograph portrait of Joseph & Mary Elizabeth Caulk taken in 1857 or 1858 |
 711. 1856 letter from Mary Elizabeth Caulk in Baltimore to her husband Joseph Caulk |
 712. Letter dated May 12, 1860 from Mary Elizabeth Caulk to her son William |
 713. June 10, 1860 letter from a Caulk family friend staying at Isle of Rays farm near Trappe |
 714. Caulk house on Isle of Rays farm (now called Roslyn), Island Creek Neck. Built in the 1840s |
 715. The Caulk family admires new Buick. Isle of Rays farm (now Roslyn farm) Island Creek Neck. 1915-17 |
 716. Ingleside farm, Trappe, Md. 1910 |
 717. Watermelon party at Ingleside farm about 1910. |
 718. Aerial view of Ingleside Farm Chancellor's Pt. Rd. circa 1940 |
 719. Ingleside Farm in the early 1920s. The automobile is a 1921 Velie. |
 720. Trappe Lions Club Charter Presentation dinner, 1949 |
 721. The Jones house at Trappe Landing circa 1920 |
 722. The Slaughter house at Trappe Landing circa 1920 |
 723. Soft crabbing off the Webb Farm, Jamaica Pt. Rd. Trappe, Md. early 1950s |
 724. Island Creek fishing |
 725. Life in the country: picking geese & crabs circa 1957, Milan Farm. |
 726. Copy of "The Liberty Song" from 1768, written by John Dickinson. [Listen to song] |
 727. 4 letters mailed to Trappe in 1844 & 1845. No two spellings of Trappe are the same. |
 728. Letter mailed from Trappe in 1847, in the days before there were postage stamps. |
 729.Earliest known Trappe postmark and letter addressed to Mr. J. Leeds Tilghman dated Dec. 25, 1856 |
 730. Tuckahoe Tribe No.64 Improved Order of Red Men, Trappe, circa 1882 |
 731. Dues paid Improved Order of Red Men, 1914, 1919 |
 732. 1923 letter from Great Chief of Records Improved Order of Red Men |
 733. Improved Order of Red Men ritual wind machine |
 734. The Trappe chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows was established about 1910. |
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Trappe's Odd Fellows circa 1915
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 736. A Bugeye entering Island Creek under sail, (undated photo) |
 737. License to catch oysters issued Nov. 5, 1873 |
 738. Trappe Boy Scout Troop, circa 1919 |
 739. Boy Scout handbook used by Trappe scout,1953 |
 740. Trappe Cub Scout Pack 189 in front of the fire house, circa 1957 |
 741. Trappe Cub Scout uniform Pack 189 Den 4 circa 1958 |
 742. Trappe Cub Scout Pack 189, Den 4 on the elementary school grounds, March 1959 |
 743. Trappe Jimmy Dawson's Winning Pinewood Derby Racer, circa 1959 |
 744. Trappe Scout Troop 189 at Rodney Scout Reservation, summer, 1958. |
 745. Trappe Boy Scout Troop 189 at Rodney Scout Reservation, 1962 |
 746. 4H Club demonstration wins safety award, 1957. |
 747. Trappe youth at 4H Club Week, College Park Md.,1955 |
 748. The steamer Dorchester at Windy Hill probably 1920s. |
 749. Jack Slaughter, Bill Kirby and Jim Banks on Main St., Trappe |
 750. "Pops" Murray, the last miller of Wright's Mill. Photo by Tom Firth probably 1950s, courtesy Joedy Cecil. |
 751. Defender House, Trappe, Md. circa 1815 |
 752. Historic building from downtown Trappe, circa 1908 |
 753. Samuel James Merrick (1843-1924) "Capt. Sam" on his farm near Trappe |
 754. The Samuel James Merrick house on Bruceville Rd. near Trappe, Md. |
 755. The old Leonard house on Maple Ave. about 1945 |
 756. Dr. Samuel T. Kemp house at 3901 Main Street, Trappe circa 1764 |
 757. Hampden, south side Island Creek Neck, originally owned by the Martin family in 1660s. |
 758. The gravestone of Elizabeth Martin, 1676 |
 759. Owen Barnes and his donkey |
 760. Celebration of the 80th. birthday of Mrs. Henrietta Tarbutton, 1936 |
 761. The Dickinson house circa 1740 is one of Trappe's oldest houses. |
 762. Riker's Island, at the mouth of Bolingbroke Creek, as seen from Bolingbroke Farm about 1915. |
 763. Bible owned by George Moore, Trappe, Co. H 1st Eastern Shore Volunteers |
 " 764. Nellie Kirby’s spotter I.D. card |
 765. Nellie Kirby’s aircraft spotter badge |
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 767. Charles B. Adams, Jr., candidate for House of Delegates, 1966. |
 768. Charles B. Adams, Jr., candidate for House of Delegates campaign advertisement |
 769. Charles B. Adams, Sr., Republican for state senator, November 1950 |
 770. Charles B. Adams, Sr., Talbot Co. Treasurer, Dec. 1943 |
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Trappe Artifacts Gallery 7. PEOPLE, PLACES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND POLITICS