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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Alex. Brown &amp; Sons records, 1796-1908 (bulk 1796-1884)</title>
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    <namePart>Alex. Brown &amp; Sons</namePart>
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    <extent>266</extent>
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  <abstract>Lettercopy and letterpress books, daybooks, cashbooks, ledgers, journals, salesbooks, wastebooks, accounts current, blotters, and other business records of the firm and its successor, subsidiary, and allied companies documenting its transition from a mercantile firm importing Irish linen to an international banking house with extensive import-export, shipbuilding, railroad, and public utility operations.  The correspondence reflects social, political, and military events as well as financial and economic trends of the nineteenth century.  Also includes records of Stewart Brown, Philadelphia, Pa., and Falls &amp; Brown, Baltimore, Md.  Other firms represented include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Brown Brothers &amp; Company, and Brown, Shipley &amp; Co., its affiliate in Liverpool.  Persons represented include the firm's founder, Alexander Brown (1764-1834); his descendants. Alexander Brown (1858-1949), George Brown (1787-1859), George Stewart Brown (1834-1890), James Brown (1791-1877). John A. Brown (1788-1872), and Sir William Brown (1784-1864); and his brother, Stewart Brown, and Stewart Brown's business partner, Moore Falls.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Containers 125, 198, and 242 available on microfilm only; originals retained by the firm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1954.</note>
  <note>Firm founded in 1800 in Baltimore, Md., that evolved from a mercantile business into an international banking house.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998013</note>
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      <namePart>Brown, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1764-1834</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1949</namePart>
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      <namePart>Brown, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1859</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, George Stewart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1890</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1877</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, John A</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1788-1872</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, Stewart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1769-</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Brown, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1864</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Falls, Moore</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Brown Brothers &amp; Company.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Brown, Shipley &amp; Co.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Falls &amp; Brown.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Stewart Brown (Firm)</namePart>
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    <topic>Banks and banking</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <geographic>Baltimore</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Banks and banking, International</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>International finance</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Linen industry</topic>
    <geographic>Ireland</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <geographic>Baltimore</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <geographic>Philadelphia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Public utilities</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Shipbuilding</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Trading companies</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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