# @mdhistory on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ivBySJtqL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17825638-mdhistory-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-03-15T17:08:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) (@mdhistory) — https://gondola.cc/mdhistory

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As we approach our annual day of giving on Maryland Day, March 25th, join us for a behind-the-scenes series connecting our collections and the dedicated staff who care for, interpret, and support them in so many ways. Meet Micah and help make our work possible with a gift to our Annual Fund via the link in our bio.

"Hello! My name is Micah Connor and I am the Library Associate and Student Research Coordinator at the Maryland Center for History and Culture’s H. Furlong Baldwin Library. I help Library patrons with their research, namely genealogy and Revolutionary War-related inquiries. One of my favorite items in our Library is MS 2700, Benjamin Banneker’s astronomical journal. Although I’ve worked with this item many times, I am always taken aback by Banneker’s beautiful handwriting, and his meticulous, detailed notes on topics ranging from celestial events to a brood of 17-year cicadas and even his dreams. For anyone who grew up learning about Banneker, his journal is an important resource, and it is fully digitized and accessible through the Digital Collections portal of our website."

What connections do you have with the 350,000 objects and seven million archival works that live on at 610 Park Avenue? Learn more about our team and the collections that motivate them in the weeks ahead. 

Picture: Leslie Eames

Collection Item: Astronomical Journal, written by Benjamin Banneker (1731 - 1896), 1790 -1892. Maryland Center for History and Culture, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Gift of Dorothea West (Mrs. Robert T. Fitzhugh) in memory of her husband Robert Tyson Fitzhugh, MS 2700.

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