The collection consists of scanned images from the scrapbook of Lee Pennington, Maryland Agricultural College Class of 1915. Baseball, football, and track and field action shots are included. There are also pictures documenting the construction of Calvert Hall and damage to the Maryland Agricultural College resulting from the 1912 campus fire. A preliminary inventory is available of the images is available in the "Additional Description" section of this finding aid.
Included in this artificial collection are 18 individually described autographs, correspondence, photographic items, and other historic manuscripts (broadsides, handbills, etc.) related to the performing arts from 1872 to 1995. Additions are expected.
Harry C. Perry, Jr. (b. 1919), was Katherine Anne Porter's tax accountant for approximately five years in the early 1960s. He filed Porter's federal and District of Columbia tax returns from 1959 until 1964. The collection documents Porter's financial situation before and after the publication of Ship of Fools. Included in the collection are financial papers, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to Porter.
