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Abstract
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.
Dates:
1912-1915
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1872 - 1995
Abstract
Philip Perlman was a prominent Maryland lawyer and political leader during the 1930s and 1940s who served as U.S. Solicitor General from 1947 to 1952. His papers consist of files relating to Baltimore mayoral, Maryland gubernatorial, and U.S. House and Senate elections; the creation of Maryland laws and legislation; Baltimore City Government; the Great Depression; Maryland and Baltimore political campaigns; presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1940; Assessment of Maryland Zoning Ordinances;...
Dates:
1926-1942; Majority of material found within 1927-1942
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1958-1966; Majority of material found within 1959-1964
Abstract
The Department of Personnel is the administrative unit of the University of Maryland responsible for various personnel-related functions including maintenance of central personnel files for university faculty and staff, payroll, grievance proceedings, employee benefits, and training/employee relations. Topics represented in the department's administrative and committee files include the workings of the Committee on Meaningful Integration, personnel changes and statistics, and manpower...
Dates:
1956-1971; Majority of material found within 1965-1970
Abstract
Charles E. Peterson (1906-2004) was an architectural historian, restorationist and planner. He began his career with the National Park Service in 1929. In 1933 he founded the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). After serving as a naval commander during World War II Peterson planned the new Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia. After retiring from the Park Service in 1962, Peterson became active in Philadelphia preservation issues and was instrumental in the...
Dates:
1927-2004; Majority of material found within 1929-2000
Abstract
Professor William Peterson served the English Department at the University of Maryland from 1974 until he retired in 2004. He is the author or editor of fourteen books (several of them about William Morris and his Kelmscott Press) and is a free-lance book-designer. He also edited two academic journals, Browning Institute Studies and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. The Peterson papers consist of...
Dates:
1967-1982; Majority of material found within 1968-1976
Abstract
Andrew Pettis (1906-1987) joined the carpentry crew at a Portland, Maine, shipyard in 1939 and rose through the ranks to become shop steward and, when the yard unionized in 1942, president of Local 50 of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (IUMSWA). Pettis became increasingly active in the union and in politics. He was named New England Regional Director of the IUMSWA in 1945 after an unsuccessful bid for election to Congress in 1944. In 1950 he was named vice...
Dates:
1924-1972; Majority of material found within 1942-1951
Abstract
Carol Stoker Petzold, Democrat, represented the 19th District, Montgomery County, Maryland, in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1987 to 2006. She was a member of the Judiciary Committee and the chair of the Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Her papers include documentation pertaining to bills that she supported in areas such as drug and alcohol abuse, civil rights, fair housing, education, health care, and transportation. Other topic areas covered include the Intercounty...
Dates:
1974-2008; Majority of material found within 1993-2006
Abstract
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society, advocates excellence in liberal arts and sciences among its faculty and student members. After having their original petition for membership denied in 1947, the University of Maryland's Gamma chapter was founded in 1964, initiating forty-three seniors, three juniors, and two alumni in the first year. The collection contains administrative records of Phi Beta Kappa including bylaws, correspondence, meeting minutes, membership lists,...
Dates:
1938-1984; Majority of material found within 1962-1976
