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Abstract
The Board of Regents is the highest-level governing body of the University of Maryland system. The Regents' records document overall administration of the university. They contain correspondence; statements; proposals; reports; and files from specific committees, boards, and commissions, in particular the Committee on the Presidency, the Agricultural Advisory Board, and the Maryland Agricultural Commission. The University of Maryland also holds a significant unprocessed addendum to the...
Dates:
1916-1990
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Reginald R. Gerig (1919-2018) is Professor of Piano Emeritus at Wheaton College and a music researcher, perhaps best known for writing Famous Pianists and Their Techniques. Gerig also taught piano at both Wheaton College and Eastman School of Music and gave many lectures on piano technique at places such as Brigham Young University Summer Piano Festival, Peabody Conservatory, and the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. The collection contains manuscripts,...
Dates:
1593-2003; Majority of material found within 1968-1991
Abstract
The Office of Registration was an administrative office of the Maryland Agricultural College responsible for recording information about entering students and students' classroom performance. The collection contains student and entrance registers and records of recitations of the Maryland Agricultural College.
Dates:
1859-1916
Abstract
Flora Waldman Reid (1916-2007) graduated from the University of Maryland in 1937. At Maryland, Reid was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, Riding Club, Rife Club, the archery team, and YWCA, in addition to being selected as May Queen in her senior year. This collection contains nine black and white photographs from 1934-1937 of Flora Waldman with friends, sorority sisters, and future husband Bob Reid (Maryland Class of 1936). Two color photographs depict Flora Reid with two 1935...
Dates:
1934-2006; Majority of material found within 1936-1937
Abstract
Francis Calvin Renner (1840-1914) was an inventor, businessman, farmer, New Midway Postmaster, and minister in the Church of the Brethren. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, a ledger, legal documents, and a bankbook, documenting Renner's involvement in the Rose Jelly Manufacturing Company and the Woodsboro and Double Pipe Creek Turnpike Company. The papers relate chiefly to Rose Jelly Manufacturing Company with particular emphasis on agreements made with various...
Dates:
1881-1915 and undated; Majority of material found within 1885-1892
Abstract
This is a collection of ongoing oral histories documenting the existence and experience of Black students, faculty, and staff at the University of Maryland (UMD), as well as community members from the surrounding areas, through the voices and words of the narrators themselves. The Black Experience Oral History Project is part of the larger Reparative Histories initiative, which seeks to address the relative absence of the histories of traditionally marginalized communities within UMD’s...
Dates:
July 23, 2021 to February 24, 2024
Abstract
The Resident Life scrapbook was created by former University of Maryland student John Krause in the 1980s and includes images of resident life in the Washington Hall dormitory. Washington Hall dormitory was constructed in 1940. The scrapbook contains campus maps, articles about the groundbreaking and construction, photographs, dormitory rules, information about the dormitory from the Building Data Books, and photocopies from various yearbooks.
Dates:
1940-1980
Abstract
Arthur Van Reuth (1912-2009) graduated from the University of Maryland in 1934 with a B.S. in Engineering. At Maryland, Van Reuth was a member of the Engineering Society, Civil Club, Episcopal Club, Rossbourg Club, and the Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity. This collection consists of two black and white photos -- one of the November 25, 1934 Homecoming football game crowd with cheerleaders Charlotte Hood, Helen Wollman, and June Barnesley, and one of Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity brothers in 1934....
Dates:
1934
Abstract
James L. Reveal was on the faculty of the Department of Botany at the University of Maryland from 1969 to 1999. Reveal served as director of the Norton-Brown Herbarium of the University of Maryland between 1979 and 1999. He was a member of the Smithsonian Institution's Endangered Species Committee from 1974 to 1982. Reveal was instrumental in attaining the addition of endangered plant species to the original Endangered Species Act. His papers consist of research materials and notes,...
Dates:
1965-2000
Abstract
Ferdinand Reyher (1891-1967) was a novelist, newspaper correspondent, screenwriter, and playwright active in and among many influential artistic, cultural, and social spheres of the twentieth century. The papers document Reyher's literary activities and personal life. The collection includes correspondence; manuscripts; Reyher's notes and research; clippings; legal and financial documents; and other personal material, including diaries, photographs, and drawings. Throughout his writing...
Dates:
1868-1996; Majority of material found within circa 1917-1960
