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Abstract
The Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture Serials collection contains fan magazines, academic journals, industry trade magazines, yearbooks, and bound press releases documenting radio, television, advertising, journalism, film, and humor from the early 1900's to the present.
Dates:
1910-2012; Majority of material found within 1920-1960
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Spence papers span the years 1862 to 1864. The collection consists of correspondence sent from Civil War battlefields in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Topics covered include living conditions, finances, health and fitness, descriptions of encounters with rebels, and thoughts on the war, its officers, and rebels.
Dates:
1862-1864
Abstract
Jean Spencer (1933-1992), a University of Maryland graduate, was an expert in the area of state and local government. In 1966, Governor Tawes selected Spencer to work as staff director of the Commission for the Modernization of the Maryland Government. In 1967, she became the assistant director of the Governor's Task Force on Modern Management under Governor Spiro T. Agnew. Spencer was also the research staff director for the Maryland Consitutional Convention of 1967-1968. While working for...
Dates:
1951- March 10, 2009; Majority of material found within 1963-1973
Abstract
Grace Delafield Day Spier (1901-1980) was a social activist, a friend of Katherine Anne Porter, and the sister of Dorothy Day, editor of the Catholic Worker. She became active in the literary and intellectual circles of Greenwich Village in the second decade of the twentieth century. The collection consists of correspondence from Katherine Anne Porter about mutual acquaintances and personal life.
Dates:
1928-1931; Majority of material found within 1928-1931
Abstract
This office, known as Athletic Media Relations since 1996, provided information about university athletics to the media. The collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, scrapbooks, publications, and correspondence. While the collection primarily documents the football team, other sports, such as men's basketball in the 1960s to 1980s, are covered as well. One scrapbook covers women's athletics from 1975 to 1982. Another scrapbook records the accomplishments of...
Dates:
1932-1994; Majority of material found within 1980s
Abstract
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a daily newspaper published in St. Louis, Missouri. Joseph Pulitzer founded the paper in 1878. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photographs are a morgue of over 3,500 entertainment photos from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The photos date from approximately 1930 to 1965 with bulk dates of approximately 1940 to 1965. Most photos are promotional images. Many contain editors' marks and...
Dates:
circa 1930 - circa 1965; Majority of material found within circa 1940 - circa 1965
Abstract
St. Teresa's Press was established in 1965 by the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Flemington under the direction of Mother Mary Joseph. This collection dates from 1966 to 2007, and consists of correspondence between Mother Mary Joseph and the donor Michael Lang, an honorary membership certificate, and printed ephemera related to the history of the press. Included in this collection are 9 hand-bound limited edition books, with prospectuses and/or thank you cards pressed between the endpapers in...
Dates:
1966-2007
Abstract
Susan Stamberg (1938- ) is a public radio journalist best known as a co-host on National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1971 to 1986 and as the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from its inception in 1987 to 1989. In her later career in the 1990s, she worked as a cultural reporter on various NPR news magazines. The bulk of the collection documents Stamberg's career at WAMU radio in Washington, D.C., and her NPR career from 1971...
Dates:
1921 - 2011 and undated; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1993
Abstract
Adele H. Stamp (1890-1974) was Dean of Women at the University of Maryland from 1922 to 1960. She organized the Women's Student Government Association and the Women's Senior Honor Society and served as national treasurer of Alpha Lambda Delta. Her papers include correspondence, reports, photographs and scrapbooks, which document her involvement in student and academic affairs on the university campus especially before 1950, as well as her outside organizational interests. In addition, a...
Dates:
1895-1983; Majority of material found within 1930-1959
Abstract
The Stamp Union Program Council (SUPC) was a volunteer student organization responsible for planning special events and programs in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. This collection contains a scrapbooks documenting the work of the SUPC between 1980 and 1994, including photographs, clippings of campus publications such as the Diamondback, copies of flyers and publicity materials for SUPC events, and advertisements for concerts organized by the Glass Onion...
Dates:
1980-1994; Majority of material found within 1982-1984
