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The C.C. Birchard Company collection contains materials dating between 1928 and 1956 with the bulk of the materials dating between 1929 and 1936. The C.C. Birchard Company was a Boston-based music and textbook publisher founded by Clarence C. Birchard. Birchard's 1946 obituary in The New York Times referred to him as "a pioneer in the community singing movement [who] published several million copies of a collection of community songs." The collection...
Dates:
1928-1956; Majority of material found within 1929-1936
Abstract
In 1959, University President Wilson E. Elkins drew together a Centennial Committee to make arrangements for the campus observance of the centennial anniversary of the Land-Grant Act during the 1961-1962 academic year. This collection is primarily comprised of publications of the Centennial Office of the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities, the national oversight group, as well as some correspondence of the university committee. Recognition of the anniversary...
Dates:
1959-1962; Majority of material found within 1961-1962
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The Central Atlantic Environment Center was established in 1967 as the Potomac Basin Center. Until it ceased operations in 1974, the Center collected, analyzed, and disseminated information on issues relating to natural resources. Its records include correspondence, newsletters and news releases, annual reports, and court cases concerned primarily with protecting Maryland's resources from developers. Subjects and organizations documented in the collection include Maryland wetlands, the...
Dates:
1966-1974; Majority of material found within 1968-1974
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The Office of the Chancellor was created in 1970 in the course of the reorganization of the University of Maryland system. The Chancellor was the highest-ranking administrator for the College Park campus until the expansion of the University of Maryland in 1988, at which time the office was renamed Office of the President. The records consist of the administrative files of the Chancellor and include reports, financial and budget records, committee and task force files, publications, and...
Dates:
1967-1978; Majority of material found within 1972-1978
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The Chancellor's Commission on Women's Affairs was established by University of Maryland Chancellor Charles E. Bishop on December 3, 1973, to address the needs and concerns of women on the University of Maryland campus. Among the commission's goals were to maintain systematic contact with organizations on campus concerned with women's affairs and to identify unique problems faced by women at the university, including safety, implementation of Title IX in women's athletics, and the needs of...
Dates:
1971-1988
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Emerson Chapin (1920 - 2003) was a longtime New York Times editor and foreign correspondent. He served in Japan during the Occupation in both military and civilian roles. In late September 1945, his division, the 98th Infantry, was sent to Japan as part of the Occupation forces. Chapin was stationed in Osaka and worked on a paper produced for the division. Discharged in 1946, he returned that same year to Japan to work as a civilian in the Civil Information and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-1950; 1943-1996
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John Grant Chapman, an affluent citizen and plantation owner in Charles County, was active in state and national politics for over twenty-five years. A member of the Whig party, he served in the Maryland House of Delegates and then advanced to the Maryland Senate. From 1845 to 1848, Chapman served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Marshall Chapman, the second of John Grant Chapman's sons, inherited the Chapman estate upon his father's death in 1856. Records show that the family enslaved...
Dates:
1816-1895; Majority of material found within 1850-1880
Abstract
Irwin M. Chapman was a news correspondent in Washington, D.C., and several international city bureaus, who worked for Radio Press International, ABC News, CNN News, and Bloomberg News for over 40 years. In addition, Chapman was an Anne Cavanaugh Smith professor of International Journalism and Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This material consists of born digital daily radio newscasts and corresponding emails about current events in 2022 and 2023 for...
Dates:
October 17-November 22, 2022 and February 27-March 24, 2023
Abstract
The professional and personal papers of Charles B.[Bruner] Fowler (1931-1995), eminent American arts advocate, educator, editor, writer and philosopher, fill 236 boxes. The collection consists of published and unpublished articles, including related research and correspondence; published reports, pamphlets and educational materials; chapters written in books; authored and edited books, including personal copies of each; unpublished keynote addresses and speeches; reports of studies and...
Dates:
1940-1995; Majority of material found within 1960s-1995
Abstract
The Charles H. Eisenhardt Jr. (1902-1970), a Baltimore native and avid patron of the arts, attended numerous concerts and theater productions in Baltimore and was particularly interested in musical theater. An employee of American Steel and Wire Company, he moved with his wife Ethel and daughter Jane to Cleveland, Ohio in 1942, where they were frequent attendees at the Hanna Theater and The Cleveland Playhouse. Eisenhardt transferred to New York City in 1956 to work for US Steel Corporation...
Dates:
1865-1964; Majority of material found within 1910-1945
