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Abstract
Dick Dorrance (1914-1999), an advertising and promotion copywriter, was head of promotion for CBS's owned stations and, later, the Mutual Broadcasting System. In between, he was the principal of Dorrance and Company, a trade promotion and advertising firm. He was also promotion director and general manager of FM Broadcaster Inc., an early FM trade association (later merged with the National Association of Broadcasters). During the war, he was with the Office of War Information and led the...
Dates:
1940-1945; Majority of material found within April 1940-January 1944
Abstract
This collection belonging to Elise Dorsey, Class of 1926, includes many memorabilia items including pins and rings, some with the university seal, and medals, felt letters, and armbands associated with the Women's Rifle Team. The centerpiece of the collection is her University of Maryland scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper clippings, dance cards, event programs, and correspondence. A Preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this...
Dates:
circa 1920s
Abstract
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was one of the major novelists of the post-World War I Lost Generation that included authors and artists such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Sherwood Anderson. After graduating from Harvard University in 1916, he volunteered to be an ambulance driver in World War I. His experiences there led to the bitter antiwar novel Three Soldiers (1921). In the postwar years he also produced his trilogy ...
Dates:
1923-1970; Majority of material found within 1925-1933
Abstract
William Dove, a student at the University of Maryland in the early 1950s, took photographs of campus construction in 1954. The black-and-white snapshot collection, which includes images of Byrd Stadium, Cole Field House, Student Union, Fraternity Row, classroom buildings, and dormitories, offers a unique glimpse of the campus during a period of tremendous growth. A preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this finding aid.
Dates:
1954
Abstract
Mylo S. Downey graduated from the Maryland College of Agriculture in 1927 and earned his Masters of Arts at the University of Maryland in 1940. Downey served as associate director for development for the College of Agriculture for many years. The papers include several yearbooks and commencement invitations from the 1920s as well as Downey's 1940 diploma. A preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this finding aid.
Dates:
1925-1940; Majority of material found within 1925-1927
Abstract
Dryad Press had its origins in Dryad magazine, a literary journal co-founded by Merrill Leffler and Neil Lehrman in 1967 in the Washington, D.C., area. In 1974, the press published the first book bearing its imprint and has since published over sixty works, primarily volumes of poetry, which often have Jewish themes or subjects. Many of the authors published by Dryad are associated with the state of Maryland, by birth, education, or current residence. Much...
Dates:
1966-2018
Abstract
The George Du Bois Collection of Maryland Labor History consits of photocopies of newspapers articles from the Baltimore Sun and other Maryland newspapers relating to labor issues gathered by DuBois during work on his dissertation at the University of Maryland, Search for a Better Life: Baltimore Workers 1865-1916.
Dates:
1865-1922; Majority of material found within 1865-1916
Abstract
The Thomas S. Duckett family papers consist of correspondence, financial records, and legal documents that span the years 1854-1943 with the bulk of the material dating between 1854 and 1893.
Dates:
1854-1943; Majority of material found within 1854-1893
Abstract
Harold Dudley (1896-1970) was a poet, author, and founder of the Washington Pilgrimage, later known as Religious Heritage of America. The organization actively promoted the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States. ...
Dates:
1944-1971
Abstract
John Carroll Dunn was an architect who worked in the Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania region from the 1950s through the 1990s. The John Carroll Dunn papers are composed of architectural drawings and plans for commercial and residential structures in the Mid-Atlantic region. This collection is unprocessed.
Dates:
1950-1998
