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Donald Dunn Duvall (March 7, 1946–August 7, 2010) was an American information technology consultant and music lover who organized and maintained a sizeable record collection started by his maternal uncle, Claude James Dunn (January 13, 1902–July 23, 1990). The Duvall record collection contains more than 200 LPs from the twentieth century; the bulk of the materials are undated, though two recordings are dated 1949. Styles of music represented in the collection include jazz and big band...
Dates:
1949, undated; Majority of material found in undated
Abstract
William Henry Duvall, Jr. was born on December 26, 1895 in Prince George's County, Maryland. He entered the Maryland Agricultural College as a student in 1916, but was inducted into the U. S. Army in 1918 and did not graduate with the rest of his class in 1919. This collection includes a hand-written laboratory notebook for a mechanical engineering class dated 1917, and a textbook entitled Introductory Course in Mechanical Drawing, by J. C. Tracy, C.E., published...
Dates:
1898-1917
Abstract
William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956) was a type designer, book designer, calligrapher, illustrator, and writer. He also carved and wrote plays for his marionettes, and had occasional excursions into architecture, furniture design, mural painting, kite flying, weathervane-making, and making his own tools. The collection includes over 130 volumes and over 30 pieces of ephemera documenting Dwiggins's design career, as well as works written about him.
Dates:
1902-1990; Majority of material found within 1920-1960
Collection — Box: 1
0122-MMC
Abstract
DX News is the official bulletin of the National Radio Club, a non-profit hobbyist organization formed in 1933. (DXing refers to making contact between amateur radio stations.) This collection includes the first fifteen years of DX News, from 1933-1948.
Dates:
Publication: Majority of material found within November 8, 1933 - July 31, 1948
Collection
0436-SCPA-STARCHER
Abstract
E. Thomas Starcher was best known for his teachings in the University of Maryland's Speech department from 1949 through 1984, as well as for being the originator and director of UMD's Drama Wing from 1954 to 1984. The E. Thomas Starcher collection on the UMD Drama Wing consists of one bound book including newspaper and magazine photograph clippings of theater performances, speech department students, drama students, and some photos of Starcher. Most of the photographs are credited to...
Dates:
1954-1981
Abstract
Earle H. "Bud" Gillis, Jr. (1919-2003) began his broadcasting career in the early 1940s as a radio announcer at WDAN, Danville, Illinois, and at WGBF, Evansville, Indiana. After military service, he worked as a staff announcer for WHKC in Columbus, Ohio, from 1946 to 1943. He then moved to television as a program manager at WLWC (later WCMH) in Columbus from 1953 to 1962.Then, from August 1962 to March 1970, Gillis was the executive secretary for the Ohio Educational Television...
Dates:
1961-1967; Majority of material found within 1961-1967
Abstract
Dr. Earl A. Slocum was born near Concord, Michigan and became the first male student to graduate from Albion College with a public school music certificate. After receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, Slocum took a position as director of bands at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. He remained at the University until his retirement in 1967. Dr. Slocum was elected to the American Bandmasters...
Dates:
1875-1990; Majority of material found within circa 1919-1990
Abstract
Earl Wild (1915-2010) was one of the great virtuoso pianists of the 20th Century, in addition to being a composer of original compositions and a prolific transcriber of works by other composers which he arranged for solo piano. He was best-known for his all-Chopin and all-Liszt concerts and his piano transcriptions of Rachmaninoff and Gershwin pieces. Wild also was active as a teacher and adjudicator. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, reviews, articles, flyers, recordings,...
Dates:
1924-2010; Majority of material found within 1972-1995
Abstract
The Early Printed and Manuscript Leaf collection consists of printed and illuminated manuscript leaves from Europe dated from the 12th -16th centuries. The collection includes 83 whole and partial leaves, representing a variety of styles and techniques that serve as a sampling of early print and manuscript book history.
Dates:
Mid-12th century - early 16th century
Abstract
Albert James Ebel (1913-1998), a Nebraska broadcasting pioneer, was vice president and general manager of KOLN/KGIN-TV from 1954 to 1985 and significantly broadened the station's reach. Previously, Ebel worked as the chief engineer for station WILL at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1937 to 1946. There, he designed the station's first FM transmitter. Ebel taught as an assistant professor of Engineering and did work for a variety of stations – WMBD (Peoria), WDZ...
Dates:
1941-1991; Majority of material found within 1991
