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Throughout his military career, Frederic Wallace Boots (1922-2006) served in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He directed the United States Military Academy's Cadet Glee Club in West Point, NY and eventually became Associate Band Master of the United States Army Band at Fort Myer, VA. He was a life member of the Virginia and National Federations of Music Clubs, a life member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity, and a member of the American Bandmasters Association. The collection...
Dates:
1948-2006; Majority of material found within 1953-1975
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Frederick M. Remley (1929-2019) was internationally known for his work in negotiations concerning global standards for video recording. His involvement originally began in 1959, when the National Educational Television and Radio Center (NET-RC), then housed in Ann Arbor, received a multi-million-dollar grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant enabled the purchase of video recorders to be installed in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. to facilitate educational video...
Dates:
1957-1973, nd; Majority of material found within 1959
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Edna Frederikson (1904-1998) was an author of novels and poetry, as well as a professor at Madison College (later James Madison University) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She met Katherine Anne Porter at the 1940 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in Middleburg, Vermont. Porter was especially helpful to Frederikson in the early 1940s as Frederikson made the transition from teaching to creative writing. The collection consists of correspondence between Frederikson and Porter. Important subjects...
Dates:
1941-1972; Majority of material found within 1941-1943
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Morris Freedman came to the University of Maryland as a professor of English in 1966. He retired in 1991 but remains active in the university teaching community as a lecturer. His published works include American Drama in Social Context, Chaos in our Colleges, and The Moral Impulse: Modern Drama from Ibsen to the Present. The collection consists of typescripts, page proofs, and galleys of those works. An addition to the...
Dates:
1960-1971
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This collection documents significant events and periods in French history throughout the 17th-20th centuries. It contains approximately 9,600 pamphlets pertaining to public figures, political events, foreign relations, religion, and conflict. The pamphlets are an invaluable resource for the insight they provide into their contemporary conversations, social climates, and ways of thought.
Dates:
1620-1966; Majority of material found within 1620-1924
Collection
0082-LBR-RG50-001
Abstract
Frontlash was an activist group that was created to increase political interest and engagement among young adults and was, one of the most enduring college-aged activist groups to emerge from the 1960s. This collection has extensive material related to instruction in labor organizing and union support, as well as significant material relating to Frontlash's political activity. Types of records include organizational records, financial records, minutes, mission statements, reports, and...
Dates:
1968-1997
Abstract
The Robert Frost Book Collection is a comprehensive collection of books by and about Robert Frost containing many works annotated by Frost. Included in the collection are boxed sets of custom Christmas cards and pamphlets designed and annotated by Frost.
Dates:
1913-1971; Majority of material found within 1929-1962
Abstract
American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, California. After the death of his father, the family moved to New England, which provided the backdrop for Frost's trademark regional poetry. Frost briefly attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard University but did not earn a degree. Frost initially encountered difficulties in establishing himself as a published poet in American newspapers and literary journals. After little success in America, Frost and his family moved...
Dates:
1910-1968; Majority of material found within 1920-1955
Abstract
John Fuegi (1936- ) has been the Clara and Robert Vambery Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1992. Fuegi holds a Ph. D. in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. In addition to the University of Maryland, he has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and at institutions in Berlin and Mainz, Germany, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Support for Fuegi's...
Dates:
1855-2003; Majority of material found within 1968-1999
Abstract
Mildred Funnell (1901-1977) was a Cleveland-based broadcaster for over 25 years, most of which she spent at WTAM radio. She hosted Women's Club of the Air before co-hosting her own radio show, Mildred and Gloria, and its television counterpart on WNBK (now WKYC), The Idea Shop, with Gloria Brown. Brown and Funnell's on-air partnership lasted for 11 years. Funnell concluded her broadcasting career by hosting a...
Dates:
1932-1973 and undated; Majority of material found within 1951-1956
