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Collection
0051-LBR-RG98-002
Abstract
The Vertical Files collection contains information about labor history and labor unions collected and organized by the AFL-CIO Library. Materials cover many topics, events, and people and consist of clippings, reports, press releases, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous sources of information that librarians selected for short term, easy reference in providing information services to the officers and staff of the AFL and the AFL-CIO.
Dates:
1881-1999
Abstract
George Sturm (b. March 13, 1930) is a German-born American music publisher and author. The George Sturm correspondence collection covers the period from 1965 through 1997 and consists of 45 pieces of correspondence received by Sturm from numerous notable Americans and Europeans from the worlds of music and art.
Dates:
1965–1997; Majority of material found within 1975–1990
Abstract
George Amedée Tremblay (1911-1982) was a Canadian born composer and teacher who relocated to the United States in 1920, settling in Los Angeles by 1925. He is known primarily for his work as a pedagogue of the serial technique of composition. In 1965 he discovered the "definitive cycle," a serial technique that he explored in his own compositions as well as in his book The Definitive Cycle of the Twelve Tone Row (NY: Criterion Music Corp., 1974)....
Dates:
1923-2008; Majority of material found within 1960-1982
Abstract
Philip Geraci, a 1952 University of Maryland alumnus, taught news photography courses in the College of Journalism. This collection consists primarily of pictures taken by students and submitted for course work in the 1960s and 1970s. They document a wide range of on- and off-campus activities and scenes. Of particular interest are images of sporting events, student protests, campus buildings and scenes, and Commencement. A preliminary inventory for these materials is available in the...
Dates:
circa 1960-1979
Abstract
Gerald Slater (1934-2020) helped build PBS as one of its four founding employees and later moved to WETA-TV, the public broadcasting station in Washington, D.C. He began his career in the commercial end of the field, working for Columbia Broadcasting System from 1960 to 1967.His initial work in public broadcasting included the director of operations of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory from 1967 to 1969. Then, from 1969 to 1970, he served as a project specialist in...
Dates:
1971; Majority of material found within 1971
Abstract
The literary movement German Expressionism generally dates from around 1905 to 1945. It arose as a reaction against materialism, complacent bourgeois prosperity, rapid mechanization and urbanization, and the domination of the family within pre-World War I European society. It was the dominant literary movement in Germany during and immediately after World War I. The authors explored in their works the predicaments of representative symbolic types rather than of fully developed individualized...
Dates:
1909-1961; Majority of material found within 1916-1934
Abstract
John T. Gibson was a writer, founder of Modern Design Incorporated, and owner and breeder of race horses. His papers consist primarily of financial, licensing, and registration records relating to Gibson's career as horse breeder and owner. The collection also include some magazine articles and manuscripts from Gibson's days as a freelance writer.
Dates:
1955-1974
Abstract
As a cornetist, conductor, and educator, Gilbert H. Mitchell, Jr. (b. April 4, 1925 - d. April 21, 2016) was involved with numerous ensembles. His career began in 1943, at the age of 18, when he substituted with the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra and began to work with Leopold Stokowski and the New York City Symphony. Drafted into the Army in 1946, he began an illustrious career as a cornetist and conductor with the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own." He co-founded the Army...
Dates:
1943-1998; Majority of material found within 1960-1970
Abstract
Little is known concerning the details of the life of Reuben Gilder, other than various accounts of his military service during the War of 1812 in the Fort Niagara, Canada, theater of war, along with selected subsequent experiences in the capacity of a retired military man and unsuccessful merchant in Baltimore during the 1810s and 1820s. Reuben Gilder married an Eliza Mary Hughes in Baltimore on February 17, 1819. According to Gilder's own accounts, he and his wife had at least one son,...
Dates:
1815-1827; Majority of material found within 1815-1823
Abstract
The Giles-Johnson Defense Committee was a volunteer group of Montgomery County citizens working for the defense of James and John Giles, and Joseph Johnson, three black men arrested on charges of rape in 1961. The collection includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, fact sheets, legal briefs, and statements of the committee relating to the arrest, imprisonment, trials, defense, and release of Johnson and the Giles brothers.
Dates:
1962-1971
