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Charles Fleetwood Hanna worked for the Customs Service in Baltimore, Maryland. His papers contain his unpublished autobiography, dating from 1913, correspondence and other writings, financial and legal documents, and photographs. Much of it is undated and handwritten in pencil. Some of the writings are on U.S. Treasury Department stationery. The correspondence covers many topics,including Hanna's rental property, retirement pensions for Civil Service employees, his life in Baltimore, and his...
Dates:
1873-1925; Majority of material found within 1900-1925
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Ernest Hemingway bibliographer Audre Hanneman (1927- ) was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. While working in the publishing industry in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s, she spent 13 years researching Hemingway. The result of her labors was the volume Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1967) and the subsequent Supplement to Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1975), both published by the Princeton University...
Dates:
1929-1981; Majority of material found within 1950-1974
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George Hanst, a Maryland native, worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun. He served as a copy writer for the newspaper and also covered the courtroom activities of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. He is best remembered for his daily column "Court Docket." The George Hanst papers consists of hand-written notebooks, as well as newspaper and headline clipping books.
Dates:
1957-1988
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Dr. Louis R. Harlan was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1966 to 1992. Dr. Harlan wrote a two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington entitled Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 and Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 and edited fourteen volumes of the Booker T. Washington Papers.The Harlan papers consist of...
Dates:
1944-2000
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William Gardner Harley (1911-1998) began his broadcasting career in 1936 at WHA radio at the University of Wisconsin, became director from 1940-1944, and then served as WHA-TV manager from 1954-1960. He was program coordinator of Ford-National Association Educational Broadcasters' Adult Educational Radio Project from 1950-1952.From 1960 to 1975, he was president of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). During that time, Harley was also director of the Joint...
Dates:
1942-1965; Majority of material found within 1960-1965
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Harman was a Maryland alumnus active on campus, a member of the M Club and the Terrapin Club, and a founding member of both the Fastbreakers and Rebounders, the men's and women's basketball booster organizations, respectively. The collection is comprised primarily of memorabilia and publications, but it also includes Terrapin football player headshots from the 1970s and basketball portraits and headshots from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Preliminary inventories for these materials are...
Dates:
1892-2005
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Susan Emolyn Harman (1897-1972) was an author and professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1920 to 1961. At the university, Harman founded Alpha Lambda Delta, an honorary society; was a charter member of the Maryland chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a teacher's honorary; and was adviser to a social sorority, Kappa Delta. She was also co-founder of the English Club of Prince George's and Montgomery counties. As president of University of Maryland chapter of the American...
Dates:
1914-1972
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The Harms Family has had many ties to the University of Maryland over the years. John Harms worked at the Naval Research Library (NRL) and was integral in creating a partnership between between the univesity and the NRL staff members. His children, Carla, Joan, and John Harms, graduated from UMD in 1959, 1960, and 1961 respectively. Other Harms relatives have also graduated from Maryland. This collection includes three DVDs titled "Harms Family Motion Pictures, 1933-2002" and one floppy disk...
Dates:
1933-2002
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Harold Bachman (1892-1972) was a prominent music educator and military bandleader. He received his academic training at the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo where he graduated in 1916. While still a student, Bachman toured with several professional bands as cornetist, including Al G. Barnes's Circus Band and Bohumir Kryl's Concert Band. During World War I, Bachman served as Bandleader of the 116th Engineer Band, and after the war he organized and conducted a professional concert...
Dates:
1940-1971; Majority of material found within 1942-1945
Abstract
Harold Brown was a composer and violist/violinist born in New York in 1909. He attended Columbia College where he studied composition and conducting under many notable pedagogues including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Wagenaar, and Leon Barzin. He also studied with Nadia Boulanger at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris as part of the Mosenthal Fellowship. Brown became a well-loved teacher at both the high school and college level. He taught many things including composition,...
Dates:
1935-1952; Majority of material found within 1935-1952
