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William Preston Lane (1892-1967) was a lawyer, newspaper publisher, Attorney General for Maryland, and governor of Maryland from 1947 to 1951. The bulk of Lane's papers consists of correspondence and speeches, and concentrates on his gubernatorial campaigns of 1946 and 1950. Other topics include the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Washington County's industrial and economic development during the early 1960's.
Dates:
1898-1966; Majority of material found within 1946-1950
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Helen Bradley Lang graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1935 and later worked as a registrar and instructor of economics at the Maryland State Teachers College. The Helen Bradley Lang papers consists of five scrapbooks and one trophy. The collection spans the years 1931 to 1984. The scrapbooks document events at the Univeristy of Maryland during Lang's years as a student. The majority of clippings in this collection can also be found in campus publications such as the...
Dates:
1931-1984; Majority of material found within 1931-1935
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This collection consists of the correspondence and business records of Isaiah S. and Martha Lang, New Hampshire farmers. It includes significant groupings of letters from Isaiah Lang's uncle, David M. Sanborn, a Baltimore physician, and from relatives farming on the Minnesota frontier. The letters from Sanborn are especially interesting in light of their particular references to economic and social conditions in a "border state" immediately before and during the Civil War.
Dates:
1858-1928
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Richard Estep Lankford served as a Democrat in the Maryland House of Delegates and the United States House of Representatives from the 5th Congressional District. The collection includes press releases, subject files, and correspondence which cover subjects such as national defense, pollution, and education. Mr. Lankford's papers are unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory is available as an external document.
Dates:
1955-1965
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Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was the compiler of the Dictionary of the United States Congress (1859). His papers consist of autobiographies assembled between 1823 and 1868 in preparation for that work.
Dates:
1823-1868
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A choreographer, dancer, and professor, Larry Warren (1932-2009) taught modern dance at the University of Maryland from 1971 until 1995. The collection consists of historic dance materials collected by Warren, specifically programs and promotional materials programs, but also art, photographs and documents.
Dates:
1913-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1930-1977
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Laurence Ariel Jarvik is a writer, scholar, filmmaker and a conservative critic of public broadcasting. His two book-length works are PBS: Behind the Screen (1997) and Masterpiece Theatre and the Politics of Quality (1999). The collection contains research files pertaining to Jarvik's critical studies of public broadcasting. The files, the bulk of which date from 1990 to 1998, include interviews with public broadcasting personalities, and...
Dates:
1935-1998; Majority of material found within 1990-1998
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This collection documents the professional activities and personal life of journalist Connie Lawn, and dates from 1966 to 1987. Connie Lawn was an American news reporter who covered American politics and world affairs starting in the mid-1960s. Connie Lawn's early work in radio and television led her to create, in 1971, the Video News Bureau, which produced customized news reports to stations throughout the world. The collections provides insight into the work of...
Dates:
1966-1987; Majority of material found within 1968-1972
Abstract
Lawrence Kenneth Moss (b. Los Angeles, 1927- d. June 24, 2022) was an American composer and teacher. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1957 where he studied with Leon Kirchner (1919-2009). Dr. Moss served as a composition professor at Mills College (1956-1958), Yale University (1960-1968), and the University of Maryland (1969-2014). The collection consists of scores, sketches, audio and visual recordings, programs, reviews, publicity, materials related to his...
Dates:
1910-2016 and undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2014
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Lee Lawrence (1923-2003) was a production aide, researcher, and producer for NBC. Originally intent on being an actress, Lawrence (née Kalech) began her career as a production assistant to Broadway producer Billy Rose. She joined NBC-TV in 1956 as a production assistant on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Lawrence began working for television personality Dave Garroway on the ambitious weekend program Wide Wide World. When that show was...
Dates:
1957-1999 and undated; Majority of material found within 1958-1959
