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Abstract
Richard L. Matteson was a professor in the Department of Human Development and the Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland from 1957 to 1988. This collection of approximately 60 audio tapes, recorded between 1959 and 1972, pertains to education-related issues. The tapes consist mostly of lectures and speeches by education professors and other experts in human development, conference proceedings, planning sessions for the Institute for Child Study, and several telecourses...
Dates:
1959-1972; Majority of material found within 1960-1972
Abstract
Lucille Maurer served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and as state treasurer. The collection includes correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. Mrs. Maurer's papers cover such subjects as legislation, women in politics, and fiscal affairs. The Lucille Maurer papers are unprocessed, but preliminary inventories of several accessions are available as external documents.
Dates:
1942-1995
Scope and Contents
The Max Gebhardt manuscript collection consists of handwritten clarinet manuscripts. These manuscripts were likely written between the years 1800 and 1850. The collection contains solo clarinet music, a piece for chamber ensemble, and an exercise book for clarinet. A few of the composers represented in this collection had a teacher-student relationship during their lifetimes. No information on Gebhardt or how Jerry Pierce obtained these manuscripts was available, although they were donated...
Dates:
undated
Collection
0459-SCPA-WALDMAN
Abstract
Max Waldman (1919-1981) was an American photographer of the performing arts, with a focus on theatre and dance in New York City in the middle twentieth century. Waldman actively documented the theatre and dance communities in New York from the mid-1960s until his death in 1981. Waldman was particularly drawn to more experimental forms of dance and theatre and he documented everyone from Merce Cunningham to the Living Theater to Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Max Waldman collection of performing...
Dates:
1965-1979
Abstract
University of Maryland's annual May Day festivities were first established in 1923 by Adele Stamp, the Dean of Women, and lasted until 1961, the year after Stamp's retirement from the university. May Day included an elaborate pagent with costumes and dancing, a processional on the campus mall, and the crowning of the queen and her court. In addition, May Day served as the occasion when rising seniors were selected for Mortar Board, a women's honorary society. This collection consists of over...
Dates:
1927-1957; Majority of material found within 1927-1930, 1946-1949
Abstract
Brantz Mayer was a prominent nineteenth-century Baltimore citizen, historian, and writer. This collection provides supporting documentation for two of Mayer's works on the history of Mexico: Mexico as It Was and as It Is (1844) and Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican (1851). The Brantz Mayer papers include diaries and notes kept by Mayer during his travels.
Dates:
1820-1853; Majority of material found within 1842-1853
Abstract
Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes (1929-2014) was involved in broadcasting over two decades as an executive, board member, consultant and reporter for NPR, PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the BBC, Radio New Zealand, the Australian and Canadian broadcasting corporations and public radio stations across the United States. Mayes is also known for his work as a university teacher and administrator, author, and gay rights activist, and is credited with creating the first suicide...
Dates:
1912-2001; Majority of material found within 1977-1986
Abstract
Mayhew Lester Lake (also known by the pseudonym Lester Brockton) was an American composer, conductor, editor and arranger. Beginning in 1913, Lake was the editor-in-chief of the band and orchestra department at the music publisher Carl Fischer, a position he would hold for 35 years. Many of the manuscripts in the collection were used for Lake's sixteen-piece brass concert band, the Symphony in Gold, which he conducted for NBC Radio. The Mayhew Lake "Symphony in Gold" Collection contains...
Dates:
undated; Majority of material found in undated
Abstract
Between 1978 and 1992, Marlene Mayo, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, and one assistant conducted 100 interviews with Americans who planned or served in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952. The interviewees worked in a variety of political, legal, economic and cultural activities at all levels and form a cross-section of Americans involved in the Occupation. The first year of the project was funded by the Japan Foundation. The interviews were recorded on cassette...
Dates:
1978-1992
Abstract
Theodore (Tedd) R. McCann (1929-1996) spent most of his professional career working for the National Park Service on a variety of projects, but specializing in urban parks. His papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and slides, management plans, drawings, meeting minutes, and other planning materials relating primarily to the development of urban parks. Projects that McCann worked on include the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey; Golden Gate...
Dates:
1945-1992; Majority of material found within 1968-1989
