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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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William J. McCarter (1929-2011) led WTTW in Chicago for 27 years, building it into one of the country's most-watched public television stations. He began his broadcasting career in 1953 with WFIL in Philadelphia, where he worked on American Bandstand. McCarter later worked at WHYY, WNET, and ABC. McCarter worked from 1964-1971 at WETA-TV/FM, where he was president and general manager. McCarter served as president of the Eastern Educational Television Network from...
Dates:
1969-1992; Majority of material found within 1969-1970
Abstract
The John McConnell papers consist of forty-nine letters written to John McConnell between October 1859 and August 1885 by a variety of correspondents, including his fellow ministers in the Reformed Church in the United States, popularly known as the German Reformed Church, and his brother George McConnell. Of particular interest are discussions of the organization of the German Reformed Church, relations of the German Reformed Church to other Christian denominations, problems in individual...
Dates:
1859-1885
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Lawrence McCrank was a professor at the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland from 1976 to 1981. The McCrank papers consist of over sixty volumes of hand produced books bound in paper, vellum, and leather, written in French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. The collection was used for McCrank's course on the history of the book and is unprocessed.
Dates:
1556-1931; Majority of material found within 1725-1798
Abstract
Frances McCullough has been an editor of poetry for several major writers of the mid- to late-twentieth century, as well as an author and editor of cookbooks. She was awarded the first PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing in 1971, and worked as an editor at Harper & Row from the early 1960s through the late 1970s and at Dial Press and Bantam Books through the 1980s. Her papers document her work as a poetry editor and include correspondence with authors about their work, as well as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971-1993; 1915-2007
