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Abstract
Oswald Hurt Saunders graduated from the Maryland Agricultural College in 1910 with a degree in Civil Engineering. This collection contains the 1909 field book of Saunders, presumably kept for a class assignment, including maps and diagrams, statistics, elevation data for the athletic fields, and notations on land surveys taken around the College Park campus. Several other members of the Class of 1910 are listed in the field book as assisting Saunders in his survey: Herschel H. Allen, William...
Dates:
1909-1910
Abstract
The Overseas Education Fund (later OEF International) was a non-profit women’s rights and international development organization, originally part of the League of Women Voters, in operation from 1947 until 1991. Its mission was to support the active participation of women in the socio-economic development of third world countries, assisting them with education and training to increase their earning potential, and bringing the issues and influence of developing countries in the twentieth...
Dates:
1908-1991; Majority of material found within 1981-1989
Abstract
Pacifica Foundation is a non-profit organization that owns five listener-supported radio stations. The flagship station, KPFA in Berkeley, California, was launched in 1949. The foundation also operates the Pacifica Network, a program service supplying over 180 affiliated stations with news, public affairs, talk and cultural programs. It was the first public radio network in the United States, and it is the world's oldest listener-funded radio network. Besides KPFA, Pacifica radio consists of...
Dates:
1946-1991; Majority of material found within 1950-1980
Abstract
Pianist and art connoisseur, Chester Page (1929-) was a close confidant to Modernist American author, Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) during the final decade of her life, as well as a friend to several other major literary figures such as Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Bryher (1894-1983), and Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Barnes and Page shared a mutual friendship with Moore. In the spring of 1970 Page wrote to Barnes to introduce himself and to offer his assistance. He was invited to tea at Barnes's...
Dates:
1918-1992; Majority of material found within 1970-1973
Scope and Contents
The Rose and Joseph Pangani Collection of Girls' Series Books consists of 300 books published from 1917-2005, with a large portion published from 1930 to 1969. "Series books" are books that consistently feature the same protagonist. However unlike "books in a series", the characters in "series books" seldom mature, age, or change. The protagonist in a "girls' series" book is usually a girl in her late teens or early twenties who goes on adventures on her own or with a small group of...
Dates:
1917-2005; Majority of material found within 1930-1969
Abstract
The Paint Branch Garden Club began in 1948 with a group of women living in College Park and University Park who were interested in gardening and flower arranging. The current emphasis of the club is on visiting historic garden and home sites; volunteerting at a local nursing center; and providing programming on garden and enironmental topics. The records mainly consists of scrapbooks that detail the history of the club from 1948-2009. These scrapbooks contain photographs, invitations,...
Dates:
1948-2009; Majority of material found within 1971-2007
Abstract
PandemoniUM is a co-ed a cappella vocal group at the University of Maryland, organized in 1993. In 2010, PandemoniUM won first place at the International Champions of A Cappella (ICCA) South Quarterfinals and moved on to the South Regional semifinal competition. This collection contains several audio recordings of the group, including "Organized Chaos" (1997), "PandemoniUM: Syncopated" (2002), "Music to Spoon to" (2006), "PandemoniUM" (2008), and "Momentum" (2010).
Dates:
1997-2010
Abstract
Vox Pop was a radio program of interviews, quizzes, and human-interest features heard from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. (Vox Pop is a shortened form of the Latin phrase "vox populi," which means the "voice of the people.") The program, originally called Sidewalk Interviews, began on local radio in Houston in 1932. KTRH advertising salesmen Parks Johnson and Jerry Belcher went out onto...
Dates:
1932-1966; Majority of material found within 1932-1948
Abstract
Linda Pastan (1932-2023) was a Maryland poet whose awards and recognition includes Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991-1995, the Dylan Thomas award, and the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize. This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, audiovisual materials, photographs, and publications.
Dates:
Circa 1940-2011; Majority of material found within Circa 1960-2011
Abstract
The Patapsco Female Institute was a finishing school for women which operated from 1837 to 1891 in Ellicott City, Maryland. From 1841 to 1856, it was run by the noted educator Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps. The Patapsco Female Institute Collection is comprised of programs for events at the Institute, as well as a manuscript book of compositions written by the students, advertisements for the lotteries benefitting the Institute, and images of the building.
Dates:
1846-1960; Majority of material found within 1846-1883
