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Abstract
The Leland Scott collection consists of nearly 500 images of the University of Maryland's Department of Horticulture, horticulture, and horticultural subjects, primarily relating to Maryland. The collection also includes a number of photographs which capture early history of the city of College Park. B.W. Anspon, an associate professor of floriculture and landscape gardening in the Department of Horticulture from 1913 to 1918, was the primary photographer. A smaller number of photographs are...
Dates:
1885-1976; Majority of material found within 1900-1920
Collection
0462-SCPA-SCPAHENSON
Abstract
Jim Henson (1936-1990) was an American artist, puppeteer, innovator, and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a designer, director, and performer for various movies, commercials, and television programs, most famously Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. This artificial collection was created by former SCPA curator Vincent J. Novara and contains clippings, ephemera, video and audio recordings, digital files, publications involving...
Dates:
1957-2024
Abstract
This collection consists of eleven scrapbooks maintained by university students, administrators, or alumni. The books of Milton Pyle, William Jester, and Minnie Hill depict campus life during and immediately after World War I and include photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and class schedules. Another of the scrapbooks was presented to the Alumni Association by W. W. Cobey of the Class of 1931 in the wake of World War II; this scrapbook consists of clippings, obituaries and articles,...
Dates:
1913-1970
Abstract
David and Elizabeth Scull were a political couple who served Montgomery County and the state of Maryland from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. The largest group of files documents David Scull's tenure as chairman of the Montgomery County Republican State Central Committee (1958-1960) and as chairman of the Maryland Republican State Central Committee (1962-1964.) Considerable material also documents David Scull's unsuccessful campaign for an at-large seat in the United States House of...
Dates:
1958-1981
Abstract
Bernard Seaman was a cartoonist whose work was featured in many labor union publications. This collection includes labor cartoons and other drawings created by Seaman from the 1930s until the late 1980s. A significant portion of the collection consists of original cartoons, but also includes leaflets, union greeting cards, handbills, posters, and broadsides. Organizations represented include the AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO, as well as the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU),...
Dates:
1934-1983
Abstract
This collection contains blueprints of homes available from the Sears and Roebuck Company. The collection consists of blueprints for the Alahambra and Fairy models.
Dates:
1920-1930
Abstract
Lawyer William Sebald practiced law in Japan and Washington, D.C., and joined the Navy Combat Intelligence Group during World War II. He later represented the United States on the Allied Council. His papers consist of correspondence and galley proofs and manuscripts for his book With MacArthur in Japan.
Dates:
1965
Abstract
The Charles Seib papers document Seib's career as a newspaper editor, journalist, lecturer at the University of Maryland, and ombudsman for the Washington Post. The papers consist of memos, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, and publications. Included are Seib's memos to Ben Bradlee, executive editor, and Howard Simmons, managing editor, of the Washington Post, documenting his duties as ombudsman for the Post; copies of Seib's own newspaper columns; and subject...
Dates:
1974-1985
Scope and Content of Collection
The Sellman Family papers span the years 1828 through 1938 with the bulk of the material dating between 1850 and 1865 and 1886 and 1892. The collection contains several generations of Sellman family and business correspondence, bills and receipts, guardianship documents, handwriting exercises, household and farm account books, and diaries. Subjects covered include daily life, farm management, the cholera epidemic in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, treatment of the people the Sellman family...
Dates:
1769-1938; Majority of material found within 1850-1865 and 1886-1892
Content Description
This collection includes 35 glass negatives photographed by Reginald Sellman dating from 1913 to 1919. Places illustrated in the negatives include an unidentified Maryland sanitarium, Gwynns Falls, and Elk River. The outdoor images were taken on a camping excursion. There are also eight glass negatives of Bruce Darden Sellman at ten-weeks and sixteen-weeks old. Other identified individuals in the negatives include a Miss Tucker, Miss Darden, Minnie Lesher, and Frank Hundley.
Dates:
May 28, 1913-October 3, 1919