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The Booker T. Washington Papers Editorial Project collection includes photocopies of selected papers of Booker T. Washington, in particular his correspondence, speeches, writings, and reports of Tuskegee Institute. The collection also contains card files, annotated research notes, and proofs of some of the thirteen volumes of the published edition, as well as the business records of the editing project. The collection is unprocessed, but preliminary inventories of additional accessions are...
Dates:
1967-1984
Abstract
This collection documents the training of women to serve as WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during and after World War II at the United States Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. WAVES served in the United States and overseas in a variety of roles including clerical, aviation, medical, technology, and communications duties among others.
Dates:
1945-1949
Abstract
George O. Weber (1912-2000) graduated from the University of Maryland in 1933 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and later served as Director of the Physical Plant at the university from 1946 to 1972. As senior class president, Weber helped organize the Class of 1933 gift -- Maryland's original bronze Testudo statue. During his career, Weber oversaw the construction of Byrd Stadium, Cole Field House, and the University Golf Course. This collection contains material related to the Class of...
Dates:
1933-1998; Majority of material found within 1990-1998
Abstract
Joseph Weber (1919-2000) was a University of Maryland physicist credited with conducting early research into the fields of laser theory and gravitational wave detection. Dr. Weber's wave detection experiments began in 1958 and while he reported positive results, these could not be duplicated. Weber's work would inspire other scientists in these fields, and he is considered one of the pioneers in these areas due to his creative thinking. The papers consist of working notes, correspondence,...
Dates:
1930-2000
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Maurice Webster (1913-2001), veteran CBS radio executive, began as a radio announcer at KVI in Seattle in 1932 before moving to KNX in Los Angeles in 1937. He was 21 and featured in Broadcasting magazine as one of the three youngest network radio announcers in the country. He was named general manager at KCBS in San Francisco in 1958 and, in 1961, became vice-president and general manager of radio spot sales at CBS. This collection covers his professional activities from the 1930s to the...
Dates:
1935-1986
Abstract
This collection consists of approximately 2,640 color slides taken in 1985 by photographer Bill Weems for the publication Maryland: A University Portrait. The slides cover a wide range of campus life in the 1980s. Athletics, graduation, academic buildings, and campus scenes are all strongly represented. Other categories include art, dance, music, science, theater, marching band, reunions, and faculty, staff, and students.
Dates:
1985
Abstract
The Weems Family papers consist mostly of letters between members of the Weems family, most notably John C. Weems, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1826 to 1829. Weems was originally elected to the House of Representatives to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Joseph Kent but was reelected for the following session. He was born in Waterloo, Calvert County, Maryland, in 1778; attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland; and died in Anne Arundel County,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1880; 1770 - 1902
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Weems family, one of the oldest families in Maryland, and of the Reynolds and Petherbridge families, which were related to the Weems family by marriage. The collection consists of correspondence, maps and monographs, and addresses such subjects as state and local politics; the Republican National Convention in Baltimore (1893); Weems family genealogy; horticulture; the family's history as enslavers; religion; and election fraud in Maryland.
Dates:
1713-1940; Majority of material found within 1880-1900
Abstract
Leonard Weinberg was a Baltimore lawyer in the 1920s until the 1970s. This collection consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings documenting legal cases which Weinberg worked on, especially a case involving the Baltimore clothing company of L. Greif & Bros and the National Recovery Administration.
Dates:
1934-1948; Majority of material found within 1934-1936
Abstract
WENR and KYW were both AM radio stations in Chicago that began broadcasting in the 1920s. This collection documents the personnel and broadcasting history of both stations during the early years of radio and includes the contents of several scrapbooks with photographs, letters, pamphlets, notes, reports, and newspaper articles. There is also material relating to a survey of 18 broadcasting stations in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions conducted in 1929.
Dates:
1921-1971; Majority of material found within 1927-1933