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Abstract
Several big names have performed at the University of Maryland over the years. Elvis Presley performed two concerts in Cole Field House, on September 27 and 28, 1974, to packed houses. Subsequently, Queen, Elvis Costello, The Grateful Dead, George Clinton and the P-Funk All-stars, and Bob Dylan performed at the university in the 1970s through 1990s and were recorded as well. These recordings are on compact discs and were provided by Jeffrey Mewbourn, a student in the College of Information...
Dates:
1974-1998
Abstract
The Leon Washington Condol papers consist of photographs, family documents, and news clippings that document the family’s history as African American people in the United States from 1809 until 1972. Also included in the collection, and of particular interest, is a rare, autographed copy of Sketches Old and New (1875), a collection of Mark Twain stories. One of the sketches in the volume is said to be based on the life of Leon Condol's great-grandmother, a...
Dates:
1809-1972
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The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was founded in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a federal suffrage amendment. This collection consists of eight issues of The Suffragist, the weekly periodical published by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. The issues in this collection all date from 1916 and are issues 4-10, and 27.
Dates:
January 22, 1916-July 1, 1916
Abstract
The Ernest A. Connally papers document US participation in the international preservation movement in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection contains materials related to Connally's work with the International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), UNESCO, and the National Park Service. This collection is unprocessed but a preliminary inventory is available.
Dates:
1967-1997; Majority of material found within 1970-1982
Abstract
The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) is an organization originating from the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. It was founded in 1998 as a university-wide interdisciplinary research center of its kind focused on advancing qualitative and mixed-methods research to promote and advance intersectional scholarship and transfer knowledge to the next generation of scholars.The collection materials date from 1997 to 2023...
Dates:
1997-2023
Abstract
Giles B. Cooke received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in organic chemistry. This collection contains four photographs of campus life at Maryland, circa 1924, including Gerneaux Hall and its house mother, Miss Pearl Anderson. Also included is an oversize photograph of an unidentified group of men.
Dates:
1924
Abstract
Patricia A. Cooper is a labor historian and writer. This collection consists of oral history interviews, oral history transcripts, book manuscript drafts, and research notes for one published book about the Cigar Makers International Union, "Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919," and one unpublished book about the history of Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1895-2008; Majority of material found within 1976-2003
Abstract
Founded in 1914 to administer federal and state funding for programs to improve community life, the Cooperative Extension Service concentrated its activities in eight areas: agricultural profitability; natural resources; diet, nutrition and health; human capital development; family economic stability; agricultural technology for urban audiences; profitability of marine industries; and enhanced community vitality. Publications, contracts, reports, photographs, and correspondence document the...
Dates:
1914-1972
Abstract
Founded in 1967, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is the steward of the U.S. federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the nation’s largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related services. CPB distributes funding to locally-owned public radio and television stations and ensures universal access to non-commercial-high quality content and telecommunications services. The CPB does not own or operate any television or radio broadcasting...
Dates:
circa 1967 - 2005
Abstract
Ann Marjorie Corrick (1921-2000) was an American reporter, producer, writer, a longtime communications executive for Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, and a media and public relations consultant. As a broadcast journalist, Corrick specialized in United States politics. She was known for her special coverage of the United States Congress and national political events of the 1950s and 1960s, including traveling with Presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon during the...
Dates:
1944-1993
