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Abstract
E. Elaine Crow is a former nurse and active volunteer in the Maryland community. She is a longtime member of the Maryland and the National Extension Homemakers Councils (MEHC and NEHC, respectively) and has served numerous offices on their boards as a representative from Anne Arundel county. She is also actively involved in other organizations, both local and national, including the National Association for Family and Community Education (NAFCE), American Mothers Inc, the Nursing Alumni...
Dates:
1971-2007; Majority of material found within 1985-2000
Abstract
Charles Harvey Crutchfield (1912-1998) was a mainstay at the WBT radio station in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for most of his career. For ten years, from 1935 to 1945, he served as the station's program director. In the early years, he was an announcer with the legendary WBT Briarhoppers, a group of country musicians who broadcast a live program daily on WBT. In 1945, he became acting general manager and eventually became president in 1945. Crutchfield retired in 1977 after 44 years with the...
Dates:
1936-1999 and undated; Majority of material found within 1972
Abstract
The Cuba Company was a business firm active in pre-Castro Cuba in railroad construction and operation, as well as in the ownership and operation of sugar and tobacco plantations. Documentation of the company's operations includes the president's correspondence; financial records; land records; blueprints; maps, plats, land lots; and photographs. Significant topics addressed in the collection are the Negro protest of 1912; labor problems, strikes, and labor importation; manipulation of sugar...
Dates:
1894-1960
Abstract
Owen Cunningham was one of several Americans who served as defense attorneys for Class A Japanese war criminals tried in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The defendants were also represented by Japanese attorneys. The collection is comprised of legal documents related to the trial of General Hiroshi Oshima (Japanese Ambassador to Germany, 1938-1939 and 1941-1945) and also includes notes, articles, correspondence, and portions of a manuscript that appears to have been...
Dates:
1942-1956
Abstract
The Hiroshi Daifuku papers consist of photocopies of UNESCO trip reports documenting cultural sites and conservation efforts around the globe. The collection is unprocessed but an inventory is available.
Dates:
1954-1980
Abstract
Alfred "Al" Danegger began taking photographs at the University of Maryland as a freshman in 1942, and after serving as a combat photographer during World War II, he returned to work at the university part-time, graduating in 1950. That year, he was asked by President Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd to create and manage the University Photographic Service. In that role, he captured major campus events and documented a gamut of routine activities. Danegger also served on the...
Dates:
1946-1950s
Abstract
David Lee Crippens (1942- ) began his public broadcasting career as a producer for San Diego station KPBS-TV from 1969 to 1971. He then joined station WQED-TV in Pittsburgh as staff producer, writer, and newsperson, working there until 1973. He returned to the West Coast to work as the director of educational services at KCET, Los Angeles' public television station. In 1977 he was promoted to vice president of educational services. From 1980 to 1983, Crippens served as a vice president and...
Dates:
1969-1998; Majority of material found within 1993-1997
Abstract
David M. Davis (1926 -2007) had a prominent career in educational and public broadcasting, ranging from directing and producing college-level telecourses at WGBH and working for the Ford Foundation's Office of Public Broadcasting to creating the acclaimed programming series American Playhouse and POV. The collection documents his work at the Ford Foundation from 1968-1979.
Dates:
1956-1980, and undated; Majority of material found within 1968-1979
Abstract
Papers collected by Anneke Davis relating to environmental concerns in the state of Maryland. Prominent are planning files related to Baltimore City development and those relating to Cove Point in southern Maryland. Many of the publications were transferred to the Marylandia and Rare Books Department. The collection is unprocessed but preliminary inventories for several accessions are available as external documents.
Dates:
1969-2004; Majority of material found within 1995-2000
Abstract
Albert F. Woods (1866-1948), a pioneer in plant virus research, was dean of the University of Minnesota College of Agricuture from 1910 to 1917, and president of the University of Maryland from 1917 to 1926. Later he was an assistant secretary in the United States Department of Agriculture, and president of the Land Grant College Association. Woods' wife, Bertha, wrote poems and children's literature. The Woods collection consists of two distinct groupings of materials. Albert Woods'...
Dates:
1888-1947; Majority of material found within 1910-1944
