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Warner B. Ragsdale (1898-1986) was a reporter, editor, and author interested mainly in politics. Throughout his career Ragsdale held positions with numerous news organizations including the Associated Press and U.S. News and World Report. The collection documents Ragsdale's career as editor and writer on the political scene through reference files, interview transcripts, manuscripts, notebooks, publications, and photographs.
Dates:
1917-1985
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Industrialist Ralph Burton Rogers (1909-1997) is considered one of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) founders for organizing more than 200 independent, mostly educational stations into a national public television system. He served as chairman of PBS from 1973 to 1979. He was widely credited with resisting the Nixon Administration's efforts to push public television out of public affairs broadcasting and cut its financing.Rogers became interested in public broadcasting in the...
Dates:
1969-1990 and undated; Majority of material found within 1969-1981
Abstract
Ralph Waldo Steetle, Sr. (1912-2004) a prime mover in the creation of public television, began working in educational radio at Louisiana State University. There he was director of broadcasting and helped build WLSU (later renamed KLSU), one of the first non-commercial FM radio stations in the south. He spent ten years in Washington, D.C. as Executive Director of the Joint Council on Educational Television (JCET), under a Ford Foundation grant. JCET served as an advocacy...
Dates:
1942-1981; Majority of material found within 1950-1958
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Jonas R. Rappeport attended the University of Maryland in the 1940s and graduated with a B.S. in 1949. While at the university, he served as a student photographer for the Diamondback, the Old Line, and the Terrapin yearbook. Rappeport later graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1952 and established himself as a notable forensic psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland....
Dates:
1942-1988; Majority of material found within 1942-1949
Abstract
John E. Rastall was a Union Lieutenant with the First Regiment, Eastern Shore, Maryland Volunteers during the Civil War. The collection includes 128 letters written by Rastall to his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin detailing his service in Virginia and Maryland, especially on the Eastern Shore.
Dates:
1861-1864
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Frederick L. Rath, Jr. was a pioneer of historical conservation who served from 1949 to 1956 as the director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, newly created by Congress to succeed the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, which he had also headed. The papers document Rath's time at the National Trust, as well as his later career at the New York State Historical Association, where he became vice-director in 1957; at New York State's Office of Parks, Recreation and...
Dates:
1917-1998; Majority of material found within 1937-1988
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Raymond D. Hurlbert (1902-1996) began his public broadcasting career in the early 1950s when he helped establish the Alabama Educational Television Network and the Alabama Educational Television Commission, becoming its first president from 1953 to 1955. In 1955, he served as general manager of the Alabama Educational Television Network. From 1962 to 1963, Hurlbert served on the television board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB), including a stint as chair. He...
Dates:
1953-1973; Majority of material found within 1953-1973
Abstract
The Joseph Raynes papers consist of correspondence from British immigrant Joseph Raynes to his family in Bonsall, Derbyshire, England, describing an Atlantic sea voyage; the Chesapeake Bay; Baltimore life in the nineteenth century, including buildings, prices, and Lexington Market; slavery; the failure of the Bank of Maryland; and the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Cincinnati. Also included is news of friends, family and deaths.
Dates:
1831-1849; Majority of material found within 1831-1843
Abstract
Milton A. Reckord (1879-1975) was a high-ranking officer in the United States Army and the Maryland National Guard. Reckord was also active in the National Guard Association, the National Rifle Association, and numerous civic organizations. Reckord's papers include personal and military documents tracing his professional career and civilian activities. Included are diaries, official orders, memorabilia, publications, awards, and extensive war-time correspondence with his mother, Lydia...
Dates:
1851-1975
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William "Bill" Thomas Reed (1938-2020) helped create the PBS Elementary/Secondary Service, the PBS Adult Learning Service, the PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service, and the PBS National Narrowcast Service (later called the Business Channel) during the 1980s. He also created the PBS Home Video Project, an operation designed to market PBS videos to home viewers.Reed joined public station KIXE in Redding, CA in 1967 as KIXE's general manager. In 1974, he started working full time at...
Dates:
1969-1991; Majority of material found within 1979-1991
