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Abstract
This collection consists of various materials from radio and television stations throughout the United States, including clippings, promotional brochures, pamphlets, and market data. The collection was created to facilitate research on specific TV and radio stations.
Dates:
1925-1995; Majority of material found within 1930-1960
Abstract
This collection contains photographs and negatives used in the University of Maryland Terrapin yearbook. One folder of black and white photographs depicts buildings on campus and student life in the 1930s and 1940s. Several of these images appeared in the 1948 yearbook. In addition, three boxes of negatives span from 1935 through 1976 and include both photographs and artwork that appeared in the yearbooks. The collection is arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1935-1976
Abstract
The Terrapin Trail Club was founded in 1937 by Elinor Cody and is considered the oldest active club on the University of Maryland campus. Materials in the collection span the entire club history from the 1930s to 2012. The earliest item is a scrapbook from 1931-1939 containing over 275 photographs of outdoor scenes, featuring men and women hiking, skating, camping, and canoeing. However, only the post-1937 photographs are specifically designated as Terrapin Trail Club events. Eight...
Dates:
1931-2012; Majority of material found within circa 1960 - 1999
Abstract
Thad Holt (1898-1984) was a radio and television executive in Alabama and a figure in the New Deal's emergency agencies in the 1930s. Holt headed the Works Project Administration in Alabama under the Roosevelt administration from 1932 to 1936 and served in Washington as assistant administrator of the WPA in 1936 and 1937. In 1956 he served as a special consultant on overseas television projects for the United States Information Agency's Voice of America.A pioneer Alabama...
Dates:
1930-1980; Majority of material found within 1930-1970
Collection
0087-LBR-RG95-014
Abstract
The Trades Unionist was a weekly newspaper published from 1896-1976 by the Central Labor Union, Washington Branch of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It was published every other week until 1982, when it ceased publication. This collection contains volumes 1 (1896) through 67 (1973) of the paper.
Dates:
1896-1973
Abstract
The Thomas Family papers include eleven letters and six documents from three generations of the Philip Thomas family of Cecil County, Maryland. All but one of the letters were received by Philip Thomas, Jr.; the additional documents consist of a bond, a bill of sale, a land indenture, two wills, and a military certificate. There are records that indicate the Thomas family enslaved up to 45 people. Major topics include family concerns, the Napoleonic wars, social life in the early nineteenth...
Dates:
1793-1816; Majority of material found within 1804-1810
Abstract
Harold O. Thomen was a member of the University of Maryland Class of 1928. This collection includes six photographs depicting electrical engineering students in class and driving a car to a football game. Several items, including commencement programs, were transferred to the University Publications collection.
Dates:
1922-1929; Majority of material found within 1929
Abstract
Group of six handwritten business letters to and from James Thompson of Pennsylvania from correspondents in Baltimore and Havre de Grace. One of the letters, written to James Thompson by Magrew and Virdin, gives details of the damage to the Tide Water Canal and of the accidental drowning of its superintendent William Boyd.
Dates:
1808-1841; Majority of material found within 1841
Abstract
The Oswald Tilghman papers consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and working papers related to historian and politician Oswald Tilghman of Easton in Talbot County, Maryland on the Eastern Shore. Documents date from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Correspondence includes letters and an invitation. Tthe newspaper clippings relate to a published excerpt of Tilghman’s History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861 devoted to John Dickinson. The working papers include...
Dates:
1882-1923; Majority of material found within 1882-1899
Abstract
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization and genealogical society for women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution. The NSDAR was founded on October 11, 1890, and currently has 3,000 chapters across the United States and internationally and 185,000 members. Members participate in historic preservation projects, educational programs, and acts of patriotism in their...
Dates:
1754-2018; Majority of material found within 1946-2018
