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Collection
0440-SCPA-NITRATE
Abstract
Billed as a post-punk opera, The Nitrate Hymnal was developed by musician Robert Massey, who was inspired by his family films. It was produced by Anti-Social Music, co-commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society, and funded by grants from Creative Capital and the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities. This collection includes Massey’s extensive notes, illustrating the production process. It also includes his family videos, production notes, audio...
Dates:
2001-2005, undated
Abstract
Mary Layfield Nock (1903-1987) was a politician (Democrat) who served in the Maryland State Legislature from 1947 through 1974. Nock was an advocate for women's issues, higher education, and the use of television as an educational tool. In addition to serving on various councils, committees, and commissions, Nock was also an honorary member of Soroptimists International, the Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, and many others. During her tenure, Mary...
Dates:
1959-1974
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Nora Davenport (1954-1996) was a composer, percussionist, and percussion teacher in the Washington, D.C. metro area. She performed with the Washington Opera and the Washington Ballet at the John F. Kennedy Center, and with the Washington Chamber Symphony. Davenport taught percussion at the Rockville Jewish Community Center for twenty years. This collection contains 103 method books primarily for drum set, but also several titles for basic drumming technique.
Dates:
1919-2000; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Abstract
Norman Sweetser (1894-1980) began his radio career as an announcer for WJZ New York in 1927. He also performed as a singer on such shows as WJZ's Among Ourselves. In 1928 he served as the official announcer for all of the presidential candidate and New York Governor Alfred E. Smith's radio speeches. By 1929 he was working primarily as a special announcer and as a production director for NBC broadcasts. His directing credits include Just Plain...
Dates:
1913-1975; Majority of material found within 1913-1941
Abstract
Fran Norris (1911-1988) was the creator and host of the pioneering Ohio children's program Aunt Fran and Her Playmates that aired from 1950 to 1957 over WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. The collection spans the years 1952 to 2000, with the bulk of the material from 1954, and includes clippings, handwritten program notes, fan mail and business correspondence, ad copy, photos, scripts, lyric sheets, schedules, catalogs, a VHS copy of a 2000 documentary on...
Dates:
1950-2000 and undated; Majority of material found within 1954
Abstract
The papers of Baltimore Sun reporter Howard M. Norton consist of files relating to Henry A. Wallace's presidential campaign of 1948. Included are newspaper clippings, photographs, and publications. The collection is unprocessed.
Dates:
1946-1963
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Morris S. Novik (1903-1996) entered broadcasting in 1932 when he took over the management of the relatively new radio station WEVD (named for labor organizer Eugene V. Debs) in New York. During this period, he founded the University of the Air, a regular series of lectures, discussions, and debates. In 1938, he accepted a position as director of communications for New York City and also the public radio station WNYC. While in this post, Novik is said to have coined...
Dates:
1940-1992; Majority of material found within 1949-1964
Collection
0084-LBR-RG95-001
Abstract
Morris S. Novik was a career as a radio and television consultant for the AFL, AFL-CIO, various unions, and other organizations. The collection focuses on the radio and television outreach in AFL and AFL-CIO campaigns as well as other union involvement in the radio and television industry. Materials consist mostly of scripts, correspondence, transcripts, reports, press releases, speeches, clippings, photographs and posters.
Dates:
1940-1989
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This collection includes 6 letters written to and by U.S. Navy Assistant Surgeon Aaron S. Oberly. The majority are "love letters" from Oberly to his future wife, Anna M. (Maria A.) Woodford while he was in Baltimore. In 1863, he served aboard the Union gunboat Kineo and in 1865, the steamer Santiago de Cuba.
Dates:
1863-1865
Abstract
Off Our Backs was a non-profit feminist news journal by, for, and about women, published from 1970 until 2008. It was the longest continuously published surviving feminist newspaper in the United States. The paper was run by a collective where all decisions were made by consensus. Although based out of Washington, D.C., the newsjournal covered local, national, and international topics pertaining to women's, feminist, and lesbian issues and culture. The...
Dates:
1970-2009; Majority of material found within 1990-2006
