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Louis Auchincloss papers

 Collection 0073-LIT
Abstract American novelist, short-story writer, lawyer, historian and critic Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was born in Lawrence, New York. Auchincloss attended Yale University from 1935 to 1939 and was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine during his studies there. Auchincloss graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1941. While practicing law in New York State from 1941 to 1986, he penned many of his novels and short stories. He is best known for his novels of manners set in the...

Robert M. August papers

 Collection 0285-MDHC
Abstract Robert M. August was a natural resource planner on the staff of the State Planning Department in Baltimore. After leaving the department in early 1970, he served as staff to the Maryland General Assembly Natural Resources Committee's Conservation Sub-Committee. Included in this collection are materials relating to government activities and legislation concerning environmental issues in Maryland. Specific issues addressed include coastal wetland legislation and power plant siting legislation,...

Authors and Poets collection

 Collection 0025-LIT
Abstract Assembled from a number of miscellaneous literary manuscript collections, Authors and Poets is a diffuse collection of correspondence, manuscripts, page and galley proofs, publications, serials, sound recordings, photographs, and ephemera relating to various literary figures. The bulk of the collection consists of materials by and relating to the publishing activities of twentieth-century American authors, such as William Carlos Williams, John Updike, Amiri Baraka, and Richard Aldington and...

Betty B. Baehr papers

 Collection 0276-UA
Abstract

Betty B. Baehr was a librarian at the University of Maryland from 1947 until 1983. Her papers consist of an oral history interview (transcripts and cassette tapes) as well as photographs. The interview contains information about Baehr's career at Maryland, including descriptions of the library operations and departments between the 1940s and 1980s.

William Baillie Baird papers

 Collection 0026-LBR-RG95-006
Abstract

William Baillie Baird was a Scottish immigrant who became a coal miner and labor organizer in western Maryland. This collection consists of 38 items, mainly correspondence, pertaining to William Baillie Baird's commission as organizer for the Knights of Labor, 1897-1898, and his interest in promoting Robert W. Price as the founder of Labor Day, 1925-1927.

Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) records

 Collection 0101-LBR
Abstract The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union was originally formed in 1886 as the Journeyman Bakers National Union of the United States. After a number of mergers and name changes, it adopted its current name when it merged with the American Federation of Grain Millers in 1999. The union's archives document operations at the local, national, and international levels and include correspondence, administrative and financial records, publications,...

Balint Vazsonyi Collection

 Collection 0011-IPAM
Abstract Balint Vazsonyi (March 7, 1936-January 17, 2003) was a Hungarian-American pianist, perhaps best known for his live performances of the complete cycle of the thirty-two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven. Vazsonyi also was an author who wrote extensively on political science in the Washington Times and other media sources. The collection consists of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, recordings, lectures, scrapbooks, brochures, manuscripts, books, and videos...

Baltimore Environmental Center records

 Collection 0196-MDHC
Abstract The Baltimore Environmental Center records document the organization's work on environmental issues in the Baltimore metropolitan area, including air and water quality, solid and hazardous waste, transportation, wildlife, recycling, and the Chesapeake Bay. Materials in the archives consist of reports, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, drawings, maps, directories, and financial records documenting environmental activities, organizations, and issues in the Baltimore...

Baltimore Federation of Labor records

 Collection 0108-LBR
Abstract The Baltimore Federation of Labor (BFL), an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, was formed in 1883 by delegates from industry-specific unions such as the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union. The BFL's purpose was to improve the lives and working conditions of all laborers through unionization and legislative action. In the early twentieth century the BFL agitated for issues such as the eight-hour work day, legalizing unions,...

Baltimore News American collection

 Collection 0378-MDHC
Abstract The "Baltimore News American" was a major daily newspaper printed under various titles and multiple forms for over 200 years. The highlights of the collection are the over one million photographic print and negative images, dating roughly from 1904 to 1986, along with the 1900 microfilm reels of newspaper content, covering a view of Baltimore and Maryland from 1799 to 1920 and 1946 to 1986. The collection encompasses images of many aspects of the human experience--people, places, and events...

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Special Collections and University Archives 1071
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library 378
 
People
Agnew, Spiro T. 5
Humphrey, Hubert H. 4
Brown, Irving, 1911- 3
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 3
McKeldin, Theodore R. (Theodore Roosevelt) 3
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Mondale, Walter F. 3
Truman, Harry S. 3
Acheson, Dean 2
Delaney, George Philip 2
Dubinsky, David 2
Eisenhower, Dwight David 2
Goldberg, Arthur J. (Goldberg, Arthur Joseph) 2
Goldfinger, Nathaniel 2
Hill, Norman, 1933- 2
Hoover, Herbert 2
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 2
Johnson, Lyndon Baines 2
Lovestone, Jay 2
Meany, George 2
Morrison, Frank 2
Nixon, Richard Milhous 2
Ruttenberg, Stanley H., 1917- 2
Schnitzler, William F. 2
Stevenson, Adlai E., II 2
Uehlein, Joe 2
Woll, Matthew 2
Abel, Iorwith Wilber 1
Adolph Coors Company 1
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America 1
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Local 63 (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Federation of Hosiery Workers 1
Anderson, Mary 1
Ayers, Jake 1
Bacon, Denise 1
Baldinger, Wilbur H. 1
Barkin, Solomon, 1907-2000 1
Basharah, Michael 1
Blaydes, Laurel 1
Boggs, Michael D., 1948- 1
Braunthal, Alfred 1
Brookwood Labor College 1
Brown, George T. 1
Brown, Theodore E. 1
Bryant, Elise 1
Carranza, Venustiano 1
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Association 1
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.) 1
Cohen, Larry 1
Cornfield, Gilbert 1
Curran, Joseph Edwin 1
Davis, Jerame 1
Delaplaine, Rocky 1
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund) 1
Dubrow, Evelyn 1
Dulles, John Foster 1
El-Shazil, Heba 1
Ellenberger, James N. 1
Epstein, Dena J. Polacheck, 1916–2013 1
Feldman, Gilbert 1
Fernbach, Frank, 1911-1984 1
Food Lion 1
Friedman, Martin L., 1923- 1
Gavran, Peter 1
Glazer, Joe 1
Gold, Robin 1
Goldberg, Harry, 1901- 1
Gomez, Susan 1
Graeve, Cheryl 1
Greater Washington Central Labor Council. AFL-CIO (1896-) 1
Green, Archie 1
Green, Karin 1
Greiff, Helen 1
Greyhound Lines, Inc. 1
Hardesty, Doris Gibson 1
Harriman, W. Averell 1
Harrington, Richard 1
Hays, Claudia C. 1
Henle, Peter 1
Hillquit, Nina 1
Hodell, Chuck 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 49 (Boston, Mass.) 1
Italian Communist Party 1
Italian Confederation of Labor 1
Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions 1
Italian Dressmakers' Union 1
Italian Federation of Labor 1
Italian Labour Union 1
Italian Socialist Federation (U.S.) 1
Italian Socialist Party 1
Italian-American Labor Council 1
J.P. Stevens & Co. 1
Justice for Janitors 1
Kahn, Si 1
Kahn, Thomas 1
Kassalow, Everett M. (Everett Malcolm) 1
Kefauver, Estes 1
Kehrer, E. T., 1921- 1
Kemble, Penn (Kemble, Richard Penn) 1
Kennedy, Edward M. 1
Kennedy, Robert F. 1
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Language
English 1430
French 8
German 4
Latin 4
Czech 3