Papers of Faculty and Administrators, University of Maryland
A Selected List of Holdings in Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries
For more information about how to access materials in this guide, please visit the Maryland Room web page or fill out an information request.
-
William L. Amoss papers, 1884-1936. 14.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Amoss, as Director of the Department of Farmers' Institutes of the Maryland Agricultural College, organized Farmers' Institutes in each county in Maryland. One of his responsibilities included the creation of the display of Maryland agriculture at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He also conducted the first agriculture short course lectures on wheels in 1906.
-
Betty B. Baehr papers, 1983 and undated. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Betty B. Baehr was a librarian at the University of Maryland from 1947 until 1983. Her papers consist of an oral history interview and photographs.
-
Ronald Bamford papers, 1921-1967. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Ronald Bamford was on the faculty of the Department of Botany at the University of Maryland from 1931 until the late 1960s. Bamford served as Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture for the 1949-1950 academic year, and served as Dean of the Graduate School from 1950 until 1966. His papers consist of correspondence, writings, and awards. Subjects include Dr. Bamford's academic and professional careers, violet hybrids, and root tips of wheat and corn.
-
Helen Bewley Collection, May 3, 1967. 4 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Helen Bewley donated items associated with the May 3, 1967, Service Awards Ceremony, at which she was recognized for 35 years of service to the University of Maryland Entomology Department. The items include a photograph of her and other major service awardees with President Wilson H. Elkins, an event program, and her award certificate. A preliminary inventory is available.
-
William Bickley papers, 1949-1975. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Bickley was a professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland. The materials include correspondence, publications, photographs, and autobiographical notes. This collection is unprocessed.
-
Charles E. Bishop Collection, 1971. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Charles E. Bishop (1921-2012) was chancellor of the university from July 1970 to July 1974, overseeing a major academic reorganization on campus during his tenure. This collection of photographs depicts Bishop speaking with students, both formally and informally, and with other members of the university faculty and administration and state officials, including President Wilson H. Elkins, State Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein, Coach Charles "Lefty" Driesell, and Governor Marvin Mandel A preliminary inventory is available. For more information on Bishop and records of his administration, see >Records of the Chancellor's Office.
-
Theodore L. Bissell papers, 1910-1982. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
A 1920 graduate of the Maryland State College of Agriculture, Theodore Lemuel Bissell (1899-1992) was an entomologist for the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology and Georgia Experiment Station, who also taught entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1947 to 1969. The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, notes, and horticultural meeting and conference programs. The bulk of the materials document Mr. Bissel's interest in the history of the University of Maryland campus and its surrounding community between 1916 and 1979 and his scholarly interests in hickory aphids.
-
Joe F. Blair Collection, 1951-1990. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Joe F. Blair, who chose to refer to himself as "joe blair," was the University of Maryland sports information director from 1950 until 1962, and the football publicist from 1988 until his death in November 1995. Most prints in this primarily photographic collection cover the 1950s and are football-oriented, including the "Queen's Game" in 1957; a few photographs are of basketball. A preliminary inventory is available.
-
Carl Bode papers, 1941-1984. 6.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Carl Bode (1911-1993) was an author, professor of English at the University of Maryland, and officer of several literary and cultural organizations. His scholarly interests included Emerson, Thoreau, and H. L. Mencken. His books included Mencken, the first full biography to be published after Mencken's death; Maryland, a 350-year history of the state; The Man Behind You, a volume of poetry; and The Anatomy of American Popular Culture. He received a Ford Fellowship in 1952-1953 and a Guggenheim award in 1954-1955. Bode also founded the national American Studies Association. His papers consist of correspondence, drafts of publications, documentation from editing projects, and records of participation in political campaigns. Correspondence relates to Joseph Tydings, Walter R. Harding, and Wilson Follett. There is an unprocessed addendum to the collection, consisting of books on American literature and Maryland; correspondence; course materials; financial records; personnel-related materials; photographs; tapes; publications; and work papers.
-
Stephen G. Brush papers, 1888-2006. 10.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Stephen G. Brush (1935-) is a physicist and historian of science who worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California, before coming to the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1968. At the University of Maryland, he held the position of associate professor in the History Department as well as the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics (IFDAM), later the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), later becoming full professor, and finally Distinguished University Professor of the History of Science. Dr. Brush's papers document his life and career and include research and lecture notes, and drafts of publications, as well as extensive correspondence. The files chronicle Brush's work in the history of physics, especially on the origin of the solar system and moon, statistical mechanics, and the kinetic theory of heat.
-
Jackson R. Bryer papers, 1977-2008. 12.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Jackson R. Bryer has been a professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland since 1964. The Bryer papers cover the period 1977 to 1984 and consist of correspondence, manuscripts, galleys, and page proofs associated with Bryer's publications: The Theatre We Worked For, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism, American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays, and Louis Auchincloss and His Critics. The collection is unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory is available.
-
Orin M. Bullock, Jr. papers, 1920-1986. 66.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Orin M. Bullock, Jr. was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects who had a long career in historic preservation. His papers deal with his education at Harvard University, his work at Colonial Williamsburg and on restoration projects all over the east coast, as well as his retirement career teaching at the University of Maryland. The collection includes drawings, photographs, negatives, journals, and files.
-
Mary Lee Bundy papers, circa 1987. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Mary Lee Bundy (1927-1987) was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, College of Library and Information Services. She was also one of the officers of Urban Information Interpreters, Inc., a non-profit organzation that sought to make information services accessible to the urban poor. Her papers consist of a manuscript of the book Activism in American Librarianship, 1962-1973, which Bundy co-edited with Frederick J. Stielow.
-
Franklin Burdette papers, 1930-1979. 37.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Franklin Burdette was a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland from 1946 until 1974. Burdette's papers consist of state, county, and municipal documents; serials; subject files on local history, local politics and government, and Islamic culture; correspondence; and manuscripts. Major topics include Montgomery College, citizen association files, the Republican Party, and the Maryland State Teacher's Association. The collection is unprocessed.
-
Johannes Martinus Burgers papers, 1912-1980. 48.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Johannes M. Burgers was born in Arnheim (Netherlands) in 1895. He was educated there and received his doctorate in mathematical and physical sciences in 1918 from the University of Leiden. In 1955 he emigrated to the United States and accepted a position as research professor at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics (now the Institute for Physical Science and Technology) at the University of Maryland at College Park. He retired from the University of Maryland in 1965. His papers consist of correspondence, research and lecture notes, publication drafts, information pertaining to professional meetings, records of the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics (IFDAM), photographs, and slides. The papers primarily reflect activities subsequent to Burgers' emigration to the United States.
-
Elbert Byrd papers, 1961-1966. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Elbert M. "Bert" Byrd was a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland from 1957 to 1971. His papers consist of correspondence, news articles, reports, minutes, and speeches. Also included are draft copies and typescripts of works by Byrd, including The Confounding Truth, 1966; The Constitution and the Treaty Power, 1954; and, The Judicial Process in Maryland, 1961.
-
Harry Clifton Byrd papers, 1895-1970. 28.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Harry Clifton Byrd graduated from the Maryland Agricultural College in 1908. He was hired in 1912 as an instructor in history and English at the college and in 1918 became an assistant to the president. In 1932 Byrd was appointed Vice President of the University of Maryland and in 1935 was named President. Byrd retired in 1954 to run an unsuccessful campaign against Theodore McKeldin for governor of Maryland. The Harry Clifton Byrd papers cover the period from 1917 to 1970 and include correspondence, pamphlets, minutes, reports, financial statements, and statistics. Topics documented in the collection include the University of Maryland's Regents, Senate, buildings, and land. Other topics include Byrd's involvement with the revitalization of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, specifically the Tidewater Fisheries Commission, the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, and the Commission on Chesapeake Bay Affairs. Byrd's campaign for Governor of Maryland in 1954 is also documented in this collection. Among the correspondents included are: Albert Ritchie, R. A. Pearson, Scott Turner, Ernest M. Hopkins, T. Howard Duckett, Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Millard Tawes, Millard Tydings, Gordon Prange, and Alma Preinkert.
-
Sterling Byrd Collection, 1804-1982. 83.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Sterling Byrd was the youngest of the four children of Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd, a 1908 graduate of the University of Maryland who served as its president from 1935 to 1954. The bulk of his collection documents his father's remarkable life and career and includes an extensive number of photographs, memorabilia items, newspaper clippings, and publications chronicling the elder Byrd's personal life and professional achievements. The Sterling Byrd estate also donated a substantial number of books that belonged to Harry Clifton Byrd as well as documents pertaining to Kate Turnbull Byrd, Sterling's mother, her family, and the Byrd ancestors. In addition, the collection includes a number of significant letters sent to Harry Clifton Byrd and early documents relating to the history of the University of Maryland.
-
Julian Chisholm II Collection, 1939-1945. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Chisolm was an instructor in entomology at the University of Maryland from 1943 until 1949. He also acted as the unofficial campus photographer during his tenure at the university. The collection contains images and negatives depicting crabbing and the stages in the shedding of a hard crab's shell, snakes, and amphibians, among other topics.
-
Marilyn Church Collection, 1909-1960. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Marilyn Church came to the University of Maryland in 1969 and taught first as an assistant and then associate professor in the Head Start Regional Office, the Department of Early Childhood-Elementary Education, and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She also served as the director of the Center for Young Children of the University of Maryland at College Park. The Marilyn Church Collection covers the period from 1909 to 1960 and consists of scrapbooks, notebooks, memorabilia, a photograph, and five sixteen-millimeter educational films which were made with the collaboration of James L. Hymes, Jr., a fellow University of Maryland professor of education.
-
Al Danegger Collection, 1946-1950s. 1.5 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
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 university faculty for 27 years, teaching courses in photojournalism, general photography, and general education. This collection consists of photographs taken from 1946 to the early 1950s, many of which appeared in university publications such as the Old Line and the Terrapin. Subjects include sports, Gymkana, theatre, and fraternity activities. A preliminary inventory is available.
-
Dudley Dillard papers, 1948-1990. 93.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dudley Dillard was a professor of economics at the University of Maryland from 1942 to 1991. He served as chairman of the department from 1951 until 1975. He was also acting provost of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 1976 until 1977. Dillard's papers consist of files from the Economics Department, correspondence, search committee files, and manuscripts. Major topics in the collection include day-to- day operation of the Economics Department, the Council of Economic Education in Maryland, Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, and American Association of University Professor records relating to student riots and other activities. The Dillard papers are unprocessed.
-
Jane Donawerth papers, 1974-2009. 9.5 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Jane Donawerth has been a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1975. The papers cover the years between 1974 and 2009 and document Donawerth's activities at the University of Maryland in the Women's Studies Program, the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, the Composition/Rhetoric Program, and various appointments and committees within the English department. Included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, meeting agendas and minutes, grant proposals, flyers, syllabi, clippings, notes, publications, budgets, curriculum vitae, course descriptions, course proposals, newsletters, programs, and reports.
-
Mylo S. Downey Collection, 1925-1940. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Mylo S. Downey, who graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1927 and also earned his M.A. at the University of Maryland in 1940, served as associate director for development for the College of Agriculture for many years. His family donated several yearbooks and commencement invitations from the 1920s and his 1940 diploma. A preliminary inventory is available.
-
Wilson H. Elkins, 1949-1992. 32 linear feet plus 8 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Wilson Homer Elkins, president of the University of Maryland from 1954 until 1978, emphasized a basic curriculum and strict academic standards during his tenure. He oversaw the establishment of a faculty governance structure and administered a major expansion and improvement of the physical plant, including the construction of the McKeldin Library and the Computer Science Center. This collection consists of two different unprocessed accessions. The first consists of publications, photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia, primarily of a personal nature but also extensive documentation of his tenure as president; the second accession is a small collection of photographs taken during his foreign travels and events during his presidency. Preliminary inventories are available for both accessions. For more information about President Elkins and collections related to his role at the University of Maryland, see Records of the Office of President, University of Maryland.
-
Geary Eppley papers, 1913-1995. 16.25 linear feet and 46 photographs.
Location: University of Maryland
Geary Eppley received a B.S. from Maryland State College in 1920 and an M.A. in 1926. In 1921 he became assistant professor of agriculture at the University of Maryland. During the 1930s he was also a track coach, becoming athletic director in 1936. In addition, from 1936 to 1964 he served as Dean of Men. The Eppley papers cover the period from 1919 to 1961 and consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, pamphlets, contracts, clippings, statistics, and lists. Major topics include athletics, athletic associations, football, boxing, interscholastic track meets, and the Southern Athletic Conference. Other topics include World War II, housing, fraternities, and recruiting.
-
John E. Faber papers, 1928-1988. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
John Faber was a professor of microbiology at the University of Maryland from 1927 until 1969. He was chairman of the Microbiology Department from 1945 until his retirement in 1969. He became head coach of the Maryland lacrosse team in 1928 and led the team to nine national championships and eight Atlantic Coast Conference championships. He retired as head coach in 1963 with a career record of 249 wins and 57 losses. The Faber papers consist of memorabilia, certificates, books, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Major topics in the collection include lacrosse and football. The collection is unprocessed.
-
Morris Freedman papers, 1960-1971. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Morris Freedman came to the University of Maryland as a professor of English in 1966. He retired in 1991 but remains active in the university teaching community as a lecturer. His published works include American Drama in Social Context, Chaos in our Colleges, and The Moral Impulse: Modern Drama from Ibsen to the Present. The collection consists of typescripts, page proofs, and galleys of those works. An addition to the collection, consisting of work papers, correspondence, and publications, is unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory has been prepared.
-
John Fuegi Collection, 1855-2003. 33 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
John Fuegi, Clara and Robert Vambery Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1992, holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. In addition to the University of Maryland, he has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and at institutions in Berlin and Mainz, Germany, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Support for Fuegi's seventeen books and films on subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf and 12th century nun Hildegard of Bingen came from grants and awards by the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment For the Humanities, and the Danish Film Institute. An authority on the life and work of Bertolt Brecht, Fuegi was the founder if the International Brecht Society in 1970 and edited the first 14 volumes of its Proceedings. The collection contains materials related to Fuegi's research for the book Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of Modern Drama [New York: Grove Press, 1994], and his award-winning film about Danish novelist Ruth Berlau, Red Ruth: That Deadly Longing [1992]. The collection consists primarily of manuscripts, research files, and publicity materials for Brecht and Company. Materials also document Dr. Fuegi's activities in the field of Brecht scholarship through articles and audio-visual materials, records of the International Brecht Society, and significant correspondence with scholar Eric Bentley. Other materials include correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to Bertolt Brecht's collaborators such as the writers Elisabeth Hauptmann, Ruth Berlau, and Margaret Steffin, and the dramaturge Robert Vambery. While some are originals, others are photocopies of extremely rare material such as records from the Bertolt Brecht Archive at Harvard University.
-
Gahan Family papers, 1905-2003. 1.00 linear foot and 55 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Arthur B. (Burton) Gahan (1880-1960) received a master's degree from the Maryland Agricultural College in 1906, and remained in the Department of Entomology as Assistant Entomologist until 1913. In 1913, he accepted an appointment as Assistant Entomologist in the Division of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations of the then U. S. Bureau of Entomology, with assignment at the National Museum in Washington. Included in the collection are a full run of publications spanning Gahan's career, dealing primarily with the study of the Chalcidoidea (one of the largest groups of parasitoid wasps). Winifred E. Gahan (Arthur B. Gahan's sister) is represented in the collection by a commemorative book of letters assembled by her co-workers upon her retirement from the university in 1953, entitled "Our Miss Gahan."
-
Philip Geraci Collection, 1960s-1970s. 6.0 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Philip Geraci, a University of Maryland alumnus, taught news photography courses in the College of Journalism. This collection consists primarily of pictures taken by students and submitted for course work in the 1960s and 1970s. They document a wide range of on- and off-campus activities and scenes. Of particular interest are images of sporting events, student protests, campus buildings and scenes, and Commencement. A preliminary inventory is available; the collection must be screened prior to researcher use.
-
William P. Gottlieb, 1940-1941. .25 linear feet plus 3 items.
Location: University of Maryland
William P. Gottlieb, 1917-2006, a graduate of Lehigh University, studied economics and taught at the University of Maryland, while writing a weekly jazz column for the Washington Post during the 1940s. Gottlieb photographed most of the big-name jazz artists of the day; in 1979, he published the pictures in a book titled The Golden Age of Jazz, which remains a standard in the field. Those images are now held by the Library of Congress as the William P. Gottlieb Photograph Collection. The bulk of this collection consists of 82 negatives of University of Maryland campus scenes from 1941 to 1942, including female students, small groups of students, R.O.T.C. activities (including R.O.T.C. Band), and selected buildings. A preliminary inventory is available.
-
Robert Lamar Green papers, 1959-1976. 4.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dr. Green joined the University of Maryland faculty as professor and chair of the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the late 1950s. He also served as the first coordinator of the university's Water Resources Research Center and was a member of several major committees and commissions dealing with shore erosion and water resource management. Dr. Green's papers focus primarily on his involvement with the Committee to Study Shore Erosion, the Water Resources Commission, and the Water Resources Study Committee.
-
Ted R. Gurr papers, 1977-2004. 9 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Ted Gurr is a Distinguished University Professor emeritus in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland internationally recognized for his theoretical, comparative, and historical studies of societal conflict. Before joining the University of Maryland faculty in 1989, Dr. Gurr held academic positions at Princeton University (1965-1969), Northwestern University, where he was Payson S. Wild Professor from 1970 to 1983, and chair of the political science department from 1977 to 1980; and the University of Colorado (1984-1988). In 1985, Gurr initiated the Minorities at Risk (MAR) project; the project has been based at the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) since 1988. Dr. Gurr taught theoretical and comparative analysis of violent ethno-political conflict at the graduate and undergraduate levels; he shifted to a part-time appointment in 1999. He continues to be part of the project staff and advisory board of MAR. The collection consists of Dr. Gurr's professional correspondence, reports, student files, project files, writing and research materials, and professional group and committee materials.
-
Louis R. Harlan papers, 1944-2000. 72.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Louis R. Harlan was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1966 to 1992. Professor Harlan wrote a two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington--Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 and Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915--and edited fourteen volumes of the Booker T. Washington Papers. The Harlan papers consist of research files on Booker T. Washington, correspondence, campus activities files, manuscripts, and page proofs. The collection is unprocessed but a preliminary inventory is available.
-
Susan Harman papers, 1914-1972. 4.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Susan Emolyn Harman (1897-1972) was an author and professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1920 to 1961. At the university, Harman founded Alpha Lambda Delta, an honorary society; was a charter member of the Maryland chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a teacher's honorary; and was adviser to a social sorority, Kappa Delta. She was also co-founder of the English Club of Prince George's and Montgomery counties. As president of University of Maryland chapter of the American Association of University Professors, she worked to secure Social Security benefits for all university faculty. She co-authored College Rhetoric, the Handbook of Correct English, and the best-selling Descriptive English Grammar with Homer C. House, and was a co-editor of the Middle English Dictionary. Her papers include correspondence, biographical materials, manuscripts, and memorabilia documenting Harman's career as an author and educator. Significant correspondents include Wilson H. Elkins, Frederic E. Lee, Charles Manning, and Homer C. House.
-
Isabella Hayes papers, 1941-1971. 17.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Isabella Hayes was the librarian in charge of the Maryland Room in McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland, College Park, campus from 1949 to 1968. Her papers consist of correspondence and other records pertaining to the operation of the Maryland Room.
-
Charles R. Hayleck, Jr. Collection, 1951-1966. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Charles R. Hayleck, Jr., was a 1943 graduate of the University of Maryland College of Engineering. He was a member of the engineering faculty from 1946 until his death in 1986, as well as a member of the University's Athletic Council in the 1950s. This collection consists of reels of film of University of Maryland football games and practices from the 1950s and 1960s, including a 1954 game against the University of South Carolina and a 1966 game against Duke University. There is also rare footage from 1952 featuring many of the stand-out players of that era and sideline images of university president H. C. "Curley" Byrd. A preliminary inventory is available as well as a detailed shot list for the 1952 footage.
-
Laurence Heilprin papers, 1936-1992. 137.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Laurence Heilprin was a professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland from 1967 to 1976; he was professor emeritus at the time of his death in 1993. The Heilprin papers include research publications, notes, and drafts; correspondence; sound recordings; and professional files. Major topics include the Washington Association of Scientists, Federation of American Scientists, National Science Foundation, National Bureau of Standards, and the College of Library and Information Services. The collection is unprocessed.
-
William Milne Holton papers, circa 1926-2004. 81.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Literary scholar, professor, and translator William Milne Holton (1931-2000) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1954, and shortly thereafter received his L.L.B. from Harvard Law School in 1957. Holton practiced law in Chatanooga, Tennessee, for nearly a year before continuing his education at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in literature in 1965. Holton began his teaching career at the University of Maryland in 1961, a tenure that lasted until his retirement in 1999. Holton's publications include a volume on Stephen Crane, The Cylinder of Vision (1972) and several volumes of Macedonian, Polish, Austrian, and Serbian poetry, for which he acted as both translator and editor. The collection documenting Holton's literary career consists of correspondence, publications, manuscripts, photographs, research notes, printed matter, audio recordings.
-
R. Lee Hornbake papers, 1958-1998. 24 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Dr. R. Lee Hornbake enjoyed a thirty-four year career at the University of Maryland where he served as an industrial education professor, department chair, and dean of faculty. He became Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1960 and held the position until his retirement in 1979. The collection consists of awards and honoraria given to Dr. Hornbake throughout his career by honor societies, universities, associations, and the state of Maryland.
-
Joan S. Hult papers, 1890-2008. 49.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dr. Joan S. Hult (1933- ) was a professor of kinesiology and sports history at the University of Maryland from 1968 until 1996. In her early years, particularly in her own college career, she was an all-around athlete. She received a B.S from Indiana University, a Masters in Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Ph.D from the University of Southern California. She coached the women's tennis team at Maryland until she resigned in protest. Hult was a strong supporter of the Title IX Gender Equality in Sports legislation and a member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) board before the association merged with the NCAA. She has published many books and papers on the history of women in sports, the history of the Olympic Games, and the history of sports in general. After her retirement, Hult remained active in the sports history world. This collection spans Hult's career and includes correspondence, teaching materials from undergraduate and graduate courses, articles, newspaper clippings, brochures and publications, research notes, and writings by Hult -- all of which cover a range of sports history and women's history topics. The Hult papers are unprocessed, but preliminary inventories are available.
-
Anne G. Ingram papers, 1977. 0.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Anne Ingram was a professor of physical education at the University of Maryland from 1962 until 1988. Ingram's papers include a bound volume of selected papers and publications, oral history tapes, and taped interviews for the issue of the Maryland Historian (Fall 1978) that focused on women. Major topics include the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and the women's movement at the University of Maryland.
-
Wilhelmina F. Jashemski Papers, 1945-2008. 13.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski (1910-2007) was a faculty member in the University of Maryland history department renowned for her expertise in Roman gardens, specifically those in Pompeii. Through her research and excavation work, she helped to develop the field of garden archaeology. Jashemski began teaching at Maryland in 1946 and remained until her retirement in 1980. This collection chronicles Jashemski's archaeological trips to Pompeii and other Roman ruins and includes her research notes on the subject of Roman gardens, extensive drafts from several of her books and essays, grant applications, speeches, teaching materials, and awards. In addition, there is a significant amount of correspondence from publishers, faculty, and other Roman scholars, as well as personal correspondence from family members and friends. Highlights in the collection consist mainly of drafts, notes, and correspondence related to two of her notable publications The Gardens of Pompeii and A Pompeian Herbal. An entire box is devoted to essays, maps, and correspondence from Gardens of the Roman Empire, a scholarly compilation edited by Jashemski and published after her death. Drafts of letters to be included in Letters from Pompeii, Jashemski's epistolary-style book for young people, are also included.
-
Morley Jull papers, 1921-1959. 4.00 linear feet and 418 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Morley A. Jull was the Head of the Poultry Science Department at the University of Maryland from 1936 until his retirement in 1956. Series III consists of materials documenting professional activities in which Jull participated during his time at College Park, e.g. planning committees for the Eighth and Ninth Internaional Poultry Congresses, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the dedication of the Ontario College of Agriculture Graham Hall, named for the well-known Canadian poultry professor and researcher Dr. W. R. Graham
-
Hugo Keesing Collection, 1971-1981. 4 items.
Location: University of Maryland
Dr. Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, donated several items related to media coverage of the Vietnam War protests on campus as well as several memorabilia items. A preliminary inventory is available. Keesing and his brother have also donated a substantial collection to The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, titled The Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture.
-
Frank J. Kerr papers, 1945-2000. 39.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Frank Kerr was a University of Maryland Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy. He was among the first radio astronomers in the years following World War II and the first ot systematically study the echo of radio waves bounced off of the moon. He came to the University of Maryland as a researcher in 1966, and stayed on to become the Directory of the Astronomy Program in the mid-1970s and was Provost of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering Division from 1978-1985. The papers consist of working notes, correspondence, research, diagrams, technical reports, and reprints collected by Dr. Kerr both as a scientist, and as a University of Maryland faculty member. This collection is unprocessed.
-
The Nick Kovalakides Collection, 1968-2007. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Nick Kovalakides, Class of 1961, was a multi-sport star during his undergraduate career and later coached track at the university from 1969 until 1974. This collection includes photographs of ACC indoor and outdoor track championship meets from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, as well as plaques awarded at the events. A preliminary inventory is available.
-
Mukul Kundu Papers, 1970-2010. 25.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Mukul Kundu (1930-2010) was a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Astronomy and Physics. He received his Doctorate of Science from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1957. Before coming to the University of Maryland he was an associate professor at Cornell University and a Professor at the Tata University of Fundamental Research in India. He was a U.S.Senior Scientist awardee of the Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Prize). This collection consists of Astronomy Department committee files, correspondence, research papers, photographs, book reviews, and lecture materials. His papers contain numerous images of sun spots and solar flares. Dr. Kundu's research focused on solar and stellar radio physics, galactic supernova remnants, microflares, and solar active regions. This collection is unprocessed but a preliminary inventory is available.
-
Helmut Landsberg papers, 1906-1985. 20.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Helmut Landsberg was a scientist whose career in the fields of meteorology and climatology spanned over five decades. He earned his Ph.D. in 1930 from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. In 1964, Landsberg became a part-time lecturer at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics of the University of Maryland. In 1967 he was appointed as research professor and from 1974 to 1976 served as director of the Institute. He was also instrumental in founding the Department of Meteorology as well as establishing the graduate program in that discipline at the university. He became professor emeritus in 1976. The Landsberg papers consist of page proofs, correspondence, publications, typed and written manuscripts, and a few personal documents such as membership cards and passports. Important topics include climatic changes, the establishment of a graduate program in meteorology at the university, editorial projects, and Landsberg's activities in numerous professional and scientific organizations.
-
Lewis Lawson papers, 1963-1967. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Lewis A. Lawson (b. 1931), a literary critic and editor, was a professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1963-1997. He specializes in Southern American fiction, particularly Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor, and edited The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O'Connor with Melvin J. Friedman. His other works include Following Percy: Essays on Walker Percy's Work, a collection of his essays; Another Generation: Southern Fiction since World War II; Kierkegaard's Presence in Contemporary American Life: Essays from Various Disciplines; Wheeler's Last Raid, a Civil War history; and two collections he co-edited with Victor A. Kramer, Conversations With Walker Percy and More Conversations With Walker Percy. His papers consist of correspondence, interviews, and the manuscript of his Greek translation of Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away. Significant correspondents represented in the collection include Edwin Quain, Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Melvin J. Friedman, Robert Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, and Regina O'Connor.
-
Romeo Mansueti papers, 1922-1963. 21.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
From 1948 to 1950, Romeo Mansueti worked as a zoological assistant at the University of Maryland. In 1950 he become a Senior Fishery Biologist at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory of the Maryland Department of Research and Education, which later became part of the University of Maryland. He was promoted to the position of research professor in 1962. His papers include correspondence, reports, clippings, pamphlets, notes, and manuscripts which relate primarily to Mansueti's research projects on the early development stages of commercially important fish. Other research topics include fish migration, bionomics of freshwater and estuarine fish populations, and the taxonomy and ecology of fish eggs.
-
Lawrence J. McCrank Collection, 1556-1931. 4.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Lawrence McCrank was a professor at the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland from 1976 to 1981. The McCrank papers consist of over sixty volumes of hand produced books bound in paper, vellum, and leather, written in French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. The collection was used for McCrank's course on the history of the book and is unprocessed.
-
Dorothy McKnight papers, 1969-2000. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dorothy B. McKnight is a former executive director of the United States Women's Lacrosse Association and was a professor and the Coordinator of Women's Athletics at the University of Maryland from 1971 to 1976. This collection consists of books relating to Title IX and sex equity in athletics; some of the books include chapters authored by Dorothy McKnight. Also included are teaching materials used by Dorothy McKnight in workshops about Title IX and women's athletics.
-
Jacob Elry Metzger papers, 1915-1938. 0.25 linear feet (1 bound vol.).
Location: University of Maryland
Jacob E. Metzger came to the Maryland Agricultural College in 1914. He was a professor of agronomy and head of the Department of Agronomy, supervisor of the Agricultural Department of the Maryland High Schools for the State Department of Public Instruction, Agronomist of the Maryland Experiment Station, and acting director and director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station from 1937 to 1939. Metzger also established and directed the university's first summer school in 1914. Metzger took part in research and experiments which led to development of "beardless" barley, conducted research on a special type of turf grass for golf courses, and was a noted author of bulletins and articles on soil research and other related fields. His papers consist of speeches, research papers, and recollections on subjects related to his career. Topics include agriculture in Maryland, agricultural education in college and secondary schools, alfalfa, soils, and corn production in Maryland.
-
Raymond E. Miller papers, 1950-2004. 64.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Working papers of Dr. Raymond E. Miller (b. 1928), Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. Dr. Miller's papers document his entire career, including his work at IBM in the 1950s through the 1980s; his work as director and a professor at the School of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1980s, and his work as a professor at the University of Maryland. Also included are papers documenting Dr. Miller's various consulting jobs, his work as director of the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and his work in various professional organizations. Included in the collection are course syllabi, committee papers, publications, speeches, and documentation surrounding Dr. Miller's early work on Switching Theory.
-
Jack Minker Papers, 1951-1999. 43.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Jack Minker was a professor at the University of Maryland in the Computer Science Department. Minker became a professor at the university in 1971, the first chairman of the department in 1974, and a professor emeritus in 1998. His collection is comprised of professional research, publications, grant proposals, and information on the Computer Science Department at Maryland. Subjects covered in his research and publications include artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming, and non-monotonic reasoning. The collection also contains correspondence with individuals in the computer science field as well as with institutions such as the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This collection is unprocessed but a preliminary inventory is available.
-
Elliott Montroll papers, 1936-1982. 9.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Elliott Montroll was research professor at the University of Maryland's Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics from 1951 to 1960 and was a professor at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology from 1981 to the time of his death in 1983. He was founding editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics (1960-1970) and was a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Montroll papers cover the years 1936 to 1982 and include correspondence, reprints of publications, lecture notes, course materials, grant records, and research notes. Major topics include statistical mechanics, probability theory, mathematical physics, and mathematical modeling of biological and sociological phenomena.
-
William J. Murtagh papers, 1923-2004. 50.25 linear feet and 1155 items.
Location: State of Maryland and Historical Collections
William J. Murtagh is one of the world's leading historic preservationists. As an administrator, educator, speaker, and writer he has helped shaped the historic preservation movement for more than fifty years. Murtagh was the first Keeper of the National Register and also worked at the National Trust in an executive capacity for a number of years. He is the author of Keeping Time, a basic text on the development of the historic preservation movement. Murtagh held several teaching positions throughout his career at such institutions as Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, the University of Florida, and the University of Maryland. William J. Murtagh's papers consist of materials documenting his career in both the public and private sector. These materials include correspondence, memos and minutes, research notes, writings, speeches, lectures, reports, photographs, memorabilia, and personal records.
-
J. B. S. Norton papers, 1895-1959. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
J. B. S. Norton became a professor of botany and plant pathology at the Maryland Agricultural College in 1918. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1923. He retired from teaching in 1942 and held the title of professor emeritus until his death in 1966. The Norton papers include biographical material, professional correspondence, newspaper clippings, reprints, and notes taken by Norton about his publications. Major topics include Norton's reports as Maryland state plant pathologist, the extensive plates included in his reprints, and announcements from the Maryland Agricultural College catalog.
-
Mancur Olson papers, 1944-1998. 160.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
This collection contains materials relating to the life and career of Mancur Olson, a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland from 1970 to his death in 1998. As a leading economist in the late 20th century, Mancur Olson was involved with the Southern Economic Association as well as the development of the IRIS Center, an economic research center, located at the University of Maryland. The Papers of Mancur Olson consist of correspondence, journal articles, publications, photographs, pamphlets, course materials, and other texts used by Olson in his research and career as a professor and economist.
-
Harry Patterson papers, 1886-1945. 9 lin. in..
Location: University of Maryland
Harry Jacob Patterson became vice-director and chemist of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station in 1888. He served in that position until 1898, when he became director. In 1912 he received his doctorate in chemistry from the Maryland Agricultural College. Patterson was elected president of the college in 1913 and served in that capacity until 1917, while continuing to serve as director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Under his presidential tenure, the size of the liberal arts teaching staff doubled, enrollment increased, and women were admitted to the college as students. He also devised an organizational structure to facilitate the transformation of the college into a modern university. Patterson retired from the presidency in 1917 but continued as director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. From 1925 to 1937, he also served as dean of the College of Agriculture. He continued his research and involvement with the university as professor emeritus from his retirement in 1937 until his death in 1948. The Patterson papers cover the period from 1886 to 1945. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, notes documenting experiments and chemical formulas, and rosters of individuals and organizations connected with the Agricultural Experiment Station or agriculture in Maryland.
-
William S. Peterson papers, 1967-1982. 6.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Professor William Peterson served in the English Department at the University of Maryland beginning in 1974. The Peterson papers consist of correspondence, photographs, publications, and work papers related to his book, Victorian Heretic: Mrs. Humphrey Ward's "Robert Elsmere," and a proposed edition of the essays of Mrs. Ward. This collection is unprocessed, but a preliminary inventory is available.
-
Elmer Plischke papers, 1941-1974. 17.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Elmer Plischke was a professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland from 1948 to 1980. The Plischke papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, publications, drafts, galley proofs, and scrapbooks. Major topics include diplomacy, Germany, and foreign relations.
-
Gordon W. Prange Papers, 1866-2002. 69.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Dr. Gordon W. Prange (1910-1980) began teaching history at the University of Maryland in 1937. In 1942, he was granted a leave of absence from the University to embark on a wartime career as an officer in the United States Navy. He was sent to Japan in 1945 as a member of the American Occupation Forces. After completing his military service, he remained as a civilian in Japan from 1946 to 1951 as the chief of General Douglas MacArthur's 100-person historical staff. Upon returning from Japan, Prange continued to teach at the University of Maryland until several months before his death on May 15, 1980.
-
Daniel Prescott papers, circa 1917-1976. 18.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Daniel Prescott (1898-1970) was a Professor of Education at the University of Maryland, and also served as Director Emeritus of the Institute for Child Study from 1947-1960. He was recognized as one of the most distinguished writers and scholars on the subject of child psychology, and his work with troubled children included a trip to Germany in 1948 to work on a long-range plan to bring democracy to the youth of that country. His papers include publications, educational materials, correspondence (including letters written to his mother while Prescott was serving in the military during World War I), manuscripts, photographs, film, audiotape, awards, and bibliographies.
-
James Reveal papers, 1965-2000. 18.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Reveal was a professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Maryland from 1969 to 1999. Reveal served as director of the Norton-Brown Herbarium of the University of Maryland between 1979 and 1999. He was a member and chair of the Smithsonian Institution's Endangered Species Committee from 1974 to 1982. Reveal was instrumental in attaining the addition of endangered plant species to the original Endangered Species Act. His papers consist of research materials and notes, publication reprints, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Major topics include Dr. Reveal's academic and professional careers; botanical exploration of colonial America and the American West; Maryland plants; plant taxonomy; and the Polygonaceae subfamily Eriogonoideae, commonly known as the buckwheats.
-
Edward M. Rider papers, 1937-1998. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
The Edward M. Rider papers document the career of Colonel Edward M. Rider, who served as the Information Specialist for the University of Maryland's Extension Service Program in the 1930s and 1940s. Included are broadcast transcripts (radio), clippings, correspondence, handbooks, magazines, manuscript drafts, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, programs, reports, and speeches.
-
Martha J. Ross Papers, 1948-2010. 34.5 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
This collection contains materials relating to the personal and professional life of Martha J. Ross. Martha J. Ross was a leading oral historian as well as a professor of oral history. Born in Selma, Alabama she received her B.A. from the Alabama College for Women and went on to receive her M.A. in 20th Century American History from the University of Maryland. She taught at George Washington University from 1971-1972, and at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1972-1987. The collection provides information on the development of oral history as a form of primary source research as well as its use in cultural heritage preservation.
-
Clyne S. Shaffner papers, 1938-1947. 1.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Clyne S. Shaffner (1914-1984) was a professor of Physiology and Genetics in the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Maryland from 1947 to 1977 and head of the department from 1955 to 1971.
-
Ben Shneiderman papers, 1968-2004. 105 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the computer science department at the University of Maryland, College Park. During his career at the University (1976- ), he has founded the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (1982), conducted research, taught courses, and contributed to the development of human-computer interaction. The papers largely chronicle Shneiderman's involvement in the discipline of human-computer interaction. Included in the collection are final versions and drafts of articles, conference materials, consulting and grant records, personal correspondence, course materials, and newspaper clippings.
-
Mark Shoemaker papers, 1920-1971. 8.75 linear feet and 6 oversize items.
Location: University of Maryland
Mark M. Shoemaker (1898-1983) was a professor of horticulture at the University of Maryland, a campus planner, and a landscape designer. Shoemaker's papers document his landscape design work for the University and various agencies of the United States government. The collection also includes some of the personal papers of A. S. Thurston whose duties at the University of Maryland Shoemaker assumed.
-
Mary S. Shorb papers, 1910-1971. 16.75 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Mary Shorb was research professor of poultry science at the University of Maryland from 1949 to 1972 and, upon retirement, was named research professor emeritus, a position she held at the time of her death in 1990. The Shorb papers cover the years 1910 to 1971 and include correspondence, grant reports and applications, papers, and lab notes. Major topics include vitamin B12, Trichomonas, chickens, animal nutrition, animal growth, and pernicious anemia.
-
Adele H. Stamp papers, 1895-1983. 14.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Adele H. Stamp was dean of women at the University of Maryland at College Park from 1922 to 1960. During her tenure the campus expanded dramatically and Dean Stamp was confronted with a number of issues relating to facilities. Among her papers are files on Cole Field House, the Rossborough Inn, dormitories, and the women's field house.
-
Francis C. Stark papers, 1936-2002. 5.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Francis C. Stark (1919-2003) was a professor in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Maryland. His papers include photographs of students, student grade books, and miscellaneous research materials relating to Horticulture. Also included are his own memoirs and a speech about the history of the University of Maryland.
-
Orman E. Street papers, 1928-ca.1981. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
The papers of Orman Street include information on other professors in the Agronomy Department including W. B. Kemp, Lewis E. Erdman, O. C. Bruce, Geary Eppley, and W. B. Posey.
-
Thomas B. Symons papers, c.1910-1969. 9.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Thomas B. Symons, a graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, was the director of the Maryland Cooperative Extension Service from 1914 to 1950 and dean of the University of Maryland College of Agriculture from 1937 to 1950, when he retired from the university. He returned to his alma mater four years later for a nine-month term as acting president. Dr. Symons' original area of specialization was entomology, but his interests later expanded to include soil conservation and land use. Throughout his career, Dr. Symons was active in a number of agricultural organizations, and their activities and concerns are documented in his papers as well.
-
John S. Toll papers, 1943-1991. 27.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
John S. Toll earned a B.A. at Yale in 1944 and had completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics at Princeton by 1952. During his graduate studies, he worked as a theoretical physicist at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. From 1953 to 1965, Toll headed the University of Maryland Physics Department. He then moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he served as president until returning to the University of Maryland in 1978. Toll resigned in 1989 and later served as president of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, from 1995 to 2004. His papers consist of materials documenting his career both as a physicist and as an administrator.
-
Reginald Truitt papers, 1919-1977. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Reginald Truitt began his teaching career at the University of Maryland as a graduate assistant in zoology in 1919 and rose to professor by 1925. He also coached the Maryland lacrosse team from 1919 to 1927; during this period, lacrosse became a major sport at the university. Truitt later founded the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, serving as director from 1925 to 1954. In 1941, he took on the additional role of director of the Maryland Department of Research and Education. From 1961 to 1962, he was president of the University of Maryland Alumni Council. The Truitt papers cover the years 1919 to 1977 and include correspondence and other papers. Major topics include the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Worcester County, curriculum development in the Zoology Department, faculty-administration relations, University of Maryland Alumni Council, and the development of lacrosse and cross country teams.
-
Fletcher Pearre Veitch papers, 1890-1938. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Fletcher Veitch (1868-1943) was a graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College (MAC) who later served as a chemist, soil physicist, and administrator for the college, Agricultural Experiment Station, and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Even after leaving the employ of the MAC, Veitch remained an active alumnus. His papers consist largely of his correspondence on college and alumni affairs; among the topics he addressed were construction and grounds improvement on the campus.
-
Joseph Weber papers, 1930-2000. 114.00 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Joseph Weber was a University of Maryland physicist credited in the 1960s with conducting early research into detecting gravity waves. Dr. Weber's experiments began in 1958 and he first reported success in 1969, believing he had proved the waves' existence. Other scientists who duplicated Weber's experiments failed to find the same results, but nonetheless, they changed the way that scientists perceived gravity waves. The papers consist of working notes, correspondence, research, diagrams, technical reports and other documents collected by Dr. Weber both as a scientist, and as a University of Maryland faculty member. This collection is unprocessed.
-
Charles E. White papers, 1925-1973. 9.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Charles Edward White attended the University of Maryland from 1919 to 1926 and received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in chemistry. He became assistant professor in 1926, associate professor in 1929, and professor in 1937. In 1960 he was appointed chairman of the Chemistry Department and achieved the status of professor emeritus in 1969. The White papers cover the years 1925 to 1973 and include correspondence; programs; graduate and research notes; publications and reprints; course materials; lantern slides; and photographs. Major topics include the American Chemical Society; White's books Fluorescence Analysis, Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry, and Lecture Notes in First Year College Chemistry; and fluorescence.
-
Richard White Collection, 1905-1920. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
The papers document the addition of the Ridgely Sub-station to the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station in 1914. Important subjects pertaining to agriculture documented in the collection include wages, farm crops, and harvesting. The collection also contains the grade reports and monthly progress reports of Herbert James White, a graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College.
-
Reed Whittemore papers, c. 1913-1985. 26 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Reed Whittemore (b. 1919) is a poet and emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, where he taught from 1967 to 1984. He also served twice as the Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress. The author of a major biography of William Carlos Williams, he has also written numerous volumes of poems and essays. Whittemore's papers include correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, galleys, proofs, scrapbooks, diaries, published materials, newspaper and magazine clippings, audiotapes, and photographs documenting his life, literary work, and teaching. Significant correspondents represented in the collection include Arthur Mizener and John Pauker. An addendum to the collection--consisting of correspondence, publications, press releases, and work papers--is available; it is described in a preliminary inventory.
-
William G. Wilson papers, 1972-2006. 57.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
William Wilson has been the Librarian of the College of Library and Information Services as well as a lecturer at the college at the University of Maryland since 1972. He is also an active environmentalist. The Wilson papers consist of correspondence, meeting notes, membership lists, and published reports and newsletters documenting Wilson's work in Maryland environmental concerns. Major topics include the Maryland Conservation Council, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Maryland Conservation Foundation. The collection is unprocessed.
-
Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods papers, 1878-1944. 3.50 linear feet.
Location: University of Maryland
Albert F. Woods was president of the University of Maryland from 1917 until 1926. Albert Woods's papers cover the years 1878 to 1944 and consist of speeches and correspondence. Bertha Woods's papers contain poems and children's stories written for Young People's Weekly and The Girl's Companion. Major topics in this collection include children's stories, poems, agriculture, and the University of Minnesota.
Maryland Manuscripts
For more information, visit Historical Manuscripts
The Maryland Manuscripts grouping consists of a wide variety of materials, such as letters, diaries, printed ephemera, and business ledgers, which have been described individually. Items pertaining to campus faculty and administrators within this grouping include:
MDMS 30--A typed letter signed by Albert Einstein addressed to Tobias Dantzig, campus professor of mathematics. Einstein discusses preparations for a meeting.
MDMS 1538--Copy of Charles Benedict Calvert's address at the third annual exhibition of the Frederick County Agricultural Society. Calvert, founder of the Maryland Agricultural College gave this address in 1855 promoting the founding of a national agricultural college and one for each state.
MDMS 1627--Sketch of the life of President Thomas B. Symons. This is a brief, typewritten biography of Symons, who served as acting president of the University of Maryland in 1954.
MDMS 4077--Slave account book of Charles Benedict Calvert, founder of the Maryland Agricultural College. In this ledger, Calvert lists the names, ages, value, and sale prices of slaves on his various properties.
MDMS 4980--Charles Benedict Calvert stock certificate. Certificate for 880 shares of Maryland Agricultural College stock belonging to Charles Benedict Calvert.
MDMS 6006--Lecture notes from physics class. These notes, taken by an unidentified student, are from Prof. Charles Eichlin's 1936 class in physics.
Photographs
Among the departmental photograph holdings are numerous portrait shots of many UMCP faculty members and administrators. In particular there are extensive files on Harry Byrd, Wilson Elkins, William Amoss, Mary Shorb, and Adele Stamp.
Memorabilia
The memorabilia collection consists of approximately 1,000 individually described pieces of realia. Among these objects are trophies, plaques, uniforms, oil and watercolor paintings, footballs, certificates, and goblets that belonged to or were given to Harry Byrd, Geary Eppley, Adele Stamp, and John Faber. Also included are a chemical balance used by Charles White and large oil portraits of various university presidents and other high-level campus administrators such as Alma Preinkert, registrar, and Thomas Taliaferro, dean of the faculty.