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Photograph by Don Hamerman. From the Don Hamerman collection of performing arts photography at Special Collections in Performing Arts. View this item in our digital collections.
Performing Arts
Collecting Area
Here you'll find archival visual and audio materials from UMD Libraries' collections focusing on music, dance, and theatre. Researchers can immerse themselves in recordings of performances, lectures, and interviews or browse through photographs, zines, programs, and other images that help illustrate the history of the performing arts.
Digital Collections
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange programs
These digitized programs document performances by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and are drawn from the Dance Exchange records at Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA).
Item types: images of playbills
The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (AV Collection)
This collection features video recordings of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange performances, rehearsals, workshops, and interviews from the Dance Exchange records at Special Collections in Performing Arts.
Item types: video recordings
Performing Arts (AV Collection)
This collection contains digitized audio and video archival materials from Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) and the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM) that are generally related to the performing arts.
Item types: audio and video recordings
Punk Fanzines
This collection includes digitized fanzines from the punk rock subculture, running from the 1970s into the 21st century. Fanzines are fan-made, small-run periodicals covering the punk rock subculture.
Item types: images of fanzines
Score Collections
Database of nearly 27,000 scores available in numerous collections held by Special Collections in Performing Arts.
Item types: records of score holdings
Standalone collection
Other Resources
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Music, Dance, and Theater at the University of Maryland (AV Collection)
This collection contains digitized audio and video archival materials from the collections of Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) and the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM) that are related to performing arts events and instruction at the University of Maryland.