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Maryland Terrapin players celebrating after a play, n.d. Diamondback Photo Morgue; Box 45; Item 4390. View this item in our digital collections.
University Archives
Collecting Area
University Archives is the primary repository for records that capture 150+ years of UMD history and its many facets, including but not limited to: student life; academics; administration; athletics; faculty and staff; buildings and grounds; the arts; and social movements. Researchers can access the papers of former presidents and chancellors, records related to student life, papers of alumni, athletics memorabilia, maps, university publications, oral histories, and more.
While the digital collections below contain photos, images, documents, audio, and a/v records that serve as useful resources for illustrating UMD history, please be aware they are not holistic. The items included here represent only a small sampling of the estimated 500,000+ photographs and nearly 20,000 pieces of a/v within University Archives’ holdings. Additional digitized resources related to University of Maryland history, such as yearbooks, course catalogs, and athletics guides, can be accessed here.
Digital Collections
Featured Collections
Diamondback Photos
The Diamondback Photo Morgue contains thousands of photographs from UMD’s longest-running student newspaper. This collection of images documents every aspect of campus life—student life, faculty and staff, buildings and grounds, academics, athletics, performing arts, and events—as well as the city of College Park and other topics of local and/or national interest.
Item types: photographs
UMD Student Newspapers
The UMD Student Newspapers database, a collaboration between the University of Maryland Archives and the UMD Libraries’ Digital Services and Technologies division, is an effort to digitize and make accessible the major student newspapers produced on the College Park campus, from 1910-present.
Item types: full-text searchable newspaper images
University of Maryland Student Life
The digitized materials in the Student Life collection utilize a reparative approach to create an inclusive and diverse collection of photographs highlighting alumni, commencements, festivals, fraternities, sororities, student organizations, social movements, and other moments that underscore the university's history.
Item types: images
Document and Image Collections
Music, Dance, and Theater at the University of Maryland
The Music, Dance, and Theater collection is made up of photos, images, documents, and ephemera that highlight performing arts and musical events at UMD. A variety of sources contribute to the collection, including Gymkana, University Theater, the Diamondback, campus photo collections, and University Publications.
Item types: images
University of Maryland Athletics
The UMD Athletics collection illustrates the storied history of UMD Terps through photos, images, documents, and ephemera that come from a variety of sources, including Intercollegiate Athletics, Athletic Media Relations, University Publications, and more.
Item types: images
University of Maryland Buildings and Grounds
The collection includes more than one hundred years of campus development, such as aerial views of College Park in 1953, photographs of dormitories, the construction of the Student Union, Cole Field House, Memorial Chapel, administrative buildings, and other facilities throughout campus.
Item types: images
University of Maryland Faculty and Staff
The Faculty and Staff collection contains photos, documents, and ephemera related to UMD faculty and staff members. The records come from many sources, including various academic departments, faculty papers, administrative collections, campus photo collections, and University Publications.
Item types: images
University of Maryland Agricultural Legacy
The Maryland Agricultural College (MAC) was established in 1856, purchased from a slaveholding farmer and agricultural education advocate. This Agricultural Legacy collection entails the institution's earliest history, including its agrarian roots, labor practices, the agricultural experiment station, and campus life.
Item types: images
Audiovisual Collections
Music, Dance, and Theater at the University of Maryland
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.
Item types: audiovisual recordings
University of Maryland Athletics
The UMD Athletics collection consists of films, broadcasts and other recordings documenting the University's athletic teams over the years. Currently, the collection features content from various collegiate sports spanning the 1950s-1980s.
Item types: audiovisual recordings
University of Maryland Faculty and Staff
This collection contains recordings of lectures, interviews, and meetings facilitated by University of Maryland's faculty and staff. Material in this collection comes from various archival collections including the Ben Shneiderman papers, College of Journalism records, Gordon W. Prange papers, Jackson R. Bryer papers, and Larry Warren papers.
University of Maryland Student Life (AV Collection)
A collection of recordings of various students and student groups, representing some of the experiences of the University of Maryland student community. These recordings come from our archival collections, including this Gymkana records, WMUC records, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) oral histories.
Item types: audiovisual recordings