Records of the President's Office (Processed)

The University Archives staff has completed the final arrangement and description of the records of eleven presidents and prepared a finding aid for these materials; however, only a small portion of the records for two of the presidents, Harry Clifton Byrd and Wilson H. Elkins, are fully processed. The President's Office finding aid is available in Adobe PDF format. The document totals 55 pages in length and its file size is 118KB.

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In the PDF file, the section organization of the finding aid is delineated on the left handside for easy navigation. Additional guidelines on the organization of the finding aid appear below:

Administrative History/Biography - brief biographical statements about all twenty-three men who were named president of the Maryland Agricultural College/Maryland State College of Agriculture/University of Maryland

Scope and Content - general overview of the contents of the
President's Office files, including the time period they cover, major topics, and organizational structure

Provenance - origin of the files

Series Descriptions - detailed descriptions of the contents of each president's records (NOTE: There is documentation only for the eleven presidents represented in this record group.)

Series I: Samuel Register
Series II: Samuel Jones
Series III: Henry E. Alvord
Series I: Samuel Register
Series IV: Richard W. Silvester
Series V: Harry J. Patterson
Series VI: Albert F. Woods
Series VII: Raymond A. Pearson
Series VIII: Harry C. Byrd
Series IX: Thomas B. Symons
Series X: Wilson H. Elkins
Series XI: John S. Toll

Processing - comments on conservation and arrangement of the records

Related Materials - enumeration of other relevant/related collections in the holdings of the Archives and Manuscripts Department

Box Inventory - listing of the file headings that comprise the presidential records; this listing follows the organization of the series by president, as outlined in the series descriptions; within
each series, there is a list of the files in the order in which
they appear in the boxes; the indicator (_ f) signifies
two or more files with the file heading; if "(RESTRICTED)" appears next to a file heading, the contents of that file are closed to researchers for a period of 75 years or until the death of the individual mentioned in the documents