Archival Collections

	The League of Historic American Theaters donated the Gene A. Chesley Collection to the University of Maryland in 1996, which document Chesley's 11-year project to identify and document extant historic theatres, opera houses, and performance halls in all fifty states. Chesley Collection The Papers of Joan Dillon include documents and images collected for her research and publication of the book American Theaters: Performance Halls of the Nineteenth Century, published in 1997. Dillon Collection
	Charles B. Hosmer, historian of the preservation movement, donated his papers to the University of Maryland Libraries in 1993. Hosmer Collection
	The U.S. Department of the Navy, Federal Preservation Office, donated the project files of the Navy Legacy Resource Management Program to the University of Maryland Libraries in 1997. Navy Legacy Collection
	Katherine Stevenson and the family of H. Ward Jandl donated research materials on Sears, Roebuck mail-order houses to the University of Maryland Libraries in 1995. Jandl-Stevenson Collection
	Frederick L. Rath, Jr. the founding director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, named the University of Maryland to be the home of his personal papers. The Rath Papers are currently being processed. Rath Collection
	Charles E. Peterson, founder of the Historic American Buildings Survey, has named the University of Maryland Libraries to be the future home of his archives and book collection. Peterson Collection

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