Papers of Faculty and Administrators, University of Maryland
A Selected List of Holdings in the Archives and Manuscripts Department, 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.
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William L. Amoss papers,
1884-1936.
14.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Betty B. Baehr,
1983 and undated.
0.25 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Ronald Bamford,
1926-1967.
0.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Theodore Bissell,
1910-1982.
0.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Carl Bode,
1941-1984.
6.25 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Stephen G. Brush,
1888-2006.
10.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Jackson R. Bryer,
1977-1984.
9.50 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Orin M. Bullock, Jr.,
1920-1986.
66.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Franklin Burdette,
1930-1979.
37.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Johannes Martinus Burgers,
1912-1980.
48.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Elbert M. Byrd,
1961-1966.
1.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Harry Clifton Byrd,
1895-1970.
28.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Sterling Byrd Collection,
1804-1982.
83.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Verne E. Chatelain papers,
1959-1971.
4.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
Verne E. Chatelain was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1945 until 1964. The Chatelain collection includes student papers, historical photographs, manuscripts, and slides. Major topics include local history, the origin of the University of Maryland, and historic sites in Somerset County. The collection is unprocessed but a preliminary inventory is available.
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Marilyn Church Collection,
1909-1960.
1.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Dudley Dillard papers,
1948-1990.
93.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Geary Eppley,
1913-1995.
16.25 linear feet and 46 photographs.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of John E. Faber,
1928-1988.
1.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Morris Freedman,
1960-1971.
1.00 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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.
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Gahan Family Papers,
1905-2003.
1.00 linear foot and 55 items.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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."
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Papers of Robert Lamar Green,
1959-1976.
4.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Louis R. Harlan papers,
1944-2000.
72.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Susan Harman,
1914-1972.
4.25 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Isabella Hayes,
1941-1971.
17.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Laurence Heilprin papers,
1936-1992.
137.25 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Anne G. Ingram,
1977.
0.75 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Morley A. Jull,
1921-1959.
4.00 linear feet and 418 items.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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
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Papers of Frank J. Kerr,
1945-2000.
39.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Helmut E. Landsberg,
1906-1985.
20.25 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Lewis Lawson,
1963-1967.
0.50 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Romeo Mansueti,
1922-1963.
21.25 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Lawrence J. McCrank Collection,
various.
4.50 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Dorothy B. McKnight,
1969-2000.
1.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Jacob Elry Metzger,
1915-1938.
0.25 linear feet (1 bound vol.).
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Raymond E. Miller papers,
1950-2004.
64.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Elliott Montroll,
1936-1982.
9.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of William J. Murtagh,
1923-2004.
50.25 linear feet and 1155 items.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of John Bitting Smith Norton,
1895-1959.
0.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Harry J. Patterson,
1886-1945.
9 lin. in..
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of William S. Peterson,
1970s-1990s.
4.75 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Professor William Peterson has served the English Department at the University of Maryland from 1974 to the present. 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.
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Elmer Plischke papers,
1941-1974.
17.75 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of James Reveal,
1965-2000.
18.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Ben Shneiderman,
1968-2004.
105 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Mary S. Shorb,
1910-1971.
16.75 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Adele H. Stamp,
1922-1983.
13.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Francis C. Stark papers,
1936-2002.
5.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Orman E. Street,
1928-ca.1981.
0.25 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Thomas Baddeley Symons,
c.1910-1969.
9.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
These collections document the careers of many significant individuals who played key roles in the history of the University of Maryland, College Park, campus. Papers of faculty in English and American Studies are available in Literary Manuscripts. The papers of faculty and administrators serve to complement research resources available in the University Archives, also located in the Archives and Manuscripts Department.
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Papers of John S. Toll,
1943-1991.
27.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Reginald Truitt papers,
1919-1977.
0.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Joseph Weber,
1930-2000.
114.00 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Charles Edward White,
1925-1973.
9.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Richard White Collection,
1905-1920.
0.25 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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William G. Wilson papers,
1972-2006.
57.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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.
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Papers of Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods,
1878-1944.
3.50 linear feet.
Location: Historical Manuscripts
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
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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.