University of Maryland
History
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This exhibit brings together traditions and many
other fun and unusual tales about our campus, from its founding
in 1856 as the Maryland Agricultural College (MAC) to the twenty-first
century.
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Maryland
History
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This exhibit highlights four themes in the
history of Maryland Agriculture with materials selected from
the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the University of
Maryland Libraries.
This electronic exhibit, previously on display
in the Maryland Room, features the work of four Maryland authors
from the hard-boiled school of crime/mystery writing.
An exhibition of Washington theater memorabilia
from the collection of noted theater historian Robert Headley.
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On May 27, 1986, the News American printed
its final issue ending a Baltimore newspaper dynasty that began
in 1773 with the Maryland Journal and the Baltimore
Advertiser. This exhibit highlights the approximately 1.5
million photographic images contained in the photo morgue of the
Baltimore News American newspaper.
Maryland has a distinguished position in the
annals of American typography. After Massachusetts, it was the
second colony to establish and sustain a printing press. The exhibit
shows a selection of items from the Maryland Collection illustrating
major developments in the typographical history of the state.
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World History
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This exhibit of selected Prange Collection photographs,
magazines, newspapers, documents, and books reflects the state
of Japan during the first four years of the Occupation. The exhibit
was initially displayed in Hornbake Library on the University
of Maryland, College Park campus, February 22 - May 24, 2002.
This exhibition showcases the extensive collections pertaining
to the French Revolution found in the Special Collections of the University
of Maryland Libraries.
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The Nuremberg Chronicle, more properly known
as the Liber Chronicarum, is a history of the world from
creation to its publication in 1493. This exhibit explores the
meaning and production of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
This exhibit is a sampling of the Ephemeral and
Graphic Materials in the World's Fair Collection owned by the Architecture
Library at the University of Maryland, College Park. The site contains
a virtual exhibition gallery for each international exhibition
in the collection from London's Great Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of All Nations in 1851 to the Expo '70in Osaka, Japan.
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Arts & Culture
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The history of piano playing is built from a
large and complex network of piano dynasties, a network that reflects
a wide variety of approaches to technique and interpretation.
Yale will be remembered by his colleagues as
a vivid presence, dedicated in equal measure to librarianship,
service, scholarship, and musicianship – and as a loyal friend
who touched numerous lives across the country.
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The English editor John Owen Ward (1919-2000)
is best known for his work at New York's Oxford University Press
and his oversight of The Oxford Companion to Music.
The Library of American Broadcasting at the University
of Maryland holds an assortment of archival collections pertaining
to women's contributions to American radio and television. This
exhibit offers a sampling of items drawn from those collections.
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