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University of Maryland History

Musical Milestone proudly celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University of Maryland Bands.

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.

 

The University of Maryland Class of 1960 celebrated their 50th reunion on campus during Homecoming Weekend, 2010.

The University of Maryland Class of 1959 celebrated their 50th reunion on campus during Homecoming Weekend, October 16-18, 2009. The images in this exhibit, commemorating the class and their four years at the university, were on display in the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center during the celebration.

Maryland History

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.

World History

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 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.

 

Arts & Culture

This exhibit explores the many facets of publishers’ cloth book bindings as cultural artifacts. Books as physical objects are significant reminders of popular tastes in the material culture of the 19th Century. An evolution in these tastes and the emergence of new styles over time are hallmarks of the cloth bindings on display.

To celebrate the 75th year of publishing of Nancy Drew books, the University of Maryland Libraries featured an exhibit on Girls' Series books in the Rose and Joseph Pagnani Collection. Although Nancy Drew is the star of the exhibit, other girls' series heroines such as Vicki Barr, Sue Barton, Judy Bolton, and the Dana Girls are also included.

Great Pianistic Traditions in the IPAM Collections

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.

Remembering Yale Fineman

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.

 

This exhibit celebrates the publication of At the Barriers (University of Chicago Press, July 2009), the first book-length collection of essays about British-born poet Thom Gunn (1929-2004).

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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