University of Maryland
History
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Well-Dressed Book: Cloth binding in the United States, 1830-1920
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.
Nancy Drew and Friends
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.
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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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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