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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0721
Abstract
The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City. The AP, as well as other news organizations covered the Great Strike Wave of 1945-1946, a series of massive post-war labor strikes spanning numerous industries and public utilities. The collection includes twenty-five original Associated Press black-and-white photographs. They are 7x9" photographic prints on glossy paper, with printed captions included on the back of most of the...
Dates:
1945 - 1946
Collection
Identifier: MS-0197
Scope and Contents
This collection represents the extant records of the AAU since its inception. Due to the decentralized nature of the organization in its early years, documentation of the early years is sparse. It is possible that the personal papers of the early AAU secretaries or the archives of their universities might have more of the early AAU records. The records (1900-82) consist of correspondence, membership files, committee minutes and reports, annual conference materials, and general...
Dates:
1900-1982
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0700
Abstract
August Mencken was an American civil engineer and author. He was the younger brother of Henry Louis Mencken, and the son of cigar magnate August Mencken, Sr. James Hall Bready was a Baltimore Evening Sun editorial writer for more than three decades and originator of the "Books and Authors" column that was published in The Baltimore Sun for nearly 50 years. This collection consists of 11 letters from August Mencken to James Bready, a columnist at The...
Dates:
1952-1961
Collection
Identifier: MS-0281
Abstract
Aurel Friedrich Wintner (8 April 1903 – 15 January 1958) was a mathematician noted for his research in mathematical analysis, number theory, differential equations and probability theory. The collection consists largely of Wintner's writings and reprints of his colleagues' work with materials spanning 1848 to 1961.
Dates:
1848 - 1961
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0016
Abstract
The Austin Conradi papers contain concert programs, school essays, newspaper clippings, correspondence, scores, and a photograph relating to the life and career of pianist Austin Conradi.
Dates:
1913 - 1971
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0892
Abstract
The scrapbook titled “Authors’ Book” is a cloth notebook containing 166 clippings of author portraits across eighty-three pages. Next to each portrait is a list of works, handwritten in pen or pencil. The creator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the contents suggest it was compiled primarily in the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century.
Dates:
late 1800s to early 1900s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0241
Abstract
Authors Junto was a group formed for the purpose of improving the skill of composition. Members were allowed to assume the names of American Revolutionary figures. Collection consists of an undated, printed, signed constitution for the association calling itself, "Authors Junto."
Dates:
undated
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-0854
Abstract
Promotional fliers from Baltimore area theaters created from approximately 1954 to 1963. There is currently no information available on the creator.
Dates:
approximately 1954-1963
Collection
Identifier: MS-0338
Abstract
Collection consists of minutes, financial records, membership lists, programs, reports, clippings, reports, published keepsakes, newsletters, and other material that document the history of the Baltimore Bibliophiles, 1954-1993.
Dates:
1954 - 1998
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0872
Abstract
The Baltimore Civil Rights History Project was primarily a project to record the oral histories of participants in the Baltimore civil rights movement. The project was overseen by Francois Furstenberg when he was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. The collection primarily features oral histories, recorded in 1999 and 2000, conducted with Baltimore civil rights movement participants. Interviews were conducted by Furstenberg and students in a course he taught. The collection also...
Dates:
1954-2000 (Bulk: 1999-2000); Majority of material found within 1999 - 2000
