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Collection
Identifier: R0045-FRS
Scope and Contents
The Frank R. Shivers Research Papers contains much of the publication-related work from Shivers' career. Included in the collection is the compiled research and notes utilized in both his published and unpublished work. The local subject matter of these projects ranges from architecture, geography, and education to extensive research into the life and work of Baltimore writer and satirist, H. L. Mencken. Contents include personal notes and research, correspondence, maps and photographs,...
Dates:
1929-2012
Collection
Identifier: R0161-FEW
Abstract
Fred E. Weisgal was an active Baltimore civil rights attorney, Israeli government official, and jazz musician. Mr. Weisgal’s career began in Baltimore in the 1940s when he fought and won a suit to admit black students to the Maryland Institute art school. He then joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) where he continued to fight for civil rights. Weisgal represented a number of noteworthy civil rights cases during his career in Baltimore before emigrating to Israel. This collection...
Dates:
circa 1940-2008; Majority of material found within Bulk dates: 1940-1991
Collection
Identifier: R0043-FFB
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 63 letters written by Frederick "Fitz" Bachman between 1917 and 1920. Bachman was an American enlisted in the Canadian Forces during the First World War. Letters were sent by Bachman from Canada, Great Britain, and Iraq where he participated in the British Mesopotamia Campaign. The correspondence from Bachman was written to Mr. and Mrs. L. Waldman, Edward Bachman, Jule, and Frank. The collection also includes a souvenir ticket and official correspondence received...
Dates:
1917-1920
Collection
Identifier: R0044-FPN
Scope and Contents
The French Posters and Newspapers collections contains newspapers, broadsides, and clippings concerning the collapse of Louis Philippe's government in France, the subsequent but futile attempts by General Covaignac to crush the popular uprising, and the national elections of 1848 that precipitated the rise of the French monarchist Louis Napoleon to power.
Dates:
1848-1849
Collection
Identifier: R0190-FGL
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activity of The Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park group as an organization. The materials include documentation of administrative meetings/Board of Directors activity, environmental cleanup, nature conservancy, education, and community events. The collection features an array of photographic material in addition to textual documents.
Dates:
1969 - 2024
Collection
Identifier: R0185-WPD
Content Description
The collection documents local, grassroots, citizen stewardship of a pocket park in North Baltimore City known as the Wyman Park Dell. Types of records contained within the collection include planning and fundraising documents, meeting minutes, annual reports, grant applications, drawings and photographic renderings of the park, event files, and publicity materials.
Dates:
1987-2018
Collection
Identifier: R0151-GLCCB
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB) between 1979 and 2015. The bulk of the collection is a set of "Gay Life" newspapers dating from 1979 to 2014. The collection also includes GLCCB program files, GLCCB photographs and posters, Pride festival planning records and ephemera, artifacts from the former community center on Chase Street and The Hippo nightclub, and memorabilia from the...
Dates:
1979-2015
Collection
Identifier: R0049-GSR
Scope and Contents
The Giles Sutherland Rich Papers contains draft legislation, correspondence, and supporting documents dealing with design protection law. The papers were created between 1950 and 1987 and mainly relate to the period when Giles Rich headed the Coordinating Committee on Revision and Amendment of Patent Laws of the National Council of Patent Law Associations, after having come to prominence in the field through his work drafting a federal patent statute which took effect in 1953.
Dates:
1950-1987; Bulk dates: 1953-1977
Collection
Identifier: R0046-GBC
Scope and Contents
The Greater Baltimore Committee Records document the work of the organization between 1955 and 1972. Notably, the collection includes materials from the Poppleton Historic Survey, and the Subcommittee series includes materials related to projects including city planning, airport development, Charles Center and Inner Harbor projects, the Jones Falls Expressway development, and other urban renewal projects. Materials present in the collection include correspondence, subcommittee minutes and...
Dates:
1955-1972
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: R0047-GBHDC
Scope and Contents
The Greater Baltimore Housing Development Corporation Records contains records documenting rebuilding housing, urban renewal, housing construction and rehabilitation between 1965 and 1975. The collection includes records that focus on efforts to rebuild "slot housing" on Carey Street and apartment houses in Shipley Hill. Also included are records on housing construction on Fulton Avenue, rehabilitation of the Gay Street urban renewal area, and relocation housing for displaced African...
Dates:
1965-1975
