correspondence
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
Southeast Community Organization Records
Southeast Council Against the Road Records
Special Libraries Association, Records of the Maryland Chapter
Ten Hills Collection
Tenants Union Group Records
The Tenants Union Group Records collection documents the south Baltimore citizens' community group that protested unwarranted evictions and advocated for renters' needs and landlord repairs to properties. Materials include organizational records and meeting minutes, posters, a scrapbook, vacant house surveys, correspondence, rent control literature, and complaint sheets. Photographs and negatives are also present in the collection.
Thomas H. Ward Papers
The collection documents the life and career of Thomas H. Ward, a former Baltimore Circuit Court judge, Baltimore City Councilman, president of Mount Royal Democratic Club, and founder of the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells point. The collection includes materials related Urban Renewal in Baltimore and Ward's opposition to the proposed East-West Expressway in the 1960s.
Thomas J. D'Alesandro, Jr. Papers
Thomas J. S. Waxter, Jr. Papers
The Thomas J. S. Waxter, Jr. Papers include correspondence, files, reports, publications, and notes. The pre-1962 papers include professional correspondence, a social welfare book draft, anonymous history of Baltimore city hospitals, scrapbooks, tapes and transcripts, research note cards, and annual reports. Most of the papers after 1962 concern an unpublished draft of a biography of Waxter by David Bremner.
Urban Renewal Files
The Urban Renewal Files collection contains 2 boxes that include correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, community flyers and pamphlets, community organizing materials, and legislation related to the issue of urban renewal at the municipal, state, and national levels between 1960 and 1970. Urban renewal efforts and neighborhood preservation initiatives were prominant community concerns in Baltimore City throughout this time period.
Walter E. Black, Jr. Papers
The Walter E. Black, Jr. Papers consist primarily of records concerning Judge Black’s involvement as an officer of the Baltimore City Republican Party between 1949 and 1970. Materials are mainly textual and include correspondence, campaign brochures, buttons, bumper stickers, broadsides and literature, publications, financial records, minutes, speeches, and talks. Visual materials include photographs and maps.