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November 29, 2012: the 100th Anniversary of the Great Fire
Thanksgiving Dance ends in fire; a modern University rises from the ashes. The University of Maryland remembers the events that occurred on this night, 100 years ago, permanently changing the course of its history. Follow “live” reporting of the #fire1912, starting tonight, @UMDArchives or University Archives at the University of Maryland Facebook! Read events […]
Featured Novelist from Special Collections: Gertrude Stein
NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – occurs annually every November. Each week this November, we wrote a post to celebrate the life of a novelist represented in the University of Maryland Special Collections. This is our last post for 2012, but we encourage any readers to continue their research of these fantastic writers–whether that […]
Searching UMD Libraries’ Digital Collections Using BASE
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), sponsored by the library of the University of Bielefeld in Germany, is an electronic index to more than 37 million digital objects in over 2300 repositories around the world, including over 15,000 items from UMD Libraries’ Digital Collections. BASE provides not only an alternative method of searching and browsing […]
The Great Fire of 1912
Reblogged from Terrapin Tales: Visit The Great Fire exhibit to learn more about the 1912 fire. Check out our #fire1912 blog all this week to learn about the fire and MAC student life in 1912. Watch out for live coverage of the fire on the night of the 29th! Read more… 100 more words
Thanksgiving subscription dance, 1912
Reblogged from Terrapin Tales: Visit The Great Fire exhibit to learn more about the 1912 fire. Read more… 111 more words
Featured Novelist from Special Collections: Jack Hoffenberg
Writing: “the most fun you can have with your clothes on.” –Jack Hoffenberg NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – occurs annually every November. Join us each week as we celebrate the life of a novelist represented in the University of Maryland Special Collections! This week’s novelist is Jack Hoffenberg. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, […]
Featured Novelist from Special Collections: Hope Mirrlees
NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – occurs annually every November. Join us each week as we celebrate the life of a novelist represented in the University of Maryland Special Collections! This week’s novelist is Hope Mirrlees. Her fiction includes Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, Lud-in-the-Mist, and Counterplot. Although printed copies of Mirrlees’s work are […]
William Morris as Poet Laureate?
With the publication of Earthly Paradise in 1870, William Morris became an acclaimed poet throughout England. After the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1892, Morris was reportedly in contention for the post of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. The works of Poet Laureates are recognized as having national significance, an honor bestowed by […]
In the papers of Bill Edwardsen . . .
Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture contains the papers of Bill Edwardsen. A first inventory of the papers recently revealed a wealth of photographs of pop culture figures. Bill Edwardsen, a disc jockey who worked from 1949 into the new millennium, loved the music and entertainment of his heyday. He had a personal collection […]
