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- Architectural Documents
- Artifacts
- Audiovisual Materials
- Books and Monographs
- Digital Collections
- Digital Exhibits
- Exhibitions
- Government Documents
- Institutional Records
- Maps
- Microforms
- Musical Scores
- Newspapers: The Department is the depository for a complete run of the print holdings of the Baltimore Sun (1837-1968)and the Evening Sun (1910-1964). Additional newspaper holdings from other cities and states include the Mourat Collection of late 19th and early 20th century newspapers. An index to the titles and holdings is available. Special Collections maintains a growing Baltimore Sun Archives which includes photographs, negatives, transperencies, and archival collections documenting the Sun's history dating to 1837.
- Oral Histories: Interviews with many of UMBC's founding faculty and staff were conducted to commemerate the 30th and 40th anniversaries.
- Personal PapersPhotographs (website) : Persons of note include Baltimore City mayor and Maryland governor Ferdinand Latrobe, Baltimore Sun and Brody Winery founder Philip Wagner, local science fiction author Brian C. Daley, and the papers of the Stabler Family, upon whose land UMBC now resides.
- Photographs: Holdings include over 2 million images in print, negative, and digital format. Of local interest are the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore News-American holdings, images produced by the Hughes Company showing street scenes of Baltimore in the early 1900s, Lewis Hine prints of Maryland child laborers, Civil War photographs, the archives of local photographers Jim Amos, Jack Engeman and Richard Jacquish.
- Primary Resources
- Printed Ephemera
- Prints and Drawings
- Serials: Dating to the late 18th Century, the serials in the Arnold Collection include newsletters, reports, and government statistics.
- Vertical File Material