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Detailed Description of Collections
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- Architectural Documents: Unprocessed collections include drawings from the firms of Alexander Porter, Palmer & Lamdin, and Fisher Nes Campbell. Collections on the Baltimore City neighborhoods of Roland Park, Guilford, Homeland, the Orchards, and Original Northwood include , including architectural blueprints. Patrons may request copies of these blueprints for a fee. For more information about the collections, please see , have been listed. A fee is charged for copies of blueprints.
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/architect.htm. - Artifacts:
- Audiovisual Materials: Description here. See Television News Archives from Baltimore stations WJZ and WMAR. There is a fee for digitization of film and video and film footage is available for viewing only as it is digitized. The WJZ archive is currently being processed but information on the WMAR archive is now available.
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/wmar/table.htm - Books and Monographs: Link to the UB catalog here The University's Pullen Collection of rare books, the Society of Colonial Wars Collection,
the Magruder Library of American Clan Gregor Society, and publications in the Schafran Jazz Collection are found by searching:
location=Special Collections in the library catalog: http://catalog.umd.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=find-c&local_base=ub - Digital Collections: Description here. See: Some collections have been digitized in whole or in large part.
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/digital.htm - Digital Exhibits: See: Extensive documentary material was collected and made available for the University's 2008 conference Baltimore '68: Riots & Rebirth.
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/index.html - Government Documents: Description here. See Material accessioned from Baltimore City Planning, Baltimore Economic Development Commission (BEDCO), Baltimore Industrial Development Commission (BIDCO), Baltimore Urban Renewal & Housing Authority (BURHA) Commission on Government Efficiency & Economy, Criminal Justice Commission, Model Urban Neighborhood Demonstration Project, and from non-government organizations_._
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/urban.htm - Institutional Records: Description here. See The University Archives (note that all student records are held by the University Registrar).
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/ub_collection/table.htm - Maps: Description here. (pdf file)
- Microforms: Description here.
- Newspapers: Description here.
- Oral Histories: Description here. See The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project and other projects on various Baltimore neighborhoods, on Negro League professional baseball and on the 1968 Baltimore Riots.
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/oral.htm - Personal Papers: Description here.Photographs: Description here. See Politcal Figures such as Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., U.S. Congressmember
Helen Delich Bentley and State Senator Mary Watters Risteau;
literary figures such as Mary Owings Miller, Roderick Seidenberg, John Van Alstyn Weaver, and radio commentator Don Spatz; Social activists such as Judge Thomas Waxter and the Rev. Chester A. Wickwire.
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/photographspubfig.htm - Photographs,
- Printed Ephemera: Description here.,
- Prints and Drawings: Description here.Serials: Description here.,
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/photographs.htm - Serials
- Vertical File Material: Description here. See
see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/history.htm