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Maryland World War II records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2010
Abstract

The collection consists of materials compiled by the World War II Records Division of the Maryland Historical Society. These materials include civilian and military documents, 1910-1970.

Dates: 1910-1970; Majority of material found in 1939-1950

Memoirs of the U.S.S. Maryland

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2832
Abstract

This collection consists of the memoirs of the veterans of the U. S. S. Maryland. These memoirs were sent to Fred R. Vreeken to be compiled into a book on the navy battleship and also include photographs, newspaper clippings and navy memorabilia. Discussion in the memoirs focuses on the U. S. S. Maryland's activities during the peace time navy of the 1920s and 1930s, in the Pacific theatre during World War II and its decommission in 1946.

Dates: 1921-1946

O'Brien collection of Boone photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PP 0018
Abstract This collection contains photographs made or collected by R. Sanchez Boone, Jr., many documenting damage to the city of London, England from air raids during World War II. There are also portraits of R. Sanchez Boone, Jr. during service in the United States Army, and of other individuals including Boone's family. Other subjects are unidentified group portraits that appear to be military companies, and the Mt. Vernon area of Baltimore, Maryland, including an image of the Boone-Elder Company...
Dates: 1940-1985

Ogden C. Gordon World War II papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3068
Abstract

This collection consists of Ogden Gorman’s correspondence, military service records, ephemera and printed materials from his military service during World War II.

Dates: 1937-2003; Majority of material found within 1941-1945

Otto Stude manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3111
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and ephemera from the Stude family members, including German language correspondence and ephemera during the World Wars, business papers for the Otto Stude Grain Company in Baltimore, military records, postcards and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1863 - 1981

Penn-North oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH PN
Abstract The Penn-North oral history collection is a series of interviews revolving around the residential and retail experiences in the Penn-North neighborhood of Baltimore in the early to mid-1900s. The interviews cover a range of topics, including housing developement, employment opportunities, entertainment options, ethnic makeups, the civil rights movement, political activity, and rising crime. As interviewer Elaine Eff puts it in her interview with Umberto "Bert" Correlli and Alan Christian,...
Dates: 1985 June 13-1994 June 18

Robert Kniesche manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3129
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, certificates, awards, a scrapbook, and other materials related to Robert F. Kniesche. Robert Kniesche (1906-1976) was a longtime Baltimore Sun photographer

Dates: 1933 - 1974

Ruby Head scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3235
Abstract

This scrapbook was kept by Mrs. Ruby Mae Head in the summer of 1940 to document her trip from San Antonio, Texas to Baltimore, Maryland, so that her husband could report for duty at Fort Holabird. It includes postcards, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, photographs, and written commentary.

Dates: 1940 August-September

Secretaries in the 1940s oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH SEC
Abstract

This oral history collection contains interviews with ten women, between 1992-1994, who worked as secretaries in the 1940s. Their places of work included the Social Security Administration, law firms, the National Art Gallery, high schools, and hospitals, among others. The narrators discuss work and life during World War II, as well as what it was like to be a woman working in male-dominated professions.

Dates: 1992 September 8- 1994 March 2

Shriver-Foster family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2828
Abstract This collection contains correspondence, legal documents and business papers, travel itineries, and family memorabilia of the Shriver-Foster family. George M. Shriver and his son Charles Shriver worked for the B & O Railroad Company. Other family members served in the army and the navy during World War I and World War II and during the 1950s. The Shriver-Foster family lived in Baltimore City and in Garrison Forest. The collection also includes family information concerning schooling,...
Dates: 1764-1980

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Boone, Raphael Sanchez, 1909-1974 2
Harvey, Rose Lindsay Hopkins, 1897-1980 2
Holland, Marshall B., 1925-1956 2
Hopkins, Robert Dixon, 1847-1921 2
Saxmann, Elbert Kenneth, b. 1919 2
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Stewart, Kenneth Elsworth, 1907-1969 2
United States. Army (Form subdivision: Correspondence. General subdivision: Officers.) 2
American Artists' Congress 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Blakiston, George, Captain, 1874-1967 1
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 1
Canelos, Bill, circa 1926-1973 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Courtney, John A., Sr. 1
Dates, Carlton 1
Despeaux family 1
Foster, French Shriver, 1924-2014 1
Glenn L. Martin Company 1
Gorman, Ogden, 1921-1992 1
Hale, Emma Collenberg, 1913-2012 1
Hall, Chesley Roland, 1907-1947 1
Harnickell, Albert G. A., 1837-1887 1
Head, Ruby Mae, 1909-1985 1
Hess, Bradburn H. 1
Hoffman, Wayne Franklin, 1926-1981 1
Jewell, Donald Jackson, 1920-2015 1
Johnson, Adrienne Winn 1
Johnson, Clarence, 1918- 1
Kniesche, Robert, 1906-1976 1
Krause, Louis A. M., 1896-1975 1
Maryland (Battleship) 1
Maryland Historical Society 1
Maryland. War Records Commission 1
McCabe, Calvert C., Jr., 1913- 1
Mitchell family 1
Mitchell, James, 1905-1961 1
National Association of Art Directors (U.S.) 1
O'Brien, Ada Boone 1
Offutt, Nelson T., 1911-1978 1
Otto Stude Grain Company (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Parker, Jennette Carpenter 1
Radcliffe, George Lovic Pierce, 1877-1974 1
Rodda, Lawrence C., 1902-1989 1
Ruppert, John K., Sergeant 1
Shriver, Charles Mayer, 1893-1949 1
Shriver, George McLean, 1868-1942 1
Shriver, Ruth Lee French, 1893-1973 1
Stude, Helmuth Frederick, Lt. Col., 1911-1984 1
Stude, Otto Carl, 1909-2009 1
Stude, Otto, 1865-1956 1
United States. Air Force (General subdivision: Airmen.) 1
United States. Army (General subdivision: Infantry.) 1
United States. Army (General subdivision: Military life.) 1
Vreeken, Fred R. 1
Walkling, Treva, 1909-1997 1
Whelan, Howard J., Jr. 1
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 1
Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986 1
de Roth, Lydia Howard, 1891-1971 1
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