Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
Oral History Collections
OH 8201-8250
OH. 8201 WILLIE JUANITA LEIGH
(fl. 1968-77)
Beauty shop proprietor.
Life in the South on a
farm and the move to Baltimore; church life in
the South and in Baltimore; incidents during
the 1968 riots. Donated by
Towson State University.
Interviewer: Virginia
Hudnall 1977
18 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8202 ANTHONY RAPTIS (1895
Immigrant from Greece
in 191 1.
His arrival and work in
New York-, restaurants in Chester, Pennsylvania
and Wilmington, Delaware; florist shop in
Baltimore; the Annunciation
Cathedral; aid given to his family-, being
a Greek immigrant. Donated by
Towson State University.
Interviewer: Georgette
Diacumakos 1977
18 pp. 1 hour, 15"
Supplementary material:
testimonial letters
OH. 8203 WILMER ARTHUR DEHUFF (1888 1976)
Principal of the Baltimore
Polytechnic, 1921-58.
Family; early life and
education; origin of student government at the
institute; original and later buildings;
integration in 1953, student Billy
King and Poly desegregation;
position as provost and acting president of
the University of Baltimore,
1958- 7 1.
Interviewer: Francis Colletta
1972
3 pp. 1 hour
Supplementary material:
clippings from the Baltimore Sun and Balti-
more Public Schools staff
newsletter.
OH. 8204 AMELIA ANNA SCHMIDT
KERN (fl. 1920-72)
Daughter of a Baltimore
seafood dealer.
Picking crab meat; customers;
transport; delivery; credit systems; Ger-
mans in Baltimore; recreation
in the 1920s and 1930s.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman
1972
6 pp. 30 minutes
OH. 8205 CARL MORGENSTERN
(A. 1974)
Resident of Woodlawn,
Maryland from 1914.
Life in Woodlawn; schools;
street cars; the drugstore; amusements; fire
and traffic control; the
Social Security building. Done for class assignment
at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County.
Interviewer.- Timothy
M. Gary 1974
16 pp. 45 minutes
OH.8206 CHARLES WILHELM
(1898- )
Farmer for forty-eight
years near Parkston, Baltimore County.
Boyhood in Freeland, Maryland;
lumber tallier in Kermarock, Virginia
in 1921; depression living;
his first car in 1931; present-day farming
compared to his earlier
experiences; the unsuccessful efforts of the Ku
Klux Klan about 1930.
Done for class assignment at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County.
Interviewer.-Joseph Zbozien
1974
29 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8207 REV. FREDERICK
HANNA (1924-
Episcopal minister and
active social reformer in Baltimore; director of
the Church Crisis Center;
chairman of the Baltimore Commission on Drug
Abuse; assistant rector
of the Emmanuel Church.
Work in the inner city
with drug abuse and social problems during the
1960s. Done for class
assignment at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County.
Interviewer: Kim Worthley
1974
21 pp. 4 hours
OH.8208 GEORGE MCLEAN
SHRIVER,JR.(1901- )
A member of the Shriver
family involved with the Shriver Homestead
in Union Mills, Maryland.
Process of turning the
Shriver home into an historical site; some of the
history of the house;
his own personal experiences. Done for class assign-
ment at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Interviewer.- Janice Hawkins
1974
25 pp. 2 hours
Supplementary material:
article on the Shriver Homestead from Amer-
ican History Illustrated (July
1968) by Robert H. Fowler, 8 pp.; Union Mills
sightseeing brochures; descriptions of the furnishings
in five rooms of the
Homestead.
OH-8209 CLARENCEM.MITCHELL,JR.(1911-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Director of the Washington bureau
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People beginning in 1950
and the son-in-law of
Dr. Lillie May Jackson.
His childhood; a lynching in Princess
Anne, Maryland in 1933; the
Scottsboro trial; segregation practices during
his stay in Minnesota as
executive secretary of the Urban League during
the Depression years; the
principle of separate but equal; Dr. Jackson's
strengths and weaknesses;
the role of Jews, white Christian liberals and
the churches in the civil
rights movement; blacks in unions; black professional
leaders in Baltimore.
Interviewer- Charles Wagandt 1977
48 pp. 1 hour, 30"
OH.8210 WILLIAML.("WILLIE") ADAMS(fl.1950-77)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Black business and community leader.
Desegregation of golf courses; strength
of the Urban League; his early
business career; segregated taverns; Baltimore
elections from the 1950s to
the 1970s; black political candidates; loans for
black businesses; riots of
1966 and 1968.
Interviewer: Charles Wagandt 1977
69 pp. 2 hours
OH.8211 BOWEN KIEFFER JACKSON(1923-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Only son of Lillie May Jackson.
Jackson family life; his father; relationship
between Lillie May Jackson
and Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin; attitude of Lillie
May Jackson to black
militants and violence; Lillie May Jackson's religious
convictions.
Interviewer: Richard Richardson
1977
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8212 NANCY ANN KRIEGER (fl. 1976)
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Research paper (36 pages) on Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin and civil
rights in Maryland. Utilizes seven oral history
interviews, newspaper
articles, and other sources. Prepared for class
at Goucher College in 1976.
Donated to the McKeldin-Jackson Project by Krieger.
OH. 8213 GOV. THEODORE R. MCKELDIN-DR. LILLIE
MAY
JACKSON PROJECT
Description and suggestions for use
of a collection of interviews gathered
in 1976-77 on the subject of the civil rights
activities of Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin and Dr. Lillie May Jackson in the period
of 1935-1970.
Contains background of project, lists interviewees,
chronology, aids to use,
final grant report, biographies of interviewers.
Project supported by a
grant from the Maryland Committee for the
Humanities and Public
Policy.
OH. 8214 STANLEY R. NIELD (1928-
Hunter when visiting the Green
Ridge area of Maryland.
Galliher property on both sides
of the Potomac River; the Kasecamp,
Higgins, Van, and Sypold families; anecdote
about the last workers on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Done for class
assignment at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Interviewer: Joseph Scholz
1974
6 pp. 15 minutes
OH. 8215 THEODORE R. MCKELDIN (1900-74)
Governor of Maryland, 1951-59;
mayor of Baltimore, 1943-47 and
1963-67.
His early life; primary election
votes; airplanes and aircraft plants in
Dundalk, Maryland.
Interviewer: Ben Womer 1973
45 minutes
OH.8216 BEN WOMER(1910-
Retired steel-worker and community
historian.
Company store at Sparrows Point;
early Sparrows Point disasters;
Fourth of July celebrations in the early
1920s.
Interviewer: Ben Womer 1973
25 minutes
OH. 8217 RUTH VAN HULSTEYN (1905-
Baltimore Symphony Series, 1977
One of the first women members
of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
History and development of the
orchestra; position of a woman musi-
clan; conductors Reginald Stewart, Herman
Peter Adler, Serglu Commis-
siona; orchestra trips.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinsky
1977
2 pp. 40 minutes
OH.8218 WILLIAM L. MARBURY (1901-
Baltimore Symphony Series, 1977
Supporter and committee member
of the Baltimore Symphony Orches-
tra.
History, development, and finances
of the orchestra.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinsky
1977
2 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8219 SARAH FELDMAN (1907-
Baltimore Symphony Series, 1977
First woman member of the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra.
History and development of the
orchestra and the position of a woman
musician.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinsky
1977
2 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8220 DR. LUBOV KEEFER (1896-
Baltimore Symphony Series, 1977
Founding member of the Women's
Committee of the Baltimore Sym-
phony Orchestra and longtime board member and
supporter of the
orchestra.
Early days of the orchestra;
various conductors; position of women as
orchestra players; relationship of the Baltimore
Symphony to symphonies
in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.
Interviewer: Alfred Kolinsky
1977
3 pp. 1 hour, 5"
OH.8221 ROBERT PRESTON ("ROBIN")HARRISS(fl.1926-78)
Baltimore Symphony Series, 1977
Music critic of the Baltimore
Sun and News American.
Symphony leadership from about
1926; Frederick Huber; Gustav
Strube; Reginald Stewart; Herman Peter Adler;
Massimo Freccia; a
bomb threat during an Adler concert; Judge Charles
Harris as a music
critic during the Depression; his own feelings
about the future of the
Baltimore Symphony; outdoor concerts; plans for
the new Symphony
Hall.
Interviewer: Alfred Kohnsky
1977
1 p. 50 minutes
OH.8222 FRANCISM.CICALA(1919-
Son-in-law of Isodoro Finocchiaro,
a Sicilian immigrant who became
the caretaker of a large estate near Wilmington,
Delaware.
The estate gardens; the greenhouses;
family history; other immigrants;
social contact in Wilmington and Philadelphia.
Donated by Towson State
University.
Interviewer: Vera Finocchiara
Cavey 1977
13 pp. 1 hour
OH.8223 LESLIE CHIN (1923- )
Immigrant from China to Baltimore
at about the age of ten.
His youth in China; difficulties
of entering the United States; "paper
sons"; growing up and education in Baltimore;
comparison between life
in China and the United States. Donated by Towson
State University.
Interviewer: Stephen S. Knipp
1977
16 pp. 1 hour
OH.8224 MARIONLEACH(MRS.BENJAMINCRIPPS)(1906-
)
Baltimore native who lived in
the General German Orphan Home,
1909-25.
Circumstances of her childhood
in the home-clothes, food, discipline,
schooling, work. Donated by Towson State University.
Interviewer: Alma T. Cripps
1977
41 pp. 1 hour, 10"
OH.8225 JOHANNELTERMANN(1892- )
Organist, choirmaster, voice
teacher, conductor.
German choral societies in Baltimore,
past and present; the Arion
Maennerchor; the Deutscher Damenchor; the
Kinderchor; German festi-
vals; National Sangerfest of 1903 at the
Fifth Regiment Armory; German
theater; operettas and oratorio concerts;
concert of the National Associa-
tion of Glee Clubs at the New York's World
Fair in 1964; reasons for the
decline in the number of choral groups.
Donated by Towson State
University.
Interviewer: M. Catherine
Coble 1977
23 pp. 1 hour, 5"
OH. 8226 DR. IAIN WILSON (1912-
Minister of the Brown
Memorial Presbyterian Church and the Franklin
Street Presbyterian Church, 1954-63, and
a Scottish immigrant.
Childhood in Manchester,
England; first congregations in Ireland and
Scotland; experience with the World Council
of Churches until 1948;
reaction to living in a small North Carolina
college town; comparison of
the role of the church in Scotland and in
the United States. Donated by
Towson State University.
Interviewer: Gail Haldeman
1977
22 pp. 40 minutes
Supplementary Materials:
"In That Day-Sermon Text and Exegetical
Notes on Isaiah 19:23-25," Interpretation
21 (January 1967): 67-86; Notes on
the Supreme Court and the Establishment
of Religion (Baltimore: Franklin Street
Presbyterian Church [July 1, 1962]), 16
pp. Includes observations on
Supreme Court's decision on prayer in New
York public schools; "Politics
and the Gospel," a sermon, the Franklin
Street Presbyterian Church,
Baltimore, Maryland, May 1, 1955. The Congressional
Record, proceedings
and debates of the 84th Congress, Ist session,
Tuesday, May 17, 1955. 4 pp.
OH. 8227 RABBI JACOB B. AGUS (I 91 1 -
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Beth El Congregation.
Leader in interfaith activities as a writer, teacher,
and lecturer.
Methods to achieve interfaith
understanding and probable end results;
significant Jewish and Christian theologians.
Interviewer-donor.- Lenora
Nast 1974
2 pp. 30 minutes
May be used only with
the permission of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8228 MARION C. BASCOM (1922-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Pastor of the Douglas
Community Church.
Priests, rabbis, and ministers
who worked with him on civil rights and
the Gwynn Oak demonstrations in 1963; pessimism
on black unemploy-
ment in Baltimore and the influence of the
media; the importance of
strong leadership.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora
Nast 1974
45 minutes
May be used only with
the permission of Dr. Lenora Nast
OH. 8229 OSCAR BONNEY (fl. 1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Executive secretary of the Religious
Society of Friends and chairman of
the Ecumenical Committee for Maryland Churches
United.
The Quakers' impartiality in
worldwide social services to all people; the
1970s as a period of withdrawal from intense interfaith
activity; the
comparative importance of laity and clergy.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
1 hour
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8230 JAMES H. CAIN (A. 1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
President of the Baltimore Clergy
Brotherhood.
Current efforts to set up a
tele-ministry; causes for modern move to
ecumenism; potential for Jewish-Christian dialogue;
positive and also
dangerous results to be expected from interfaith
activities; influence of
Oriental religions; effect of the media on interfaith
understanding.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
3 pp. 45 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8231 FATHER JOSEPH CONNOLLY (fl. 1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Catholic co-chairman of the
Clergymen's Interfaith Committee on
Human Rights.
Morgan Christian Council; Brotherhood
Week; interfaith cooperation
in meeting the social problems of the Depression;
the first dialogue groups;
television shows-"Pastor's Study" and "To Promote
Good Will"; Com-
mission for Christian Unity established in 1962;
Commission on Ecumen-
ical and Interreligious Affairs (Unity Commission);
problems of joint
worship; future of ecumenism, search for leadership;
uses of the media in
the future.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
5 pp. 1 hour, 40"
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8232 REV. ELLSWORTH BUNCE (fl. 1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Executive director of the Maryland
Churches United.
Ways in which the clergy joined
forces informally to respond to social
needs; the Gwynn Oak Park demonstration; his experiences
at Baltimore
City College; Viet Nam protests; value of the
dialogue groups of the 1960s.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
2 pp. 1 hour
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8233 FATHER JOHN CRONIN (fl.1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Employed at the United States
Catholic Conference in Washington,
D.C. for twenty-nine years and worked for
the passage of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 in cooperation with Jewish and
Protestant groups; became
chairman of Baltimore's Project Equality,
an organization which worked
towards openingjobs to blacks.
National church efforts toward
civil rights; Vatican 11 and interfaith
activities; successful methods for promoting
interfaith dialogue.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
2 pp. 25 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8234 HUGH DICKINSON (fl. 1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Executive coordinator of the
Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Balti-
more.
Origins, current composition
and activities of ICMB; the Open Housing
Bill; Project Equality (unemployment); the
Madison Square Housing
Pr 'ect; Ecumedia; City-Suburban Tensions
Forum; Community Correc-
tions Houses; comparison of support received
from blacks and Jews;
differing functions and capabilities of
the Council of Churches.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
40 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8235 FATHER JOSEPH GALLAGHER (1929-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Editor of The Catholic Review,
1959-66.
The establishment of the Commission
for Christian Unity in 1962 and
the people involved; Lawrence Cardinal Shehan
at Vatican Council 11;
comparative moves toward Christian unity
in Germany, Austria, and
Italy; reasons for move toward ecumenism
in the 1960s.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
1 hour
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8236 MS G R. MARTIN GAMBER
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Office of the Clergy Brotherhood
of Baltimore.
Purpose, membership and activities
of the brotherhood; potential lead-
ership; effect of economic conditions; latent
period of the 1970s for
interfaith activities.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
2 pp. 40 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8237 CLINTON C. GLENN
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Minister of the Brown Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
Differences between the ecumenical
activism of the 1960s and the
change after 1970; previous ministers-Dr.
Guthrie Speers, the Rev. John
Middaugh, and Dr. lain Wilson; methods and results
of interfaith activi-
ties; the role of the media and the laity.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
2 pp. 55 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8238 DAVID GLENN(1925-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Social worker, state government
administrator, and assistant secretary
of the State Department of Human Resources beginning
in 1973.
Civil rights activities in which
the clergy participated on an interfaith
basis; ten-year fight for passage of the Baltimore
Civil Rights Bill of 1964;
the steering committee of the Baltimore Community
Relations Commis-
sion; presence of the clergy during the riots
of 1968 and at demonstrations.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1975
2 pp. 40 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8239 ROBERT HILLER (fl. 1974)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Director of Associated Jewish
Charities.
Description of the organization
as pragmatic, with every decision gov-
erned by "meeting human needs"; the development
of cooperation among
social service agencies in Baltimore since the
Depression; the Northwest
Baltimore Corporation.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1975
1 p. 35 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8240 DR. LOUIS KAPLAN (fl. 1940-74)
Baltimore Interfaith Series
President of the Baltimore Hebrew
College.
Personal philosophy of man's
origin and spiritual growth; dialogue
among the three major faiths; most effective methods
of interfaith action;
uses of the media.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
1 p. 40 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH-8241 FATHER CASIMIR PUGEVICIUS(1928-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Director of the Office of Radio
and Television for the Archdiocese of
Baltimore.
Origin of the Office of Radio
and Television; early part-time directors;
John Paul Davidson; "To Promote Good Will" and
other programs;
advantages of religious programming for radio
and television.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
2 pp. 50 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8242 FATHER BRIAN RAFFERTY(1937-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Director of the Commission
for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs.
The origin of the commission
in 1962; definition of ecumenism; current
activities; the Towson State University
School of Theology; the value of
personal friendship among clergymen of different
faiths; the possibility of
using television and radio to promote interfaith
understanding.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora
Nast 1976
2 pp. 50 minutes
May be used only with
the permission of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8243 LAWRENCE CARDINAL SHEHAN (1898-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Archbishop of Baltimore,
1962-74.
Interfaith activities
in the Baltimore Archdiocese area; relations between
Catholics and Jews; James Cardinal Gibbons;
the Secretariat for Christian
Unity.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora
Nast 1974
1 P. 20 minutes
May be used only with
the permission of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8244 RABBI ABRAHAM SHUSTERMAN (1906
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Rabbi of the Har Sinai
Congregation.
His participation in the
Clergy Brotherhood of Baltimore; the Baltimore
County Commission on Human Relations after
the Gwynn Park demon-
strations; "To Promote Good Will" television
program; open housing
demonstration at the War Memorial; memorial
programs at Loyola
College and Hopkins Place after the assassinations
of Jewish athletes at
Munich in 1972; the Interfaith baseball
game; the Interfaith Council of
Metropolitan Baltimore; personal background;
support of interfaith activ-
ities by the wealthy; methods and potential
end results; prospects for
leadership; causes for the slow period of
the 1970s; role of the media in
interfaith activities.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora
Nast 1974
6 pp. 1974
May be used only with
the permission of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8245 REV.ASBURY SMITH (1902-
Baltimore'Interfaith Series
Worker in inter-racial
and pro-peace activities, 1930-55.
Significant Jewish co-workers
in the 1930s; Young Ministers' Associa-
tion; Maryland State Commission on Inter-racial
Affairs; the fight against
Maryland's "Jim Crow" laws; the influence
of the clergy as a molder of
public opinion; possibilities for interfaith
dialogue; the role of the mass
media; fundamentalism; orthodoxy; politics.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora
Nast 1975
3 pp. 1 hour
May be used only with
permission of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8246 DR.T.GUTHRIES PEERS (1890-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Pastor of the Brown Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
Rabbi Morris Lazeron; Rabbi
Edward Israel; Rabbi Abraham Shuster-
man; the means to promote interfaith understanding.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
2 pp. 20 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH.8247 MS G R. FRANCIS STAFFORD(1932-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Director of the Associated Catholic
Charities.
The work of the Associated Catholic
Charities; the successful coopera-
tion in 1969 with the United Fund of Central Maryland
and further
activities by the Catholics; the Associated Jewish
Charities; the Commu-
nity Chest and Red Cross; the work of the Interfaith
Committee on Social
Welfare; the Maryland Food Committee; "Kids in
Need"; the Center for
Metropolitan Research and Planning at the Johns
Hopkins University;
the St. Ambrose Housing Association community;
interfaith meetings on
criminal justice; possibilities of dialogue; fundamentalism;
orthodoxy; the
influence of politics as they relate to interfaith
activities.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
3 pp. 1 hour, 10"
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8248 ALFRED B. STARRETT (1914-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Pastor of the Emmanuel Lutheran
Church. Active in social work and
civil rights activities.
Interfaith dialogue groups;
theology as a deterrent to interfaith under-
standing; the differences between Christianity
and some Oriental religions.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
1 p. 35 minutes
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8249 F. NORMAN VAN BRUNT (1916-
Baltimore Interfaith Series
Pastor of the Grace Methodist
Church. Active in ecumenical and
interfaith activities in Hagerstown and Baltimore.
Techniques and potential value
of dialogue; leadership by the clergy;
use of the media; grass roots leadership; effect
of fundamentalism and
orthodoxy; politics and the lessening of interfaith
activities in the 1970s.
Interviewer-donor: Lenora Nast
1974
4 pp. 1 hour, 10"
May be used only with the permission
of Dr. Lenora Nast.
OH. 8250 WILLIAM MEDDARS(1873-1959)
Storekeeper at Still Pond, Maryland.
His first employment at the
Harper's Store at Still Pond in 1888 at fifty
dollars a year; employment in 1889 at Daniel Holliday's
wholesale dry
goods business in Baltimore; his return to Still
Pond in 1894 and subse-
quent ownership of a store there; fluctuations
of cotton and linen prices
during World War I and the Depression.
Interviewer: Jan Krebs 1956
1 P. 45 minutes
OH.8251 CLINTONP.PITTS(1914-
Former Master of the Fox Hound.
Background of foxhunting in
America; Maryland hunts; the interrela-
tionship of the fox, hound, horse, and hunter
and the necessary functions
of each; night hunting; the Hunt Ball and other
social aspects.
Interviewer: Alfred Kalinsky
1977
1 p. 40 minutes
OH. 8252 JAMES P. WALSH (1890- )
Son of John Walsh, business
manager for Henry Walters.
Details of the Baltimore fire
of 1904; the W. T. Walters firm; living at
the Walters' estate, "Saint Mary's"; opening the
house to the Poor
Association.
Interviewer: William Johnston
1975
3 pp., no tape
OH.8253 THOMASB.D'ALESANDRO,JR.(1903-
Mayor of Baltimore, 1947-59.
Ten-minute remarks regarding
the inauguration of taping program by
Maryland Committee on Tape-Recording under the
direction of Gerson
Eisenberg. Donated by Mrs. Gerson Eisenberg.
Interviewer: Gerson Eisenberg
1956
No abstract or transcript 10 minutes
OH. 8254 J. ROBERT SHERWOOD (1904- )
President, Suburban Trust Company,
Hyattsville, Maryland, 1957-74.
Family background and first
employment at the bank before 1926;
growth of the bank; low interest rates of the
1920s; depression period of
the 1930s; change to trust company; choosing community
leaders for
trustees; services to the community during World
War 11; 1951 merger
with Prince George's County Bank and Trust Company
and Montgomery
Suburban National into Suburban Trust Company;
T. Howard Duckett;
James Ray; Perry Boswell; Thaddeus Jones; William
Bowie; Arthur
Kieffer; Fred Lutes; Benjamin C. Shaw; innovations
during this period;
bank insurance; use of computers; variety of accounts;
bank credit cards;
setting up Suburban Bancorporation; a holding
company; many mergers.
Interviewer: Randy Beehler 1978
10 pp. 2 hours, 25"
OH.8255 EDITH CLAUDE JARVIS (1902- )
Great-great granddaughter of
Francis Scott Key; family was first per-
manent resident of Chevy Chase Village, Maryland.
Formation of the Society of
the Descendants of Francis Scott Key by
Arthur Brice in 1963 and its present inactive
state; the file of descendants
started in 1966 when nuclear submarine Franci's
Scott Key was christened;
the christening ceremony; some early history
of Chevy Chase Village and
of her father, Herbert Claude; her own career
as owner of the Jarvis
School and as founder of the Francis Scott
Key Bookshop in Georgetown,
D.C.
Interviewer: Betty McK. Key
1978
4 pp. 1 hour, 20"
Supplementary material: three
photographs taken at time submarine
was christened, 1966; copy of the letter
to Mrs. Jarvis from Admiral
Hyman G. Rickover on the writing of the
"Star-Spangled Banner";
newspaper clippings on Francis Scott Key's
200th birthday.
OH.8256 ROBERTT.ROBINSON,SR.(1901- )
Thirty-year resident and maintenance
man of Oella, Maryland.
Water supply; lack of sewer
facilities; rental problems; tenant problems,
his own house in Oella, a former milltown
located across the Patapsco
River from Ellicott City.
Interviewer: Nell Phelps 1978
26 pp. 1 hour, 30"
Supplementary material: published
list of points of interest in Oella.
OH. 8257 CHARLES C. STIEFF 11 (1922- )
Grandson of Charles C. Stieff
I and current executive vice-president of
the Stieff Silver Company.
Family background; the Stieff
Piano Company and origin of the silver
company in 1892; present family members
and people associated with the
company: Claire Von Marees Stieff; Jose
Barata-Ferrara; Ronald Pierson;
company practices; listing of silver and
pewter reproductions made for
Colonial Williamsburg, Sturbridge Village,
Smithsonian Institution, Bos-
ton Museum of Fine Arts.
Interviewer: Jean Porter
1978
4 pp. 1 hour, 20"
Supplementary material: Stieff
silver marks, 1892-1974; one-page his-
tory of Stieff Silver Company from company
brochure.
OH. 8258 JANET MANN (1886- )
Lifelong resident of Baltimore;
father was owner of Hamilton, Peat and
Mann marble company and Beaver Dam quarry,
and head of St. Andrew's
Society.
Working with Greeks and immigrant
children at Port Mission in the
1920s and 1930s; William Crouk and Stinchcombe
families; Rezin Ham-
mond; Dr. John Goucher; Edna Mann Marine
Torch Company; Eugene
Levering,- Gustavus Ober; Lizette Woodworth
Reese; growing up in the
"Gay Nineties."
Interviewer: Anne Gartland
1978
58 pp. 1 hour
OH.8259 FRANCES MORTON FROELICHER (MRS.HANS,JR.,
1912- )
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Executive director of the Citizens
Planning and Housing Association,
1945-69.
Relationship between Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin and his closest
advisors-Judge Thomas Waxter, Judge Simon Sobeloff
and Hans Froe-
licher, Jr.; fight for improvement in the Housing
Authority and influences
of these three men on Governor McKeldin; Ewell
Dillehunt; Mrs. Henry
E. Corner; Willie Curran; Jack Pollack; Dr. Don
Frank Fenn; Furman
Templeton; Pleasanton Conquest; James Rouse; Charles
Atwater; pres-
sures on McKeldin by the real estate group, the
business community and
the Democratic party; Samuel Hopkins and Effective
Citizens Committee;
origin of the Baltimore Housing Court; choice
of location for the State
Office Building in Mt. Royal area; formation of
the Mt. Royal-Fremont
Renewal area.
Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1977
29 pp. 1 hour
OH.8260 FRANCES MORTON FROELICHER(MRS.HANS,JR.,
1912- )
Executive director of the Citizens
Planning and Housing Association,
1945-69.
People and events in Baltimore civil
rights history; development of
Citizens Planning and Housing Association and
its emphasis from the first
on bi-racial activity and how this was done; importance
of CPHA as a
training phase for future activists in civic affairs;
the Urban League as
another effective biracial organization; CPHA's
bi-racial school program;
Furman Templeton; Ross Sanderson; Edward S. Lewis;
Judge Thomas
Waxter; John Scharf; Warren Buckler; Kitty Barnett
(Mrs. C. W. Bar-
nett); Viola Jackson (Mrs. Kelly Jackson); Hans
Froelicher; Mayor Wil-
liam Donald Schaefer; concern about current lack
of easy contact between
blacks and whites.
Interviewer.- Betty McKey 1978
8 pp. 2 hours
OH.8261 CAPTAINJOHNJAMESANDERSON(1902- )
Ship's officer in Atlantic coastwise
shipping, 1918-40; Lend Lease ship
delivery during World War 11; Maryland Bay pilot,
1948-72.
Coast-wise shipping; port, navigation
problems, shipping lines, ships'
officers; Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company; Eastern Steam-
ship Company; Taylor and Anderson Tugboat Company;
voyages to
England during World War 11 delivering Lend-Lease
ships built in
Baltimore; Baltimore as immigration port; cooperation
between German
steamship lines and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad;
illegal immigration
from Puerto Rico; comparison of various types
of cargo-cement, chrome,
manganese, lumber on deck, oil, containers; comparison
of reciprocating
and turbine engines, Diesel and steam engines;
details of the history,
training, fees and a typical assignment in the
Maryland Bay Pilots'
Association.
Interviewer: W. M. Peel 1978-79
49 pp. 8 hours
Supplementary material: copies
of pictures of officers of six Merchants
and Miners Transportation Company ships, with
identifications (1921-
22); lists of apprentice pilots (1867-1957) from
annals of the Maryland
Association of Pilots, and members who have died
(1886-1960); five copies
of Captain Anderson's maritime license, 1921-30.
OH. 8262 SAMMAH MONDEH (fl. 1977)
Graduate student at Morgan State
University, 1977; native of Sierra
Leone, West Africa.
African and American school
experience; family disinterest in educa-
tion; polygamy; caste system in Africa; Peace
Corps volunteers; reasons
for choosing Morgan State University and Baltimore
when awarded a
scholarship and satisfaction with that choice;
experiences since arrival
here. Donated by Towson State University.
Interviewer.- Nadja N. Beverly
1977
25 pp. 1 hour
OH.8263 ROBERT J. BEACHAM(1904-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of series of interviews
with patrons of the Waxter Center for Senior
Citizens in preparation of video tape named above.
Boyhood during World War 1;
living near Fort Holabird; Alum Chine
explosion; pre-German sentiment at beginning of
the war; war bond sales
by Merchants' and Manufacturer's Association.
Interviewer-donor.- Marie Lehnert
1978
10 pp. 15 minutes
OH. 8264 ISABELLE BEACHAM (1909- )
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of a series of interviews
with patrons of the Waxter Center for
Senior Citizens in preparation of video tape named
above.
Her life as a child in Lisbon,
Maryland, during World War I.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
11 pp. 15 minutes
OH. 8265 MARGARET CROMWELL (1897-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of a series of interviews
with patrons from the Waxter Center for
Senior Citizens in preparation of video tape named
above. Chief clerk at
Baltimore Draft Board Number Twelve during World
War I.
War bond rallies at Lyric Theatre;
American opinion about entering
World War 1; Alice Fowler and her work as
a medical artist at Fort
McKenry Hospital.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
20 pp. 55 minutes
OH. 8266 ELEANOR EVANS (1897-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of a series of interviews
with patrons of the Waxter Center for
Senior Citizens in preparation of video
tape named above.
Work at the Draft Board Office
and U. S. Bond Office during World
War 1.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
8 pp. 15 minutes
OH. 8267 JANIE JACKSON (I 899-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of a series of interviews
with patrons from the Waxter Center for
Senior Citizens in preparation of video
tape named above. Retired house-
hold worker.
Her childhood during World War
I on a farm in North Carolina;
religious and social life; importance of
education; severity of flu epidemic
of 1918.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
17 pp. 25 minutes
OH.8268 NOLL JOHNSTONE(1905-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of a series of interviews
with patrons from the Waxter Center for
Senior Citizens in preparation of video
tape named above.
Childhood memories of living
near Camp Meade during World War 1;
games; toys; short movie reels in ice cream
parlors; first automobiles; his
music collection of 1914-20 period; post
card collection; food prices and
shortages during World War 1; War Savings
Thrift Stamps.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
20 pp. 45 minutes
OH. 8269 JOSEPH KANTER (1895- )
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
One of a series of interviews
with patrons from the Waxter Center for
Senior Citizens in preparation of video
tape named above.
Experiences as a soldier in
313th Infantry in World War 1; service at
Fort Meade, Maryland; the flu epidemic of
1918; James Cardinal Gibbons;
President Theodore Roosevelt.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
15 pp. 30 minutes
OH. 8270 PHILIP MEYERS (1894-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
Officer in 319th Infantry of
80th Division, World War 1. One of a series
of interviews with patrons of the Waxter
Center for Senior Citizens in
preparation of video tape named above.
German prisoners-of-war in France;
flu epidemic of 1918.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
12 pp. 20 minutes
OH. 8271 MABEL K. O'DONNELL (1894- )
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
Navy Yeomanette in World War
1. One of a series of interviews with
patrons of the Waxter Center for Senior Citizens
in preparation of video
tape named above.
Service in Washington, D.C.,
1917; President Woodrow Wilson.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
10 pp. 30 minutes
OH.8272 FLORENCEGREEN(1911- )
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
Retired officer and factory
worker. One of a series of interviews with
patrons from the Waxter Center for Senior Citizens
in preparation of
video tape named above.
Childhood memories of life in
St. Helena community in Dundalk,
Maryland, immediately after World War 1.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
8 pp. 15 minutes
OH.8273 LEROY DUNCAN(1900-
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
Black soldier in World War 1.
One of a series of interviews with patrons
from the Waxter Center for Senior Citizens in
preparation of video tape
named above.
Enlistment; experiences in France;
return to South Carolina.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
26 pp. 55 minutes
OH. 8274 CAMILLE WHEELER (1899- )
"Last Day of the Old World" video tape collection
French native who became an
American war bride, World War 1. One
of a series of interviews with patrons of the
Waxter Center for Senior
Citizens in preparation of video tape named above.
Life as a child in Rheims, France,
during World War 1; German
occupation; flight to Paris as a refugee; move
to the United States after
marriage.
Interviewer-donor: Marie Lehnert
1978
19 pp. No tape
OH.8275 CLARE M. STIEFF (MRS.GIDEON,1900- )
Former vice-president of Stieff
Silver Company; wife of president of
Stieff Silver Company; member of Baltimore civic,
charity and garden
groups; parliamentarian.
German ancestry; Dohme, Marees,
and Stieff families; origin of Stieff
Silver Company and move to Wyman Park; factory
work during World
War I and World War 11; role of women today; interesting
Stieff assign-
ments and contracts; her work as a Goucher College
trustee, in the Civic
League, Red Cross, Women's Board of Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Child
Study Center, and Federated Garden Clubs
of Maryland.
Interviewer: Jean Porter
1979
5 pp. 1 hour
OH.8276 LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936-
Baltimore poet and author;
college teacher; Maryland Poet Laureate.
Early life in Buffalo,
New York; experiences at Howard University;
poems and publishers; her parents' effect
on her personality; reasons for
deciding to write children's books; reaction
to living in Maryland; racial
discrimination; women as writers.
Interviewer: Mary Kleinhans
1976
66 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8277 PHILANDER BRISCOE (1891- ) and
LUISA D. L. -M.
BRISCOE (MRS. PHILANDER)
Residents of Mr. Briscoe's
family home at 209 West Lanvale Street,
Bolton Hill.
Neighborhood people and
commercial establishments; changes during
past fifty years; Mount Royal Improvement
Association; Fifth Regiment
Armory Plaza; State office complex; biographical
material on Mr. Briscoe
(Calvert County, Annapolis) and Mrs. Briscoe;
current problems of Bolton
Hill community.
Interviewer: Elizabeth
Lyon 1978
3 pp. 1 hour
OH.8278 FRANCES MORTON FROELICHER (MRS.HANS,JR.,
1912- )
Executive director, Citizens
Planning and Housing Association, 1947-
69; resident of Bolton Hill.
Origins of efforts to
improve the Mount Royal neighborhood by zoning,
improved housing, parks, slum clearance,
and new buildings; Mount
Royal Protection Association succeeded by
Mount Royal Improvement
Association as goals and opinions changed;
Hans Froelicher's leadership;
current problems.
Interviewer.- Elizabeth
Lyon 1977
5 pp. 1 hour
OH.8279 FRANK LANCELOTTA (1912-
Native of Natick, Rhode
Island, whose family moved to Baltimore about
1926.
Childhood in Natick; family
store, "Rhode Island Corner," in Little
Italy, Baltimore; comparisons of Italian
marriage customs, cooking tradi-
tions, family courtesies; career as an insurance
salesman and broker.
Donated by Maryland Bicentennial Project:
The Ethnic Heritage.
Interviewer: Josephine
D. Stefano 1976
35 pp. 1 hour, 50"
OH. 8280 ZENITH BROWN (MRS. FORD, L., 1898-
) Pseudonyms:
LESLIE FORD, DAVID FROME
Author, wife of instructor
at St. John's College, Annapolis.
Family background, Chestertown,
Maryland; experiences as a writer of
mystery novels; choice of her pseudonyms; origins
of her plots; locales;
chief character, Mr. Pinkerton; personal knowledge
of Scotland Yard and
Baltimore Police Department; other writers of
mystery novels; her fictional
characters as contrasted with those of current
writers.
Interviewer: Mary Kleinhans
1976
66 pp. 2 hours, 30"
OH. 8281 L. OLIVIA BATES
Baltimore school teacher and
counselor; past Grand Matron of the
Order of the Eastern Star.
Benefits of membership in Order
of the Eastern Star and its social
service; projects; experiences as a teacher of
history, special education,
hygiene and business education at Booker T. Washington
junior High
School and counselor at Charles Houston junior
High School; travels
abroad.
Interviewer: Louise K. Hines
1979
3 pp. 1 hour
OH.8282 THEODORER.MCKELDIN,JR.(1937-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Lawyer, son of Gov. Theodore
R. McKeldin.
The private personality of Governor
McKeldin as contrasted to his
public life and appearance; his response to criticism
and personal threats,
his relationships with Presidents Dwight Eisenhower,
Richard Nixon, and
Lyndon Johnson and Vice-President Spiro Agnew.
Interviewer: Charles Wagandt
1977
22 pp. 50 minutes
OH-8283 ALFRED BUNTING(1898- )
Captain for Merchant and Miners
Transportation Company during
World War 11.
Coastwise United States shipping
during World War 11; his assignment
to Army Transport Service and United States War
Shipping Administra-
tion; voyage of the Merrimac, New Orleans to Trinidad
in 1942; damage
done along East Coast by German submarines until
enough escort de-
stroyers were ready; comparison of private merchant
shipping during
World War I and World War 11.
Interviewer-Donor: Norma Sue
Morgan 1980
5 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8284 HENRY F. RINN (1897- )
Son of Henry Rinn, Jr., retail
and wholesale publisher of postcards in
Baltimore, 1901-23.
His father's business (discussed
while looking at cards given to the
Maryland Historical Society by Henry Rinn, Jr.);
popular postcard scenes;
printers used; photographing the Baltimore fire
of 1904; effect of World
War I on postcard business.
Interviewer: Helena Zinkham
1980
3 pp. 40 minutes
OH.8285 D.FRED HOFFMANN(1913- )
Immigrant from Hungary
about 1935; Baltimore City employee.
The lack of active Hungarian
organizations in Baltimore, as contrasted
with other cities and probable reasons.
Donated by Towson State Univer-
sity.
Interviewer: C. Thomas
Lusco 1973
18 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8286 MARY HRADASKY (1908-
Daughter of immigrant
Czechs. Secretary to Doctor Ruzicka in Czech
community.
Childhood; working with
her mother in cannery factory; schooling at
St. Wenceslas Church; membership in
Czech drama club and insurance
lodge.
Interviewer-donor.-JJean
Scarpaci 1975
38 pp. 1 hour, 30"
OH. 8287 DORIS FEATHER HORTOP (1893-
)
Immigrant from England
at age 20; employee of Baltimore City Rec-
reation Department.
First experiences as visitor
and then bride in Baltimore; Children's
Playground Association; organization
of social clubs for women, particu-
larly 38-year-old Amity Club; differences
between life in Yorkshire, Eng-
land and Baltimore; Fourth of July
pageant in Patterson Park and folk
dancing classes; years as a story
teller in recreation centers, schools,
libraries, clubs, city 'ail. Gift
of Maryland Bicentennial Project: The
Ethnic Heritage.
Interviewer: Laurie Bready
1977
36 pp. 1 hour, 30"
OH.8288 NORMA SVEJDA (1924-
Daughter of Czech immigrants;
artist; teacher.
Reason why Czechs of her
parents' generation chose to emigrate; why
they chose to come to Baltimore; Bohemian
savings and loan companies;
Czechs' ability as skilled tailors;
pride in craftsmanship; comparison of
Catholic and Protestant Czechs in
Baltimore.
Interviewer-donor: Jean
Scarpaci 1972
21 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8289 FRANK CHYBA (1889-
Immigrant along with Czech
parents in 1907; tailor.
Life in home village;
apprenticeship as tailor; work as tailor in Balti-
more; activities of the Sokol from
St. Wenceslas Church-exercises, ama-
teur shows, dinners, marching groups;
welcome home parade when James
Gibbons was made youngest Cardinal;
keeping Czech language and
customs for second generation.
Interviewer-donor: Jean
Scarpaci 1975
37 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8290 ANNA E. GRANOFSKY (1913-
Daughter of Hungarian
immigrants; Baltimore City school teacher; life-
long resident of Locust Point; secretary
of Locust Point Civic Association.
Family's European background;
childhood in Locust Point; School 76
and teacher Persis K. Miller; fight to prevent
bridge over Fort McHenry.
Intervz'ewer: David Libershal
1973
26 pp. 1 hour, 30
OH. 8291 JOSEPH SIMMETH (1923- )
Immigrant from Germany, about
1955; proprietor of Peppi's Meat Shop
in Bel Air, Maryland since 1960.
Life in Germany as a young man;
Bavarian sausage recipes from his
family's 200-year-old meat business in Germany-,
continued use of German
customs in his family and store. Gift of Towson
State University.
Interv'ewer: Jean Van Horn 1973
2 pp. 50 minutes
OH.8292 MAUREEN PEFFER(1948-
Immigrant from Ireland, 1966.
Comparison between life in Ireland
and United States. Gift of Towson
State University.
Interviewer: Walter Cerkan
1973
20 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8293 CALVIN EDOUARD WARD (1930-
Professor, Coppin State College,
Music and Arts Department.
Fulbright scholar in Vienna;
Phelps Stokes Fund grant in Kenya;
biography he expects to write of Will Marion Cook;
experiences playing
famous organs in Europe, United States, and Africa;
his collection of
12,000 colored slides.
Interviewer: Louise Kerr Hines
1980
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8294 ALPHONSO K. BALTER (1902-
Blind rush chair specialist;
owner of huckstering trucks; violinist.
Education at Maryland School
for the Blind; various occupations
followed; close affiliation with the Music Guild
of Baltimore and various
public performances.
Interviewer: Louise Kerr Hines
1980
3 pp. 1 hour
Supplementary material: 8-page
autobiography of Balter.
OH.8295 MARY WEST MILLER(1910- )
Teacher of English and drama
at Colored High School (Douglass High
School) actress and director for Arena
Players.
School experiences; professional
theatre people she knew as fellow
classmates or students; Mask and Wig productions
at Douglass High
School; appearances with Arena Players; numerous
club memberships,
particularly Eastern Star; activities since retirement.
Interviewer: Louise Kerr Hines
1980
3 pp. 1 hour
OH.8296 MAE WRIGHT PECK (1906-
Daughter of William Houston
Wright; language and English teacher at
Douglass High School and Booker T. Washington
junior High.
Family background and education;
the Philomathians, a women's club;
family's summer home at Bay Breeze, near Shady
Side, Maryland-part
of which formed a Y.W.C.A. camp for black girls;
work since retirement
on QUEST program-Quarters for the Utilization
of Education Services
to Teachers.
Interviewer: Louise Kerr Hines
1980
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8297 BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD HERITAGE PROJECT
Project of the University of Baltimore and BRISC
(Baltimore Region
Institutional Studies Center), 1979-1980.
203 interviews, of which 83
are transcribed, with older residents of six
Baltimore neighborhoods on the topics of migration
and immigration,
racial and ethnic identity, national and local
events, neighborhood and
family life, work and religion.
Project Director: Dr. Theodore
Durr
OH.8298 LOUISE KERRHINES(1916-
Maryland State Unemployment
Insurance claims examiner; reporter
for Baltimore American; volunteer tour guide and
oral history inter-
viewer for the Maryland Historical Society.
Family and educational background;
students' social activities; success-
ful 1944 suit in which she was plaintiff, to open
training classes at the
Enoch Pratt Free Library to blacks; career as
claims examiner; life in
black middle income Baltimore.
Se4f-intervi'ew: 1980
3 pp. 1 hour
Supplementary material: clippings
and photos relating to Kerr V. Pratt
suit.
OH.8299 EDNADECOURSEYJOHNSON(1922-
Consumer education specialist.
Elementary school teaching for
nineteen years; move to Baltimore
Urban League in 1963 as community organizer/secretary;
development of
Urban League's consumer education program; presentation
of consumer
education workshops financed by Citibank of New
York; work as camp
counselor for United Christian Youth Movement.
Interviewer: Louise Kerr Hines
1980
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8300 LAWRENCE STEWART (ca. 1900-
Longtime black resident of Towson,
Maryland.
The life of his father, Aaron
Stewart, born in 1875, now one-hundred
one years old: his work as chauffeur and as janitor
at Black and Decker
Tool Company for twenty-seven years. His own experiences
as Pullman
porter; desegregation. Donated by the Maryland
Bicentennial Project:
The Ethnic Heritage.
Interviewer.-Maryjane Heim 1977
11 pp. 40 minutes
