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Women's Athletic Association records
Record Group
Identifier: 010-002
Overview
The Women’s Athletic Association (WAA), working in cooperation with the Women’s Physical Education Department, was a campus organization created to sponsor extracurricular activities for women students and to promote interest in women’s athletics at the Maryland State Normal School. It was governed by an Executive Board, consisting of officers elected by the women of the student body and managers appointed by the Board, whose main functions included determining the organization’s budget and...
Dates:
1926-1971
World War II collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Overview
This collection which dates from 1941 to 1946 contains materials evidencing Maryland State Normal School/State Teachers College alumni activities during and after World War II. These materials include newsletters from STC to MSNS/STC alumni serving in the armed forces; individual alumni files including photographs, letters, cards, and other personal correspondence; and lists of serving alumni.
Dates:
1941-1946
World War II collection of Harold S. Griswold
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0008
Overview
Captain Harold S. Griswold served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946. His son, Harold E. Griswold, is Professor Emeritus at Towson University. This collection contains various WWII ephemera obtained by Captain Griswold while he was serving in Europe during the war. It includes books on the rise of the Nazi party, assorted periodicals, collectable cigarette cards, postcards of varying countries of origin, German medals, and artifacts believed to have come from the bunker where Hitler died.
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
World War II collection of the Kravitsky family
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Overview
Maurice Zwang was an American-Jewish soldier who served during World War Two as an amphibious truck driver. This collection contains various documentation of Zwang’s service in World War II as well as objects seized from a German infantry officer and Nazi standards removed from buildings.
Dates:
1930s-1940s