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Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digital preservation program of the Enoch Pratt Free Library / Maryland State Library Resource Center. The goal of the project is to facilitate the digitization, digital preservation, and access for historical and cultural documents, images, audio, and video that record Maryland’s history.

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Living and Dying with COVID-19, The Maryland Stories - The Global Z Recording Project

With funding provided by Maryland Humanities through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, nonprofit organization The Global Z Recording Project created a project titled, Living and Dying with COVID-19: The Maryland Stories. Fifteen collaborating libraries across the state of Maryland were provided with audio production equipment where Marylanders could record personal stories of how COVID-19 has impacted their lives. Their stories are part of the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Digital Maryland and Maryland State Archives collections.

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WJZ-TV Collection - MARMIA (Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive)

WJZ-TV Channel 13 is owned by CBS Broadcasting, Inc. and is located in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1977, WJZ-TV News began its Electronic News Gathering (ENG) Library, recording newscasts and retaining raw footage on a daily basis. WJZ-TV often preempted ABC programming in favor of locally produced shows and syndicated content from Westinghouse's broadcasting division, Group W. The affiliation switch to CBS occurred in 1995, ending WJZ-TV's decades-long link with ABC. Westinghouse bought CBS in 1996, making WJZ-TV a CBS-owned and operated station.

This collection consists of videocassettes, films, negatives, photographs, and paper documentation. WJZ-TV gave, transferred, assigned, and delivered to MARMIA all of WJZ's right, title, and interest in and to the collection, including copyright in May 2017.

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Baetjer World War II Collection - Gilman School

The Baetjer Word War II Collection consists of materials written and collected by 1st Lieutenant Howard Baejter II during his service as a fighter pilot during WWII. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1919, Baetjer attended Gilman School from 1933-1936 and graduated from Princeton University in 1942. During WWII, Baetjer served as a fighter pilot with the 309th Fighter Squadron of the 31st Fighter Group in the United States Army Air Force. This squadron was based in the Allied-occupied Italy and flew missions all across Europe and North Africa. Baetjer was twice shot down, and his journals document his time as a downed airman in Yugoslavia, as well as his 10 months as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III and two other camps. Throughout his service, Baetjer kept daily notes, which provide unique insights into the life of an American airman and POW.

This collection consists of diaries, journals, photographs, letters, scrapbooks, military forms, and medallions relating to Mr. Howard Baetjer II service as a fighter pilot with the Army Air Corps. The materials were donated to Gilman School by Betsy Baetjer in June 2023.

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