Alice Webb (1945-2022) was an artist and teacher in Ellicott City, Maryland. Her work reflects the beauty around her in her garden, her local community, and the places she visited. Although Alice earned a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, she was basically a self-taught watercolorist. She will often create paintings and etchings of the same subject, one serving a study for the other. Alice’s works in watercolors, oils, and etchings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows on the regional, national and international level. She won awards for her paintings in competitions throughout the United States and her work was featured on the cover of the Baltimore Sun section: HOMETOWN GUIDES for the local Maryland counties.
Alice earned signature membership in the Baltimore Watercolor Society, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Louisiana Watercolor Society and Potomac Valley Watercolorists. She served as president of the Baltimore Watercolor Society for four years. She was featured in American Artist Magazine and Watercolor Basics magazine. She supported herself as a full-time artist through selling prints of her work and teaching painting classes at her studio.
This collection was put together in her memory with the help of her husband, Glen Webb, and in collaboration with the Howard County Historical Society.
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During the early twentieth century, when progressive reformers were attempting to address problems resulting from industrialism and urbanization, Vice Commissions were set up in cities across the country. Their primary concerns were so-called “white slavery,” a term that was used for the practice of organized coercion of unwilling persons into prostitution, and other crimes involving the commercialized sex industry. Historians often point to fears arising from increased numbers of immigrants and increased urbanization as providing the impetus for the establishment of these commissions.
The Maryland Vice Commission was appointed by Maryland Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough in 1913. It began to report out in 1915. Its main concern was prostitution, whether to keep it segregated in vice districts, where there were disorderly houses, or to break up the vice districts, which could result in streetwalking and pimping. Because investigators discovered such an abundance of vice, the report was controversial and caused official embarrassment, especially in Baltimore. In fact, Baltimore’s mayor called it, “entirely untrue, improper and unfair.” The typewritten, marked-up volumes digitized here are from the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Maryland Department. Only the fifth volume was commercially published.
Venice Beach is a private, water oriented community situated between the Annapolis Neck area and the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It shares its border with Highland Beach and its community where collectively the area would be known as "the beach". The two areas were developed as a private community where Blacks and African Americans could enjoy their summers without racial prejudice. The two communities would celebrate and share many traditions together with how closely they interacted with each other.
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The Hagerstown Junior College Newspaper enjoyed a long run from the college’s founding in 1946 until 2014. It highlights the current issues facing college students during pivotal events in history and the fun day-to-day goings-on in the local area. The newspaper underwent several name changes over the years, reflecting the changing school dynamics. The original name “The Night Crier” was due to the fact the college only offered night classes while it was located in the town high school building. In 1968, the current campus location was purchased and the newspaper’s name was updated to “Campus Crier.” This collection includes issues from 1946-1974.
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