At the invitation of Father John McElroy, S.J. of St. John’s Parish in Frederick, three Sisters of Charity started St. John’s Free School in January 1825. While initially being a girls’ day school, it eventually grew to house boarders, orphans, paid and free students, members of the free and enslaved Black community, and a boys’ school. The collection contains historical diaries; correspondence to families, church officials, and community Superiors; and financial information and accounts related to St. John's School and Asylum. The collection also contains lists of student names and communion lists, sometimes including African American student names, both free and enslaved. It also contains historical publications of the modern parish long after the transformation of St. John's into the Visitation Academy.
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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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Friends of the Crownsville Hospital Patient Cemetery is a volunteer organization founded by Janice Hayes-Williams, Historian 2004 to oversee the hospital patient cemetery in perpetuity and to honor the patients who died at the Crownsville State Hospital Asylum, formerly the Maryland Hospital for the Negro Insane. In 2022 “Friends” volunteers confirmed 1727 burials of African Americans from over 25 States and several countries outside of the United State. The State of Maryland, at the request of the “Friends”, has funded the “Say My Name Memorial” to include the names all patients interred to be unveiled in the spring of 2024.
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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 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.