Mark Shoemaker papers

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Mark Shoemaker papers

1920-1971 (majority 1927-1948)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1289

Mark M. Shoemaker (1898-1983) was a professor of horticulture at the University of Maryland, a campus planner, and a landscape designer. Shoemaker's papers contain reports, correspondence, drafts of lectures, radio scripts, news clippings, maps, sketches, and photographs documenting his landscape design work for the University and various agencies of the United States government. The collection also includes some of the personal papers of A. S. Thurston whose duties at the University of Maryland Shoemaker assumed.

8.75 linear feet and 6 oversize items

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland, College Park. Department of Horticulture

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The Department of Horticulture was formally established in 1863 to provide classroom instruction, empirical fieldwork, and research opportunities in horticulture for students and faculty at the Maryland Agricultural College and at the University of Maryland, as well as to provide extension service for the residents of the state of Maryland....

Thurston, Arthur S.

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University of Maryland, College Park

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Thurston, Arthur

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Shoemaker, Mark Mercer, 1898-1983

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Professor of horticulture of the University of Maryland College Park, campus planner, and landscape designer. From the description of Mark Shoemaker papers, 1920-1971 (bulk 1927-1948) (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19540837 Mark Mercer Shoemaker was employed by the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1931 until 1963 in various positions. While he worked for the Extension Service and the Departments of Horticulture and Physical Pla...