Records of Katherine Anne Porter at 100

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Records of Katherine Anne Porter at 100

1989-1991

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/7856

Katherine Anne Porter at 100: New Perspectives was a public program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The University of Maryland, College Park, was the site of this celebration of the hundredth birthday of Katherine Anne Porter, May 9-11, 1991. At various locations on campus, the conference featured presentations commemorating Porter's memory by friends and colleagues, including Porter's literary trustee Isabel Bayley, Cleanth Brooks, Porter's publisher and editor Seymour Lawrence, nephew Paul Porter, and Porter's lawyer E. Barrett Prettyman; presentations discussing Porter's work; film viewings; and an exhibition of materials from the Porter papers from the holdings of the University of Maryland Libraries. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, publications, posters, budgetary materials, legal documents, press releases, work papers, color slides, posters, and video recordings.

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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, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland Libraries are a system of eight libraries supporting the University of Maryland, College Park. There are six libraries on the UMCP campus: McKeldin Library, the main branch; Hornbake Library, home of the special collections and university archives (as well as the UMD iSchool, HCIL, and MITH); the Architecture Library; the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, home of special collections in performing arts and International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM) as well as gen...

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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