| Research and Educational Projects at the Maryland State Archives |
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| summer 2001 |
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June 18
Learned ecpclio (2 hours)
Toured Law Library (1/2 hour)
Read through work relating to comptroller's project already posted on ecpclio (3 hours)
Created personal homepage for project and began looking at Goldstein materials Karen already collected. (1/2 hour)
June 19
Continue looking at materials Karen has already collected (biographical file & issues of Comptroller's office Activator from 1972-1989). (5.75 hours)
Began looking through press reports from the Comptroller's office for 1986-1990. Scanned one news release into ECPCLIO referring to a new computerized system in the Comptroller's office.(1.25 hours)
Find out more about AAA bond rating.
June 20
Continue looking at news releases 1986-1990. Scanned 5 news releases and linked them in ECPCLIO.(4.5 hours)
Tell Jen about news release about income tax July 2, 1987.
Read through ReveNews, tax information from the Comptroller's office, 1980-89. (1 hour)
Began reading through Maryland histories for contextual information about Goldstein and Maryland during his tenure as Comptroller. (1.5 hours)
June 21
Continued reading Maryland secondary sources. (7 hours)
Showed Jen income tax history news release I found yesterday.
Callcott's Maryland & America, 1940 to 1980 provides useful information about national trends in the history of taxation and the use of money in the state government as well as political developments of the time period.
A Maryland Anthology, 1608-1986 (ed. Dora Jean Ashe) was not helpful.
Maryland, A History provided a bit more context for Goldstein's political career.
Found nothing useful in Maryland Political Behavior by Callcott.
June 22
Finished looking through secondary sources.(2.25 hours)
Brugger's Maryland, A Middle Temperament provided only information I already had from other sources.
Wilner's The Maryland Board of Public Works: A History was very helpful in providing context of how the BPW and the role of the Comptroller within it changed in response to governmental and societal trends at the state and local level.
Read through court cases involving Louis Goldstein that Karen pulled from Lexis-Nexis.(4.75 hours)
None of these court cases are directly relevant to the historical development of the Comptroller's office during Goldstein's tenure.
June 25
Staff meeting and welcome event (1.5 hours)
Began outlining first rough draft of the Goldstein essay.(2.5 hours)
Put outline with notes reflecting research done to date and notes for further research in HTML form. Linked to personal web site. (3 hours)
Link outline to ECPCLIO first thing tomorrow.
June 26
linked Goldstein outline to ECPCLIO (20 minutes)
Began looking at House journals during Goldstein's tenure in office. Got from his election in 1958 to partially through 1960. (about 6 hours)
Scan and link House resolution to Goldstein on Chronology page.
June 27
Continued to go through House journals.(1.25 hours)
Scanned and linked House resolution on Chronology page.
Continued looking at House journals. Got through 1962. (4.75 hours)
Scanned in 2 docs from 1962 house journals. (1 hour)
Link docs in chronology.
June 28
Linked house resolution to and message to House from Louis Goldstein in chronology. (1/2 hour)
Continued going through House journals. Got through 1970. Scanned a state of the state address from Tawes discussing state's AAA bond rating and linked to chronology. (6.5 hours)
June 29
Began looking through Comptroller's correspondance. Scanned in 2 documents relating to computerization within the Comptroller's office. (7 hours)
Link docs on Monday.
July 2
Came in at 1. Continued looking at House journals. Got partially through 1973.(4 hours)
Continue w/ House journals and link docs on sources page tomorrow.
July 3
Continued looking at House Journals. Got through 1976. (5 hours)
Read first of readings for Monday seminar. (1/2 hour)
Began linking documents to Goldstein sources page. (1.5 hours)
Finish linking docs to sources page on Thursday.
July 4
Happy 4th of July! No work today! :)
July 5
Linked documents to Goldstein sources page. (45 mins.)
Continued looking at House journals. (6.25 hours)
July 6
Went through House journals. Got through 1980. (3 hours)
Read other 2 articles for Monday seminar. (1.25 hours)
Read through Comptroller's correspondance. (2.75 hours)
July 9
Went to Monday seminar. (3 hours)
Read through Comptroller's correspondance. (1 hour)
Continued going through House journals. Got through 1982. (3 hours)
July 10
Continued going through House journals. Almost through 1986.(7 hours)
July 11
Continued going through House journals. Got through 1989. (7.5 hours)
July 12
Got through House journals through 1990. (2 hours)
Began looking at Comptroller's Annual Reports. Got through 1968. (5 hours)
July 13
Came in at 8:15. Read through 2 more years of Comptroller's Annual Reports. (approx. 1 hour)
Read through readings for Monday's seminar. (45 mins.)
Looked through Comptroller's correspondence and added documents to sources page. (5.25 hours)
July 16
Eluded Rocky's masterful taping off of the search room to get to EC 1 (10 mins.)
Went on State House tour w/ interns. (2.5 hours)
Continued looking through Comptroller's correspondence.(3.5 hours)
Went through 1971 Comptroller's annual report. (1 hour)
July 17
Came in at 8:20.
Began looking at 1972 Comptroller's annual report. (1 hour)
Went to Calvert County Historical Society to research Louis Goldstein. (6.5 hours)
July 18
Finished looking at 1972 Comptroller's annual report. (20 mins.)
Scanned articles from yesterday's research. (6.5 hours)
July 19
Continued scanning articles. (7 hours)
July 20
Read readings for Monday seminar. (45 mins)
Scanned articles. (5 hours)
Left at 3:15.
July 23
Went to Monday seminar. (2.5 hours)
Continued reading House journals (4 hours)
Began documenting materials found at historical society. (1/2 hour)
July 24
Continued looking through House journals. Got through 1995. (7 hours)
July 25
Continued looking at House journals. Got through 1997. (3 hours)
Began linking articles from Calvert Co. Historical Society trip to Goldstein's source page. (4.25 hours)
July 26
Worked at UMBC reading _Baltimore Sun_ about Louis Goldstein. (7 hours)
July 27
Finished linking articles from CCHS trip to Goldstein's sources page and scanned and linked _Sun_ articles from yesterday's research on sources page. (5.5 hours)
Continued looking at House journals. (1.5 hours)
July 30
Finished looking at House journals. (1 hour)
Looked through Comptroller's annual reports. Got through 1990. (1 hour)
Looked on the web for information about Louis Goldstein. (1/2 hour)
Attended Monday intern seminar. (1/2 hour)
Looked through Governor's general file. (4.25 hours)
July 31
Finished looking through first box of Governor's general file. (1/2 hour)
Finished looking through Comptroller's annual reports. (2 hours)
Began writing Goldstein essay. (4.5 hours)
August 1
Continued writing Goldstein essay. (7 hours)
August 2
Continued writing Goldstein essay. (7 hours)
August 6
Attend Monday seminars. (3.5 hours)
Worked on revising Goldstein essay. (3.5 hours)
August 7
Continued reading for and revising Goldstein essay. (6.5 hours)
Helped clean up EC 1 for Slavery Commission meeting. (1/2 hour)
August 8
Continued revising and researching for Goldstein essay. (6.5 hours)
Met w/ Dr. Papenfuse regarding project. (45 mins.)
August 10
Researched amusement taxes at piers on Potomac River. (2 hours)
Continued revising Goldstein piece and updated sources page. (5 hours)
August 13
2 seminars and program review w/ Ed. (4 hours)
Continued working on Goldstein essay. (3.5 hours)
August 14
Finished revision/writing of Goldstein essay. (7 hours)
August 15
Filled out program evaluation survey. (1 hour)
Wrote bulldog article w/ Jen and Nasim. (1/2 hour)
Met w/ Karen about essay revisions. (1/2 hour)
Began adding footnotes and links to Goldstein essay. (5 hours)
August 16
Continued adding footnotes and rewriting essay. (7 hours)
August 17
Continued adding footnotes, researching, rewriting essay, and adding links to page. (7 hours)
August 20
Wrapped up writing and adding footnotes to Goldstein essay. (6.5 hours)
Began organizing photocopies. (1/2 hour)
August 21
Finished adding links to Goldstein page. (1 hour)
Finished organizing photocopies. (1/2 hour)
Cleaned up. (2 hours)
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