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TheTugwell Special Collection serves as a resource for researchers who are interested in studying city and urban planning, sociology, architecture, American history of the New Deal era, consumer cooperatives, and the city of Greenbelt, MD.

The mission of the collection is to provide reference materials on those subjects to any interested researcher, whether it be an elementary student studying his hometown, or a doctoral student collecting primary sources for a dissertation.

  • Microfilm
  • Audio cassettes (oral histories)
  • Photographs, Albums, and Scrapbooks
  • Maps & Blueprints (1938-1990s)
  • Memorabilia
  • Display Case!

Books in the Collection

Library Books Catalog The books in the Tugwell Special Collection are cataloged in the library books catalog. Books may be identified as being a part of the Tugwell Special Collection by the call number which will include a C before the Dewey Decimal classification number. Example: C 711.4

Newspaper Clippings Index

Newspaper clipping

The Newspaper Clippings Index is an online database that provides bibliographic information, and brief summaries about newspaper clippings within the Tugwell Special Collection.

National and local newspaper articles since 1935 on Greenbelt have been collected. Articles may be searched by keyword, publication, year, author, or subject heading. Articles are still in the process of being indexed into this database.

Access the Tugwell News Clippings Database


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