Overview

Title: Noelle Kennedy Masukawa collection
Call Number: Coll358
Creator: Kennedy Masukawa, Noelle
Dates: 1950-1999
Size: 3 linear feet (3 boxes)
Language: English
Abstract: The materials include photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, research notes, and drawings collected by former Baltimore Sun researcher and employee, Noelle Kennedy Masukawa, who provides a more intimate perspective on the social interactions of the Baltimore Sun Newspaper at a time where research and reporting was a male dominated field.
Citation: Noelle Kennedy Masukawa collection, Collection 358, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).

Administrative/Biographical Note

Noelle Kennedy MasukawaAlma's Update- Holmquist 1949". Solebury, The Magazine- Alumni News and Updates, Summer/Fall 2024, https://fliphtml5.com/jcijk/xphu/Solebury_The_Magazine_SummerFall_2024/32/
Noelle Kennedy Masukawa, born Noelle Kennedy in 1932, worked for the Baltimore Sun from 1952-1955. She came to the United States on the Baltimore Mail Ship at age 3 months from Paris, France, where she was born. During that voyage, the ship encountered a terrible storm in the mid-Atlantic, which became a headline for a Baltimore Evening Sun, dated March 23, 1932, entitled "3 Month Old Baby Calm in Sea Storm: Sleeps as St. Patrick’s Day Gale Rocks Main Line Ship.” As it would have, decades later, when hired as a library assistant for the Sun, Masukawa came across the very story that documented her welcome to the United States. From her time as a Sun staffer, she amassed a variety of Baltimore Sun related materials that highlight the various projects, publications, and inter-office social connections of the renowned newspaper. She formed long term friendships with Sun reporters, including Gwinn Owens and James "Jim" Bready, among other notable alumni. This collection of materials provides insight on an experience as a female employee in the early 1950s as she comes into her own as a researcher, writer, and creative in her own right. Noelle passed away in Septembr 2025.


Scope & Content

Arrangement

The collection is maintained in 3 archival boxes in the original order that they were transferred. Ms. Kennedy Masukawa transfered and additional folder of materials that has been added to her initial archival deposit.


Provenance Information

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Accession MSS2024-09 and MSS2024-10.

Processing Note

This material was transferred to UMBC Special Collections in August 2024 by her son, Joff Masukawa.

Descriptive Rules Used

Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)

Archives Processing Manual: Description (2015): The processing manual used in Special Collections for all descriptive platforms, including PastPerfect.


Access & Use

Finding Aids

Finding aid available.

Access Conditions

Materials are available for research. There are no restrictions.

Conditions Governing Reproductions and Use

Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Please email speccoll@umbc.edu for permission to reproduce.


Subject Headings

Creators

Kennedy Masukawa, Noelle

Baker, Russell

Bready, James

Doelp, Alan

Goodspeed, John

Kanigel, Robert

Kennedy Masukawa, Noelle

Kent, Frank

Lerner, Leon

Manchester, William

Owen, Gwinn

Subjects

Baltimore (Md.)

Baltimore (Md.)-- Newspapers

Reporters and reporting

Sun (Baltimore, Md.: 1837)

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