Nabb Research Center at Salisbury University

The Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University is a humanities research laboratory for university students that also fulfills the historical resource needs of a variety of community researchers. Founded in 1982, it was endowed in 1998 by Edward H. Nabb, an attorney and philanthropist from Cambridge, Maryland and renamed in his honor. 
 
The mission of the Nabb Research Center is to cultivate and sustain the advancement of scholarly research through collecting, preserving, disseminating and providing access to records and artifacts which illustrate the rich historical and cultural heritage of the greater Chesapeake (Delmarva) region.. 

These film recordings--preserved in the Nabb Research Center's state-of-the-art facility and digitized for broader use--offer a rare glimpses into life in the Chesapeake region. Videos found here originate from our Local History Archives and University Archives.