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Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities
Explore the treasures of the Sheridan Libraries through highlighted special collections, archival materials, and online exhibitions.
There is a thin evidentiary record of archival materials relating to the life of Johns Hopkins. For years, leaders and community members have centered their story of our founder on his benevolent gift to the city of Baltimore: a university and a hospital, and the accepted narrative that he was an early abolitionist. Under the auspices of Hopkins Retrospective and through the Sheridan Libraries, this archive explores and publicly presents archival materials related to the life of Johns Hopkins and his family, including newly discovered census records that provide evidence that Johns Hopkins was a slaveholder during the mid-1800s.
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View selections from our collection of ephemera, books, and journals documenting the women's suffrage movement in both the United States and England. Materials include publications produced by or in collaboration with pro-suffrage organizations, as well as commercially made items that present a negative or ambiguous message regarding women and voting rights.
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Black-and-white street portraits taken over four decades by Baltimore photographer John Clark Mayden, capturing the ordinary joys and sorrows, quiet moments, and daily realities of the city's African American neighborhoods.
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Our rare books collection has a strong showing of periodicals and manifestos illustrating major European art movements of the 20th century, such as Futurism, Surrealism, and Lettrism. Of special note is our collection of periodicals documenting Dada, including Bulletin Dada and Z.
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Bibliotheca Fictiva: The Arthur & Janet Freeman Collection of Literary & Historical Forgery offers a tremendous overview of literary forgery from the classical age through the twentieth century, including religious texts, "unknown" works by Shakespeare, and histories all meant to deceive the reader.
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Broadcast to television sets across America from 1948 to 1960, the Johns Hopkins Science review was created by the university to present scientific discovery--in particular the discoveries of Johns Hopkins University faculty--to a popular audience.
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A digital exhibition of books and objects associated with Edgar Allan Poe, highlighting his innovations and breadth as a writer. The exhibition includes rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts from the Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music contains over 29,000 pieces of American popular music from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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This collection of approximately 1,018 “real photo” postcards, dating from circa 1905 to circa 1946, portrays African-American individuals, couples, and families. “Real photo" postcards are made from personal photographs printed in tiny editions on postcard stock. In the present collection, a few have been mailed as postcards, with messages and postage on the reverse.
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University Archives holds over 20,000 photographs documenting the visual history of Johns Hopkins University from its founding to present.
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The 1912 sinking of the Titanic immediately caught the attention of the world press. It also came during an era of sheet music production that constantly churned out new songs related to world events— elections, celebrities, disasters. Therefore, it is no surprise that the tragedy made its way onto numerous sheet music covers. Some of […]
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