Borrow Direct Resumes

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Hopkins libraries resume Borrow Direct service

After being on hiatus since March, the popular borrowing and lending service is back

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Explore the treasures of the Sheridan Libraries through highlighted special collections, archival materials, and online exhibitions.

Ephemera, Rare Books

Women’s Suffrage Collection

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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Photography

John Clark Mayden Collection

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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Rare Books

Exploring the Avant-Garde

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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Rare Books

Bibliotheca Fictiva

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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Archives

Johns Hopkins Science Review

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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Exhibition

The Enigmatic Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore and Beyond

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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Manuscripts

Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection

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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Ephemera

African American Real Photo Postcard Collection

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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Historical University Photographs

University Archives holds over 20,000 photographs documenting the visual history of Johns Hopkins University from its founding to present.

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From the Blog

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Scribbling Women: The Changing Cover Art of Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories

September 17, 2020

Posts in this series were written by undergraduate students in the spring 2020 Museums & Society class Scribbling Women: Gender, Writing, and the Archive. We used rare books, archival materials, and digital primary sources in the Sheridan Libraries’ collections to prompt and guide inquiries into the creation, reception, preservation, and legacy of texts from the 1820s through the 1930s […]

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