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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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Enjoy this post by Lubna Azmi, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! I spent my entire first year researching Black Activism at JHU only to find myself immersed in a reinvigorated revolution for freedom. My decision to pursue research about Black history was rooted in the lack of education […]
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