Enjoy this post by Ankita Sen, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! In my first blogpost for my Freshman Fellows project, I introduced Pasquino, the famous marble ruin that served as a satiric signpost of sorts. For the second portion of my research, I want to look a bit […]
Enjoy this post by Kobi Khong, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! Whether you’re a lover of lox or a lover of lore, a biter or a writer, a baker or a note-taker, you’re in for a treat! Make sure you don’t spill, because today we’re going to be […]
As we celebrated Labor Day this Monday, this week’s deep dive explores music from the labor movement. The Knights of Labor was founded in 1869 and lobbied for reforms including an 8-hour workday, and sought to end child labor and convict labor. Whereas other unions restricted their membership to white, male, skilled workers, the Knights of […]
As students here at Hopkins and around the area returned to school this week, long-separated friends no doubt greeted each other with the tried-and-true query, “What did you do over your summer vacation?” We at the Johns Hopkins University Museums, would like to highlight the summer experience of one Baltimore City Public Schools senior in […]
Streaming media for classroom and research purposes has exploded over recent years. The shift to remote instruction during the coronavirus pandemic accelerated initiatives by Johns Hopkins’ libraries to expand access to streaming media. Often pricing models and licensing restrictions limit what can be offered or how content may be used. This year, the libraries will […]
Written by Lena Denis, Geospatial Data, GIS, and Maps Librarian This summer, I had the privilege of hosting two Baltimore City student employees – Janiya Brown and Tinaya English – through the Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program (JHSJP) in partnership with YouthWorks. They worked with me to create educational materials using ArcGIS Online and JScholarship that highlighted how historic maps of Baltimore reveal urban development patterns that impact health and environmental issues for the city’s […]
Music and text have been paired together since the earliest expressions of art—from ancient Egypt to the medieval morality plays of Hildegard von Bingen. When opera emerged, the composer and librettist (someone who writes the text for a musical work) would work hand in hand, like Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Of course, […]
Special Collections is accepting applications for Freshman Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to the fabulous JHU Class of 2025! The program is designed to introduce students to the joys, challenges, and thrills involved in conducting research with primary sources. Limited to just four freshmen, Freshman Fellows provides its scholars with support by pairing each […]
The day that I learned that Dr. Gilbert V. Levin (’47, PhD ’63) had passed away was not long after NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) announced that its Perseverance rover had started its search for ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. I can only imagine Gil’s excitement as he watched the developments from the […]
The Levy collection contains over 2,000 songs published in Baltimore, including some historic depictions of Baltimore’s landmarks and monuments. Fifth Regiment March was published by one of the most prolific sheet music publishers in the city, F.D. Benteen. The cover shows the Washington Monument in Mt. Vernon– the monument was built between 1815 and 1829, […]