By Jenelle Clark and Hanjie Guo Processing archivists spend a lot of our time crafting careful description for the collections our institutions hold. For items that our curators purchase for […]
Recontextualizing Japanese Reparations Photos
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was made an official holiday by decree of Abraham Lincoln in 1863. While there don’t seem to be as many melodies composed for the holiday as there are for […]
Reprocessing The Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part IV: Lingering Questions
In my last post, I wrote about what we know about Fannie Gildersleeve Tonsler based on the documentary evidence provided in census records, her marriage license, and other administrative records. […]
Burning Questions: “Is the Library Strictly Academic or Are There Recreational Books as Well?”
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Burning Questions: “Is There a Graphic Novel Section?
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Fall 2023 Visual Resources Updates
Welcome back to campus! Just a few updates from the Visual Resources Collection (VRC): Please email vrc@jhu.edu for any image or visual resources questions!
Apply to Be a First-Year Fellow!
Special Collections is accepting applications for First-Year Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to our fabulous First-Year undergraduates! The program is designed to introduce students to the joys, challenges, and […]
Barbenheimer
If you exist in the online world at all, you have probably taken note of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Barbenheimer is a portmanteau of the titles of the two blockbuster films, […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Victoria Popoola on Translating an Untranslated Renaissance Latin Map
Enjoy this post by Victoria Popoola, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Latin is widely considered to be a niche language. Although many of […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Arusa Malik on Illustrating Women’s Lib
Enjoy this post by Arusa Malik, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. When I began as a Freshman Fellow, I was drawn to the […]