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 […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Titanic
Meet our Freshman Fellows: Jade Robinson on Rachel Carson’s History
Enjoy this post by Jade Robinson, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! My name is Jade Robinson. My time with the Freshman Fellows program […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Sophie Tucker
Rather than exploring a subject heading in the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, this week’s deep dive is a celebration of Sophie Tucker, the self-billed “Last of the Red Hot […]
Meet the JHU Museums 2021 Summer Interns
The Johns Hopkins University Museums welcomed two interns for the summer of 2021. At Homewood Museum, rising senior Elizabeth Sheehan was selected as this year’s Pinkard-Bolton intern. The Pinkard-Bolton Internship […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Mountains
Now that summer is in full swing and national parks are seeing spikes in visitors, this week’s sheet music deep dive is dedicated to mountains and trails (not to be […]
Meet our Freshman Fellows: DJ Quezada on The Lies on the Map
Enjoy this post by DJ Quezada, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! A lot has transpired since my most recent entry. When I last […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Napoleon
Bastille Day is coming up next week, and although the Levy Sheet Music Collection doesn’t have any songs related to the French holiday, there are at least a dozen inspired […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Fireworks
Fireworks have been around since the Han Dynasty in China (200 B.C.E.), when hollow bamboo sticks were thrown into fires to expand and eventually explode. Chemicals were soon added to […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Parrots
Animal lovers have been keeping birds as pets for hundreds if not thousands of years—they can be found throughout history from Egyptian hieroglyphs to homing pigeons, and in White House […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Tin Pan Alley
This week, rather than diving into a unique subject heading from the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, I decided to share a teaser for an upcoming map project. Before Times […]