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The neighborhoods around Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library have changed greatly since the houses were constructed in 1801 and 1858, respectively. Both estates were used as country “villas” […]
This week’s deep dive will explore one of our lesser-known sheet music collections: the Sam Carner Collection. While the Levy Sheet Music Collection is our largest and most consulted, we […]
Beginning with the Mellon Foundation in the 1990s, Artstor has been a mainstay of the digital image landscape for decades. Since 2015, the Visual Resources Collection (VRC)’s local image collection […]
Now that it’s officially Fall, this week’s sheet music deep dive will explore the music of Autumn! Golden Leaves of Autumn was published in Chicago, 1868. The lithographer, listed at […]
Is there a particular dataset you need to conduct your research that is not available at JHU? Apply for a JHU Libraries Data Grant and, contingent on eligibility and availability, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]