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Benjamin Herman papers
Author Benjamin Herman was a journalist and novelist. The bulk of this collection consist of articles written for the Sun Magazine and the Baltimore Sun from circa 1970 to 2010.
Benjamin Silliman family letter collection
Benjamin Silliman and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. were both 19th century American chemists and original members of the National Academy of Sciences. The collection spans the years 1816-1871 and consists of 28 autograph letters from both Benjamin Silliman and Benjamin Silliman, Jr., and one eulogy of Benjamin Silliman.
Berbice plantation collection
The Berbice plantation collection consists of eight letters written by Hugh McCalmot, all concerning McCalmot's plantations in Berbice in modern day Guyana, South America dating 1809-1840.
Bernard Christian Steiner notebooks
Bernard Christian Steiner a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. The collection consists of three notebooks from courses Steiner attended at Hopkins in 1888-1890. The material covered includes lectures by Daniel Coit Gilman on charities, Elgin Ralston Lovell Gould on the family, and Woodrow Wilson on the administration of the state.
Bessie Irving Miller lecture notes
Bessie Irving Miller (1884-1931) was a mathematician. The collection consists of lecture notes transcribed Miller from a class by Hopkins mathematician Arthur B. Coble from 1913 to 1914.
Betty Adler collection
Collection consists of 10 items of Maryland author, Betty Adler (1918-1973). Included are two letters, a literary map of Baltimore (MD) and several clippings from "The Baltimore Sun" (March 11-21, 1973).
Bibliotheca Fictiva Manuscript Collection: Part of the Arthur & Janet Freeman Collection of Literary & Historical Forgery
Bill of sale for Francis, an enslaved woman, by J. C. Bledsoe
Collection consists of a handwritten bill of sale for Francis, an enslaved woman, dated October 10, 1859.
Black Student Union records
Blanche D. Coll papers
Blanche D. Coll (1916-2003) was an author and historian whose main area of research was the history of social welfare in the United States. Collection ranges in dates spanning 1908, the 1930s, and 1969 and consists of 26 photographs; two published volumes of Mary E. Richmond, a founder of modern social work; Coll's thesis; an oral history transcript; and four audio tapes.
Bliss Carman poems
Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet. This collection consists of thirteen pages of mostly undated handwritten poems; one poem is dated February 8, 1901.
Board of Collegiate Studies records
Board of Engineering Studies records
Bob and Frank Cicero oral histories about Globe Poster Printing Corporation
Video-recorded oral history interviews (and accompanying transcripts) with Bob and Frank Cicero, who ran Globe Poster Printing Corporation from the 1970s until its closure in the late 2000s. The interviews were recorded by Emily Hikes, Globe Archivist, in Summer 2016.
Boer War - Natal photograph album
Bookplate collection
Collection consists of bookplates currently in use in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University. Labels, previously used in an exhibit of the bookplates, are also included and provide descriptive information.
Brick Fleagle and Luther Henderson papers and collection of jazz recordings
Brick Fleagle and Luther Henderson were jazz musicians and arrangers who were business partners and close friends. The Brick Fleagle and Luther Henderson papers and collection of jazz recordings contain manuscript and published scores of Fleagle's and Henderson's compositions and arrangements, personal papers of Brick Fleagle, photographs, and recordings.
Brinley Music Collection
Sampling of various popular songs and "light" classical pieces. Contains some duplicates from Alliker (Begin the Beguine, Deep Purple, etc.) and at least one piece is an instrumental version of a song. Among the pieces of this collection: "Dark Eyes" with an interesting guitar tab notation in the front; "Goin' Home" based on Dvorak; "In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room" based on Mozart piano sonata; and "Liebestraum" based on Lizst, with Hawaiin guitar solo.
British advertisements for Valentine's Day lottery
An artificially assembled collection of four lottery advertisements, publicizing what was possibly the largest lottery in Britain in 1816. The items span from approximately 1815 to 1816. The slips were likely printed in 1815, but mass distributed in 1816.
British Illustrators scrapbook
The scrapbook which forms this collection is a bound volume containing around fifty illustrations representative of the subjects and style of nineteenth-century British book illustration. In the scrapbook are caricatures, cartoons, foreign scenes, social commentary, and hand-colored engravings.
British North American household provisions commonplace book
A household account book, dated 1826 to 1827, containing a monthly record of foodstuffs and other goods purchased, perhaps for a hotel or private home on the east coast of Canada. There is currently no biographical information on the creator.
Broadside advertising American elk exhibition at the Lyceum Theatre, London
In 1765, a building was erected on an adjacent site of today's Lyceum Theatre by the architect James Payne for exhibitions and, later, for other entertainments. The theatre finally became a licensed house in 1809. One of these entertainments was that of the exhibition of an American Elk in 1792, as noted in this broadside printed in 1792 in London.
Broadside advertising London exhibition of engraved plates depicting Jean-Baptiste Wicar's Florentine art
Broadus Mitchell papers
Broadus Mitchell was an educator, historian, and biographer of Alexander Hamilton. Mitchell taught economics at Hopkins, 1919-1939, and was active in political affairs and issues of social justice in Baltimore. The collection consists of some papers related to Broadus Mitchell's research for his published work, William Gregg, Factory Master of the Old South, (1928) and Mitchell's biographical materials. The papers span from 1928 to 1929 and 1979-1986.
Broyles Music Collection
A few assorted popular songs and solo piano music.