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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0952
Content Description
A portable cryptography kit for writing private letters titled "Cryptographe ou cachet-scellé de Victor Chevalier" or "Cryptograph or seal-stamp of Victor Chevalier," manufactured in Paris in 1844. The set consists of a wooden lacquered box with tools, four decorated cardboard boxes lined with embossed gold and silver paper with numerous metal pieces and a mechanical device to apply these pieces to envelopes. Also inclucded are a piece of sealing wax and a seal, a vial with blue powdery...
Dates:
1844
Collection — Box: BW-8, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-1018
Abstract
This collection contains seven black-and-white mugshots of Black men at the Cumberland County Jail in Bridgeton, NJ.
Dates:
1954 - 1956
Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-06-013
Scope and Contents
The records of the Curriculum Committee consist of minutes of meetings, arranged in chronological order, covering the periods February-December, 1934; May-June, 1938; and January 1942. The president appointed the Curriculum Committee to assist the Board of Engineering Studies. J. T. Thompson served as secretary; other members were: Alexander Graham Christie, William B. Kouwenhoven, Joseph C. W. Frazer, Wilbert J. Huff, and Paul H. Emmett.
Dates:
1934-1942
Collection — Box: BW-11
Identifier: MS-0539
Abstract
A notebook of notes taken during a paleontogy course taken at Johns Hopkins University in 1893, likely by a student named David Ellsworth Roberts.
Dates:
1893 - 1894
Collection — Box: BW-2, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-0818
Abstract
This collection contains three handwritten letters written by Dame Kathleen Furse to Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer, dated from 1941 to 1945. Also included are a published image of Furse and a printed image of the cover of her autobiography, Hearts and Pomegranates, published in 1940. Furse was a pioneer in the British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs), and eventual Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. She was born in 1875...
Dates:
approximately 1941-1945
Collection
Identifier: MS-0001
Scope and Contents note
The papers document Gilman's wide-ranging interests especially his travels in Europe and work as attaché in St. Petersburg (1854-1855), his years (1855-1858) at Yale, and his presidencies of the University of California (1872-1875) and the Johns Hopkins University (1876-1902)Gilman's correspondence contains a number of letters from prominent, contemporary educators, scientists, politicians, and literary figures. The collection includes a large number of photographs of Gilman's...
Dates:
1773-1942
Collection — Box: BW-11
Identifier: MS-0536
Abstract
Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837 – 1899) was an American archaeologist and ethnologist. Collection consists of one letter (undated) from Brinton to "P."
Dates:
undated
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0361
Abstract
Daniel Gordon (born 1920) was an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins University and a Baltimore attorney. Collection consists of one bound copy of Daniel Gordon's essay entitled "The Robber Baron Archaeologist" (1991) on the life of the financier and Egyptologist, Theodore M. Davis.
Dates:
1991
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0873
Abstract
Transcriptions, mostly typewritten but some handwritten, of letters of Arthur O. Lovejoy, 1872-1962.
Dates:
1872 - 1962
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-1013
Content Description
This collection contains the film scripts, manuscripts and correspondence of Daniel Tamkus.Box 1: film scripts, JHU materials, manuscripts and correspondence related to published poetry.
Box 2: manuscript material related to the novels The Spawn (published under the pseudonym L. J. Key) and The Much Honored Man.
Box 3: manuscript material related to the unpublished novels Rinehart Shell and The...
Dates:
1951 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: MS-0401
Abstract
Daniel Willard was born on January 28, 1861 in Hartland, Vermont and became president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1910. The collection consists of correspondence, the Stevens Commission, photographs, and biographical information spanning 1899 to 1942.
Dates:
1899-1942
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0896
Abstract
The collection consists of a two-volume scrapbook on the Royal Air Force kept by Daphne Pauline McGeagh from 1942–1944. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of R.A.F. pilots and aircraft with photographs, sketch portraits, and short biographies or profiles. American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand pilots are included.
Dates:
1942 - 1944
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-HUT-011
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two photostatic copies of pamhlets written, 1696-1697, by English economist, Charles Davenant. The copies were produced in the 1930s, and the location of the originals is described in the Provenance. Each photostatic copy is bound as a single volume."A Memorial concerning Creditt And the means and methods by which it may be restored" was written in 1696, and "A Memorial Concerning the Coyn of England," was written in 1697. Davenant...
Dates:
1930
Collection
Identifier: MS-0718
Abstract
Born in Czechoslovakia, David Stern grew up in Israel, studying physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on an underground experiment on cosmic rays. Until his retirement in 2001, Stern was associated with Goddard Space Flight Center, studying theoretical aspects of the Earth's magnetosphere, in particular its large-scale electrodynamics, global description of its magnetic fields, and...
Dates:
1973-2010
Collection
Identifier: MS-HUT-006
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of one holograph letter of March 29, 1822 by David Ricardo in which he explains his refusal to become a candidate for Member of Parliament from Liverpool. Apparently, Ricardo had been encouraged to stand for the Liverpool election. The letter cites the expense, anxiety, and future restraints on his time as reasons for declining and states his satisfaction with sitting for Portarlington, Ireland. The letter ends with remarks concerning options for paying duty by...
Dates:
1822
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0352
Abstract
This collection onsists of a 1922 essay by Johns Hopkins University philologist David S. Blondheim, titled "Eassai d'un Vocabulaire Comparatif des Parlers Romans des Juifs au Moyen Age."
Dates:
1922
Collection
Identifier: MS-0634
Abstract
David Spring was a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University for forty years (1949-1989). The collection contains notes and references from manuscripts researched by Dr. Spring while in Britain, photocopies of manuscript pages, and course lecture notes. Exact collection dates are unknown, since the collection has not been processed.
Dates:
approximately 1790 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: MS-0207
Abstract
David Sterrett Pindell received his B. A. (1895) and PAE (Proficiency in Applied Engineering, 1897) from The Johns Hopkins University. The collection consists of one notebook of notes on lectures delivered by Henry A. Rowland from 1896-1897.
Dates:
1896-1897
Record Group
Identifier: RG-14-040
Abstract
Debating at Hopkins started as early as 1884 when Woodrow Wilson, then a graduate student, helped found the House of Commons. The records of the Debate Council date from 1895 to 1982, with the vast majority of the records dating from after 1976. Arranged in one series, these records are filed in chronological order. Records from the late 1890s and early 1900s include programs and announcements of debates as well as some financial records and University awards. Later records are more complete...
Dates:
1895-1982; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1982
Record Group
Identifier: RG-06-080
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Aeronautics span the entire period that the department existed in the School of Engineering, 1946-1961. The record group is arranged as follows: Subgroup 1: Departmental Administration, 1946-1960 Series 1: Departmental Subject Files, 1946-1960 Series 2: University Subject Files, 1946-1960 Subgroup 2: Professional Papers of Francis H. Clauser, 1946-1961 Series 1: Correspondence with Colleagues and Corporations, 1946-1960 Subseries...
Dates:
1946-1961
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-260
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Anthropology span the years 1974 to 1984; most of the documents, however, date from 1974 to 1980, and are divided into five series: (1) Administrative Records, 1974-1984; (2) Faculty and Staff, 1974-1984; (3) Student Records, 1974-1981; and (4) NEH Fellows, 1975-1978. Series 3 is further divided into three subseries: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students and Special Students. Consisting primarily of correspondence, appointment letters, faculty resumes,...
Dates:
1974-1984
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-070
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Biology range in date from 1878 to 1972, although most records are from the 1920s or the period 1946 through 1954. There are no records between 1955 and 1969. Most of the records were created by Duncan Starr Johnson, Director of the Johns Hopkins Botanic Gardens and Professor of Botany from 1906 until his death in 1937, and Benjamin H. Willier, chairman of the Department of Biology from 1940 to 1955 and Henry Walters Professor of Zoology from 1940 to 1958....
Dates:
1878-1972; 2015 - Ongoing
Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-04-210
Abstract
In 1949, the first course in biophysics was offered at Johns Hopkins. The following year Jenkins Hall was dedicated as the center of biophysical research at the Homewood campus. This collection consists of materials pertaining to the 50th anniversary of Biophysics at Hopkins, circa 1999, including items from previous anniversaries. This collection also includes an archived website.
Dates:
circa 1999; 2015 - Ongoing
Record Group
Identifier: RG-06-060
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Chemical Engineering span the years 1939 to 1960 and 1982 to 1984. The record group is divided into two series. Series 1, Student Records, 1939-1960, is further subdivided into four subseries for Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Special and Non-Degree Students, and Other Student Records. Types of records in this series include applications for admission, transcripts, letters of reference and correspondence. Series 2, Grants, 1982-1984, consists of...
Dates:
1939-1984
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-060
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Chemistry range in date from 1901 to 1983 and are, for the most part, the products of four members of the faculty: Donald Hatch Andrews (faculty member, 1927-1963; chairman, 1936-1944), Alsoph H. Corwin (faculty member, 1932-1973; chairman, 1944-1947), Frederick Y. Wiselogle (faculty member 1937-1946), and Everett Thiele (faculty member, 1965-1973). The bulk of the records covers the period from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. One of the earliest items extant is...
Dates:
1901-1983; 2015 - Ongoing
