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Collection
Identifier: MS-0959
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to Angela Davis’s social and political activism and impact from 1970-1987. The bulk of the collection consists of booklets, posters, flyers, published articles, and petitions produced by Angela Davis legal defense and support committees from 1970-1972 as part of the “Free Angela Davis” campaign. The majority of these items were created in support of Davis following her arrest in October 1970; however, the collection does contain a single pamphlet...
Dates:
1970 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1972
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: PIMS-0093
Abstract
Estelle Dennis was a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who founded the Estelle Dennis Dance Theatre in Baltimore in 1933. The collection contains 16 photographs of Estelle Dennis, her students, and her associates. Included is a photograph by Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine of Dennis and other dancers performing on the beach in 1947, a photograph of a dance at Rusty Rocks, and several photographs of an event featuring a singer and pianist. The collection also contains one...
Dates:
approximately 1935-1965
Collection — Box: BW-4, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-0974
Content Description
Poster diagram of the VT Fuze developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, signed by the researchers who worked on the project. Signatures include Merle Tuve and Vannemar Bush. Signatures are not original to this item; it appears to be a copy of the original, printed on cardboard.
Dates:
1945 September
Collection
Identifier: MS-0786
Abstract
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.
Dates:
2016
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0003
Abstract
Clinton Arrowood was a flautist and illustrator best known for his unique drawings of animals as musicians. The collection contains Arrowood's illustrations for musical events at the Peabody Institute and elsewhere, as well as drawings for children's books and other media. It includes original drawings, reproductions, clippings, and other documents related to Arrowood's career.
Dates:
1961 - 1990
Record Group
Identifier: RG-14-350
Abstract
The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance records primarily consist of meeting minutes, executive board manuals, correspondence, broadsides, and other materials created by DSAGA between 1986 and approximately 2017.
Dates:
1986-approximately 2017
Record Group
Identifier: RG-14-360
Abstract
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) is a student-run lecture series sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. This record group contains posters, programs, and photographs for Symposium events from 2008 to 2020, as well as archived websites from 2015-Ongoing.
Dates:
2007 - 2020; 2015 - Ongoing
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0064
Abstract
Frank Willis was a classical pianist and composer who attended Peabody Conservatory and was a composer and conductor for the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. His papers include manuscript and published scores and some contextual material.
Dates:
1967-1996
Collection
Identifier: MS-0902
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, screenplays, typescripts, film posters and stills, and other materials which document William Faulkner's career, collected by Richard Frary. The collection dates from 1920 to 2000; the bulk of the material dates from 1930 to 1970.
Dates:
1920 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0020
Abstract
The Glenroy C. Stein papers contain scores and method books written by Stein and various other composers. Also included are personal papers which include newspaper clippings, correspondence, posters, and concert programs.
Dates:
1865 - 1967
Collection
Identifier: MS-0755
Abstract
Globe Poster Printing Corporation was founded in 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland by business partners Harry Shapiro and Norman Goldstein. The shop specialized in printing showcard posters for movie theaters, vaudeville and burlesque acts, the earliest performers of country and Western music, motorsports events, and carnivals. The company later extended its services to a variety of products such as banners, tickets, and bumper stickers, in the process reaching a clientele based in the birth of...
Dates:
1929-2011
Collection — Box: BW-2, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-0810
Abstract
This collection contains promotional materials and a signed poster printed by The Jargon Society, an independent press based in North Carolina. The items were printed from 1951 to 1986.
Dates:
1951-1986
Collection
Identifier: MS-0674
Abstract
Born on April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul Robeson went on to become a stellar athlete, civil rights activist, and an immensely popular singer and actor, known for his stage and film performances in The Emperor Jones and Show Boat. The collection contains ephemera documenting Robeson's career from 1924 to 1973, including: programs, souvenir books on his life story, magazines, playbills, photographs (black-and-white movie stills),...
Dates:
1924-1978
Collection
Identifier: MS-0857
Abstract
The Johns Hopkins University women's suffrage collection documents the history of the women's suffrage movement both in the United States and abroad from 1879 to approximately 1970, with the bulk of the material dating from 1900 to 1920. It is an artificially assembled collection of materials selected by the curators of Special Collections.
Dates:
1879-approximately 1970s; Majority of material found within 1900-1920
Collection — map-case: OF-1
Identifier: MS-1001
Content Description
This collection consists of a poster from the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA), as well as a flyer with a list identifying the 278 people and groups featured in the poster image and information about MOTHA's mission. The poster features images of notable transgender and gender non-conforming public figures, entertainers, and film characters. Featured people include Chelsea Manning, RuPaul, David Bowie, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in...
Dates:
2013
Collection — Box: BW-16, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-0880
Abstract
A lithographed poster designed to call attention to racism in the gay community. The poster was created in approximately 1980 by Ken Hair and Mike Smith of BWMT, Inc., now known as the National Association of Black and White Men Together.
Dates:
approximately 1980
Collection — Box: BW-22, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-0784
Content Description
Rewritten from dealer description: Pen and ink cartoon caricature on poster-size artist board, by William “Norman” Ritchie, drawn in 1915. The drawing lampoons the latest fashion in women's clothing, the inclusion of pockets on women's garments, with one caption starting with, "Just Like A Man." The central image shows a stylish woman with dozens of parcels protruding from the over-stuffed pockets of her outergarments. The item measures fifteen by eleven and a half inches, and is...
Dates:
1915
Record Group
Identifier: RG-14-390
Content Description
This collection contains three CDs by the Octopodes, an all-gender a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University. The first CD was produced in approximately 1998 and is titled Late Night Record Shop. The second was produced in approximately 2002 and is titled Octopussy. The third was produced in approximately 2004 and is titled Shot of Blue. Digital copies of each CD are available upon request. The collection also contains a large poster advertisement for the Octopodes Spring 2017 concert, as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1998 - 2004; 1998 - 2020
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0461
Abstract
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent. This collection consists of a poster, a publication annoucement, a bibliographic checklist, and a photograh of a painting. The items date from 1975, and roughly 1981-1991.
Dates:
1975; 1991 November, undated
Collection
Identifier: MS-0500
Abstract
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope.These records reflect much of the administrative and scientific activities of the STScI, from the early planning stages of the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1960s to the Next Generation (James Webb) Space Telescope in the early 21st century.
Dates:
1964-2008
Collection — map-case: OF-1
Identifier: MS-0996
Content Description
This collection contains propaganda posters created by the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War, via the Ministerio de Propaganda and the Quinto Regimiento de Milicias Populares. See item description for more details on the individual posters. Content Warning This finding aid and the archival records it describes include images that may be upsetting or triggering. Specifically, depictions of death and severe injury. This...
Dates:
1937
Collection — Box: BW-17, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-1036
Content Description
This collection contains an exhibition poster for an art show titled "The Villains," which contained art by graffiti artist Crash (also known as John Matos), and exhibited at Mary Anthony Galleries in New York in from May 13-June 30, 1995.
The poster features an image reminiscent of superhero comics, in orange and white with black text. The poster is signed by Crash and dated 1995.
Dates:
1995
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-GAR-051
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one box of posters and flyers created during the first and second World Wars. The majority of the items were published during World War II, including posters and flyers published by the United States government promoting war-savings stamps, war bonds, and food rationing. One poster was designed by Ted Jung and published by the War Food Administration: "For work, for play, 3 'squares' a day: eat the Basic 7 way." There is also a set of posters published by the...
Dates:
1917 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945
