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Record Group
Identifier: RG-07-005
Scope and Contents
These are the records of the Advisory Council to the School of Advanced International Studies, which includes committees on Academic Planning, Development and Finance, and the Visiting Committees. The records date from 1958 to 1992 and are arranged in three series: (1) Meetings, 1963-1992; (2) Committees, 1959-1991; and (3) Administrative Records, 1958-1973. The record group contains minutes, correspondence, reports, budgetary records and memoranda. In general, the subjects treated in the...
Dates:
1958-1992
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0146
Abstract
Albert L. Hammond was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins. This collection contains correspondence between Hammond, George Edwin Dorsey, and C.D. Benson, Jr.
Dates:
1920-1923
Collection
Identifier: MS-0397
Abstract
Aleine Austin was historian and author born in New York City, July 19, 1922. The papers, dating from 1940 to 1991, consist of student notes, lecture notes, published articles, manuscript notes, recordings, photographs, correspondence, and a selection of papers that document Aleine Austin's interest and work in the American labor movement.
Dates:
1940-1991
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0665
Abstract
Alexandre Chessin was born in St. Petersburg in the Russian empire in 1866 and was a professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University from 1895 to 1899. This collection contains photocopies of handwritten lectures given by Chessin from the 1895 to 1896 academic year, collectively titled: "Introduction into the Study of the Theory of Functions--Lectures Delivered at J.H.U. in 1895-96 by Alexandre S. Chessin--Part I. Functions of Real Variables"
Dates:
1895-1896
Record Group
Identifier: RG-03-005
Scope and Content Note
This record group, spanning the years 1949 to 1985, consists principally of the records of two Deans of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies: Michael K. Hooker, who served from 1978 to 1982, and Lucien M. Brush, who served from 1982 until the office was abolished in 1985. The record group is divided into two series: (1) Academic Records; and (2) Student Services Records. The first series consists primarily of memoranda, correspondence and meeting agendas, relating to the deans' major...
Dates:
1949-1985
Collection
Identifier: MS-0197
Scope and Contents
This collection represents the extant records of the AAU since its inception. Due to the decentralized nature of the organization in its early years, documentation of the early years is sparse. It is possible that the personal papers of the early AAU secretaries or the archives of their universities might have more of the early AAU records. The records (1900-82) consist of correspondence, membership files, committee minutes and reports, annual conference materials, and general...
Dates:
1900-1982
Record Group
Identifier: RG-15-050
Abstract
The records of the Baltimore Naturalists Field Club indicate that Dr. Henry Newell Martin first proposed "the desirability of forming a Field Club for the Study of Natural History of the region around Baltimore" in April 1880. The original framework was to include a President, a Secretary and Chairs of Sections who were to organize the weekly excursions and report on these in the fields of Botany, Vertebrates (Land), Invertebrates (Land), Aquatic and Marine Life, and Physical Geography and...
Dates:
1880-1928
Collection
Identifier: MS-0384
Abstract
Benjamin G. Kohl (1938-2010) was an author and historian who specialized in the history of the Renaissance. The collection consists of research material and personal papers ranging in date from 1960-2006, including a series of correspondence between Kohl and his mentor, Frederic Chapin Lane.
Dates:
1960-2006, undated
Record Group
Identifier: RG-18-050
Abstract
The budgets estimate the University's revenue and expenditures for each year, and provide a schedule of appropriations. The budgets list the annual appropriations for all divisions of the University, broken down by department. The financial reports contain balance sheets, statements of income and expenditure, and are usually broken down by division with descriptions of endowment or other funds, including descriptions of how the funds were invested. The records of the budget office, beginning...
Dates:
1908-2007
Collection
Identifier: MS-0727
Abstract
C. Harvey Palmer, Jr. is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in optics. This collection holds selections of Palmer's research notes and teaching files, loose leaf and in binders, ranging from 1968 to 1990.
Dates:
1968 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: MS-0662
Abstract
Carl F. (Finley) Christ (1923-2017) was an American economist and a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. This collection contains his administrative files, teaching materials, writings, correspondence, and research subject files. The papers span from 1931 to 2006.
Dates:
1931 - 2006
Record Group
Identifier: RG-17-030
Abstract
The records of the Centennial Celebration document the activities of the Office of Centennial Planning, the Centennial Board, and committees in preparing for the various social festivities, symposia, and other commemorative events undertaken to celebrate Hopkins's hundredth anniversary in 1976.
Dates:
1969 October-1976 November
Collection
Identifier: MS-0143
Abstract
This collection consists of letters and papers of Charles William Emil Miller, professor of Greek at The Johns Hopkins University.
Dates:
1896-1928
Record Group
Identifier: RG-16-010
Abstract
The Committee on Post-War Planning (first known as the Committee on the Curriculum) was set up on November 12, 1942, by President Isaiah Bowman. The records of the Committee on Post-War Planning date from January 1943 to September 1944. Consisting of minutes, correspondence, curriculum reports, and a final report, the records are concerned with projecting the role of the university after the Second World War.
Dates:
1943 January-1944 September
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0287
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence between Daniel Coit Gilman, Basil Gildersleeve, Nicholas Murray Butler and others regarding obtaining a copy of the Didache manuscript.
Dates:
1885-1888
Record Group
Identifier: RG-16-020
Abstract
The Board of Trustees established the "Committee to Study the Structure, Organization and Functions of the Board of Trustees and to Consider Possible Amendments to the Charter of the University" under the chairmanship of Howard Bruce, a Trustee of the University from 1947 to 1953. The records of the Survey of the Activities on the Homewood Campus, conducted by the management engineering firm Cresap, McCormick and Paget, consist of one report produced by that firm.
Dates:
1952 April 7
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
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
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-04-060
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
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-140
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Political Economy/Economics range in date from 1892 to 1995. The types of records vary within this time span, different records having been kept at different times in the department's history. The record group is divided as follows: Series 1: Seminary Minutes and Gradebooks, 1892-1962 Series 2: Records of George E. Barnett, 1905-1938 Series 3: Evening Courses in Business Economics, 1916-1937 Subseries 1: William O. Weyforth,...
Dates:
1892-1995; 2015 - Ongoing
Record Group
Identifier: RG-06-090
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Mathematical Sciences range in date from 1954 to 1992. They are divided into two subgroups. Records in subgroup 1 are primarily those of Dr. Eliezer Naddor, a Hopkins faculty member from 1956 to 1986 and Professor from 1964 to 1986, although they do contain a large amount of departmental administrative and student records. When removed from Naddor's office, these records were without order or arrangement; a series and file arrangement was imposed upon the...
Dates:
1954-1992
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-190
Abstract
With the passing of the National Defense Act on October 16, 1916, a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps was formally established at Hopkins under what was then the Department of Military Science and Tactics (now known as the Department of Military Science). This collection primarily includes photographs and clippings (both mainly contained in photograph album pages). The collection also includes, to a lesser degree: photocopies of historical documents and historical research,...
Dates:
1918-2010
Collection
Identifier: MS-0075
Abstract
Édouard-René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye was a French businessman, lawyer, author, professor and politician born in Paris January 18, 1811. The collection consists of two volumes entitled "Constitution des États-Unis" containing 59 lectures written in French and delivered by Laboulaye at the Collège de France. Most were delivered in 1862-1863.
Dates:
1848-1864
Collection — Box: BW-13
Identifier: MS-0274
Abstract
Edwin Charles Cort received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1907 and was a medical missionary in Siam (Thailand) from 1908 intil 1949. This collection consists of an essay entitled "Thirty Years of Medical Practice in Siam" from approximately 1948.
Dates:
approximately 1948
