Johns Hopkins University
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Sirich scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0751
Abstract
John Henry Sirich, Sr. (1848-1911) was born in West Virginia but moved to Baltimore as a child. He worked his way up from being a clerk, and worked as a manager for the Boston Marine Insurance Co. He was at one time president of the Fire Board and president of the Board of Directors of the City Jail.
His son Edward H. received his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. This collection includes 26 scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings regarding politics, as well as 4 handwritten indexes for the...
Dates:
approximately 1870s-1890s
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University collection of African American history and culture
Collection
Identifier: MS-0845
Abstract
The Johns Hopkins University collection of African American history and culture is an artificially assembled collection of printed materials, diaries, photographs, and other items created from 1800 to 1988.
Dates:
1800 - 1988
Found in:
Special Collections
Sidney Offit papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0395
Scope and Contents
The papers of Sidney Offit relate his career as writer, teacher, and active participant in the literary and civic life of New York City. The collection spans the years 1928-1997 and includes photographs and mementos from his early life in Baltimore, MD to the reviews and accolades for his published volume, Memoir of the Bookie's Son.
Series 1: Writings forms the largest part of the collection, and it is in this series where examples of Offit's manuscript writings...
Dates:
1932-1997
Found in:
Special Collections
William Wallace Whitelock papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0234
Abstract
William Wallace Whitelock, poet and author, was born in Mt. Washington, Maryland in 1869. The papers consist of four, bound scrapbooks and fourteen notebooks dating from 1885-1939.
Dates:
1885-1939
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Autographs 1
- Children's literature, American 1
- College teachers 1
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- Personal narratives 1
- Poetry, Modern 1
- Poets, American 1
- Politics and government 1
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- Printed ephemera 1
- Segregation in education 1
- Theater programs 1
- World War (1914-1918) 1
- World War (1939-1945) 1
- announcements 1
- booklets 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- cabinet photographs 1
- card games (game sets) 1
- collecting cards 1
- fliers (printed matter) 1
- indexes (reference sources) 1
- invitations 1
- leaflets (printed works) 1
- ledgers (account books) 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
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- military records 1
- muster rolls 1
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- poems 1
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