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Collection
Identifier: MS-1043
Content Description
This collection contains several artifacts associated with the "200 Years of Returns" interactive theater piece developed by B4 Youth Theatre in 2022 in collaboration with Colonial Williamsburg and Liberian artist Omar El Shabu, also known as Baba Shabu. "200 Years of Returns" was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary since the first Black Americans settled in Liberia through the American Colonization Society.The items in this collection represent various...
Dates:
2022
Collection
Identifier: MS-0142
Scope and Contents
The collection of Johns Hopkins professor of Romance Languages, A. Marshall Elliott, is formed largely by the holographic copies of manuscripts of Marie de France assembled by Professor Elliott from libraries in Europe. The papers are the research for his proposed work on the 12th-century French poet whose writings and background were not well known in the late 19th century/early 20th century. The fables and lays [lais] are written in French and include mostly manuscripts from the...
Dates:
1898-1909
Collection
Identifier: MS-0040
Abstract
Adolf Katzenellenbogen, internationally known art historian, was born in Germany in Frankfurt-am-Main on August 19, 1901. He was educated at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Munich, Frankfurt and Giessen in 1924, and he received a doctor of philosophy degree in 1933 at the University of Hamburg. Katzenellenbogen joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1940 and remained there until 1958 when he came to Johns Hopkins University as full professor and department chairman. A specialist in...
Dates:
1933-1964
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
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0156
Abstract
The collection consists of an unbound scrapbook containing 17 pages of newspaper clippings from The Baltimore Gazette and The Baltimore Republican, dating from August 28, 1835 to October 15, 1835. They give an account of the trial of the Bank of Maryland against Thomas Ellicott.
Dates:
1835 August 28 - October 15
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
Collection
Identifier: MS-0228
Abstract
Charles Grove Haines was a Professor of Diplomatic History born in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania December 10, 1906. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and subject files dating to Haines's time as the Director of the Bologna Center at the School of Advanced International Studies dating from 1970-1976. Some personal items are also included.
Dates:
1955-1976; Majority of material found within 1970-1976
Collection
Identifier: MS-0330
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs of Calcutta, India in the early 1940s, a printed map of Calcutta and Howrah, twelve prints of scenes in India, and one informational clipping about Calcutta removed from the Christian Science Monitor (March 1, 1974).
Dates:
approximately 1942-1945, 1974; Majority of material found within 1942-1945
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0205
Abstract
The collection consists of 18 accounts submitted to the Cecil County (Md.) Poor School Fund by teachers wishing to be reimbursed for the tuition of scholars who were unable to pay from 1828-1856.
Dates:
1828-1856
Collection
Identifier: MS-0375
Abstract
Charles Mason Remey was an architect, author, and a religious leader of the Baha'i faith. He was born in Burlington, Iowa, May 15, 1874. The collection consists of 154 bound volumes, spanning 1836-1940. In the volumes are personal reminiscences, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, biographical accounts of Mason and Remey family members, and a historical record of the Baha'i faith.
Dates:
1836-1940; Majority of material found within 1903-1940
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0380
Abstract
The collection consists of one bound holographic ledger (1787-1801) containing copies of petitions from citizens who hoped to purchase lots and estates in Maryland formerly held by persons loyal to the British crown during the period of the American Revolution.
Dates:
1787-1801
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
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-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-04-110
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of History range in date from 1877 to 1991. Most of the records are those kept by departmental chairmen John Holladay Latané (1913-1930), Kent Roberts Greenfield (1930-1943), Sidney Painter (acting chairman 1943-1945, chairman 1945-1960), Frederic C. Lane (1960-1961), Charles A. Barker (1961-1966), Alfred D. Chandler (1966-1970), Jack P. Greene (1970- 1973), Orest Ranum (1973-1976, 1982-1985), Vernon L. Lidtke (1976-1979), Mack Walker (1979-1982), and A.J.R...
Dates:
1877-1991; 2015 - Ongoing
Collection
Identifier: MS-0379
Abstract
Lewis Anthony Dexter (1915-1995) was an author and professor of political science. The collection consists of over 1200 individual interviews with people in the fields of government, politics, business, industry, and the military dating primarily from 1953 to 1966, but ranging from 1946 to 1972.
Dates:
1946-1972; Majority of material found within 1953-1966
Collection
Identifier: MS-0227
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection relate largely to Sandler's journalism career in Italy from 1957 to 1975. The correspondence deals with journalistic assignments and most of the writings are pieces which she did for the "Daily American" in Rome, the "New York Times," or various travel magazines. Her personal life is somewhat revealed through the material on "Timignano" the home outside of Siena in Tuscany where she and her husband Grove Haines lived from...
Dates:
approximately 1920-1987
Collection
Identifier: MS-0368
Abstract
Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1903. During the 1930s, he served in the Maryland legislature. In 1938, he founded the Mount Vernon Improvement Association and spent much of the rest of his life fighting to retain the original architectural integrity of Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place. He was also a founder of the Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library's Friends of the Library. The collection of Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. consists mostly of items related to...
Dates:
approximately 1800-1975
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0719
Abstract
Edward Everett Ayer (1841-1927) was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He had over time built an immense fortune out of supplying timber to the 19th century's fast-growing railroad industry. The collection contains a bound volume of a memoir written by Ayer, titled Reminiscences and Travels of Edward E....
Dates:
circa 1924
Collection
Identifier: MS-0055
Abstract
Eleanor L. Turnbull was a poet and translator born in Baltimore in 1875. The Collection consists of correspondence, translations of Spanish poetry, notes, and personal items. Most of the collection dates from the 1930s through the 1950s, and deals with Turnbull's work as a translator.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1874 - 1960; 1874 - 1992
Collection
Identifier: MS-0085
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of 4 series: scrapbooks, lectures, writings and correspondence covering the years 1881-1925. The scrapbooks, the largest series, comprise 10 volumes that span 1899-1915 and contain newspaper clippings, dinner invitations, and articles. The clippings focus primarily on Gould's efforts as an urban Progressive, both in politics and housing reform. Gould was a founding member of the Citizens Union and an active campaigner for Seth Low's fusion candidacy in the mayoral race of...
Dates:
1881-1925
Collection
Identifier: MS-0235
Abstract
Elisabeth Gilman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, December 25, 1867. She was the younger daughter of Daniel Coit and Mary (Ketcham) Gilman. Her father was a college professor and the first president of The Johns Hopkins University. The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, newspaper clippings, printed material, memorabilia, and photographs.
Dates:
1872-1949
Collection — Box: BW-13
Identifier: MS-0238
Abstract
Collection consists of two letters written (August 23, 1861 and October 28, 1861) to Johnny Wilde in Selma, Alabama from Emilie Bailey in Wilmington, North Carolina at the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Dates:
1861
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0233
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook (1914) which forms this collection was assembled by Baltimore judge, Emory Hamilton Niles. Many of the items in the scrapbook are in German and reflect a brief but historically significant few months (July to November) leading up to World War I in 1914. The scrapbook contains tickets, postcards, photographs, and newspaper clippings collected in Europe prior to and immediately following the outbreak of World War I. Tickets and photographs in the scrapbook indicate that...
Dates:
1914
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0211
Abstract
Flahavan & Willcox was a Philadelphia firm established for the import/export trade in 1784. The collection consists of one letterbook of the company containing letters over the period April 14, 1784 to November 16, 1792.
Dates:
1784-1792
