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Isaiah Bowman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0058
Abstract

Isaiah Bowman, fifth president of The Johns Hopkins University and geographer, was born in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, December 26, 1878. The Isaiah Bowman papers offer a fairly complete view of his many-faceted professional life, and Bowman's service as an advisor to the U.S. government and U.S. State Department, particularly in relation to World War I and II, are well-documented in the papers. The papers span from 1902 to 1950.

Dates: 1823 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1950

J. Montgomery Gambrill papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0669
Abstract

J. Montgomery Gambrill (1880-1953) was a historian and professor at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University. This collection consists largely of typed and handwritten correspondence, subject files, and teaching files reagarding his research and administrative duties, from 1794 to 1966.

Dates: 1794-1966 and undated; Majority of material found within 1910-1952

Jacques Barzun papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0501
Abstract The collection consists of approximately 250 letters written to Joan Peyser by Jacques Barzun, as well as edits that Barzun made on five of Peyser's New York Times articles for the purpose of inclusion in her book, The Music of Our Time: Collected Essays and Articles. Most of the letteres reflect Barzun's relationship with Peyser as her mentor and editor. The correspondence often includes clipping of articles by Barzun and others, as well as invitations to...
Dates: 1970 - 2007

James Croll letter

 Collection — Box: BW-13
Identifier: MS-0276
Abstract

James Croll (1821-1890) was a Scottish geologist and climatologist. This collection consists of one letter of James Croll to Henry Sidgwick, May 12, 1883, asking for Sidgwick's opinion of an article.

Dates: 1883 May 12

James R. Randall letter to Charles F. Gunther and poem My Maryland!

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0715
Abstract

James Ryder Randall (1839-1908) was a native of Maryland and penned the poem, Maryland, My Maryland! which was adopted as the state song in 1939. The collection includes autograph transcriptions of a letter to Charles F. Gunther of Chicago and the accompanying aforementioned poem.

Dates: 1884 - 1884

Janney-White family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0572
Abstract

The Janney-White family papers primarily contain material related to Johns Hopkins's great-nephew Richard Janney White (1867-1929), his parents Jane Janney and Francis White (1825-1904), and their immediate and extended families.

Dates: 1796, 1840s-1942

John Alexander World War I correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0614
Abstract

John Gurnels Alexander was born March 8, 1888 in Franklin county, Georgia. The collection consists of letters dating from 1909 to 1952 to and from family, friends, soldiers and businesses; as well as Army documents from the war period.

Dates: 1909-1952

John G. A. Pocock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0425
Abstract

This collection contains lectures, speeches and writings; reprints; book manuscripts; and the conference papers of John G. A. Pocock, a historian of political thought and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His papers spans the years of 1962 to 2017, with the majority of the materials dating from Pocock's time at Hopkins. This holding notably includes his handwritten manuscripts of Barbarism and Religion (1999).

Dates: 1962-2017

John Hack correspondence

 Collection — Box: BW-28
Identifier: MS-0600
Scope and Contents

The contents of the letters include negotiation of prices, discussions of sales and quality of the products. One of the letters mentions that a check was included in the envelope and several acknowledge receiving shipments of Spanish Cigars and tobacco.

Dates: 1826-1827

John Pendleton Kennedy letter to the National Intelligencer newspaper

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0716
Abstract

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a politician (elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1838) and writer with strong ties to the South. This collection includes a public letter which elucidates Kennedy's dialogue as an apologist for slavery on the one hand, and the views of famed anti-slavery activist, Lewis Tappan, on the other. The correspondence was written on March 5, 1850.

Dates: 1850 March 5

John Pendleton Kennedy papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0058
Abstract

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) was an author, politician, lawyer, and original trustee of the Peabody Institute. The John Pendleton Kennedy papers, 1812-1896, contain correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and other documents related to Kennedy's varied personal and professional interests, including documents related to the founding and early years of the Peabody Institute.

Dates: 1812-1890
Found in: Peabody Archives

Johnnie Newton letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0616
Scope and Contents These 54 World War II letters dated from 1943 - 1945 were mostly written by Johnnie Newton. The sensitive young man wrote simple and folksy words to his folks back home. He always began the letters wishing his family well and telling them about the weather. He often told them how lucky he was because he was not yet sent overseas, and sometimes asked for money because his payment was irregular. A recurrent subject was his difficulty to communicate with his brother Samuel:"Mother I...
Dates: 1943-1945

Johns Hopkins University alumni collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0683
Abstract

This collection includes donations from Johns Hopkins University alumni that document student life, frequently reflecting the donor's personal experience as a student at Johns Hopkins University. The collection includes photographs, letters, student notes, and other material. The collection spans the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dates: 1840-1994

Johns Hopkins University Alumni College records

 Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-12-050
Abstract

The Alumni College was established by the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association in approximately 1973, to provide alumni with travel learning opportunities, better known as "education vacations." The collection spans from 1970 to 1974.

Dates: 1970 - 1974

Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-01-001
Abstract On August 24, 1867, Johns Hopkins incorporated the two institutions which bear his name: Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital. The original members of the Boards of Trustees for the two institutions were named in the Certificate of Incorporation. The records of the Board of Trustees span the years 1867 through 2012 and 2015 - Ongoing, although, with the exception of the bound volumes of minutes, relatively little exists for the years prior to 1925. The records document the...
Dates: 1867 - 2012; 2015 - Ongoing

Johns Hopkins University collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0137
Abstract

The Johns Hopkins University Collection is an artificial collection which acted as a library vertical file for information about the University, but with the advent of the Hamburger Archives this vertical file is no longer necessary.

Dates: 1870-1940

Johns Hopkins University collection of white supremacist and anti-integration materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0849
Abstract

The Johns Hopkins University collection of white supremacist and anti-integartion materials is an artificial collection which spans from the 18th to the 21st century. The collection consists of broadsides, postcards, and other printed ephemera created by proponents of white supremacy, anti-integration, and racist ideologies.

Dates: 1795-2007

Johns Hopkins University facilities management records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-09-010
Abstract

Johns Hopkins Facilities & Real Estate (JHFRE) provides full support services for the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, as well as planning, design, construction, and property management for other Hopkins campuses. These records primarily include files of real estate purchases, renovations, reports, and letters, while another bulk of the records includes the files of the creation of the Shriver Hall Murals. The records range from 1937 to 1971.

Dates: 1937-1971

Johns Hopkins University Josephine Jacobsen collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0561
Abstract

Josephine Jacobsen was a poet, short story writer, and literary critic. She was educated by private tutors at Roland Park Country School and graduated in 1926. Jacobsen's papers include drafts of her works, correspondence, photographs, and other materials. They range from the 1920s to 1982.

Dates: 1920s-1982

Johns Hopkins University Maryland ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0673
Abstract

This is an artificially-assembled collection with manuscript items selected by curators in Special Collections. This collection contains diaries, postcards, letters, and other material related to history and life in Maryland, 1818-2015 (Bulk: 1818-1957).

Dates: 1818-2015

Johns Hopkins University Press records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-03-020
Abstract The Johns Hopkins University Press, the oldest North American university press in continuous operation, dates its origination to 1878, the year the first issue of the American Journal of Mathematics was published "under the auspices of" the Publication Agency of the Johns Hopkins University and with the "aid and furtherance" of the University itself. The records of the Johns Hopkins University Press range in date from 1876 to 1995 and from 2015-Ongoing. This span of more than a century is...
Dates: 1876-1995; 2015 - Ongoing

Johns Hopkins University Women's Forum records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-15-150
Abstract The Women’s Forum officially began with the first meeting of the advisory board on October 10, 1987. The Women’s Forum describes itself in its mission statement as being, “an advocacy organization established to improve the status of women, and thereby the human climate, in all divisions of the university. The Forum also seeks to facilitate communications among Hopkins women and to support and foster their professional development through education, social, and cultural programs and...
Dates: 1987-1998

Johns Hopkins University World's Fair collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0545
Abstract

This artificially-assembled collection consists of materials relating to international World's Fairs and Expositions, including photographs; postcards; written travelogues or personal accounts of the fairs; ephemera, including programs and printed souvenirs; lithographs and engravings; and physical objects. The materials date from the 1830s to the 1960s.

Dates: 1830s-1967

Joseph Hopkinson letter to Abraham Walton

 Collection — Box: BW-32
Identifier: MS-0702
Abstract

Letter from Joseph Hopkinson, author of "Hail, Columbia!" to Abraham Walton, 1797 November 26.

Dates: 1797 November 26

Joseph Schillinger papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0048
Abstract

Joseph Schillinger was a theorist and composer famous for developing the Schillinger System, a method of deconstructing music using geometric phase relationships. The collection contains correspondence, recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, manuscript scores, and other documents related to his professional and personal life.

Dates: 1901-1996
Found in: Peabody Archives

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Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 6
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Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962 5
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 3
Frary, Richard, 1947- 3
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 3
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 3
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972 2
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 2
Barth, John, 1930- 2
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 2
Brown, George William, 1812-1890 2
Brown, Lloyd A. (Lloyd Arnold), 1907-1966 2
Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960 2
Claire, William F. 2
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 2
Cox, Richard Threlkeld, 1898-1991 2
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 2
Davis, William Morris, 1850-1934 2
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 2
Eaton, Charles James Madison, 1808-1893 2
Fleisher, Katherine Jacobson 2
Fleisher, Leon 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 2
Goodnow, Frank J., 1859-1939 2
Hamerik, Asger, 1843-1923 2
Hancock, John, 1737-1793 2
Havens, Raymond Dexter, 1880-1954 2
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 2
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 2
James, Henry, 1843-1916 2
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 2
Johns Hopkins University. Department of History 2
Johns Hopkins University. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 2
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Johns Hopkins University. Sheridan Libraries 2
Katz, M. Benjamin 2
Keyser, R. Brent, 1859-1927 2
Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891 2
Lind, E. G. 2
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 2
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC 2
Morison, Nathaniel Holmes, 1815-1890 2
Office of the Board of Trustees 2
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 2
Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960 2
Peabody Institute (Baltimore, Md.). Board of Trustees 2
Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981 2
Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935 2
Remsen, Ira, 1846-1927 2
Riggs, Lawrason, 1861-1940 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Francis Delano), 1882-1945 2
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 2
Singleton, Charles S. (Charles Southward), 1909-1985 2
Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969 2
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 2
Toklas, Alice B. 2
Uhler, Philip R. (Philip Reese), 1835-1913 2
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps 2
Walters, Henry, 1848-1931 2
Washington, George, 1732-1799 2
Wilson, Robert, 1922-2016 2
Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916 1
Ackerman, Barbara 1
Ackerman, Jack (John R. ) 1
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Addelspier, Thomas 1
Afghanistan Information Center (Peshawar, Pakistan) 1
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Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus 1
Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 1
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 1
Alexander, John G. (John Gurnels), 1888- 1
Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321 1
American Cotton Picker Co. 1
American Geographical Society of New York 1
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1
Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943 1
Andrew Clow & Company 1
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Anti-Communist Advisory Committee 1
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Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 1893-1973 1
Armstrong, S. C. (Samuel Chapman), 1839-1893 1
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888 1
Arnold, Rosie J. 1
Arnold, Samuel Bland, 1834-1906 1
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