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Kawasaki Kyosen woodblock print series Omocha Junikagetsu: Omamori To Engimono

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0882
Abstract

This collection consists of a first edition volume of Kawasaki Kyosen's woodblock print series, Omocha Junikagetsu: Omamori To Engimono [Twelve Months of Toys: Protective Talismans and Good Luck Charms], published in 1926.

Dates: 1926

Leon Fleisher papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0081
Abstract Pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Fleisher (1928-2020) has had a career in music stretching more than 70 years, including nearly 50 years as a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. After making his debut at age 16 with Pierre Monteux conducting, Fleisher toured internationally as a soloist until a neurological condition caused him to lose the full use of his right hand. After three decades of focusing on performing the piano repertoire for the left hand, conducting various...
Dates: 1938 - 2020
Found in: Peabody Archives

Robert E. Baker World War II scrapbook and printed ephemera of the U.S.S. Pentheus

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 5-6
Identifier: MS-0863
Abstract

This collection consists of one leatherbound scrapbook consisting of approximately 104 photographs, and related ephemera, kept by the Navy sailor Thomas E. Baker of the Baltimore-commissioned ship the U.S.S. Pentheus. The materials date between 1939 and 1945.

Dates: 1939 - 1945

Shimura Kako Company photograph album of student protest

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0917
Abstract

The photograph album contains thirty manila pages and fifty-three black and white photographs mounted in pairs. Photographs of student protesters in hard hats and white scarves, factory workers, and police are taken at close range and in the midst of confrontation. The album appears to have been compiled by the company under protest, the Shimura Kako Company, a nickel factory in Tokyo, Japan in 1969.

Dates: 1969

Shōsuke Satō collection

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MS-0394
Abstract

Shōsuke Satō (1856-1939) was an alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University. The collection consists of twenty pages of documents written in Japanese and several pages of a Japanese newspaper from 1880-1884.

Dates: 1880-1884