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Johns Hopkins University collection of Middle East-inspired sheet music
This collection includes popular American and British sheet music inspired by the Middle East. The collection dates from 1839-1978, but has a large concentration of music from 1903-1923.
Johns Hopkins University Josephine Baker collection
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess". Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934) and to become a world-famous entertainer. The materials span from 1926 to circa 1970 and contain photographs, promotional flyers, and ephemeral books.
Johns Hopkins University Langston Hughes collection
This is an artificially assembled collection of printed manuscript materials selected by the curators of Special Collections, centered on the musical, theatrical, and public speaking careers of Langston Hughes. Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, columnist, social thinker and activist, and leading figure in New York City's Harlem Renaissance. The collection spans from 1927 to 1999, with the bulk of it dating from 1936 to 1967.
Keepers Music Collection
The Keepers Music Collection contains 416 pieces of 19th century American popular sheet music, grouped by the lithographers of the front covers.
Ketzev a cappella group records
This collection contains recorded music and other records of Ketzev, a Jewish student a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University founded in 1997.
Kranti a cappella group records
This collection constists of records created by Kranti, a South Asian fusion a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University.
Ladies musical album
Manuscript diary belonging to Pauline Massicott. Contains very few pieces of music, however, there are several poems and letters within the volume.
Lester S. Levy sheet music collection
Lester S. Levy sheet music papers
Lester S. Levy was a music historian and sheet music collector. His music papers contain correspondence, speeches, printed material, and bills related to his collecting activities.
Marian Walton Anderson sheet music collection
The collection was amassed by Marian Walton Anderson, a pianist and teacher. It is particularly strong in song compilations, musical magazines, popular songs, and works published in Pennsylvania.
Mencken sheet music volume
Volume of popular American sheet music owned by H. L. Mencken. Approximately 20 individual compositions.
Mental Notes a cappella group records
This collection consists of records created by the Mental Notes, a student comedy a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University founded in 1994.
Milton Babbitt papers
This collection contains photographs, manuscripts, and other ephemera related to composer and mathemetician Milton Babbitt.
"Notes on Performances at Bayreuth" by John P. Frank
Summarizes musical performances from Summer 1983 at the Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany.
Octopodes a cappella group records
Ode (to be Sung by the Young Ladies...) broadside
A single broadside dated October 18, 1867. Lyrics of two songs to be sung by the young ladies of the high schools at the laying of the corner-stone of the new city hall in Baltimore.
Patti Chapin sheet music collection
Patti Chapin (later Patti Steincrohn) was a CBS radio singer and pianist from approximately 1934-1943. The collection, approximately 1900-1970, primarily contains annotated and unannotated performance (artist) copies of popular songs, but also includes correspondence, images, song catalogs, unverified original compositions, and various collected popular songs.
Richard Frary collection of Stephen Crane materials
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer, who in 1895 wrote "The Red Badge of Courage", which earned him international acclaim. This collection of materials relating to Crane, compiled by Johns Hopkins University alumnus Richard Frary, includes letters (many by Crane), events ephemera, photographs, articles of literary criticism, and sheet music (inspired by his fiction). The materials date from the 1890s to the early 2000s.
Robert Gould sheet music collection
Sam Carner sheet music collection
Sam Carner is a musical theater composer and librettist who collected sheet music along with his father (Frank Carner) and grandfather (Al Rose). The Sam Carner sheet music collection contains 19th and 20th century popular sheet music, musical magazines, and song compilations.
Saul collection of theater programs
Schanning family collection of Harry Kennedy sheet music
Sheet music composed or published by songwriter William Henry Kennedy, better known as Harry Kennedy.
Sheet music arrangement of Thomas Moore poem "Calm in His Mother's Eyes"
Manuscript sheet music depicting an arrangement of the Thomas Moore poem "Calm in His Mother's Eyes," 1832. The name of the creator cannot be read.
Sidney Lanier papers
Sidney Clopton Lanier (1842-1881) was a Confederate soldier, musician, poet and author who lectured in English Literature at Johns Hopkins University and played flute in the Peabody Orchestra. The collection consists of correspondence, prose, poetry, lecture and music manuscripts, photographs, memorial information, newspaper clippings, and other materials.
Sirens a cappella group records
This collection constists of records created by the Sirens, a student a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University.