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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. This span of more than a century is not, however, uniformly...
Dates:
1876-1995
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"The Flying Brigade" manuscript
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MS-0606
Scope and Contents
A 61 page manuscript item related to black Americana being a typed story written by a woman named Janet Hay Houston. She was a missionary and one of nine children born from Margaret Parks Paxton and noted minister, Samuel Rutherford Houston. "The Flying Brigades" is essentially a story of a missionary who gathers a group of other women to provide Christian outreach to the lumber camps of West Virginia. In lumber camps, the workers referred to itinerant ministers who conducted...
Dates:
1922
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Special Collections
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