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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

Larzer Ziff papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0639
Abstract

Professor Larzer Ziff became the Caroline Donovan Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University in 1981. He served as chair of the Department of English from 1991 to 1995. This collection consists of the professional and teaching files of Larzer Ziff from the 1960s to 2008. The collection primarily includes course materials, conference papers, and his writings, both published and unpublished.

Dates: 1960s-2008

Maurice Bessman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0667
Abstract

Maurice Bessman is an emeritus professor of biochemistry and enzymology in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. This collection consists of workbooks, lecture notes, slides, transparencies, research notes, manuscripts, exams, conference papers and journal articles, photographs, and correspondence. These materials span 1956 to 2007.

Dates: 1956-2007

Mihály Virizlay papers and cello score collection

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0007
Abstract

Mihály Virizlay (1931-2008) was a Hungarian-born cellist who had a successful international career as a concerto and recital soloist, was principal cello of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for 40 years, and taught at the Peabody Institute. The Mihály Virizlay papers contain published and manuscript musical scores, chiefly for cello, including Virizlay’s own compositions and arrangements. The collection also includes recordings, concert programs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1912 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1962-2004
Found in: Peabody Archives

Richard Threlkeld Cox papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0132
Abstract

The collection consists of a few items of correspondence, clippings, pamphlest, and a partially typed manuscript of "The Algebra of Probably Inference."

Dates: 1958-1972

Rufus Isaacs papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0309
Abstract

Rufus Isaacs was a mathematician and the creator of a field of mathematics called differential games. The collection consists of conference material, correspondence with colleagues, reprints of articles, a photocopy of his first paper on differential games from the Rand Corporation, and a draft of the preface for the 1965 edition of "Differential Games." Materials span in date from 1941 to 1975.

Dates: 1941 - 1975

Sidney Lanier papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0007
Abstract

Sidney Clopton Lanier (1842-1881) was an American musician, poet and author. The collection spans the years 1838 to 1998, with the bulk dating from 1838 to 1972. The material consists of correspondence, prose, poetry, lecture and music manuscripts, photographs, memorial information, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1838-1972; 1838-1998

"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

The John Barth collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0499
Abstract

The collection includes the papers of John Barth (born 1930), American novelist and short-story writer, who is best-known for his contributions to postmodern literature. The collection spans the years 1930 to 2014 and consists of manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs of Barth’s writings; correspondence; reviews; and other professional papers.

Dates: 1930 - 2014

William H. McClain papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0619
Abstract William H. McClain was born in Cleveland, OH in 1917 and died in 1994. McClain joined the Department of German at Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and retired in 1982, serving as Professor Emeritus until the end of his life. He served as chairman of the Department of German from 1972 to 1979, president of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and also chaired during its final years the Humanities Group (1968-70), the last instrument of interdepartmental self-government among the Hopkins...
Dates: 1950s-1994; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1994

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Block, George H., Jr., died 2015 1
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Bodian, Brenda 1
Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 1
Boyd, Albert 1
Brickman, John M. 1
Bromo-Seltzer 1
Browne, Lucy Hand 1
Browne, Owens Hand 1
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 1
Buck, Dudley, 1839-1909 1
Buckler, W.H. (William Hepburn), 1867-1952 1
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797‏ 1
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Cameron, V. V. , Dr. 1
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Cox, Richard Threlkeld, 1898-1991 1
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Culbertson, Dawn 1
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 1
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879 1
Derr & Thompson 1
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Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
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Dunton, William Rush, 1868-1966 1
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Fabian, Franklin, 1853-1939 1
Farber, Mindy, 1954- 1
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Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1823-1892 1
Freeman, Walker Burford, 1843-1935 1
Friedheim, Arthur, 1859-1932 1
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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 1
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Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895 1
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 1
Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924 1
Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 1
Goodnow, Frank J., 1859-1939 1
Haldane, R. B. Haldane, Viscount (Richard Burdon Haldane), 1856-1928 1
Hamerik, Asger, 1843-1923 1
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Hejos, Mitzi 1
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Hoffman, Agnes Augusta 1
Hoffman, Ernst H. 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 1
Hopkinson, B. 1
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