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photograph albums

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Southward Singleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0192
Abstract

Charles Southward Singleton (1909-1985) was professor of Hispanic and Italian studies at The Johns Hopkins University. Collection is largely research notes dealing with Singleton's later work with some correspondence, family photographs, and awards.

Dates: 1919-1985

Corbett Reynolds Rudely Elegant and Red Party photo album and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1005
Abstract

This collection contains a photo album, clothing, and accessories associated with Corbett Reynolds' Columbus, OH gay nightclub he owned, named Rudely Elegant, and the circuit parties, which he called Red Parties, that Reynolds held after Rudely Elegant closed in 1985.

Dates: 1970 - 2000

Dreyfus Affair photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034380067]
Identifier: MS-0870
Abstract

This collection consists of an album of photographs relating to the Dreyfus Affair. The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that divided France at the turn of the twentieth century, wherein Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish descent, was convicted for treason on uncertain grounds.

Dates: approximately 1899

East Coast travel photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034447726]
Identifier: MS-1022
Abstract

This album of black-and-white travel photos from around 1902 depicts locations in Baltimore; Washington, DC; Northern Virginia; New York City; and Hartland, ME. Most photos are of buildings and monuments.

Dates: circa 1902

Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0738
Abstract Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. contributed over fifty years of service to The Johns Hopkins University as a student, faculty member and administrator. The personal papers of Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr., spanning the years 1924 to 1986, include professional publications, lectures, addresses, and class and seminar notes. There are also records pertaining to Hamburger's service as Director of Centennial Planning for The Johns Hopkins University, records concerning the founding of the Archives, and files...
Dates: 1924-1986

Italian photographs album

 Collection — 1: [Barcode: 31151030132876]
Identifier: MS-0578
Abstract

This album consists of 91 albumen photographs of Italian cities (including Florence, Rome, and Siena), Italian monuments, and works of art (usually religious) throughout Italy, likely taken in the 1880s.

Dates: approximately 1885-1899

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 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 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

Nagasaki reparations program photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151036980476]
Identifier: MS-0967
Content Description This photograph album titled "賠償機械撤去作業寫真帳" from the Ōmura Mechanical Branch Office (大村管械支所) contains 101 photographs, eleven of which are loose, documenting the activities of the Japanese reparation program in Ōmura and Kawatana in Nagasaki prefecture after World War II, in which industrial equipment was transferred from Japan to several nations as reparations for war damages. The photographs show the warehousing and transportation via truck, rail, and ship of large containers of reparations...
Dates: circa 1947

Photo album, 1970 - 2000

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034382147]
Scope and Contents The photo album appears to slightly predate the opening of Rudely Elegant, as the earliest photos are labeled as early 1970s at a party at "The Barn" on Neil Ave. While Reynolds is the subject of the album, the creator appears to be an unidentified close friend of Reynolds', based on the reminiscing text within the album. The photos show Reynolds with friends and partners at various parties over the years, Reynolds' artwork, and a parade, as well as buttons and other ephemera associated with...
Dates: 1970 - 2000

Photo album of colonial Guyana

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034382063]
Identifier: MS-0997
Content Description A photo album by an unknown creator titled "West Indies and British Guiana and its 1894 Rivers and Gold Fields." Despite the title, the photos appear to cover only the British colonial territory known then as British Guiana, which is now named Guyana. The album contains twenty black-and-white photos of Georgetown street life and the Botanical Gardens. Many photographs are of people of color, with racial slurs to describe them. Content Warning...
Dates: 1894

Photograph album of military service in Korea, 1950 - 1959

 Item — Box 12: [Barcode: 31151034447817]
Scope and Contents This photograph album depicts black-and-white photographs of US soldiers, many of them Black, during their service in Korea. The one dated photograph says August 1959, so these photographs may be from US servicemembers stationed in South Korea after the end of the Korean War. The album was likely compiled by a member of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry, due to a photographed sign for that unit's headquarters appearing in the album. Photographs show soldiers at work and relaxing on base;...
Dates: 1950 - 1959

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

 Collection — Box BW-14: [Barcode: 31151034443824], 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

Robert E. Wright Vietnam War albums, early 1970s

 File — Box 11: [Barcode: 31151034395503]
Scope and Contents Two photo albums belonging to US infantryman Robert E. Wright. The album covers are printed with "Memory of South Viet-Nam." Tucked inside one album were three loose photographs, a letter from Wright's parents, three empty envelopes from Vietnamese people addressed to Wright at "Receiving-Branch," an anniversary card, and a joke about "what the lower ranks think of the brass."The albums depict life at Da Nang Air Base US Army Depot Troop Command, with photos of soldiers moving...
Dates: early 1970s

Roland Park Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0504
Abstract The Roland Park Company was incorporated in 1891 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was known primarily as the developer of the Baltimore neighborhoods of Roland Park, Guilford, Homeland, and Original Northwood. The records date from 1865-1970 (bulk 1891-1960), and consist primarily of correspondence, including every day activities, sales, and management of land and resources. The collection also contains the governance and operational records of the Roland Park parent company and its subsidiaries;...
Dates: 1865-1970 (bulk 1891-1960); Majority of material found within 1891 - 1960

Roy McCoy photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0101
Abstract

Roy McCoy (1920-2001) was a jazz trumpeter from Baltimore who performed with such ensembles as the house band of the Royal Theater and the Lionel Hampton Band in the late 1930s and 1940s. McCoy took many pictures of his friends and associates in the Baltimore musical scene. The McCoy photographs collection contains prints, negatives, and a photo album of musicians and associates, primarily from approximately 1935 to 1965.

Dates: 1934 - 1999
Found in: Peabody Archives

Shimura Kako Company student protest photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034393110]
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: 1969-11-13

Sounds and Stories collection

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0091
Abstract

Sounds and Stories began in 2002 as an oral-history project. A Peabody Conservatory musicology seminar of 18 students interviewed dozens of participants in the music of Baltimore's black community to record their memories and to document their world and their legacy. The collection was assembled primarily from 1998 to 2004 and contains oral histories, photographs, and supporting research about African-American musical culture, especially in Baltimore from approximately 1930 to 1960.

Dates: 1923-2012; Majority of material found within 1998-2004
Found in: Peabody Archives

William A. Chrystal papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0008
Abstract

William A. Chrystal was a pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor based in the Pittsburgh area for most of his career. He attended the Peabody Conservatory in the 1950s and earned degrees in piano performance. The William A. Chrystal papers contain music manuscripts, programs, clippings, professional documents, and sound recordings.

Dates: 1946 - 2015
Found in: Peabody Archives