Historical and Special Collections Department
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Mailing Address
601 W. Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Contact: Richard Behles, Historical Librarian/Preservation Officer
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Web: http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/historical/index.html
Hours of Service
By appointment, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am-4:30 pm
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Overview
The Library's Historical and Special Collections Department serves as the University of Maryland archives documenting the history of the health sciences and social work professional schools on the Baltimore campus. Genealogical and other historical information about the University's medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing, and social work schools is available. Among other items, the collection includes such sources as college catalogs, yearbooks, and selected primary documents such as matriculation ledgers and administrative minutes dating back to the University of Maryland's nineteenth-century origin. The Library's rare book collection of over 8,000 volumes also resides in this department, including individual historical collections of primarily pre-1945 imprints, featuring significant works in the health sciences fields and social work.
Special Services
- Use of cameras for photographing materials in the reading room is permitted at the librarian's discretion
- Photocopy permission is determined on an item-by-item basis, depending on physical condition or other circumstances, according to the librarian's discretion
Type of Materials
- Artifacts
- Books and Monographs
- Digital Collections
- Primary Resources
- Prints and Drawings
- Vertical File Material
Detailed Description of Collections
- Artifacts
- The Theodore E. Woodward Reading Room includes a pair of tall porcelain candlesticks, with one sculpted serpent entwined about each one, representative of the staff of Aesculapius. A cast bronze mortar and pestle set, and a series of porcelain apothecary jars add to the room's ambience.
- Books and Monographs
- The Reading Room houses our Crawford Collection. Originally the private library of Dr. John Crawford, his colleagues on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine purchased his books posthumously from his estate in 1813, thus founding the school's medical library. Further, its place here on the mother campus of the University of Maryland defines the Crawford Collection as the origin of the University of Maryland Library system. Other monograph holdings of the Historical Collections are organized into several collections associated with each of our campus' health sciences and social work professional schools.
- Digital Collections
- The HSHSL owns a truly unique collection of 82 engravings, photographs, and other works of art on paper devoted to St. Apollonia, the patron saint associated with dentistry and dental patients. Provenance documentation cites that the original owner assembled the collection from numerous sources across Europe. We have re-formatted the entire collection into a set of high resolution digital images. Characteristic of each image is that the saint almost always appears holding dental forceps, and also often with the palm frond of a martyr.
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- Vertical File Material
- Vertical file cabinets contain biographical information about noteworthy faculty members and graduates. Materials in these cabinets include news clippings of important appointments, obituaries, and other similar significant information. Additionally, we maintain folders of printed items documenting important developments in the history of the campus, its schools and programs.
- Vertical file cabinets contain biographical information about noteworthy faculty members and graduates. Materials in these cabinets include news clippings of important appointments, obituaries, and other similar significant information. Additionally, we maintain folders of printed items documenting important developments in the history of the campus, its schools and programs.
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What is the UM Digital Archive?
The UM Digital Archive is a service of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) that collects, preserves, and distributes the academic works of the University of Maryland, the Founding Campus.
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The Archive is a place that digitally captures the historical record of the campus.
The Archive contains many types of content, including grey literature (materials that cannot be found easily through conventional systems of publication), dissertations and theses, annual reports, historical images, oral histories and more.
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library maintains the DigitalCommons@UMB Law, for the School of Law.
If you have questions about the Archive or suggestions for improving it, please contact us at ArchiveHelp@hshsl.umaryland.edu.