Manuscripts

Laurence Hall Fowler Project, 1913

Mailing Address

MSEL-Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Contact: Kelly Spring

Phone: 410.516.8323

E-mail: kspring1@jhu.edu

Web: JHU - Manuscripts

Finding Aids: Manuscripts Registers

Hours of Service

Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
Materials to be used on Thursday evenings must be requested no later than 4:30pm that afternoon.

Overview

The Historical Manuscripts Collection focuses on individuals who have been associated with the Johns Hopkins University. The collection is strong in the history of science, especially physics and chemistry; literary manuscripts of Hopkins-related authors; and the history of higher education. 

Special Services

• Cameras (at curator discretion)

• Digital cameras (at curator discretion)

• Photo print service

• Photocopies

• Photoduplication services

• Scanning
  
  

Type of Materials

• Architectural Documents

• Audiovisual Materials

• Books and Monographs

• Digital Collections

• Digital Exhibits

• Exhibitions

• Musical Scores

• Newspapers

• Oral Histories

• Personal Papers

• Photographs

• Primary Resources

• Printed Ephemera

• Prints and Drawings

• Vertical File Material

Detailed Description of Collections

• Architectural Documents

  • Laurence Hall Fowler's working papers from his architectural practice (1906-45). Includes plans, photographs and documents.

• Artifacts

  • Cultural Properties Database:  a database ofart and cultural artifacts in three collections:  the Evergreen Museum and Library, the Homewood Museum, and the collections of the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood schools.

• Audiovisual Materials

• Books

  • Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

• Digital Collections

  • Baltimore Architecture Project:  a database of resourses for Baltimore's built environment

  • James Birney Anti-Slavery Collection:  A guide to the collection

  • Collected Business and Personal Papers of Jacob and Louis Blaustein:  illustrated finding aid to the collection

  • The Digital Scriptorium:  This project contains images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (21), the John Work Garrett Library (16), and the Peabody Library (2).

  • Alfred Dreyfus Collection

  • Laurence Hall Fowler's Lost Baltimore:  A searchable database of images taken by noted Baltimore architect, Laurence Hall Fowler.

  • Lubki World War One Prints:  Satirical anti-German prints produced during the first world war.

• Digital Exhibits

• Exhibitions

• Government Documents

• Musical Scores

  • The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music:  searchable database of over 30,000 pieces of popular American sheet music (site currently down, please access JSCHOLARSHIP)

• Newspapers

• Oral Histories

• Personal Papers

• Photographs

• Primary Resources

• Printed Ephemera

• Prints and Drawings

• Vertical File Material