University Archives
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The Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives collects, preserves, provides access to, and promotes the history of Johns Hopkins University in its many forms.
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The Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives collects, preserves, promotes, and provides access to the history of Johns Hopkins University. The Archives serves as the official records depository for the Homewood Campus divisions of Johns Hopkins University: Central Administration, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Carey Business School, the School of Education, and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, based in Washington, DC. The Archives documents the experience of faculty, students, and alumni through activities that include collection acquisition and oral history.
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions maintain their own archival repository, as does the Peabody Institute. These repositories are located on their respective campuses.
Collections
The University Archives collects and manages many types of materials, including:
- Administrative records of the University such as the Office of the President records, records documenting the history of academic departments, and student records
- Faculty papers covering the careers of Hopkins faculty
- Student organization records and other materials documenting the student experience at Hopkins
- Photographs dating from the early days of the University to present
- Johns Hopkins University yearbooks, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, and other Hopkins publications
- Oral history interviews with students, faculty, staff, and alumni discussing the Hopkins experience from their perspectives
- Web archives of Hopkins-affiliated websites
- Theses and dissertations written by Hopkins students. Learn about accessing these materials in Electronic Theses and Dissertations
We collect materials in both print and digital format.
If you want to donate materials to the University Archives, please contact the [email protected].
Featured Collections
Archives
Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett Collection
Ethel Ennis (1932-2019) was an acclaimed jazz artist who graced some of the most prominent stages in the nation while maintaining a commitment to her hometown, Baltimore. Her husband and partner, Earl Arnett (b. 1940) is a former Baltimore Sun reporter, theater critic, and instructor at Peabody Conservatory. This extensive collection (155 linear feet) documents their careers, their production company ENE Productions, and their restaurant/cabaret Ethel's Place through recordings, musical arrangements, photographs, artifacts, and other materials.
Archives
American Prison Writing Archive
The United States holds nearly two million people in its prisons and jails—a larger share of its population than in any other nation on earth. Yet there remains widespread ignorance of conditions inside. Amid the unprecedented American experiment in mass incarceration, the American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) hopes to disaggregate this mass into the individual minds, hearts, and voices of incarcerated writers. By soliciting, preserving, digitizing, and disseminating the work of imprisoned people and volunteers, the APWA aims to ground national debate on mass incarceration in the lived experience of those who know prisons best.
Archives
Johns Hopkins Biographical Archive
There is a thin evidentiary record of archival materials relating to the life of Johns Hopkins. For years, leaders and community members have centered their story of our founder on his benevolent gift to the city of Baltimore: a university and a hospital, and the accepted narrative that he was an early abolitionist. Under the auspices of Hopkins Retrospective and through the Sheridan Libraries, this archive explores and publicly presents archival materials related to the life of Johns Hopkins and his family, including newly discovered census records that provide evidence that Johns Hopkins was a slaveholder during the mid-1800s.
Archives
Oral History Collection
Documents the Hopkins history through recordings and transcriptions of interviews with members of the Hopkins community. The collection includes both audio and video interviews, and continues to grow as new oral histories are recorded and added.
Archives
Historical University Photographs
University Archives holds over 20,000 photographs documenting the visual history of Johns Hopkins University from its founding to present.
Archives
Johns Hopkins Science Review
Broadcast to television sets across America from 1948 to 1960, the Johns Hopkins Science review was created by the university to present scientific discovery--in particular the discoveries of Johns Hopkins University faculty--to a popular audience.
Archives
Daniel Coit Gilman Papers
Johns Hopkins University's first president, Daniel Coit Gilman served from 1875 to 1901. Widely regarded as an education innovator, Gilman's pioneering vision established Johns Hopkins as the United States' first research university.
Archives
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter is one of the oldest student organizations at the university. Since its founding in 1897, the News-Letter has published news, opinions, literary features, advertisements and more that document life at the university for the past 120 years. This digital collection includes digitized issues of the News-Letter ranging from 1897 to 1990.
Archives
Isaiah Bowman papers
An influential and controversial figure in our university's history, Isaiah Bowman was Johns Hopkins University's President from 1935 to 1948.
Archives
The Black and Blue Jay
The Black and Blue Jay is a Johns Hopkins University student-run humor publication first published in the 1920s.
Accessing Archival Materials
To ask about our collections and services, please contact [email protected]. Please note that most archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and can be retrieved on demand.
For retrieval of Special Collections materials, please contact us at least 48 hours before your visit.
- Collecting Student Life
- Ensuring that the history of student life as seen through the eyes of students is documented for future generations.
- University Records Management
- Providing records management services for the University.
- Hopkins Retrospective
- An initiative to expand our understanding of Hopkins history and to weave that history into the university experience.
Staff Directory
| Name | Contact | Location | Subject Areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diehl, Kristen Processing Archivist | 410-516-5898 [email protected] | Mt. Washington | |
| Seyler, Allison Hopkins Retrospective Program Manager | 410-516-8540 [email protected] | Mt. Washington | |
| Clark, Jenelle Accessioning Archivist | 410-516-8323 [email protected] | Brody Learning Commons | |
| Carey, Katie Hodson Curator of the University Archives | 410-516-5493 [email protected] | Brody Learning Commons | |
| Beckman, Elizabeth Processing & Research Archivist | [email protected] | Mt. Washington |
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