Johns Hopkins University
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hopkins Family collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0078
Abstract
Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) was a highly successful Baltimore merchant and philanthropist. He left much of his wealth to found a university and hospital in Baltimore. This collection contains manuscripts, photographs and printed material by or about Johns Hopkins and his ancestors, 1743-2005.
Dates:
1714 - 2005
Found in:
Special Collections
Keyser family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0082
Abstract
Papers produced and collected by the Keyser family of Baltimore, Maryland. The Keysers accumulated wealth in the 19th and 20th centuries through mercantile businesses, inheritance, and a variety of industries, including the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, copper and iron works, and investments in land and real estate. They used some of this wealth to finance Baltimore’s public and private institutions, including Johns Hopkins University.
Dates:
approximately 1784-1985; Majority of material found within 1870s-1950s
Found in:
Special Collections
Margaret Donaldson Boehm papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0044-a
Abstract
Margaret Donaldson Boehm was born in Baltimore, MD in 1894. She attended Roland Park Country School and later The Johns Hopkins University where she was a student of Arthur O. Lovejoy, professor of Philosophy. The collection consists of 47 diaries (1910-1956) of Margaret Donaldson Boehm; one diary (1883) of her father, G. Herbert Boehm; letters (1928-1951) of Henry Woodd Nevinson and his wife, Evelyn Sharp; and a copy of Miss Boehm's master's essay (1925), "The Conception of Pride in 17th...
Dates:
1883-1956
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Johns Hopkins University 1
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- United States 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) 1
- Wills 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1
- deeds 1
- diaries 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- maps (documents) 1
- memoirs 1
- photographic prints 1
- poems 1
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