Author Archives: Tara Wink

Historical Insights: The Bromo-Seltzer Sheet Music Collection

Blog post highlighting a February 2025 purchase of 10 pieces of Bromo-Seltzer Sheet Music. The post covers the history of Bromo-Seltzer and Emerson Drug Company including the proprietor, Isaac E. Emerson. Continue reading

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Historical Insights: Provident Hospital, Baltimore’s Black Hospital, 1894-1999

The Provident Hospital was established in 1894 by a group of Black physicians looking to create a place where Black doctors could practice medicine and Black patients could receive medical care. These doctors were not permitted to practice medicine in any of the other Baltimore hospitals. While the hospital experienced its fair share of financial difficulities it survived and supported both Black physicians and patients until 1999. While late in Black History Month 2025, this post celebrates an important piece of Baltimore medical history. Continue reading

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Drawing Blood: Anatomical Depictions of the Heart Exhibit

February is American Heart Month. To honor this most central organ, the HSHSL has installed an exhibit in the Weise Gallery highlighting four centuries of anatomical drawings of the heart from the HSHSL’s Historical Collections.   The first understanding of … Continue reading

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Historical Insights: The Piperno Collection

In the Spring of 1941 the Dental Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore received the Piperno Collection. The collection, curated by Arrigo Piperno, includes original and reproduction engravings, advertisements, paintings, woodcuts, etchings, and books dating from 1523 to c. 1932. This post highlights the life of Dr. Piperno. Continue reading

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Historical Insights: Hurd Pharmacy Donation

The Health Sciences and Human Services Library Historical Collections’ strives to provide broad access to our diverse collections both in person and digitally. Materials in our collections appear as they originally were published or created and may contain offensive or … Continue reading

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Historical Insights: The UMB vs. JHU Thanksgiving Football Tradition

Football and Thanksgiving, a pairing as common as salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, or cheese and crackers. While today’s University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) does not field a football team, there was a time around the turn of the nineteenth century when UMB had a Thanksgiving rivalry with Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Continue reading

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Historical Insights: Bones, Molars, and Briefs Halloween Edition

The HSHSL’s Historical Collections Department celebrates Halloween with hand-drawn images from the Bones, Molars, and Brief Yearbooks from 1897 to 1904. Check out the selection of creepy, magical, and ghoulish images. Continue reading

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Historical Insights: The University of Maryland Faculty of Divinity

In 1812 the Maryland Legislature chartered the University of Maryland. The charter allowed for a Faculty of Medicine, Law, Arts & Sciences, and Divinity. This post oulines the brief history of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Maryland. Continue reading

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Get Out the Vax: Empowering Health Professionals to Promote Vaccine Confidence Panel

Join the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) and the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) for a virtual panel discussion on Wednesday, October 2, 1:00pm-2:30pm. The panel will empower health professionals to dispel myths and misconceptions about vaccines as well as provide ways to keep up-to-date on vaccine development and education. Continue reading

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October 10: Annual Vaccination Day at the HSHSL!

It’s time again for the HSHSL and School of Pharmacy Vaccination Clinic.  As always, vaccines are for UMB campus employees and students. The 1-day clinic will be held Thursday, October 10 from 9a.m. to 5p.m. in the Weise Gallery on … Continue reading

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