Category Archives: Historical Collections
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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Tagged Black History Month, Provident Hospital, UMSOM
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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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Tagged American Heart Month, anatomical drawings, anatomy, Heart
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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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Tagged Arrigo Piperno, Dental History, Dental Illustrations, Dental Library, St. Apollonia, UMSOD
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🌻 Going Fast! Grab Your 2025 HSHSL Calendar Today!
Supplies of HSHSL’s 2025 calendar are running out! “Home Grown,” celebrates Maryland’s native plants with stunning botanical art from the library’s historical collections. ✨ Only $10🌟 Quantities are limited—don’t wait!🎁 The perfect gift for plant lovers, history buffs or the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025 Calendar, Botanicals, Calendar, historical collections, Home Grown
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Historical Insights: Hurd Pharmacy Donation
In November 2024, the HSHSL’s Historical Collections received a donation of pharmacy materials relating to the family of George Whitfield Hurd, Maryland College of Pharmacy, the founding institution of the University of Maryland’s School of Pharmacy, class of 1878. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Hurd Pharmacy, Maryland College of Pharmacy, UMB History, UMSOP, Williamsport Md.
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🌻Home Grown: The 2025 HSHSL Calendar🌻
The 2025 HSHSL calendar is back for the fourth year. This year’s theme is “home grown,” which highlights botanicals native to Maryland. Native plants are those that have evolved naturally within a region over thousands of years. These natives support … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025 Calendar, historical collections, Home Grown
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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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Tagged Football, Sports, UMB History
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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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Tagged art, halloween, UMB History, Yearbooks
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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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Tagged Faculty of Divinity, Faculty of Theology, UMB History
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Historical Insights: The University of Maryland College of Arts and Sciences
In this Historical Insight, Historical Collections highlights a lesser known, now defunct, school at the University of Maryland, the School of Arts and Sciences or School of Letters. The School was founded in 1812 but floundered until the 1850s. It eventually merged for a short time with St. John’s College. Continue reading
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Tagged Arts & Sciences, E.A. Dalrymple, School of Letters
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