Category Archives: Historical Collections
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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Color Our Collections
Join the worldwide #ColorOurCollections event by coloring sheets from the HSHSL’s Historical Collections during the week of February 6. This years sheets features materials from UMB’s historical yearbooks, anatomy texts, and botanicals. Continue reading
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Tagged anatomy, Botanicals, Color Our Collections, coloring, Yearbooks
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The L.G. Eberhardt, Druggist “Ghost” Sign
January 12th is National Pharmacist Day in the US, to celebrate read the newest HSHSL Historical Collections’ blog post and learn about three historical Baltimore pharmacists and their store at 631 W. Lexington Street. now located on UMB’s campus. Continue reading
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Tagged Druggist, Ghost Sign, Louis Boucsein, Louis G. Eberhardt, Maryland Collge of Pharmacy, Pharmacists Day, Rieman Block, Simon Solomon, UMSOP, West Lexington Street
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Fatal Beauty: The 2023 HSHSL Calendar
Back by popular demand, the HSHSL is pleased to announce that a select number of the 2023 HSHSL Calendar, Fatal Beauty, are available for purchase. The calendar is a fantastic gift for even the most difficult recipient and at only … Continue reading
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Historical Insights: Margaret Bowen Rose’s Scrapbook Digitized
Scrapbooking in the 21st century has become somewhat of a lost art but remains a very powerful historical tool. With a combination of journal entries and photographs, they give a great deal of insight into not only the look and feel of the time period they were created, but also of the person who created them. Margaret Bowen Rose, possibly unknowing of this significance, created such a document for her Class of 1936 at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. The most exciting thing about this book’s donation is that our Historical Collections does not currently have yearbooks for the years of 1933-1946 at the University. Margaret’s unique perspective is the closest insight we have to the experiences of our students during that period. Continue reading
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Tagged Class of 1936, Nursing, Scrapbook, Scrapbooking, UMB History, UMBSON
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Fatal Beauty: An Exhibit
The HSHSL’s Historical Collections is home to the Pharmacy Historical Book Collection, which includes influential pharmacy and medical texts, dispensatories, pharmacopoeias, botanicals, and herbals from around the world dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Fatal Beauty, an exhibit in … Continue reading
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First Women of the University of Maryland, Baltimore: Exhibit Returns
In March 2020, the HSHSL was celebrating Women’s History Month with a gallery exhibit featuring the accomplishments of the First Women of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Unfortunately, a week after the exhibit opened, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Maryland … Continue reading
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Tagged UMB Graduate School, UMB History, UMBSOD, UMBSOL, UMBSOM, UMBSON, UMBSOP, UMBSSW, Womens History Month
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Historical Collections Highlight: Club Latino-Americano
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, historical collections highlights Club Latino-Americano, an organization created to support early Latin American students at the University of Maryland. The first student to graduate from countries we associate with Hispanic culture was Jose Raphael … Continue reading
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