Category Archives: Historical Collections
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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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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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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