{"id":6913,"date":"2025-09-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:32:11","slug":"historical-collections-founders-week-historical-treasures-tour-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"Historical Collections: Founder\u2019s Week Historical Treasures Tour Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6914\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image002.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of the reading room of Historical collections, a large table is covered with books, photographs, and archival items displayed with labels, a woman stands next to the table pointing to a scrapbook, around the outside of the circular room are windows and bookcases with books\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/>As part of the University of Maryland, Baltimore&#8217;s (UMB) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umaryland.edu\/founders\/\">Founders Week<\/a> celebration, students, staff, and faculty are invited to visit five historical sites on campus <strong>Oct. 21 between noon and 2 p.m.<\/strong> HSHSL\u2019s own Historical Collections will be one of the tour stops that day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hshsl\/resources\/historical\/\">Historical Collections<\/a> of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) is an archival repository for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). The physical and digital collections document the history and accomplishments of the graduate, dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, and social work schools at UMB. In addition, the collections tell the history of the health sciences and human services in Baltimore generally. The repository holds unique manuscript collections and selected primary source documents dating to the University&#8217;s early nineteenth century origins. Historical Collections also houses the HSHSL\u2019s rare book collections, featuring significant works in the health sciences and social fields.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with items from each of the schools to learn more about UMB\u2019s 19<sup>th<\/sup> century origins. To learn more about the collections check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hshsl\/resources\/historical\/\">webpage <\/a>or read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?cat=94\">Historical Insights<\/a> blog posts. The Collections are open to the public; if you cannot attend on Oct. 21 but are still interested in learning more about the collections or seeing the repository contact <a href=\"mailto:twink@hshsl.umaryland.edu\">Tara Wink<\/a>, Historical Collections Librarian and Archivist.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Historical Treasurers tour check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umaryland.edu\/founders\/\">Founders Week<\/a> events page and check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umaryland.edu\/media\/umb\/founders-week\/2025\/documents\/UMB_HistoricalTreasures_Flyer25_V3.pdf\">event\u2019s flyer<\/a> for campus tour stops. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the University of Maryland, Baltimore&#8217;s (UMB) Founders Week celebration, students, staff, and faculty are invited to visit five historical sites on campus Oct. 21 between noon and 2 p.m. HSHSL\u2019s own Historical Collections will be one of the tour stops that day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,94],"tags":[887,885,886,199],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-historical-collections","tag-archives","tag-founders-week","tag-open-house","tag-umb-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}