Hopkins Medical Archives
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The Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. We collect, preserve, and share the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.
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We are excited to welcome faculty and students from the JHU Film & Media Program to the Chesney Archives today! They are filming a documentary short focusing on Martha Jones's Hard Histories work using the Records of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Orphan Asylum. 📽️🎞️🎬https://tinyurl.com/4k28pxvk
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We are excited to welcome faculty and students from the JHU Film & Media Program to the Chesney Archives today! They are filming a documentary short focusing on Martha Jones's Hard Histories work using the Records of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Orphan Asylum. 📽️🎞️🎬https://tinyurl.com/4k28pxvk
Staff dining and caffeinating from the vending machines in the Johns Hopkins Hospital employee lounge, circa 1960. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Office of Public Affairs Photograph Collection. #NationalCoffeeDay ☕
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Staff dining and caffeinating from the vending machines in the Johns Hopkins Hospital employee lounge, circa 1960. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Office of Public Affairs Photograph Collection. #NationalCoffeeDay ☕
Helen Taussig enjoying her garden and the company of her dogs, circa 1973. From our Helen B. Taussig Collection, photographer unknown.
August 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Helen Taussig enjoying her garden and the company of her dogs, circa 1973. From our Helen B. Taussig Collection, photographer unknown.
This week has us feeling as "busy as fifty bees," as Edith Houghton Hooker wrote in this letter from our collections dated November 3, 1903. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
August 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This week has us feeling as "busy as fifty bees," as Edith Houghton Hooker wrote in this letter from our collections dated November 3, 1903. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Consider indulging this weekend with recipes from the On Duty in the Kitchen, Again cookbook compiled by The Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association, part of our Constance Cole Waxter Collection. Sauerkraut Surprise Cake, anyone?
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Consider indulging this weekend with recipes from the On Duty in the Kitchen, Again cookbook compiled by The Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association, part of our Constance Cole Waxter Collection. Sauerkraut Surprise Cake, anyone?
Welcome to this year's cohort of Vivien Thomas Scholars! We are always excited to visit with you each year and hope you enjoyed exploring materials from our Vivien Thomas Collection yesterday. 🌟
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Welcome to this year's cohort of Vivien Thomas Scholars! We are always excited to visit with you each year and hope you enjoyed exploring materials from our Vivien Thomas Collection yesterday. 🌟
A beautiful day on the Johns Hopkins Mt. Washington campus! 🌺🌼🌻
August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A beautiful day on the Johns Hopkins Mt. Washington campus! 🌺🌼🌻
In a recent accession, we found this 1918 letter fastened together using a metal nail! Interesting, but not good for archival preservation! The letter was written during Dr. Edwards A. Park's time serving with the American Red Cross in France during WWI.
August 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In a recent accession, we found this 1918 letter fastened together using a metal nail! Interesting, but not good for archival preservation! The letter was written during Dr. Edwards A. Park's time serving with the American Red Cross in France during WWI.
#ChristmasinJuly isn't just for Hallmark. We're feeling the Christmas spirit here at Chesney with the many holiday cards from Johns Hopkins Hospital, circa 1930s and 40s, that we have in our Photograph Collections🎄
July 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
#ChristmasinJuly isn't just for Hallmark. We're feeling the Christmas spirit here at Chesney with the many holiday cards from Johns Hopkins Hospital, circa 1930s and 40s, that we have in our Photograph Collections🎄
This postcard from 1928 from Orthello Langworthy in the Lewis Weed Collection has us thinking about our upcoming long weekend and travel plans. Is it Friday yet?
July 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This postcard from 1928 from Orthello Langworthy in the Lewis Weed Collection has us thinking about our upcoming long weekend and travel plans. Is it Friday yet?
It's National Nurses Week! Nurses are on the frontlines of health care and are integral to Johns Hopkins. Our collections illuminate the work of nurses across the institution, including JH School of Nursing records and images like this one of JH Hospital nurses circa 1978. Thank you for your work!
May 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's National Nurses Week! Nurses are on the frontlines of health care and are integral to Johns Hopkins. Our collections illuminate the work of nurses across the institution, including JH School of Nursing records and images like this one of JH Hospital nurses circa 1978. Thank you for your work!
The keto diet is known as a weight loss fad, but was originally developed to treat epilepsy before the use of anticonvulsant medication. Dr. John Freeman wrote this poem, "Ode to the Ketogenic Diet" as an opening to his 2013 article about the history of the treatment. National #Poetry Month
April 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The keto diet is known as a weight loss fad, but was originally developed to treat epilepsy before the use of anticonvulsant medication. Dr. John Freeman wrote this poem, "Ode to the Ketogenic Diet" as an opening to his 2013 article about the history of the treatment. National #Poetry Month
Many nursing students at Johns Hopkins cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic of 1980s and 90s. Poems, like this one from the Summer 1992 Nurses Alumnae Magazine, illuminate the emotional experience of caring for and befriending patients who are terminally ill.
National #Poetry Month
National #Poetry Month
April 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Many nursing students at Johns Hopkins cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic of 1980s and 90s. Poems, like this one from the Summer 1992 Nurses Alumnae Magazine, illuminate the emotional experience of caring for and befriending patients who are terminally ill.
National #Poetry Month
National #Poetry Month
Students and faculty also showed their regard for Osler by performing this poem, "Our Regius Prof.", at a 1905 dinner in his honor at the Waldorf-Historia. The poem was composed to the tune of "God Save the Queen" showing the esteem and cordiality he inspired from colleagues. National #Poetry Month
April 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Students and faculty also showed their regard for Osler by performing this poem, "Our Regius Prof.", at a 1905 dinner in his honor at the Waldorf-Historia. The poem was composed to the tune of "God Save the Queen" showing the esteem and cordiality he inspired from colleagues. National #Poetry Month
Dr. William Osler, a founding doctor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, was instrumental in training medical students. A reprint of this 1901 poem "Rounds with Dr. Osler" describes the student experience of being quizzed by the doctor during rounds. National #Poetry Month.
April 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dr. William Osler, a founding doctor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, was instrumental in training medical students. A reprint of this 1901 poem "Rounds with Dr. Osler" describes the student experience of being quizzed by the doctor during rounds. National #Poetry Month.
Can't ready your doctor's handwriting? How about these pages from Dr. Howard A. Kelly's 1872 copybook - featuring his script as a 14-year-old composition student (left) and later as an adult (right).
#ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesHandwriting
#ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesHandwriting
March 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Can't ready your doctor's handwriting? How about these pages from Dr. Howard A. Kelly's 1872 copybook - featuring his script as a 14-year-old composition student (left) and later as an adult (right).
#ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesHandwriting
#ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesHandwriting
This month we are celebrating #ArchivesFeast by highlighting the work of the Johns Hopkins Hospital food service workers, who provide meals for patients and staff every day. From our collections are images of food service staff circa 1969-1972 preparing meal trays for patients. #ArchivesHashtagParty
December 6, 2024 at 1:55 PM
This month we are celebrating #ArchivesFeast by highlighting the work of the Johns Hopkins Hospital food service workers, who provide meals for patients and staff every day. From our collections are images of food service staff circa 1969-1972 preparing meal trays for patients. #ArchivesHashtagParty
We recently digitized this photograph from the Howard Kelly collection. It's from Kelly's summer home in Bel Air, MD and shows his sons Boulton and Edmund Kelly sitting on the wide porch of the house with a kitten. 1907 #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesPets
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM
We recently digitized this photograph from the Howard Kelly collection. It's from Kelly's summer home in Bel Air, MD and shows his sons Boulton and Edmund Kelly sitting on the wide porch of the house with a kitten. 1907 #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesPets
May 31st is World No Tobacco Day. In the 1980s, anti-smoking campaigns ramped up with the support of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. This pin from our artifact collections is a pun on Koop's name and represents part of this public health campaign.
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM
May 31st is World No Tobacco Day. In the 1980s, anti-smoking campaigns ramped up with the support of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. This pin from our artifact collections is a pun on Koop's name and represents part of this public health campaign.
For #ArchivesSnapshot we have this c. 1930 pic of artist Helen Hooker, from the Horsely Gantt collection. There are many snapshots in the Gantt collection -- try searching keyword "snapshot Gantt" on our Search Our Collections page:
#ArchivesHashtagParty
#ArchivesHashtagParty
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM
For #ArchivesSnapshot we have this c. 1930 pic of artist Helen Hooker, from the Horsely Gantt collection. There are many snapshots in the Gantt collection -- try searching keyword "snapshot Gantt" on our Search Our Collections page:
#ArchivesHashtagParty
#ArchivesHashtagParty
☘️How did people at the Johns Hopkins Hospital celebrate St. Patrick's Day over 35 years ago? With Irish singing and food! Our collection of the serial publication The Dome includes happenings around the hospital, like this special event. ☘️Dome March 1986
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM
☘️How did people at the Johns Hopkins Hospital celebrate St. Patrick's Day over 35 years ago? With Irish singing and food! Our collection of the serial publication The Dome includes happenings around the hospital, like this special event. ☘️Dome March 1986
For #InternationalWomensDay, we're highlighting pediatric epidemiologist Janet Hardy, who was the 5th woman to be made full professor at @HopkinsMedicine. She was a pioneer in research on how maternal age, nutrition, and health affects fetal and early child development.
November 19, 2024 at 9:46 PM
For #InternationalWomensDay, we're highlighting pediatric epidemiologist Janet Hardy, who was the 5th woman to be made full professor at @HopkinsMedicine. She was a pioneer in research on how maternal age, nutrition, and health affects fetal and early child development.
Wonderful afternoon with Dr. Loren Ludwig’s Music as Medicine class showing students a first edition of Laennec’s work on auscultation and stethoscopes from the collections of @HistColl and our archives.
November 19, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Wonderful afternoon with Dr. Loren Ludwig’s Music as Medicine class showing students a first edition of Laennec’s work on auscultation and stethoscopes from the collections of @HistColl and our archives.
The exhibits are up a the Welch Library: @NLM_NIH's AIDS Posters and Stories of Public Health: A People’s History of a Pandemic and Hopkins' Spreading the Word: HIV/AIDS Education and the People’s Health, 1983-2001. Come for a look at the visual messaging of this pandemic.
November 19, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The exhibits are up a the Welch Library: @NLM_NIH's AIDS Posters and Stories of Public Health: A People’s History of a Pandemic and Hopkins' Spreading the Word: HIV/AIDS Education and the People’s Health, 1983-2001. Come for a look at the visual messaging of this pandemic.
The Institute of the History of Medicine @ihmjhu, in conjunction with the @WelchLibrary and Chesney Medical Archives, has two complimentary exhibitions opening about HIV/AIDS messaging and education. Opens Feb. 12 at the Welch Medical Library. We hope you're able to check it out!
November 19, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The Institute of the History of Medicine @ihmjhu, in conjunction with the @WelchLibrary and Chesney Medical Archives, has two complimentary exhibitions opening about HIV/AIDS messaging and education. Opens Feb. 12 at the Welch Medical Library. We hope you're able to check it out!