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

"On October 21, Homewood Museum will open If Homewood’s Walls Could Talk: A History of an American House, a new exhibition exploring the house’s full 224-year history." blogs.library.jhu.edu/2025/10/new-...

Was Gilman Hall the first building constructed on Homewood campus? Can you guess when a photo was taken by what someone is wearing? Test out your university history skills at Hop Into History this 10/02 on Keyser Quad from 11 AM – 2 PM. We’ll also have some prizes and light snacks for you to grab.

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 ☕

Check out "Eyes on Wilmer: 100 Years of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins," an exhibit in the Welch Library featuring items from our collections, along with items from the Institute of the History of Medicine's historical collections, and others. Read more here: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/article...

The Chesney Archives mourns the loss of one of our beloved volunteers, Chris Ponticas, who passed away at age 90 on September 4, 2025. Chris was a joy and an inspiration. She will be missed. www.peacefulalternatives.com/obituary/chr...

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. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

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. 🌟

In February, former Hugh Hawkins fellow Aurora J. Grutman published her article in BMC Medical Education on her research titled, "Voices of change: experiences of early women urology residents — a single institution qualitative research study". bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A beautiful day on the Johns Hopkins Mt. Washington campus! 🌺🌼🌻

Attention incoming Blue Jays! Want to tour the library spaces on campus? Join us August 22nd at the BLC Patio at 2:00, 2:45. and 4:14 PM to get a personalized tour of our fantastic study spaces with Librarian for English, Philosophy, and Special Collections Student Engagement Heidi Herr.

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🎄

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?

“Today, millions of people have lived, but nobody knows where it came from. I feel like it’s a shame, it’s such an important part of Bangladeshi history that is relegated to the sidelines.” magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/05/find...

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

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

Are you interested in researching Hopkins history? Want to dive into archival collections? Apply for the Hugh Hawkins Research Fellowship now! retrospective.jhu.edu/hopkins-fellowships

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

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

In honor of World AIDS Day we're highlighting our B. Frank Polk Collection. Polk was instrumental in the creation of the AIDS Treatment Unit at Hopkins, which prioritized treatment of patients with AIDS throughout the 1980s. Thanks to the efforts of Polk and others, today AIDS is manageable disease.

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.

Hopkins celebrates diversity program named for School of Nursing icon Fannie Gaston-Johansson We created a small pop-up exhibit for this event from materials the Gaston-Johansson family loaned, including several examples of the Painometer she invented.

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

☘️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.

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.

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!

In 1879, Howard Kelly made resolutions not at the new year, but on Feb. 20, his 21st birthday. He swears off the theater and opera for a year. He resolves not to read natural history, stories, or draw on Sundays. Page from his digitized diary.

We want to let you know that the Chesney Archives will be closed from Monday, Dec. 25th through Monday Jan. 1st for Johns Hopkins Winter Break. We will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2nd. Happy Holidays to everyone!

Excited to hear Art as Applied to Medicine students give presentations on their surgical illustrations. Our archives has medical illustrations from this department’s founding and through the decades. @JhuMedart #histsurg

Kinetoscope views of a frisking kitten!! Warm and fuzzy letter from anatomist George Streeter to his sister, who was concerned about her kitten. From the personal paper collection of George Streeter. Happy Wednesday! #CatsOfTwitter

This Hopkins clerk in the switchboard office is using lots of different types of technology for her work--a teletype receiver, a headset, a telephone, and several types of paper file systems. 1960; from our Office of Public Affairs photography collection. #MondayMotivation 💪

🚨 Newly digitized collection alert! All issues (1889-1982) of the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital have been digitized! The Bulletin is rich with info about hospital activities, medical conditions, and faculty research. The series of issues is here:

On this day in 1915, nurse Edith Cavell was executed for helping Allied soldiers during WWI. The following year, the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumnae Magazine featured this photograph and quote, as well as articles pertaining to Cavell's service.

Our last #ArchivesU post is from the same series as our header image. It's a 1960s photo of a @JohnsHopkinsSPH epidemiology and basic sciences class. The students are looking at teaching slides. Through the window, you can see the Welch Library Building. Happy Friday!

This plinth microscope was likely used by William Welch at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine @HopkinsMedicine in the late 19th century. Its simple design makes it easy to pass around to students during class. #ArchivesU #ArchivesHashtagParty

It's #ArchivesU today and that's perfect for us! We collect from 3 schools of the @JohnsHopkins University--the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the School of Public Health. First up, we have nursing instructors gathered around to grade @JHUNursing exams, ca 1955.

We’re moving this plaque today for building renovations. It reads “This marble from the surgical amphitheater on this site from 1904 to 1951 honors all who developed surgery at Johns Hopkins and in so doing exerted an influence which has extended far beyond this institution”

Have you ever listened to one of our oral histories? This inteview with nurse anesthetist Olive Berger describes the use of ether at Johns Hopkins Hospital. We have a wire frame mask that she describes starting at the 18 minute mark. #histmed #histsurgery

William Halsted died #OTD in 1922. In our collections is his pocket watch, given to him as 10th wedding anniversary present by his wife Caroline and inscribed with the date. Halsted gave it to his friend Mont Reid, and it was later inscribed "to Mont R. Reid Sept. 7th, 1922."

It's Friday--and it's #ArchivesHashtagParty day! We hope you enjoy these joyful shots from our Levi Watkins collection. The Unified Voices choir of Johns Hopkins employees and community members performs annually at our MLK Day celebration. Happy #ArchivesCommunity! Pics from 2004

The Chesney Archives was honored to welcome the second cohort of Vivien Thomas Scholars and show them archival documents and artifacts from the Thomas collection! via @HubJHU

Two artifacts in our collection demonstrate changing attitudes towards smoking in the 20th century: an ashtray with the Johns Hopkins dome from the early 1970s, and an infant's shirt with a non-smoking message from circa 1989-90. #histmed #publichealth