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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Learn more about the recent restoration of The Four Doctors painting in this video by Renee Fischer available on the Johns Hopkins University YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hcV...

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A Brush With Greatness: "The Four Doctors" Painting Restored

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Join Hopkins at Home TONIGHT for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the restoration of the iconic Four Doctors painting by John Singer Sargent, a treasured piece of Johns Hopkins Medicine history commissioned by Mary Elizabeth Garrett and housed in Welch Library: events.jhu.edu/form/fourdoc...

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Preserving a Legacy: The Restoration of the Four Doctors Painting | Johns Hopkins Events

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Hugh Hawkins Fellows for presenting their research yesterday! And thank you to all of the archivist and faculty mentors, family, and friends who supported them. retrospective.jhu.edu/hawkins-fellowships

: From left to right, fellows Suzanka Belik, Yemok Jeon, Darrel “Riley” Strait, Sandy Peeples, and Hopkins Retrospective Program Manager Allison Seyler. The five people pictured are four students and a staff member standing in front of large photos of library spaces. Each person wears semi-casual to semi-formal wear and faces the camera smiling.

Two people sit down at a conference table next to each other. One faces away from the camera as the talk and the other person listens enthusiastically.

Two people stand talking to each other. The person on the right gestures with her arms as the person on the left listens.

A student in a suit jacket shows his phone to another student sitting at a table. Further in the background, two other people sit at the same table conversing with one another.

Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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Juliana Márquez, 2023 Hugh Hawkins Fellow, has published "Surgical Retrospection (Historical) William Halsted’s Radical Mastectomy Patients: A Historical Analysis Through Patient Narratives", based on her research conducted at @jhmedarchives.bsky.social. Congratulations Juliana! ow.ly/4ujY50Yac50

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the Chesney Archives! Please enjoy a restful winter break.🎄☃️ Greeting card from The Johns Hopkins Hospital, circa 1940s, from the Photograph Collections of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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"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-...

A black and white photo of a grand door entrance and its entrance hall. Two sets of wooden doors open out onto a grassy and tree-covered lawn. The transoms above each door arch over with an intricate design that looks like decorative spokes on wheels.

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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.

A woman in her thirties wearing a bright yellow jacket stands in front of a whiteboard, pointing to it while two younger women look at the board in excitement. They stand outside on a brick walkway with large trees shading them. In the foreground is a table with cookies and bags of chips.

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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 ☕

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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...

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Exhibit Celebrates Wilmer Centennial

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Helen Taussig enjoying her garden and the company of her dogs, circa 1973. From our Helen B. Taussig Collection, photographer unknown.

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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?

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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. 🌟

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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....

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Voices of change: experiences of early women urology residents — a single institution qualitative research study - BMC Medical Education

Objective To understand the experiences of early women urology residents at a single institution, as told in their own words. Methods A convenience sample of women residents who trained at the Brady U...

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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

Mt. Washington campus fountain and octagon building

flowering tree outside of McAuley Hall on JHU Mt. Washington campus

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Johns Hopkins University Libraries @jhulibraries.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#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🎄

Santa hanging a Christmas wreath on the Dome

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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?

postcard from 1928, drawing of western North Carolina roadway

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“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...

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Finding hope in a box

Ragheeb Moazzem found surprising inspiration for a documentary in an archival box. The work ties together his own Bangledeshi heritage, public health history, and hope for the future.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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!

Two women in nursing uniforms read a magazine titled "The Hopkins Nurse."

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

A copied page of text:
"Ode to the Ketogenic Diet

The keto diet is at last
More than just a past repast
Some find you needn't even fast
As done when Meryl was in the cast

Charlie's fine, his spells no more
They're hidden deep in days of yore
Remember drugs, yes three or four
That was all we did before.

No company yet does make this diet,
But when they do, there'll be a riot.
As people rush the stores to buy it,
Better than pills, you ought to try it.

Patience, Jim, is now rewarded,
Science moves but slowly forward.
We've moved at last
Past the diet's being a past repast."

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

A clipping from a magazine, with the text:

"This poem was written by Jacqueline McDaniels, Class of 93 to Doug, a
patient with AIDS. Jackie knew and cared for him while working as a
nursing assistant on Osler 8.
TO DOUG
I have only known you for a short time, but you touched a special place
in my heart with your quirky smile and sense of humor and your baby
face.
I mourn —
- for your lost future
- for your future accomplishments
- for all the special times not shared.
My heart goes out to your mother, as I feel her pain, for I too am a
mother and understand.
I cry in sorrow —
- for you
- for your family
- for myself and my helplessness
- for all the countless others who have and will know your despair.
I cry in sorrow for all your pain and all the suffering that you have
endured.
But, :
I cry in joy —
- for knowing that someday soon or someday later you will find peace
and comfort in the loving and soothing arms of GOD.
Know ... that I have been touched by you. Thank you."

Vol. 91, No. 2

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

A flier promoting the Hugh Hawkins Research Fellowships and detailing that the fellowship stipend is $3,500 and the application deadline is April 14, 2025. At the top of the flier there is a black and white photo of two mascots, a bull and a dog, putting their hands up to their faces in surprise at seeing each other.

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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.

A page from an old magazine, with a poem:

"ROUNDS WITH DR. OSLER
By Dr. Thos. R. Boggs, J.H. 1901

I Haste! Haste! ye clerks, make break-fast brief;
And follow close your lord and chief;
With paper blank and pen in fist
Let not a single note be missed
When William Osler, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
Makes his rounds.

II No matter how much work may be
Awaiting you beneath "Ward G."
When on the bridge he's heard to sing,
Drop all and wait upon the king-
For William Osler, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
Is making rounds.

II See how the double doors sling back-
And in he comes with all his pack
From North and South from West and East
They flock like vultures to a feast
When William Osler, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
Is making rounds."

A continuation of the poem:

"IV All sorts of folk are in his pack
From city swell to country back-
Swine like they crowd each empty space-
Crowd clerks and internes out of place
When William Osler K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
Is making rounds.

V Now when he's seen your case per-chance,
And done his little song and dance,
A cunning trap he lays for you,
And holds four fingers up to view,
Does William Osler K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
In making rounds.

VI Says, "Mr. Blank," "Tell us what points
About the swelling of the joints
Have been impressed upon your brain
Since you have followed in our train?"
Says William Osler K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
While making rounds.

VII You glibly give the list of points
He made upon these self-same joints
When last he talked upon the case.
You stop and smile into the face
Of William Osler K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
Who's making rounds.

VIII Poor lad! Pride antedates a fall;
For when you're sure you've named them all
From out his sleeve he draws two more
Which you have never heard before,
Will William Osler K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
While making rounds.

IX Cheer up sad hearts you're not alone,
See, ere his morning's work is done,
Unless some marvel come to pass,
He'll prove each clerk in turn an ass,
Will William Osler K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.,
While making rounds."

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

A handwritten page from a journal with clear, orderly handwriting.

A handwritten page from a journal with informal and scribble-like handwriting.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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

Two women prepare food trays in a cafeteria.

A man moves straps food trays to a cart for delivery.

A woman hands a portion of food to a coworker.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

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

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

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.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

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.

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

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

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

☘️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

Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

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.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

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.

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Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

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.