by Meg | Mar 9, 2016 | Bronzes, On My Desk
I guess that should really read who I found on my desk. It’s a small comemmorative paperweight for Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, the surgeon. He was born in 1860 and died very young, in 1908.Isaac Ridgeway Trimble was born at Wye House in Talbot County, Maryland on October...
by Meg | Mar 7, 2016 | On My Desk, Portraits
Although I sound like a crazy person when I say it, I truly believe that Marcia finds things for me. Most recently, I was working in the stacks, and when I was shutting off the lights, and closing the door, I happened to look down and see the corner of a picture...
by Meg | Aug 11, 2015 | Ex Libris, On My Desk
On a fairly frequent basis I am asked to find a journal or book and scan a few pages of it for someone. While this at first read, sounds like a simple task, it’s fairly time consuming. Here’s the process: Leave my office. Go downstairs either to the Krause room, or to...
by Meg | Jun 29, 2015 | Ephemera, On My Desk
Last week, I shared the image of the journal with the leaf in it, and since then, I’ve had a chance to look through the journal, which is a treasure trove of the young James D. Iglehart’s writings, some original, and others not. Iglehart attended St. John’s College in...
by Meg | Jun 17, 2015 | Ephemera, On My Desk
A resident from JH Medical School came in today to do a little research. As we were poking around, we found an old journal. In it was a leaf from a linden tree from the St. John’s College campus in Annapolis, from the 1871-72 session. It was lovely.
by Meg | Jun 4, 2015 | Ephemera, On My Desk
Dr. Joan Raskin came to the office to bring some of her father’s equipment to donate it to our archives. Dr. Moses Raskin was an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor, and like many prominent physicians of his day, had an office and a home on Eutaw Street in Baltimore....
