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As men left civilian and military clerical jobs for overseas duty, demand for women to fill these positions increased. Women worked as stenographers for the government and the armed forces. In this poster, Washington’s need for more stenographers is…

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

JSA would often run a falafel stand at Spring Fair, exposing other students to Israeli food and giving Jewish students a kosher option. This was a very popular booth, so much so that when the University scheduled Spring Fair during Passover, the…

1968, Sports Illustrated cover of Curt Flood, named baseball’s “Best Centerfielder” as a St. Louis Cardinal. Just a year after this cover, the Cardinals sought to trade Flood to another team. Flood challenged being traded without his consent,…

Pictured are selections from the Sonneborn Collection, currently located at Johns Hopkins Hillel. The Sonneborn Collection, donated in 1901, was perhaps the first University collection of "Jewish ceremonial objects"16. It was matched by "no doubt the…

Some of the picket line of Nov. 10, 1917. Left to right: Mrs. Catherine Martinette, Eagle Grove, Iowa. Mrs. William Kent, Kentfield, California. Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton, Md. Mrs. C.T. Robertson, Salt Lake City, Utah. Miss Cora Week, New York…