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Field Service Postcards were designed to allow soldiers to quickly send information home about their current situation, since they did not require review by censors. No additional information could be added to the postcard, though soldiers…

After the war, the Federal Board for Vocational Education began funding the education of disabled veterans across the country. On the Hopkins campus, some veterans worked as “protégés,” a kind of paid apprenticeship where they received on-the-job…

Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson and himself a Hopkins alumnus, unveils a plaque in the Alumni Memorial Dormitory commemorating male Hopkins affiliates who died during the war. (There were also casualties among the…

This hand-tinted image, taken from a lantern slide, shows the original Johns Hopkins dormitory shortly after completion. Originally named the Alumni Memorial Dormitory, it honors Hopkins affiliates who sacrificed their lives in the Great War. When…

Aerial view of the recently completed Alumni Memorial Dormitory, circa 1923, showing Homewood Museum, Charles Street and Greenway.

Members of the Tudor and Stuart Club gather in their room in Gilman Hall, with Revere Osler’s library along the wall and the portrait of Revere Osler above the fireplace.

William Osler, one of the founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins Hospital,…

Latrobe Hall, built for the Civil Engineering Department, and Maryland Hall, which housed the Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering departments, served as quarters for the Student Army Training Corps in 1918.

William Osler, one of the founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had a son, Edward Revere Osler. In 1915 Revere, as he was known, dropped out of Oxford’s Christ Church College to join the war effort. In August 1917, serving in Belgium…

This map, featuring hand-drawn boundaries, and accompanying text are part of Bowman's working copy of the "Black Book." The Black Book was the American delegation’s secret guiding document in Paris Peace Conference negotiations, and its creation was…