Correspondence between Conservatory Director Charles Kent and Preparatory Dean Leah Thorpe concerning hiring an African-American Preparatory faculty member.
In this letter, Charles R. Austrian, a member of the Peabody Institute Board of Trustees and the Conservatory Committee, responds to William Marbury with his opinion on the admission of Paul A. Brent to the Conservatory.
Lyda King (class of 1913) entered nursing school after the death of her husband Joseph King in 1910. These bandage scissors are among the personal items used by King during her wartime nursing service with the Johns Hopkins Base Hospital Unit No. 18…