Additional resources
May Garrettson Evans and the Peabody Preparatory
An article about the history of the Peabody Preparatory Department by the former archivist of the Peabody Institute includes a summary of the Preparatory's founding and early years. See Elizabeth Schaaf, "From Idea to Tradition: The Peabody Prep," Music Educators Journal 72, no. 1 (1985): 38-43. See also "The Preparatory Department: A Brief History" in the Peabody Notes (Winter 1950) and "Ninety Years of Making Music" in the Peabody News (September 1984).
An article published in 2020 about the community singing program at the Prep describes the role of Evans and another educator, Henrietta Baker Low. See Esther M Morgan-Ellis, "'Making the many-minded one': Community Singing at the Peabody Prep in 1915," The Musical Quarterly, gdaa003, https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdaa003
Web exhibit by Loyola Notre Dame Library on the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore, which counted May Garrettson Evans as one of its members.
Article about Evans in the Baltimore Sun in 2019, "How Baltimore’s first female reporter used maps and data to save Edgar Allan Poe’s Amity Street home."
Books by Evans in the JHU library catalog, including her books on music education.
Guide to the May Garrettson Evans scrapbooks at the Arthur Friedheim Library Archives of the Peabody Institute. Both scrapbooks outline the Evans family history, including May Garrettson Evans's work as founder and superintendent of the Peabody Preparatory Department, using newspaper clippings, letters, and photographs.
The Johns Hopkins University collection on Edgar Allan Poe contains materials from the Edgar Allan Poe Society, including scrapbooks assembled by May Garrettson Evans on Poe's grave and on the settings of Poe's text in drama and music. This collection is part of the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections.
An oil painting of Evans by Leonard Bahr, given to the Institute in Evans's memory by her friends and colleagues in 1947, hangs in Leakin Hall.
Johns Hopkins University's Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemoration
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave U.S. women the right to vote, Johns Hopkins University is engaging the community to educate, explore, and raise awareness about this momentous occasion. Visit https://womensvote100.jhu.edu/ to learn more about events, educational resources, and news.
About this exhibit
This exhibit was curated by Matt Testa and Andrea Copland for the Arthur Friedheim Library of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. We welcome your questions or comments at peabodyarchives@lists.jhu.edu.