The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) provides images and teaching support for faculty and students in the Departments of the History of Art, Classics, and Near Eastern Studies, and for those teaching image intensive courses. JHU faculty, students, and staff have access to JSTOR (> 3 million images) and Johns Hopkins Digital Collections (>280,000 images in JHU’s local digital image collections, including the local VRC teaching collection and materials from Sheridan Libraries Special Collections and the Johns Hopkins Archeological Museum). These resources reflect teaching and research interests across the humanities. Visit the VRC Research Guide.
What Does the VRC Do?
For any of the services below, please email the VRC or use the VRC contact form.
- Develop and maintain Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in collaboration with campus entities; add materials relevant to JHU teaching and research needs, as well as identify gaps in existing collections
- Train users to navigate digital image collections for teaching and research
- Assist instructors with developing digital imaging projects, employing best practices for organizing and storing images, and using image editing software (includes editing or annotating images and consulting on image formatting/size/quality)
- Provide in-class presentations on finding and using images for student papers and projects
- Create and acquire images on demand for teaching, research, and PhD dissertations
- Assist faculty who want to convert personal slide and print collections to digital format
- Lend select audiovisual equipment
Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in JSTOR:
- The VRC’s image collection: JHU Visual Resources Collection
- Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
- Classics Research Lab: Antioch Recovery Project
- Special Collections:
- “Dreyfus Affair” Collection
- Bibliotheca Fictiva
- Chinese Public Health Campaign Slides 1950s-70s
- Collection of Middle East-inspired Sheet Music
- Comedias Sueltas Collection
- James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
- John H. B. Latrobe’s Picture of Baltimore
- Monuments of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Bruckmann Verlag
- Papyri Collection, from Oxyrhynchus and Fayum
- Rare Books of the George Peabody Library
- Special Collections Highlights, including the library’s Chinese Cultural Revolution Poster Collection
- The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance
- Votes and Petticoats: Postcards
- Women of the Book
- Tour of China, 1981: the Ruth Aranow Collection
New images and new collections are being added on a regular basis. Email us if there something you would like to see in our collections!
Work with the VRC
The VRC employs graduate and undergraduate students year-round. If you are interested in working with the VRC, please email us.
Contact Us
Email: [email protected]
Lael J. Ensor-Bennett (she/her/hers)
Curator, Visual Resources Collection
410-516-7122
[email protected]
Gilman 167