Photographs These collections contain approximately 30,000 images. Whereas the concentrated focus is photodocumentation of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the health divisions of The Johns Hopkins University, these collections are broadened in scope with the inclusion of photographs from the personal paper collections of faculty and staff. The range of images includes the following categories: Albums Biomedical Buildings Buildings Boxes 32 - 39 Buildings Box 40 - 48 Buildings Box 49 - 54 Medical Equipment Medical Illustration Military Medicine Oversized Photographs People at Work Personal Paper Collections Portraits - Individuals A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Groups The Johns Hopkins Hospital The Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Professional, Social, and Recreational Groups, Events and Activities Photo Collections - Departmental Search the Collections About the Photograph Collections Date Range As a whole these collections provide visual evidence of the evolution of patient care, teaching, and research at Johns Hopkins for more than a century (1889 - 1996). Provenance The photographic collections have been compiled from the following sources: institutional records, personal paper collections, and gifts from individual donors. Many of the photographs from institutional record sources were produced by professional photographers; they were specially commissioned as official portraits (individuals and groups) or to document institutional events, architecture, equipment, patients, research subjects, and people at work. Photographs from personal paper collections and gifts from individual donors include examples of both professional and amateur photography. Information about photographers and sources of the photographic prints is available in many instances. However, donors and offices of origin have not always identified photographers and the provenance of prints. Types of Photographic Processes These collections include original examples of vintage processes as well as contemporary copy prints and slides. These are representative examples of photographic processes from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century.Although there are examples of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, carte-de-visites, and cabinet views from the personal paper collections, the most common early vintage processes in the institutional records are panoramas and stereographs.