Johns Hopkins Digital Collections in JSTOR include selections from Sheridan Libraries Special Collections and the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, in association with the Visual Resources Collection (VRC) in the Department of the History of Art in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. 

    Visit all of our collections in JSTOR:

• The VRC’s image collection: JHU Visual Resources Collection

• Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum

• Special Collections:

  • "Dreyfus Affair" Collection

  • Chinese Public Health Campaign Slides 1950s-70s

  • Collection of Middle East-inspired Sheet Music

  • Monuments of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Bruckmann Verlag

  • Papyri Collection, from Oxyrhynchus and Fayum

  • 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
     

New images and new collections are being added on a regular basis. Is there something you would like to see in our collections? Email the VRC!

The JHU Visual Resources Collection in Artstor and in JSTOR is the VRC's local digital image collection and is constantly growing with over 260,000 digital images. This resource is accessible to JHU faculty, students, and staff and reflects the teaching and research interests of Hopkins faculty in departments and programs such as History of Art, Classics, Comparative Thought and Literature, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, History, History of Science and Technology, Museums and Society, Near Eastern Studies, Visual Arts, and Writing Seminars. With material covering the entire history of art, the JHU Visual Resources Collection’s strengths include ancient art, medieval art, Renaissance art, manuscripts and printed books, 19th and 20th century art, and contemporary Asian art. 

Having the VRC's images in Artstor and JSTOR has many advantages:

• “One Stop Shopping:” JHU's images appear alongside images throughout Artstor and JSTOR's collections
• Artstor and JSTOR's filtering tools are available for the JHU images (filter your search by date, modern country, or type of object) 
• Extensive cataloging data is visible for the JHU images making searching easier
• The VRC links names, places, and other related terminology used in image data to the Getty Vocabularies, creating better search results for terms with alternate names and spellings. (Example: Searching “Syrien” will bring up results for “Syria”) 

Found a cataloging mistake? Please contact the VRC to report cataloging errors or other problems you encounter. We really appreciate your help in keeping the data accurate!

All images in Artstor are tagged to indicate their collection type. Images in the local JHU collections are labeled "Institutional." 

The VRC collaborated with Spring 2020's Classics Research Lab the Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) to add more than 500 new images of Antioch mosaics to Artstor for the students and investigators working on the project. The VRC used Image Groups in Artstor to create this group of 849 images. One of the student investigators was then able to create image groups for each house. Read more about organizing the image by house on the ARP blog.