Alex. Brown & Sons; Bank buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;
Original etching by Anton Schutz, a signed artist proof, that features the banking house of Alexander Brown and Sons, a mercantile business founded in 1800 that grew into an international banking house. This view looks south at Baltimore and...
Original etching by Anton Schutz. This signed artist's proof features a view of Charles Street looking north from Redwood Street. It is undated but was probably made around 1930.
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.); Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that features Washington Place Park just south of the base of the Washington Monument in...
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Baltimore (Md.); Harbors; Hotels; Maps; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.); Railroad stations; Streets;
Street map of Baltimore that shows streets, automobile routes, hotels, railroad stations, Pullman car cities, berths for housing boats and points of interest. This map was prepared for the convenience of visitors to the 65th Annual Imperial Council...
Baltimore (Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Maps; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Map of historic Baltimore by Edwin Tunis, dated 1936, that shows main traffic routes and points of interest inside the City's 1918 boundaries. The principal points of interest are marked on the map with numbered orange circles and indexed with a...
African American life--Maryland--Baltimore;Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;Slums--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking east from Rock Street at the south side of Born Court in Baltimore, Maryland. These two-and-one-half-story brick row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance...
Photograph taken of West Biddle Street from Madison Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. At 900 Madison Avenue (right) is Dave's Food Market. Although cars are parked on both side of Biddle Street, there is room enough for two more lanes of traffic....
Photograph of Rock Street from its intersection with the 800 block West Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance...
Photograph of a two-story wooden frame duplex on Low Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing on the top step leading to the door of the right house is an African American man leaning on the top rail of the steps. Located to the left of the duplex...
African Americans--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Porches--Maryland--Havre de Grace
Photograph of the "old ordinary" at number 100 St. John Street in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland. Built ca. 1814 as an ordinary, i.e., an inn or tavern that offered lodging to travelers, this brick building with a wide wooden veranda off...
Photograph taken from Ensor Street at the north side of the 900 block East Madison Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing in the street in front of the second house is an African American woman looking into a wooden bucket while two African...
Photograph of the north side of the 800 block West Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story row houses were scheduled to be demolished in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance program. In the...
Photograph taken looking west from North Front Street at the 1000 block Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing off to the side (left) and in the doorway of the first of these two- and three-story brick row houses are several groups of...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church...
Photograph of the American Gas Station on the corner of North Central Avenue and East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1937, the Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center) and St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (center behind the...
Hotel restaurants--Maryland--Baltimore;Dinners and dining--Maryland--Baltimore;Mural painting and decoration--20th century--Maryland--Baltimore;Hotel Belvedere (Baltimore, Md.);Rogers, Olive Verna, 1903-1989;African American men--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the John Eager Howard Room at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Named in honor of John Eager Howard (1752-1827), the Revolutionary War hero and politician who originally owned the land on which the hotel is located, this...
Beans--Harvesting--Maryland--Wicomico County;African American agricultural laborers--Maryland--Wicomico County;Trucks--Maryland;Automobiles--Maryland
Photograph of African American farm workers picking string beans in a field near Salisbury in Wicomico County, Maryland. Some of the workers are loading bushels of beans into a truck at a corner of the field. Other workers are seated and resting...
Photograph of the interior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 12 in Baltimore, Maryland. In the picture a large group of school children including many African Americans are visiting the branch. A librarian is helping the children as...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Brick wall signs--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the south side of the 1500 block of Orleans Street, as viewed from Dallas Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. In front of these two- and three story brick row houses are three African Americans walking on the sidewalk, passing another...
White, Miles, Jr. (1856-1938); Businessmen--Maryland--Baltimore; Philanthropists--Maryland--Baltimore
Photographic portrait of Miles White, Jr. (1856-1938), a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. As a trustee of many charitable organizations in Baltimore, he devoted considerable time to charitable and philanthropic activities. He was also...
Bethlehem Steel Company; African American men--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Blue collar workers--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Rolling-mills--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Steel industry and trade--Maryland--Sparrows Point
Photograph of the cold-rolling of steel inside the Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point plant in Baltimore County, Maryland. Standing at the finishing end of three rolling-mill machines are African American workers stacking the sheet metal on...
