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What’s the Point?
(Top) Fell’s Point Newsletter and Mercantile Advertiser, August 14, 1835, MdHS. (Detail from masthead)(Bottom) The Gazette: The Fells Point Newspaper, October 1983, MdHS. (Detail from masthead) While...
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Masked Mystery
What do you think is going on in this photograph? “Detective room, Police Department,” Hughes Company Photograph Collection, unknown photographer (possibly James W. Scott), ca.1910, MdHS, PP8-585 /...
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“Facing the Masks”: Masked Mystery Solved
“The White Masks Inspecting a Prisoner at Detective Headquarters,” Hughes Company Photograph Collection, unknown photographer (possibly James W. Scott), ca.1909, MdHS, PP8-585 / Z9.584.PP8. Last week...
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Paul Henderson Collection: Who or Where?
The Paul Henderson Photograph Collection contains over 6,000 photographs of mostly unidentified African Americans from ca. 1935-1965. When the Paul Henderson: Baltimore’s Civil Rights Era in...
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Lost City: The Sulzebacher House
Sulzebacher House, ca 1865, MdHS, CC956. West Baltimore was once a densely packed, vibrant neighborhood full of theaters, local businesses, and industry. Drive down many of the streets today and you’re...
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Your Baltimore Canaries: a very brief history of Baltimore’s second...
Look up, Baltimore baseball fans! You’ve come a long way. The origin of baseball in Baltimore is a ridiculously complicated affair. Scant photographic evidence remains and accounts in newspapers, which...
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Everyday People: Paul Henderson Collection Goes to City Hall
Can you identify these sharply dressed young men? “Two Unknown Young Men,” MdHS, HEN.08.01-004. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Imaging Services Department at MdHS. Through some wild...
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Sunday Best: a volunteer reflects on photo crowdsourcing
Last week the Maryland Historical Society opened a satellite photograph exhibit, “Paul Henderson: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs,” at Baltimore’s City Hall. The show marks our latest...
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Then and Now: The Owl Bar
The Owl Bar has long been a favorite after-work drinking spot for MdHS staffers. A decent beer selection, cheap happy hour specials, and some of the best brick oven pizza in town are only part of the...
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Baltimore, a History Block By Block: Q&A with James Singewald
When he is not busy shooting rare, historic objects for the Maryland Historical Society, James Singewald keeps himself occupied with a more personal form of historic preservation. For the past six...
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A Safe Harbor: The Port Mission in Fells Point
A safe harbor. The Port Mission, founded in 1881, at 813-815 S. Broadway, Fells Point, Baltimore.“Port Mission Gospel Hall and Free Reading Room for Seamen Fell’s Point, Baltimore,” A. Aubrey Bodine,...
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A Magical History Tour of Maryland
Crowd watching Houdini in front of the Sun Building, Charles Street and Baltimore Street. Elevated view looking southeast from upper floor of the B & O Building. Baltimore. April 26, 1916.,...
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Ponzi’s Plea
My house of cards had collapsed! The bubble had busted! I had lost! Lost everything! Millions of dollars. Credit. Happiness. And even my liberty! Everything, except my courage. I needed that to take my...
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Maryland on a Half Shell
Oysters in Half Shell, by Andrew John Henry Way, 1863. Oil on canvas. 13 57/64 x 20 5/64 in. (35.3 x 51 cm). Maryland Historical Society Accession: 1964-3-30 The waters of the Chesapeake Bay have long...
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The (M)ad Men and Women of Hutzler’s
Stylist Helen Huf (left) hands receptionist Mary Fuhrman (right) a message.“Reception,” ca. 1949, Blakeslee-Lane, PP5 Box 25 Folder 35 #11, MdHS. On any given day throughout the 1940s and ’50s,...
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Capturing the Movement: Before and After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in...
Paul Robeson (2nd from left) is joined by Dr. John E. T. Camper, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for Justice (4th from left) and—we believe—a young A. Robert Kauffman of Interracial Fellowship Youth...
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Up, up and away: Maryland’s First Birdmen
Maryland aviation pioneer Charles F. Elvers’ first airplane with his notes about its success.Glenn L. Martin Aviation Albums, 1904-1940, MS 704, Box 1, Maryland Historical Society. When the news broke...
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Lost City: The Burning of Oriole Park
Lost to fire. Old Terrapin Park a.k.a. Orioles Park, the fifth. Baltimore – Stadiums – Oriole Stadium, 1938, photographer unknown. Subject Vertical File, MdHS. On the evening of July 3, 1944, the...
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“The World’s Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum:” Memorial Stadium, Part I
The grand Grecian columns at the entrance to Venable (Baltimore/Municipal) Stadium. Old Stadium (Baltimore Stadium), February 3, 1937, A. Aubrey Bodine, B244-2, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection,...
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“The World’s Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum:” Memorial Stadium, Part II
A full house for the Colts vs. Washington Redskins game on October 23, 1955. “Colts vs. Redskins, Baltimore Memorial Stadium,” October 23, 1955, Robert F. Kniesche, PP79.1331-2, Robert F. Kniesche...
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