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Facing the Great War: World War I and the Beginnings of Modern Rehabilitation
The Maryland Historical Society will partner with the National Park Service and the Baltimore School for the Arts to produce Facing the Great War, three original short plays performed by BSA’s...
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Lizette Woodworth Reese and the Poetry of Spring
Reese in the garden of Nancy’s Fancy, her friend Emily Spencer Hayden’s home in Waverly. Emily Spencer Hayden Collection, PP92.132, MdHS. Lizette Woodworth Reese was one of the most beloved poets to...
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Here at Last He is Happy: The Death and Burial of Edgar Allan Poe
A slightly ghoulish image. A girl and her dog with Poe’s remains. Poe’s Memorial Grave, October 21, 1956, A. Audrey Bodine, B209-4, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, MdHS. “There are some secrets...
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“We only aspire to save”– The Nursery and Child’s Hospital of Baltimore
The Protestant Infant Asylum of Baltimore City was founded in 1875 to provide refuge for orphaned and abandoned babies. It was one of several similar privately funded charitable institutions which...
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The Mastodon in the Museum
Reproduction of the Mastodon bones excavated by Charles Willson Peale on display at the Maryland Historical Society. The great hall of the Maryland Historical Society is graced with the presence of a...
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Port Covington: Baltimore’s Junction with the World
A busy port. Western Maryland Railway, Port Covington, no date, Blakeslee Lane, Subject Vertical File, MdHS. Port Covington long served South Baltimore as an industrial hub of the city. Sharing a...
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A Fight for Recognition: The Lumbee Tribe in Maryland
An illustration of Maryland’s first colonists meeting with one of the many Native American tribes.“First Landing of Leonard Calvert in Maryland,” Oil on Canvas, ca. 1865-70 by David Acheson Woodward...
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The Negro Baseball Leagues and the Baltimore Elite Giants
Elite Giants. Photo by Paul S. Henderson, not dated. HEN.09.10-016, MdHS. Baseball is not a new game. Baseball players battled each other as early as the middle of the 19th century, although the game...
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Growing Up in Fell’s Point: Jennie Sokolowska’s Stories
The Anchorage, Broadway Market, and Port Mission [detail], 1913, MdHS CollectionMy mother Jane Schoeberlein, known in her youth as Jennie Sokolowska, passed away in December 2014. As a means of...
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What we lost in the Fire
Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore, pamphlet, ca 1900. This past summer, I was one of five Loyola University students that conducted research on the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore. The club, which...
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Miss Szold: A Jewish Idealist in the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore
Henrietta Szold in 1940. (Credit: National Library of Israel, Schwadron Collection) This summer, under the direction of Loyola University Maryland English Professor Jean Lee Cole, I was part of a group...
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Carlin’s Park: “Baltimore’s Million Dollar Playground”
Large pagoda-like structures welcomed visitors to the park. Carlin’s Park Entrance, undated, Lydia Livingston Keys, MC8813-8, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Maryland Historical Society. On...
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Researching Curious Revolutionaries at MdHS
The Lord Baltimore Fellowship was a wonderful way to expand my own research on the history of fossil display in museums, and curatorial research on the Peale family for the American Philosophical...
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