"…that on November 19th, 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis asked his Congress for a railway linking the eastern and western interior of the Confederacy?"
Welcome to the Maryland Historical Society’s Collections Online Database. Browse through both Museum Department collections and the Special Collections Department of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library by subject or by medium. Here you will see paintings, photographs, manuscripts, decorative arts pieces, lithographs, and more.
With well over one million items housed at MdHS, this database contains merely a fraction of what can be found in the combined collections. Information contained in the records of the Collections Online Database is subject to change as a result of ongoing research.
African American history, Women's history, Portrait female, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Occupation--Political--US Senator
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Maryland Senator Verda Freeman Welcome. Photograph by Paul Henderson, December 1950. Four by five-inch black and white negative Henderson Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum
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African American history, Women's history, Portrait group, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Clubs and organizations, Baltimore (Md.), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Baby Rally. 402 Dolphin Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul Henderson, June 1949. Four by five-inch black and white negative. Henderson Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
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Portrait Male; Photographs--Cased object; American Civil War, 1861-1865; African American history
Unknown
James W. Sank. Sank enlisted into the Purnell Legion Infantry during the American Civil War. Sank served three years and returned to Baltimore as a letter carrier.
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Women's history, Photographs; Baltimore City Life Museum Collection; African American history; Rowhouses; Architecture--Interior; Portrait group--Family
Dubas, John
Alley house mother. Black and white photograph by John Dubas, 1916. The Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection.
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Photographs--Cased object; Howard Family; Portrait group--Family;
Unknown
Cased photograph of Howard Family. Left to right: Charles Howard (1830-1895), "pinch" the dog, McHenry Howard (b. 1838), Edward Lloyd Howard (1837-1881), Mary Lloyd Howard (b. 1831), and Alice Key Howard (1835-1879).
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
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