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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.
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Photograph; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Physician; Portrait male
Unknown
Dr. Thomas Hepburn Buckler (1812-1901). Physician during the American Civil War.
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Unknown
[PVF]
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Architecture--Military--Fort; Photograph
standing guard. Steamship in background left. Double-masted ship in background center. Photograph.
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ca. 1861
PP230A.046
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Photograph; Portrait group--Military
Unknown
Unidentified Fort Overlooking River. Not Dated. Two Union soldiers in foreground with third soldier on lookout hill. Six ships in background. Photograph.
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ca. 1861
PP230A.045
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home; Photograph
Unknown
General Wade Hampton (1818-1902) and General Bradley T. Johnson (1829-1903), ca. 1900. Mounted photograph.
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ca. 1900
PP159.16
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home; Photograph; Monuments; Gettysburg (Pa.)
Veterans at 2nd Maryland Monument, CSA. Culp
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ca. 1861
PP159.17
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home; Photograph; Portrait male
Major General Isaac R. Trimble (1802-1888), ca.1865. Hand colored photograph. Oversized.
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ca. 1865
PP159.19
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Photograph; Confederate States of America; Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home
Unknown
Relic room with memorabilia,
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Ca. 1898
PP159.12
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home; Photograph
Unknown
Members of the Maryland Line Confederate Soldier's Home and their friends at Pen Mar, September 19, 1890, The facility that became the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pikesville (Baltimore County) dates back to 1818, when it was a Federal Arsenal. In 1888 it was converted into a residence for soldiers who served in the Confederacy during the Civil war, remaining in operation until 1932.
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ca. 1861
PP159.15
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Photograph; Confederate States of America; Military hospitals; Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home
Unknown
Stonewall Jackson Infirmary. Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home Collection. Mounted Print.
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ca. 1861
PP159.2
PP1; American Civil War; 1861-1865; Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882; Street scene; Sharpsburg (Md.); Photograph
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Street in Sharpsburg. Episcopal Church in the distance. Negative by Alexander Gardner, 1862. Photographic incidents of the war. No. 599. From Gardner's Gallery, corner of the 7th and D streets, Washington DC. Accession 51211.
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ca. 1862
PP1.24.55
American Civil War; 1861-1865; Photograph; Portrait male; Occupation--Military--Soldier; Portrait male--Occupation--Politician
Carte-de-visit of John Merryman (1824-1881.) Ex Parte Merryman, 17F. Cas. 144 (1861.) A well-known U.S. Federal court case, which arose out of the American Civil War. Gift of the family of Julian Sangston Clarke in memory of Julian Sangston Clarke, Jr. Actual donor for the family was Beatrice Griffith. From photograph album containing 47 cartes-de-visite of mostly Confederates and Confederate-sympathizers.
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ca. 1861
PP1; American Civil War; 1861-1865; African American history; Celebrations and parades; Suffrage; Photograph
Chase, William
Baltimore's African American's celebrate the Fifteenth Amendment, Establishing the right of Suffrage. 1870. Stereoview taken in Monument Square celebrating the 15th Amendment. (Previously Z24.797)
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1870
PP1.2
American Civil War, 1861-1865; Photograph; Portrait group--Men
Unknown
Group Portrait Vertical File
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1861
[GPVF]
American Civil War, 1861-1865; Portrait group--Military; Photograph; Confederate States of America
Unknown
Group Portrait Vertical File (Medium Photographs.) William Murray and Two Soldiers, 53rd Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. Salted paper print with applied color. Unidentified photographer.
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ca. 1861
[GPVF]
Alexandria (Va.); Photograph; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Occupation--Military
Unknown
Second Maryland Volunteer Infantry, Second Maryland Calvary. Camp Scenes taken in Alexandria, Virginia, 1865. Noncommissioned staff and 1st sergeants, right and left guides.
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ca. 1865
[GPVF]
Alexandria (Va.); Photograph; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Occupation--Military
Unknown
Second Maryland Volunteer Infantry, Second Maryland Calvary. Camp scenes taken in Alexandria. Virginia, 1865. Fife and Drum Corps in front, officers in rear.
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ca. 1865
[GPVF]
Alexandria (Va.); Photograph; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Occupation--Military
Unknown
Second Maryland Volunteer Infantry, Second Maryland Calvary.
Camp Scenes Taken in Alexandria, Virginia, 1865.
Field, Staff, and Line, 2nd Maryland
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ca. 1865
[GPVF]
American Civil War, 1861-1865; Portrait group--Women; Women's history; Photographs
Unknown
The Brown Veil Club (also known as the Monument Street Girls), ca.1860-1865. The Brown Veil Club sewed uniforms during the Civil War for local men who fled the city to join the Confederate Army. Standing left to right; Henrietta Penniman Carrington, Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson; Seated; Sophia Sargeant, Alice Wright, Rebecca Gordon, and Ida Winn.
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ca. 1860
[GPVF]
Photographs, Street scenes, Baltimore (Md.), Fire, 1904, Portrait group, Men, Fire and explosions
Unidentified Photographer
Baltimore - Fires & Explosions - 1904 - Business Establishments & Stores - Anderson & Ireland Hardware. Group of policemen/firemen standing in front of an ice covered ruin. Pratt and Light Streets. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.62.VF.
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1904
[SVF]
Photographs, Street scenes, Baltimore (Md.), Fire, 1904, Fire and explosions
J.E. Henry
Baltimore - Fires & Explosions - 1904 - Business Establishments & Stores - Anderson & Ireland Hardware. Verso reads: "Baltimore's business district was wiped out by the big fire of February 7 and 8, 1904? The picture, taken by J.E. Henry, 1433 Edmondson Avenue, shows the Anderson & Ireland Hardware Store at the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Because of powder and dynamite stored in the building, it was necessary to keep streams or water playing on it constantly, and the water froze."
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1904
[SVF]
