Collections Online

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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Protest demonstration. Men and women protesting intention to convert McCulloh Street into a one-way street.
Street scenes, City Hall, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.)
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Men and women protesting intention to convert McCulloh Street into a one-way street. City Hall, Baltimore. Lillie May Carroll Jackson with sign near door. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa November 1950.
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ca. 1950
HEN.00.A2-144


Protest demonstration. Men and women protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Street scenes, Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.)
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Men and women protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson, circa March 1951.
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ca. 1951
HEN.00.A2-150


Juanita Jackson Mitchell (standing, second from left), Lillie May Carroll Jackson (standing, fourth from left) with others.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.)
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Group portrait. Juanita Jackson Mitchell (standing, second from left), Lillie May Carroll Jackson (standing, fourth from left) with others. Possibly the Afro-American newspaper office. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), undated.
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Undated
HEN.00.A2-151


Profest demonstration. Parren Mitchell (second from left) with others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Profest demonstration. Parren Mitchell (second from left) with others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa September 1948.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-152


Protest demonstration. Four women protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Four women protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa September 1948.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-154


Protest demonstration. Mrs. Bowen Jackson and Bayard Rustin with others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Mrs. Bowen Jackson and Bayard Rustin with others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Bayrd Ruston, second from left. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa September 1948. Afro-American newspaper, October 29, 1949: "Hit by Jim Crow in Md. As Well as N.C. Bayard Rustin, who spent 22 days on the North Carolina chain gang for refusal to obey the jim crow travel laws, is shown as he joined the NAACP picket line at Ford's Theatre, last week, in protest of its policy of segregation. This is the fourth season of the NAACP's picketing in Baltimore. Shown left to right, are Mrs. Bowen Jackson and Mr. Rustin."
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-155


Protest demonstration. Paul Robeson (second from left), Dr. John E.T. Camper (fourth from left) with others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Celebrities, Entertainers, Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Paul Robeson (second from left), Dr. John E.T. Camper (fourth from left) with others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows men and women with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa March 1948. Note: Exhibited on-site in "Paul Henderson: Baltimore's Civil Rights Era in Photographs, ca. 1940-1960," February 2012.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-156


Protest demonstration. People protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. People protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows pedestrians and protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa March 1948.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-157


Protest demonstration. Paul Robeson (third from left), Dr. John E.T. Camper and others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Celebrities, Entertainers, Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Paul Robeson (third from left), Dr. John E.T. Camper and others protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa March 1948.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-158


Protest demonstration. Paul Robeson (left) and Dr. John E.T. Camper (right) protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Celebrities, Entertainers, Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Paul Robeson (left) and Dr. John E.T. Camper (right) protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa March 1948.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-178


Protest demonstration. Men and women protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy.
Street scenes, Business, Baltimore Theatre, Theater, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Civil rights, Women's History, Baltimore (Md.)
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Street scene. Protest demonstration. Men and women protesting Ford's Theatre Jim Crow admission policy. Shows protestors with NAACP signs. 314-320 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson, circa September 1948.
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ca. 1948
HEN.00.A2-211


Marian Anderson (1897-1993) on left with unidentified woman.
Civil Rights, Celebrities, Entertainers, African American history, Paul Henderson, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Women's history
Henderson, Paul, 1899-1988
Portrait. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) on left with unidentified woman. Photograph by Paul S. Henderson (1899-1988), circa January 1954.
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ca. 1954
HEN.00.A2-268