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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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PP262, Artists' Excursion Over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection; Photographs; Landscapes; Virginia; West Virginia; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Railroads; Trains; Transportation
Unidentified Photographer
Landscape: West Grafton, Virginia (West Virginia). B&O Railroad Views. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.25.VF.
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1857
[PP262.08]
PP262, Artists' Excursion Over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection; Photographs; Landscapes; Virginia; West Virginia; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Bridges and viaducts; Railroads; Trains; Transportation
Unidentified Photographer
Finksburg Truss Bridge, Virginia (West Virginia). B&O Railroad Views. Bridge over the Monongahala River, near Fairmount, WV. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.98.VF.
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1857
[PP262.09]
PP262; Artists Excursion Over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection; Photographs; Railroads; Bridges and viaducts; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Trains; Transportation; Virginia; West Virginia; Landscapes;
Unidentified Photographer
Railroad Train on Cheat River Bridge, Virginia (now West Virginia). B&O Railroad Views. Photographers Special. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.33.VF.
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1857
[PP262.11]
PP262; Artists Excursion Over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection; Photographs; Portrait Group; Men; Landscapes; Railroad; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company;
Unidentified Photographer
Group Portrait. Glover's Gap, 1857. B&O Railroad Views. Photographers Special. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.28.VF.
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1857
[PP262.13]
PP262; Artists Excursion Over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Photograph Collection; Photographs; Landscapes; Buildings, structures, etc.; Virginia; West Virginia; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company;
Unidentified Photographer
Unidentified Tavern, Sykesville. B&O Railroad Views. Photographers Special. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.27.VF.
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1857
[PP262.16]
Portrait group; Men; Photographs; Baltimore (Md.); Leisure; Celebrities; Mencken, H.L.; Prohibition
Unidentified Photographer
H.L. Mencken Celebrates Repeal at the Hotel Rennert. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.1059 & Z24.1679.
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December 1933
[PVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Horse-drawn wagons, Transportation
Unidentified Photographer
Baltimore - Street Railroads - Baltimore City Passenger Railway. Street Cars, ca. 1885-1890(?). Baltimore City Railway Co. / #60. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.69.VF & Z24.420.
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Ca. 1860
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Fires and Explosions, Fire engines and equipment; Street scenes, Fireman, Fire, 1904, Buildings, structures, etc.,
Unidentified Photographer
Baltimore - Fires & Explosions - Fire Engines & Equipment - Hose - 1904. Street scene with firefighters fighting a fire and spectators looking on. "[Carriage] & Toy Co." "McLaughlin Brothers. Engineers & Constructors. 100 E. Lexington St." Note: Formerly designated Z24.72.VF.
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1904
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Churches, Architecture, Buildings, structures, etc., Street scenes
Unidentified Photographer
Baltimore - Churches - Central Presbyterian. Verso reads: "Central Presbyterian Church stood at the southwest corner of Liberty and Cathedral Street, opposite the site of the Hotel Rennert. Central Presbyterian Church was opened for service March 25, 1855. At the timeof its erection it was the largest Presbyterian church in Baltimore. It's pastor, Dr. Robinson, was one of the famous preachers of the city and there were crowded congregations. It had a memebership of 257 in its early days and in its great prosperity under Rev. Joseph T. Smith in the sixties the number increased to 425. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church met there. It was destroyed in the 'Clay Street fire' that swept over that section July 25, 1873. The church took fire in its tall steeple and was soon wrecked, and it carried the same fate to the row of houses along Saratoga from Liberty to Park. The new Central Church is on Eutaw Place." Note: Formerly designated as Z24.90.VF.
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Ca. 1873
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Medicine, Hospitals, Buildings, structures, etc., Architecture
Bachrach
Baltimore - Hospitals - Baltimore General Dispensary. "The New Dispensary Building at Paca & Fayette Streets was opened for patients February 15, 1912." Note: Formerly designated as Z24.73.VF.
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1920
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Hospitals, Medicine, Portrait group, Men, Women
Unidentified Photographer
Baltimore -Hospitals - Baltimore General Dispensary - Staff. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.85.VF.
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Ca. 1907
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Aerial Views, Street scenes, Architecture; Medicine, Hospitals, Buildings, structures, etc.
Unidentified Photographer
Baltimore - Hospitals - Johns Hopkins Hospital. Exterior view from Monument and Broadway. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.95.VF.
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Ca. 1890
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Medicine, Exterior, Hospitals, Architecture, Buildings, structures, etc.
Otto A. Wall, Jr.
Baltimore - Hospitals - Johns Hopkins Hospital - Exterior view of front entrance. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.1605A.
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Ca. 1890
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Hospitals, Medicine, Architecture, Buildings, structures, etc.
Otto A. Wall, Jr.
Baltimore - Hospitals - Johns Hopkins Hospital. Exterior view from Broadway & Jefferson Street. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.1605B.
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Ca. 1890
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Hospitals, Medicine, Interior, Buildings, structures, etc.
Otto A. Wall, Jr.
Baltimore - Hospitals - Johns Hopkins Hospital. Interior view, classroom/laboratory.
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Ca. 1890
[SVF]
Lexington Street, Restaurants, Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Baltimore Theatre, Theater-Movie, Business, Buildings, structures, etc., Architecture, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes
Unidentified photographer
Street scene. Loew's Century Theatre (18 West Lexington Street), Bachrach Photographers, Huyler's Restaurant. Unit block west Lexington Street, Baltimore. Now demolished. Built in 1921 after plans prepared by John J. Zink. Prior to the addition of The Valencia Theatre (above The Century Theatre). Julius Anderson Photograph Collection. Gelatin silver print.
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ca. 1925
1995.62.001
West Franklin Street, Leisure, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Architecture, Street scenes
Unidentified photographer
Hazazers Dancing Palace. 107-111 West Franklin Street, Baltimore. Also shows Boumi Temple. Julius Anderson Photograph Collection. Gelatin silver print.
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ca. 1920-1930
1995.62.002
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Exterior, Architecture, Buildings, structures, etc., Hotel, Apartment buildings, Mount Vernon
Unidentified photographer
Baltimore - Hotels, Inns & Taverns - Mt. Royal Hotel - East Mt. Royal Avenue & North Calvert Street
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1929
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Exterior, Architecture, Buildings, structures, etc., Orphan, Asylums, Hospital
Unidentified photographer
Baltimore - Orphans & Orphan - Asylums - Calverton Hebrew Orphan Asylum - Rayner Avenue - "built 1815 as a private residence for Dennis Smith, R.C. Long Architect; remodeled for use as asylum in 1820; sold in 1866 when asylum moved; given to Hebrew Orphan Asylum 1872; destroyed by fire 1874; rebuilt 1876, but different building." Note: Formerly designated as Z24.76.VF.
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Ca. 1873
[SVF]
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Street scenes, Exterior, Architecture, Buildings, structures, etc.
Unidentified photographer
Baltimore - Streets - Baltimore Street - east 200-300 block - Baltimore Street looking west showing Barnums Hotel and the Baltimore Museum. Note: Formerly designated as Z24.79.VF.
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Ca. 1870
[SVF]
