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.

For information on how to get started, take a look at the About page.  Use or reproduction of MdHS images without permission is not permitted. For more information, see the Terms of Use page. For reproductions or permission to use images, please visit the Rights and Reproductions page. 

Browse by subject using these links or enter a term in the search boxes below (scroll down for results):

American Civil WarAfrican American HistoryPhotographs
War of 1812Women's HistoryBenjamin Henry Latrobe
PaintingsMining the Museum (exhibit)

Works on Paper

Emigration & immigrationMaritimePrints
Victory Over Japan Day (VJ Day)
World War II, Celebrations and parades, Street scenes, Howard Street, Baltimore (Md.), Photograph, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Blakeslee Lane
A crowd gathers outside Hochschild-Kohn and Company. Howard Street, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
August 14, 1945
MC8427 .1


Victory Over Japan Day (VJ Day)
World War II, Celebrations and parades, Street scenes, Howard Street, Baltimore (Md.), Photograph, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Blakeslee Lane
A crowd gathers outside Hochschild-Kohn and Company. Howard Street, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
August 14, 1945
MC8427 .4


National Brewing Company, 1946.
Business and Industries, Brewery, Photograph, A. Aubrey Bodine Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
A. Aubrey Bodine
An employee at the National Brewing Company located in Brewer's Hill, O'Donnell and Conkling Streets, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
1946
B815 .1


National Brewing Company, 1946.
Business and Industries, Brewery, Photograph, A. Aubrey Bodine Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
A. Aubrey Bodine, 1906-1970.
Employees at work at the National Brewing Company in Brewer's Hill, O'Donnell and Conkling Streets, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
1946
B815 .3


National Brewing Company, 1946.
Business and Industries, Brewery, Photograph, A. Aubrey Bodine Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
A. Aubrey Bodine, 1906-1970.
Man testing the beer at National Brewing Company in Brewer's Hill, O'Donnell and Conkling Streets, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
1946
B815 .D


Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Annex Building, ca. 1925
Business and Industries, Office Buildings, Street Scene, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Photograph, Subject Vertical File, Special Collections Department
Unknown, possibly Hughes Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Annex Building, ca. 1925, 1920s, unknown photographer, possibly Hughes Company, film negative, 8x10 inch
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
ca. 1925
SVF Baltimore City Office Buildings


Malt and Hops Store
Street scenes, Storefront, Prohibition, Photograph, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
John Dubas
Malt and hops storefront, East Biddle Street, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
ca. 1930
MC9249 .1


National Bohemian Beer Truck, 1953.
Business and Industries, Transportation, Brewery, Photograph, Hughes Photograph Collection, Special Collections Department
Hughes Company
Delivery truck of the National Brewing Company located in Brewer's Hill. O'Donnell and Conkling Streets, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
March 11, 1953
PP30.74.53


Fitch Dustdown Company
Business and Industries, Office Buildings, Street Scene, Photograph, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
John Dubas
Fitch Dustdown Company. Janitorial supplies and cleaning equipment. Shows employees standing outside. 201 South Howard Street, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
ca. 1940
MC9265 .A


Charles Street looking south from Preston Street.
Street scene, Hotel, Monument, Theatre, Mount Vernon, Charles Street, Preston Street, Photographs, Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Baltimore (Md.), Hughes Company Collection, Special Collections Department
Hughes Company
Charles Street looking south from Preston Street, not dated. Shows Albaugh's Theatre, Belvedere Hotel, Washington Monument in Mount Vernon, Baltimore. Copy print PP8.175
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
Unknown
Z9 .179 .PP8


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Philip Berrigan
Philip Berrigan, Civil rights, Photograph, A. Aubrey Bodine Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
A. Aubrey Bodine, 1906-1970.
Father Philip Berrigan, member of the Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine. Civil rights, antiwar, nuclear disarmament activist. 1923-2002.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
ca. 1967
B1575.3


Installation view: "Cabinetmaking, 1820-1960"
Wilson, Fred, 1954-, African American history, Exhibitions, Mining the Museum
Maryland Historical Society Exhibition
"Cabinetmaking, 1820-1960" from Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson. Maryland Historical Society, 1992-1993. Joint exhibition with The Contemporary in Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Museum Department: museum@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. For reproduction and permission information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
1992-1993 (exhibit)
MTM 037B


Street scene. Eutaw Street looking north from Baltimore Street.
Eutaw Street, Business, Business and industry, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Architecture, Street scenes
Unidentified photographer
Street scene. Eutaw Street looking north from Baltimore Street. Shows Cole and Company, Hippodrome Theatre, China Land, Brager, Kelley's Seafood, Cummins Brothers, Eutaw Loan Office, Hugh Lyons and Company, pedestrians, streetcar lines.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
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ca. 1925
1994.42.041


Grave of Edgar Allan Poe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Collection, Cemeteries, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Photograph, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
Unidentified photographer
Grave of Edgar Allan Poe, Westminster Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, 519 West Fayette Street, Baltimore.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
Not dated.
MC4786


Baltimore Trust Company building
Downtown, Baltimore (Md.), Buildings, Structures, Business, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Government facilities, Urban Landscape, Landscape, Street scenes, Aerial views, Photographs, Aerial Photographs, Architecture, Banks and banking
Mettee, Holmes I. (1881-1947)
Baltimore Trust Company building. Corner of East Baltimore Street and Light Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Photograph by Holmes I. Mettee, not dated. Tenants include the Baltimore Trust Company, Maryland Public Works Administration, Maryland National Bank, and Bank of America. Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
Not dated
MC8722 .14


Northeast corner of Baltimore Street and Holliday Street, after removal of wires (Lubin’s Theatre)
Streetcars, Automobiles, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Landscape, Urban landscape, Street scenes, Business, Theater, Theater-Movie
Waldeck, Alfred
Northeast corner of Baltimore Street and Holliday Street, after removal of wires (Lubin’s Theatre). Photograph by Alfred Waldeck. Shows Lubin's Theatre, across from the Gayety Theatre. See also: MC2611 .2 for view before removal of wires. Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: special_collections@mdhs.org
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Not dated
MC2611 .1


Scene on Read Street
Clothing & dress, Photographs, Street scenes, Portrait group, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Business, Baltimore (Md.), Mount Vernon, Bodine, A. Aubrey
Bodine, A. Aubrey (1906-1970)
Scene on Read Street, Baltimore. Photograph by A. Aubrey Bodine. Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: special_collections@mdhs.org
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Not dated
B112 .1


Adam J. Winfelder and family in front of Winfelder’s Saloon
Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Family, Portrait group, Children, Business, Bars, Taverns, Baltimore (Md.)
Dubas, John (fl.1904-1973)
Adam J. Winfelder and family in front of Winfelder’s Saloon. 918 North Bradford Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Glass negative by John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973). Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org
1907
MC9448