"On the evening of May 13, 1861, General Benjamin Butler and 1,000 Union soldiers arrived at Baltimore's Camden Street Station by train. Under the cover of a thunderstorm, they fortified Federal Hill to ensure the city of Baltimore remained under Union control, after the Pratt Street Riot less than a month earlier."
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Maryland Academy of Sciences, doorway on Cathedral Street
Subject:
Baltimore (Md.), Clubs and organizations, Schools., Architecture--Exterior, Photographs, Street scene, Street scene--Urban Landscape 
Item ID:
MC2801-5
Creator:
Unknown
Description:
Maryland Academy of Sciences, ca. 1908. Doorway on Cathedral Street. Cathedral and Franklin Streets, Baltimore, Maryland. The Robert L. Harris Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 glass negatives, box 2.
Date of Original:
ca. 1908
Collection:
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
Type/Size:
Image
Restrictions:
Public use restricted to reproduction. For more information, please contact special_collections@mdhs.org
Rights:
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. For reproduction and permission information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org 