"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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Street scene. 700 block, North Charles Street, Baltimore, at Mount Vernon Place.
Subject:
Hotel, Monuments, Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Place, Charles Street, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Architecture, Buildings, structures 
Item ID:
1995.62.049
Creator:
Unidentified photographer
Description:
Street scene. 700 block, North Charles Street, Baltimore, at Mount Vernon Place. Shows Mount Vernon Methodist Church, Stafford Apartments, Abell House, and Roger Brooke Taney Monument. Unidentified photographer, ca. 1920-1930. Julius Anderson Photograph Collection. Gelatin silver print.
Date of Original:
ca. 1920-1930
Collection:
Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department
Type/Size:
Photographic print, 8 x 10 inch (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Restrictions:
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: specialcollections@mdhs.org
Rights:
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. No use or reproduction without permission. For more information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org 