"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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Thomas Viaduct, Relay, Maryland.
View the Worthington Collection finding aid.
Subject:
Photographs, Baltimore (Md.), Architecture, Bridges and viaducts, Relay (Md.), PP23 
Item ID:
Z8.880.PP23
Creator:
Unknown
Description:
Thomas Viaduct. Relay, Maryland. Photograph possibly by Thomas Chew Worthington, Jr. Five inch by seven-inch black and white glass negative.
Collection:
Worthington Collection, Special Collections Department
Type/Size:
Image, 12.7 x 17.78 cm.
Restrictions:
For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department: special_collections@mdhs.org
Rights:
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. For reproduction and permission information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org 