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Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
201 W. Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-685-3750
Fax: 410-385-2105
E-mail: library @mdhs.org
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Maryland
History In Prints: 1752-1900
by Laura Rice |
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Maryland State Bible Society A. D. 1853
From Twentieth Annual Report of the Maryland State Bible Society...
1854,
frontis
1854
Lithograph |
This rather modest façade at 75 West Fayette Street in Baltimore
was home to the Maryland branch of the American Bible Society. Incorporated
in 1843, the Maryland State Bible Society distributed Bibles primarily
to Sunday school classes and to the poor. During the Civil War, the society
responded to increased spiritual needs by giving away thousands of volumes,
61,393 in 1862 alone, not only to their usual clientele, but also to active
and injured military personnel and prisoners of war. Responding to a calling
they felt above partisan politics, the national office in New York asked
the Maryland chapter to pass along a large shipment of Bibles for distribution
in the South during the height of the conflict; at least 9,000 volumes
were sent across the front to Virginia with the knowledge and cooperation
of the Federal army.
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