| # |
Digital Image |
Description |
Notes |
| 11 |
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Oyster Tongers, c 1920
Photographed by the Hughes Company
MHS Library, Special Collections Department,
PP8.547mp/Z9.547.pp8 |
It is no coincidence that water is an important feature of some of
the most beautiful Maryland landscape photographs. Bay, ocean, river,
and canal are vital to our state’s history and culture, providing transportation,
food, and recreation. |
| 12 |
 |
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, c 1900
Photographer unknown
MHS Library, Special Collections Department |
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| 13 |
 |
Annapolis Navy Yard from the Cemetery, 1892
Attributed to Frances Benjamin Johnson
MHS Library, Special Collections Department, PP154.17 |
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| 14 |
 |
Train Crossing the Choptank River, Caroline County, c 1906
Photographed by Leroy Francis Smith
MHS Library, Special Collections Department, Denton Collection (PP120) |
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| 15 |
 |
Mardela Springs, Wicomico County, c 1885
Photographer unknown
MHS Library, Special Collections Department |
Mardela Springs was a popular resort near Barren Creek. The name was
a combination of Mar (yland) and Dela (ware). |
| 16 |
 |
Lizette Woodworth Reese, c 1915
Photographed by Emily Spencer
Hayden
MHS Library, Special Collections Department, Emily Spencer Hayden Collection
(PP92) |
Nearly forgotten today, Maryland poet Lizette Woodworth Reese was a
widely read and highly regarded author in her time. Emily Spencer Hayden’s
romantic Pictorialist photographic style appropriately depicts Reese among
the flowers that so often figured in her poetry. |
| 17 |
 |
An Alley House Mother, 1916
Photographed by John Dubas
MHS Library, Special Collections Department , BCLM Collection MC9451 |
Young John Dubas may not have realized it, but his luminous portraits
of his East Baltimore neighbors are in the style of his contemporaries,
documentary photographers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine. |
| 18 |
 |
Dan Gartling with Farm Implements, 1945
Photographed by A. Aubrey Bodine
MHS Library, Special Collections Department B925(1) |
A. Aubrey Bodine is one of Maryland’s best-known photographers. In
his long career, he captured the breadth of Maryland and its people. His
meticulous style blended the best of documentary and fine art photography. |
| 19 |
 |
She Leans Kent Island, Deserted House near Romancoke Ferry, 1949
Photographed by A. Aubrey Bodine
MHS Library, Special Collections Department B1180(1) |
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| 20 |
 |
Taylorsville Farm, c 1940
Photographed by A. Aubrey Bodine;
MHS Library, Special Collections Department, The A. Aubrey Bodine Photographic
Collection |
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