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(Z24.721) Eliza Benson, Emily Spencer Hayden collection – PP92

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(Z24.723) Eliza Benson, Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.724) Eliza Benson, holding camera Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.725) Eliza Benson, Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.726) Eliza Benson, Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.727) Eliza Benson and Kitty, Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.728) Eliza Benson and Kitty, Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.729) Eliza Benson and Kitty, Emily Spencer Hayden collection - PP92

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(Z24.760) Medium prints - slavery - Freedmen and Freedmen’s Bureau: Arrival of Freedmen and their Families at Baltimore, Maryland – An Everyday Scene.

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(Z24.797) Stereo View (American Views) - Baltimore’s African Americans Celebrate the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), Establishing the Right of Suffrage. PP1

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(Z24.1196) Medium Prints: The Presentation of a Gold Snuff Box to Rev. R.J. Breckenridge, D.D. (Z24.1443) Broadside: $50 Reward Dec. 24,1825

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(Z24.1278) Eubie Blake - Norway 1973

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(Z24.1279) Eubie Blake with Noble Sissle and Josephine Baker

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(Z24.1280) Louis Armstrong color negative

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(Z24.1281) Bill Cosby and Eubie Blake

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(Z24.1345) Eubie Blake Portrait

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(Z24.1349) Eubie Blake

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(Z24.1350) Eubie Blake

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(Z24.1352) Eubie Blake material – woman with tall hat

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(Z24.1353) A scene from Eubie Blake’s "Shuffle Along" photo

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(Z24.1444) $100.00 reward—Runaway—October 19, 1825

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(Z24.1445) Broadside: $50.00 Reward—Absconded from… The Sloop Jolly Miller in Baltimore

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(Z24.1446) Broadside: $100.00 Reward—July 20, 1819

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(Z24.1447) Broadside: $200.00 Reward—May 25, 1819

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(Z24.1448) Broadside: $50.00 Reward—Runaway… June 25, 1827

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(Z24.1452) "On the Old Franklin Road," March 1901 Clara Lips Photo Album Collection, PP149 Accession Number 003515

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(Z24.1520) Water Street Liberia PP161.I.23

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(Z24.1521) 1st Regiment Mountserrado County, Liberia PP161.I.4

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(Z24.1572) Eubie Blake Collection: Noble Sissle

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(Z24.1573) Eubie Blake Collection Group Portrait: "The Frogs" - - 1908

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(Z24.1574) Eubie Blake Collection Group Portrait: Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra—1912 - 1915

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(Z24.1575) Eubie Blake Collection: Hellfighters Group Portrait

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(Z24.1576) Eubie Blake Collection: Hellfighters Group Portrait

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(Z24.1577) Eubie Blake Collection: Hellfighters Group Portrait

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(Z24.1580) "On The Annapolis Pike" November 1900 Clara Lips Photo Album Collection, Accession Number 003515 – PP149.4

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(Z24.1581) "On the Old Franklin Road" March 1901 Clara Lips Photo Album Collection, Accession Number 003515 PP149.9

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(Z24.1583) "On the Annapolis Pike" Nov. 1900 Clara Lips Photo Album Collection, Accession Number 003515 PP149.3

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(Z24.1633) Jeremiah and Venus Tilghman – ca. 1850 - daguerreotype

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(Z24.1672) Broadsides—An act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery Feb. 15,1804

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(Z24.1673) Baltimore City Colored Orchestra—ca.1935

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(Z24.1744) Broadside – Runaway slave $50 Reward - [signed] Richard Disney

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(Z24.1746VF) Nanny with children - ca. 1895. 000829

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(Z24.1766) Children on steps with dolls, Photo Album - H.H Hopkins Album - (Camden)

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(Z24.1871) Henderson Collection: Lady and Man in a Car display room 3/1949 - BCLM

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(Z24.1872) Henderson Collection: - Graduation Group 1952, BCLM

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(Z24.1955) "The Folks Not Home Today: A Freedman’s Cabin in Ante-Bellum Times," Maryland. PP83, Album I, I-18.1, Accession Number 000279 -

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(Z24.1956) First Colored Baptist Church, Caroline And McElderry, PP3.22 -

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(Z24.1961) The Chorus of Shuffle Along with one of the show’s composers, Noble Sissle, 1921 MS2800 -

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(Z24.1964) George W. Howard’s, "The Monumental City: Its Past History and Present Resources" - Engraving - Sharp Street M. E. Church MF207.H86, (Colored) Between Lombard and Pratt Streets (MB1497), page 77.

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(Z24.2008) MS 571 - Oversized, Detail Maryland Colonization Society Papers Plan of Township of Harper and its Vicinity at Cape Palmas

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(Z24.2054VF) Negroes - Housing - Slave Quarters Near Harrisonville, Baltimore County

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(Z24.2055) Afro-Americans - Slavery - Slave Quarters, Saint Mary’s County (from a Glass slide, Hughes Company)

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(Z24.2056) Library - MF230.012S - Grace Sherwood’s, "The Oblates’ One Hundred And One Years." (MacMillan and Company, 1931), 1st Page With Four Pictures/Portraits: 1. House on George Street, Where First Vows Were Made; 2. 5 Saint Mary’s Court, Where Community Began; 3. Sister Mary - Foundress and First Superior (Elizabeth Lange); 4. Reverand James Hector Joubert, S. S., Founder of the Oblates.

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(Z24.2089) Henderson Collection, Royal Theater Lobby, ca. 1930 - Coal Giveaway, BCLM

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(Z24.2100) African American family in Montgomery County, Late 19th Century - Baird Montgomery County Album (001225, PP 94 754B)

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(Z24.2147) Mounted Photo of Sissle and Blake at the Piano (on Back - "For Mirro") - MS 2800, Box 89

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(Z24.2148)  Chorus Girls in Exotic Costumes for "Shuffle Along," (On Back - Eubie Blake, 284A Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, N. Y.) - MS 2800, Box 70

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(Z24.2149) "Three Children in Bathing Suits." 1986.98.15, The Davenport Album, Page 6

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(Z24.2150) "Three Women in Bathing Suits." BCLM 1986.98.15, The Davenport Album, Page 16

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(Z24.2159) Hopkins Photographic Album, Page 10b; African American Couple, ca. 1890

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(Z24.2264) Library – E 450.S85 – The Underground railroad Still, Page 102, "Twenty Eight Fugitives Escaping From the Eastern Shore of Maryland"
 


Subject Index

African-American History - this page - return to top
Baltimore
Baltimore - Buildings, Structures, etc.
Baltimore - Business and Industry
Baltimore - Children
Baltimore - Churches, Synagogues, etc.
Baltimore - Events
Baltimore - Fires
Baltimore - Hospitals
Baltimore - Houses
Baltimore - Monuments
Baltimore - Parks and Squares
Baltimore - Schools
Baltimore - Streets
Baltimore - Theaters
Civil War
Currency
Ephemera and Advertising (includes trade cards, tickets, etc.)
Manuscripts
Maps
Maritime
Maryland
Maryland - Baltimore County
Maryland - Central
Maryland - Eastern
Maryland - Southern
Maryland - Western
Miscellaneous
Portraits, Part 1 (Z24.1 - Z24.1099)
Portraits, Part 2 (Z24.1100 - Z24.1599)
Portraits, Part 3 (Z24.1600 - Z24.2300, BCLM)
Railroads
Transportation
World War I
World War II © 2001 Maryland Historical Society - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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