Cataloging and Digitization completed through the
generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
the National Historical Publications and Records Commission

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Collections Cross-Section A selection of ~2,200 digital images from MHS collections, arranged by subject - See also Collection Indexes, or Search for specific subjects.

Indexes for Numbered Collections
Summary Index Summaries of collection finding aids - Links to finding aids and to ~3,600 digital images - Arranged by collection number.
Title Index Links to finding aids and to ~3,600 digital images.
Subject Index Browse subject terms for people, companies, places, topics, and photographic formats.

Subject Vertical File Collection ~17,000 photographs - Links to digital images where available.

Portraits Vertical File Collection ~6,300 photographs - Links to digital images where available.

Cased Photograph Collection ~550 early photographs, primarily portraits - Formats include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes.

Baltimore City Life Museum Photograph Collection ~28,600 photographs from ca. 1849-1980s.

Hughes Studio Photograph Collection Finding Aid (PP30) ~36,000 photographs from ca. 1940-1956 - Links to ~2,200 digital images - Cataloging and digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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