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Library News & Updates
04/23/12 - Maryland World War II Photograph Collection just posted!
04/17/12 - Peale/BCLM photographic prints inventory lists now available
04/04/12 - Harry Sythe Cummings Photographs Collection inventory list now available
03/27/12 - Sidney Hollander Photograph Collection inventory list now available
03/22/12 - Paul Henderson Manuscript & Ephemera Collection intenvory list now available
02/23/12 - Paul Henderson Photograph Collection now on exhibit!
01/30/12 - Boyd Family Civil War Photo Collection and Battle Monument Papers now available
01/26/12 - 150 additional oral histories are now available for public use
01/13/12 - Hughes Studio Photograph Collection inventory list now available as one PDF
1/05/12 - Oral History of the Month for January is online: OH 8080, Grace Hartigan, 1975
05/16/12 - Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum Photograph Collection Inventory Lists Update: New inventories added to web
The Peale/BCLM Photograph Collection is slowly making it's way to the website. So far, you can view the complete Photographic Prints inventory, 6x8 in. Glass Negatives, Odd Size Negatives, 5x7 in. Glass Negatives, and a few boxes from the 8x10 in. Film Negatives. Right now we're focusing on finishing up the 8x10 Film Negatives portion of the collection where there are roughly 50 boxes with thousands of negatives. Stay tuned for more updates regarding this collection!
05/10/12 - We Had a Job to Do: Marylanders at Home and Abroad during World War II Oral History collection is available for public use
This collection of 12 oral histories was a joint endeavor between MdHS and students at Doris M. Johnson High School in Baltimore. Interviewees include Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the Riveters, and Merchant Marines. The collection also contains one of the last interviews with historian and activist Howard Zinn. Please visit the Project page for more information on the collection includeing a list of interviewees.
04/23/12 - Maryland World War II Photograph Collection just posted!
Over 2,000 images pertaining to Maryland during WW2 - click here
04/17/12 - Peale/BCLM photographic prints inventory lists now available
Ninety boxes of photographic prints from the Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum (BCLM) collection are now available in inventory lists! While this is only just a fraction of the Peale/BCLM photograph collection, it consists of hundreds of photographs. Take a look at the inventory lists under the Photographic Prints category on the Peale/BCLM Photographs Collection main page. We're working on the inventory lists for all of the Peale/BCLM glass negatives. Everything that we currently have is uploaded to the main collection page.
04/04/12 - Harry Sythe Cummings Photographs Collection inventory list now available
Harry Sythe Cummings (1866-1917) was a lawyer, first black Baltimore City Councilman, and fraternal leader. In 1887, he entered University of Maryland School of Law as one of the first two African Americans to finish the program. He was admitted to the practice of law on May 30, 1889 and continued actively in that profession. At the age of 26 in 1890, he was the first African American to serve in the City Council of Baltimore. He was reelected in 1891, 1896, and again in 1907, serving until his death in 1917. (PP240) Harry Sythe Cummings Photographs Collection consists of three boxes and includes photographic prints, framed photographs, and postcards.
03/27/12 - Sidney Hollander Photograph Collection inventory list now available
The Sidney Hollander Photograph Collection, PP256, (which was originally housed with the Hollander Collection, MS 2044) is now available to the public. The collection consists of one box and 42 photographs, including prints, negatives, and one 35mm color slide.
03/22/12 - Paul Henderson Manuscript & Ephemera Collection inventory list now available
The Paul Henderson Manuscript and Ephemera Collection (MS 3089) consists of four boxes and contains material related to the Afro-American newspaper, Morgan State College, Henderson's freelance photography business, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Henderson and the Department of Education, personal papers and letters, and many booklets for the DuBois Circle. See also: Paul Henderson Photograph Collection.
02/23/12 - Paul Henderson Photograph Collection now on exhibit!
After two years of processing by staff, volunteers, and interns, the Paul Henderson Photograph Collection is now available to the public as well as on exhibit outside of the library. The collection consists of over 6,000 images by Paul Henderson (1899 — 1988), freelance photographer and staff photographer for the Afro-American newspaper. Twenty-six of his photographs are highlighted in the exhibition titled, "Paul Henderson: Baltimore's Civil Rights Era in Photographs, ca. 1940-1960". Take a look at the exhibit's accompanying blog for photographs, topics, and videos. The exhibit will be on display until the end of 2012.
01/30/12 - Boyd Family Civil War Photo Collection and Battle Monument Papers now available
A new Civil War photo collection as well as a War of 1812 collection are now available to researchers.
The Boyd Family Civil War Photograph Collection, PP230 -
consists of 975 Civil War photographs broken into eight series.
The Battle Monument Papers, 1814-1820, MS 1198 - contains material related to the architecture and construction of one of Baltimore's most well known commemorative structures.
01/23/12 - Staff beginning to upload Baltimore City Life Museum Photograph Collection inventory lists
The substantial photograph collection transferred from the Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum (BCLM) to MdHS is finally being uploaded to the MdHS website. As inventory lists are completed for each box of photographs, the inventory lists will be uploaded to the Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum Photograph Collection page. The collection consists of well over 100,000 photographs from circa 1848 through the 1980s.
01/27/12 - MdHs requests proposals from graduate students for a new research fellowship in Chesapeake colonial history.
The Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) is pleased to announce a new research fellowship in Chesapeake colonial history and requests proposals from graduate students for the 2012–2013 academic year. The $5,000 fellowship is funded by a grant from John and Barbara Wing.
The purpose of the Wing Fellowship is to assist a graduate student in undertaking a significant project in Chesapeake colonial history. Areas of research, which are of particular interest, include maritime history, the arts, economic development, archeology, and life in the early Chesapeake Bay region. Proposals for other subjects and themes of colonial history are also welcome.
Proposals should describe the intended project, the research approach, expected results, the applicant’s curriculum vitae, professional references, and how the funds will be used. In addition to submitting periodic progress reports, the fellow will provide the library with an annotated bibliography and research summary and deliver a presentation at the conclusion of the project.
Evaluation of proposals will consider uniqueness and importance of the proposed project, soundness of the research approach, professional qualifications, and financial need. Please direct questions to Patricia Dockman Anderson, panderson@mdhs.org.
Submission deadline is March 15, 2012. The MdHS will announce the recipient May 1. The award will be payable in installments through the 2012–2013 academic year.
Please send cover letter, C.V., references, and three-to-five page proposal citing relevant MdHS collections:
Patricia Dockman Anderson, Ph.D.
Director of Publications & Library Services
Maryland Historical Society
201 West Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-685-3750 x 317
01/26/12 - 150 additional oral histories are now available for public use.
150 oral histories from the MdHS collection are now available for public use for the first time. Most of the interviews are part of three collections: The Civilian Conservation Corps Veterans Project, 1980, which contains interviews with enrollees in the CCC program during the years of the Great Depression; The U.S. Frigate Constellation Series, 1975-1980, which deals with the acquisition and restoration of the U.S. Constellation by the city of Baltimore; and the Generation to Generation Project: The Living Legacy of Older People, 1979-1980 which consists of 77 interviews with senior citizens from the Homewood Community of Baltimore. Please click on the links provided to visit each the project page for each collection of oral histories.
01/13/12 - Hughes Studio Photograph Collection inventory list now available as one PDF
Not only has the Hughes Studio Photograph Collection (PP30) inventory list been transferred from the previous MdHS website to this current website, we also made it available as one single PDF. Previously, the inventory list was only searchable by box number, making it difficult for researchers who were searching for one particular topic to find all possible entries without clicking on all sixty-one inventory lists. The collection consists of thousands of negatives and the PDF itself is roughly 1,000 pages. While this isn't ideal for printing, the PDF is ideal for searching through this vast collection. You can view the PDF on the Hughes Studio Photograph Collection page or view it here as a PDF. Note: There is a second Hughes Photograph Collection known as PP8 which is not included in the PP30 PDF.
1/05/12 - Oral History of the Month for January is online: OH 8080, Hartigan, 1975
The January Oral History of the Month, featuring OH 8080, an interview with artist Grace Hartigan, is now online. This interview conducted in 1975 explores the life and work of Hartigan, an Abstract Expressionist painter during the 1950's and Graduate Instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1965-2007. Topics include the New York art scene of the 1950's, relationships with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and other artists, and the Baltimore Art community of the 1960s and early 1970s.
