Stereoview Collection
PP1

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860-1912
Collection History: Stereoview photographs (also called stereographs), produced continuously during the years 1851-1940, are two photographs taken of the same view from slightly different angles, then mounted side by side onto cards; when the images are viewed with a special viewer, they appear as one, seemingly three-dimensional image.
Accession Number: Various; collection assembled from several accessions.
Physical Description: Over 500 stereoviews - in 3 boxes.

Subjects:
Baltimore and Maryland buildings, churches, parks, monuments, streets, and events including celebrations and disasters; the Maryland National Guard 5th Regiment at camps in Maryland and New Jersey; views along the routes of various railroads in the region; the Civil War, including battle fields, cemeteries, monuments, and ruins at sites in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia; and the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876. There is also a set of comical and theatrical subjects, and a group of sites in Warren, Mass.

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Restrictions: No
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Trussell Collection
PP2

Subjects:
Photographs by Dr. Allie L. Trussell. Mason-Dixon Line markers and other Maryland subjects. Many are grouped and identified. Some of the pictures show Dr. Trusell and Elsie Marsden.

 Other Maryland subjects include county line markers, covered bridges, rivers, dams, a ferry, a tobacco farm and market, and rural views including various landmarks. There are also views from the Baltimore area: the Jones Falls Expressway during construction, and a streetcar in Towson.

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Restrictions: No
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John Appleton Wilson Collection
PP3

Subjects:
Photographs made or collected by John Appleton Wilson: an excellent record of turn-of-the-century Baltimore buildings, from newly-built 1880s townhouses (many designed by Wilson), to estates such as Evergreen, to examples of historic and vernacular architecture. Many churches, including African American churches, are documented. Both exterior and interior views of many buildings are featured. Included are domestic scenes at Oakley, the Wilson family residence. The album documents Wilson’s American and European travel, as well as Baltimore scenes including the President St. Station.

Also sites and structures from Maryland counties including Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Cecil, Frederick, Howard, Prince Georges, and Washington.

Other subjects include Wilson family portraits, roller-skating, the Sons of the Revolution organization, Civil War battlefields and reunions, the 1904 Baltimore Fire, and 1890s fire-fighting equipment.

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Restrictions: No
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Bernet Album
PP4

Subjects:
Baltimore city subjects include Bolton Hill: the Altamont Hotel and Eutaw Place street scenes, and interiors of a row-home at 1515 Linden St. including Christmas decorations and toys; Druid Hill Park; the Walter B. Brooks residence, Cloverdale; and dry goods warehouse interiors.

Subjects outside of Baltimore city include a day school operated by the Powhatan Manufacturing Company (Baltimore Co.); and people and landscapes connected with the Piedmont Manganese and Iron Co. (Nelson Co., Va.).

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Restrictions: No
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Hutzler Collection
PP5

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and ca. 1930s-1960s
Collection History: The Hutzler Brothers Co. department store was founded in 1858 in downtown Baltimore by German immigrant Moses Hutzler (1800-1889) and his sons Abram, Charles, and David. The Palace Building on Howard St. was built for the expanding business in 1888, becoming the nucleus of a complex to include, by the 1940s, the ten-story North Building, parking facilities, and offices and additional retail spaces on Saratoga and Eutaw Streets. With the suburbanization of the Baltimore area after World War II, Hutzler’s developed the Towson, Eastpoint, and Westview stores in the 1950s.
Accession Number: 002845; 76148
Physical Description: Ca. 1500 items - in 7 boxes.

Subjects:
Many aspects of the Hutzler Brothers and Co. department store on Howard St., as well as branch stores at Towson, Eastpoint, and Westview. Images include buildings, retail departments within stores, merchandise and displays, service vehicles and buildings, events in the stores including anniversary celebrations, fashion shows, and seasonal or theme events, and activities in the store during World War II.

Some events featured local and national celebrities such as Buddy Deane, Johnny Unitas, WBAL-TV personalities, and Lauren Bacall. There are also images of typical Baltimore scenes and
subjects, evidently taken for Hutzler’s publications, including crab cookery and feasts, and sports teams such as the Orioles, Colts and Bullets with fans celebrating victories.

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Restrictions: Some items may be restricted
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Potthast Brothers Collection
PP7

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900
Collection History: The Potthast Brothers Furniture Company was founded in 1892 by Potthast brothers Vincent, John A. (1871-1962), Theodore, and William A. (1863-1935), who came to Baltimore from Westphalia, Germany. The business was located at 924 N. Charles St. in Baltimore, specializing in reproducing antiques as well as designing its own furniture.
Accession Number: 71550
Physical Description: 80 glass negatives and 30 modern photoprints (some of the glass negatives are mutilated - scratched across the center).

Subjects:
Furniture made by the Potthast Brothers Company, unidentified family portraits, crews of the Bremen Line ships, Baltimore shipping and the B and O Railroad Pier, and ships Lynata and Shawmut. Other subjects are the Knights of the Maccabees in regalia and soldiers of the Spanish-American War.

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Restrictions: No
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Hughes Collection
PP8 (includes part of PP 30)

Note: There are three sections of the Hughes Collection. The first section, always known as PP8, covers dates ca. 1910-1926. The second section, formerly known as PP30, covers dates ca. 1920-1946. This section has now been added to PP8. Both sections now making up PP8 consist mainly of vintage glass plate negatives for which modern prints were made during the 1980s at the Maryland Historical Society, with some vintage prints and film negatives. The third section of the Hughes Collection, called the Hughes Studio Photograph Collection, continues to be known as PP30, covers dates ca. 1940-1956, and consists of ca. 36,000 film negatives.

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1910-1946
Collection History: The  Hughes Company was a commercial photography studio in Baltimore, Md. which made photographs for corporations, the government, and private individuals. The company was founded by James F. Hughes (d. ca. 1903), who owned the company until the time of his death, when company employee James W. Scott (1878-1953) bought the business and later passed it to his son, Gaither Scott.
Accession Number: 58693
Physical Description:  3702 items, mainly glass negatives and modern photoprints, with some film negatives and vintage photoprints - prints housed in 9 boxes.

Subjects:
Photographs by the Hughes Company: an extensive professional documentation of many aspects of life in Baltimore city and county, and other Maryland counties including Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford, Kent, and St. Mary's. Subjects include street scenes, buildings, shipping, industry, businesses, recreational and sports facilities, portraits, public buildings, residences, churches, hospitals, schools, monuments, and transportation. There are also copy photographs of many historical prints, paintings, and documents.

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Restrictions: No

Note: The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County holds additional Hughes Company images.
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Ancient and Honorable Mechanical Company of Baltimore
PP9

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1914-1979
Collection History:  The Ancient and Honorable Mechanical Company of Baltimore, known as “the oldest civic organization in the United States”, was established in 1763 to protect life and property in the city of Baltimore.
Accession Number(s): 75075, 75116
Physical description: 8 photographs, large amount of ephemera and miscellaneous items - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs include one of the organization's float in the Star Spangled Banner Centennial Parade of 1914.  The collection consists primarily of organization records, banquet programs, and other ephemera.

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Restrictions: No
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Peale Collection
PP 10

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1920
Collection History: Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) was an American portrait painter, born in Queen Anne County, Maryland. Married three times, Peale had twelve children who survived infancy, of whom Raphael (1774-1825) and Rembrandt (1778-1860) were painters, and Titian (1780-1798), Rubens (1784-1865), Franklin, and Titian Ramsey (1799-1885) were naturalists. Charles Willson Peale’s youngest sibling James Peale (1749-1831) was also a painter, as were James’ daughters Sarah Miriam (1800-1885), Anna Claypoole (1791-1878), and Margaretta.
Accession Number: None - collection originated in the Hughes Collection (PP8) and Glass Plate Negative Collection (PP11).
Physical Description: 252 glass plate negatives with 120 modern photoprints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Copy photographs of artworks including paintings, drawings, silhouettes, and photographs, which are mostly portraits made of and by Charles Willson Peale family members.The negatives may have originally been made for a 1923 exhibit of Peale paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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Restrictions: No

Note:  For additional Peale portraits see finding aids to The Hughes Collection (PP8) and the Glass Negative Collection (PP11), available in the Prints and Photographs Department.
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Glass Negative Collection
PP11

Dates of Images Depicted: ca. 1890-1930
Collection History: In the early 1980s, MHS’s Prints and Photographs Division received funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to create descriptive inventories of their many collections of glass and nitrate film photographic negatives, and to print and rehouse the original negatives. Negatives without clear provenance were assembled into this Glass Plate Negative Collection, PP11.
Accession Number: Various; collection assembled from several accessions.
Physical Description: 2290 items, glass plate negatives with modern photoprints - prints housed in 6 boxes.

Subjects:
All aspects of Maryland social, political and economic history, including: buildings, monuments, cemeteries, schools, businesses, industry, recreation, scenes, streets, transportation, residences, and parks. Maryland locations documented include Baltimore City, Annapolis, Ellicott City, Baltimore Co., Harford Co., Prince Anne’s Co., and Somerset Co.

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Restrictions: No
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Truitt Collection
PP 12

Dates of Photographs: 1917-1964
Collection History: Captain Oscar P. Truitt (b. ca. 1880s-1890s?) was born at Snow Hill in Worcester Co., Md., the son of seafood merchant George W. Truitt and grandson of Captain Peter Truitt who was the master of the Black Warrior.
Accession Number: 75346
Physical Description: 21 photographs and post cards.

Subjects:
Photographs of or by Captain Truitt: the career and travels of Captain Truitt including boats, cargo and sailing ship crews, and ships’ masters. One photograph depicts “Jimmy” Walker, then mayor of New York City, aboard the yacht Harmony off the Florida Keys, dated 1928.

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Restrictions: No
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Broyles Collection
PP 13

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1918
Collection History: Henrietta (Etta) Chauncey Wilson Whiteley (b. 1863) married James Stone Whiteley (b. 1855) and their children were: Henrietta Chauncey Whiteley (1889-1890), Mabel Wilson Whiteley (b. 1891), and Eleanor Custis Whiteley (b. 1896). Emily Post (1873-1960) of etiquette fame was born Emily Price in Baltimore to architect Bruce Price and Josephine Lee Price, whose home was at 14 E. Chase St., although the family moved to New York City when Emily was five years old. Sarah White may have been Sarah Poultney Ellicott White (1863-1938) who married Francis A. White in 1887 and was active in social welfare work.
Accession Number: 75551
Physical Description: 94 photoprints mounted on album pages and 3 unmounted photographs.

Subjects:
Album pages depict Sarah White and World War activity in Baltimore: a Red Cross Parade in May 1918, the canteen and hospital at Union Station, an encampment at Druid Hill Park, a Bond Rally, Regiment 313, and Camp Meade. Scenes of Red Cross personnel document women’s war work, including a female ambulance driver. Most photographs are captioned.

Identified portraits (undated) include: Etta Chauncey Wilson Whiteley, Emily Post (etiquette writer) and her son Bruce Post, Miss Cook, and the children of M. Brown.

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Restrictions: No
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Jamison (Harris) Collection
PP14

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1876-ca. 1890
Collection History: W. (William) Hall Harris (1852-1938) was a lawyer who served as Baltimore’s postmaster during the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt. His wife was Alice (Patterson) Harris, and one of their homes was the Ivy Hill estate near Herring Run in northeast Baltimore, adjacent to the Eutaw estate which was once owned by Col. Benedict William Hall (1790-1843) who held slaves including Jeremiah and Venus Tilghman.
Accession Number: 75511
Physical Description: 16 photoprints.

Subjects:
Portraits of the family of W. Hall Harris and Alice (Patterson) Harris, and a copy photo from a daguerreotype of Jeremiah and Venus Tilghman who were slaves held by Col. B.W. Hall. There are also images of Ivy Hill, a Harris family home near Herring Run in northeast Baltimore

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Restrictions: No
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Fenwick (Niernsee) Collection
PP 15

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1872-1932
Collection History: John Rudolph Niernsee (1814-1885) was an architect who lived and worked in Baltimore at times in the 1840s-1880s. Born in Vienna, Austria, Niernsee was on the staff of Benjamin Latrobe early in his career, and formed a partnership with James Crawford Neilson in ca. 1848, designing city and country residences and churches in several states. Projects in Baltimore included Calvert Station, houses on Mount Vernon Place, Grace and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the YMCA, and the Academy of Music.
Accession Number: 74717 (transfer from Manuscripts Dept., MS 2457)
Physical Description: 43 photographs including 1 negative - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of Niernsee and Atkinson family members, with identified individuals including: John Rudolph Niernsee, Emma Niernsee, Ellen McNally Atkinson, George Gibson Atkinson, Karl Hoffmeister, and Willi Hoffmeister. Also views in Columbia, S.C. and vicinity.

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Restrictions: No
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Montgomery (Neilson) Collection
 PP 16

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1873-1900
Collection History: Turnbull Murdoch (1868-1927) was president of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company, the Baltimore and Virginia Steamboat Company, and the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad Company. Born in Baltimore, he married Alice Neilson, daughter of Albert and Louisa G. Wright Neilson, in 1896.
Accession Number: 75588
Physical Description: 13 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Subjects include portraits of Neilson and Murdoch families, including a cabinet photograph of Albert Neilson in Hong Kong, 1873, captioned: “arranging for coolies to work on the railroad”. Other identified individuals are Turnbull Murdoch, Alice Neilson Murdoch, and Louisa W. Neilson Ford. There is also a photograph of the Murdoch home near Towson, Md.

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Restrictions: No
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Ethel Hoen Hanson Collection
PP 17

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1890-1910
Collection History: Ethel Hoen Hanson (1890-1980) was the daughter of Adolph G . (d. 1911) and Helen H. (Nixdorff) Hoen (1851-1947). Adolph, a son of the founder of the A. Hoen and Company lithography firm in Baltimore, was a physician. At some point, the family had a house called Westerwald, in Waverly. Ethel was a 1905 graduate of the Maryland Institute, and married Benjamin Peter Hanson, Jr.
Accession Number: 75549
Physical Description: 440 photoprints, including two photo albums - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made or collected by Ethel Hoen Hanson: snapshots of Ethel Hoen Hanson, her family, friends, and pets. Most images show recreational activities such as picnics, swimming, boating, automobiling, and sightseeing. Many photographs of people have been trimmed along the outline of a person’s head or figure prior to being pasted into the albums.

Locations include Baltimore city, Towson, Relay, Ellicott City, Cecil County, Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Back River, Tolchester, Fort McHenry, and Gwynn Oak Park. There are photographs of the 1904 Baltimore Fire, especially of people viewing the ruins, and one photograph shows a horse-drawn fire-fighting outfit racing to a fire in Waverly, ca. 1903.

Other subjects include sports scenes at the Maryland Agricultural College and two schoolroom scenes: a studio at the Maryland Institute, and a classroom at St. John’s Episcopal School in Waverly.

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Restrictions: No
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O'Brien (Boone) Collection
PP 18

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1940-1985
Collection History: R. (Raphael) Sanchez Boone, Jr. (1909-1974) was a lifetime resident of 1221 N. Calvert St. in Baltimore city. His parents were liquor merchant R. Sanchez (1872-1954) and school headmistress Ada (O’Donnell) Boone (1872-1969). R. Sanchez, Jr. was in the U.S. Army during World War II, serving as Fire Marshal for U.S. forces in Great Britain and witnessing the worst of the London Blitz. He later joined his father's liquor outfit, the Boone-Elder Company, becoming president after his father’s death. Boone was involved in civic activities in the Mt. Vernon area of Baltimore city, and was a life long "fire buff".
Accession Number: 75153
Physical Description: 200 photographs including 1 album - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made or collected by R. Sanchez Boone, Jr. Much of the collection documents damage to the city of London, England from air raids during World War II in the early 1940s. There are also portraits of R. Sanchez Boone, Jr. during service in the U.S. Army, and of other individuals including members of Boone’s family. There are unidentified group portraits of what appear to be military companies, and a signed portrait of Walter T. Graham. Other subjects include the Mt. Vernon area of Baltimore city, including a photo of the Boone-Elder Company liquor store at 1001 Cathedral St.

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Restrictions: No
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Brown Collection
PP20

Dates of Photographs: 1896-1925
Collection History: This photo collection originated with the Baltimore Camera Club, and is probably the work of a Mr. Brown connected with the F.S. and G.L. Brown Machine Shop of Baltimore. The principals of this firm were Francis S. and George L. Brown, engineers and machinists, and their business was located at 20-26 E. Fort Avenue in 1900. At that time, the two lived in the same block of N. Arlington Ave., Francis at 1036 and George at 1030.
Accession Number: 62698
Physical Description: 1,091 glass and film negatives with 91 modern prints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
The Brown Machine Shop and Brown family, homes and neighborhoods. Other subjects include Baltimore harbor boats, fruit sellers, oyster schooners and other water craft, fire stations and policemen, childhood activities, horses and carts, bicycles, sailboats, ping pong, phonographs, lacrosse, Bay Shore Park and Druid Hill Park, fishing, beach and snow scenes, domestic servants, Sunday School, girls gym class, and the 1925 solar eclipse.

Non-Maryland views include: Boston, Salem (MA), Norfolk (VA), Niagara Falls (NY), the Meikle family and their Warren (MA) property.

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Restrictions: No

Note: Related photographs may exist in the Baltimore City Life Museum Collections at the Maryland Historical Society and at the main branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore).
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Alan Shaffer Collection
PP 21

Dates of Photographs: 1979-1980
Collection History: Alan Shaffer (1948-) is a Baltimore photographer. An annual horse race event in Harford County, Md. is the My Lady’s Manor Point-to-Point held at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton. First run in 1902, the race has a 3-mile, 16-fence course.The race takes its name from My Lady’s Manor, a 10,000 acre tract of land, lying in Baltimore and Harford Counties, which was presented by Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore to his fourth wife, Margaret Charleton
Accession Number: 75587
Physical Description: 7 photoprints (11 x 14 color prints) - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs by Alan Shaffer. Scenes of My Lady’s Manor in Baltimore County, Md., of the vicinity, and of the annual point to point horse race.

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Restrictions: No
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Carter Collection
PP 22

Dates of Photographs: 1906-1916
Collection History: William M. Carter (1880-ca. 1917) was most likely the son of Hiram and Mary Carter. Hiram Carter was a Baltimore Commission Merchant, his firm Carter and Co. located at 10 E. Camden St. From 1889, the family lived at 718 N. Fulton Ave, and William was first listed in the Baltimore City Directory as a student living at that address in 1897. From 1898 to 1915, William was listed with profession alternating between clerk and bookkeeper. He eventually moved to Waverly and worked as a salesman, and is said to have died in the flu epidemic of 1916-1917.
Accession Number: 72137
Physical Description: 238 glass plate and nitrate negatives with 142 modern prints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made or collected by William M. Carter, with subjects including Baltimore scenes, including businesses, churches, fires, harbor, houses, parks, neighborhoods (Fells Point, Waverly, and others), railroads, schools, streets, and waterways. There are scenes of the Carter family, friends and pets, and general domestic scenes, as well as family celebrations including weddings and anniversaries.

Other subjects include holidays (July 4, Christmas), Baltimore parades and festivals including the 1906 Homecoming, the 1912 Democratic Convention, and the Star-Spangled Banner Centennial. There are scenes of Baltimore County, Towson, Ellicott City, Pikesville, and Harford County.

Note: See also PP 115, a related collection of photographs by William M. Carter.

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Restrictions: No
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Worthington Collection
PP 23

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1899-1930 (some copy photographs are earlier.)
Collection History: Thomas Chew Worthington, III (1879-1953) was the son of Dr. Thomas Chew Worthington, Jr. and Mary Kate Worthington. He married Clara McDonald, and the couple had one daughter; they lived at 2113 Poplar Grove St. Worthington was a graduate of the Maryland Institute - by profession, a salesman with the firm of John T. Willis, Co., distributors of X-ray and photographic equipment, and by inclination, a magician, photographer, and collector.
Accession Number: 64801; unknown provenance.
Physical Description: 1794 items, glass plate negatives with modern prints - prints housed in 6 boxes.

Subjects:
Photographs made or collected by Thomas Chew Worthington, III. Subjects are Baltimore scenes, including architectural details, businesses (banks, offices, hotels, restaurants, theaters, and amusement parks), churches and cemeteries, government and public buildings (meeting halls, markets), historic houses, monuments, museums, warehouses, and waterways.

Documented events include an Advertising Men’s Convention (1913), the Democratic National Convention (1912), Homecoming (1906), the Star-Spangled Banner Centennial (1914), and an unidentified air show.

Documented locations include numerous Baltimore streets and buildings, neighborhoods including Fells Point and Dickeyville, and counties including Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Howard, and Prince George’s. There are images of towns, woodlands, farms, lighthouses. Several photographs depict slave quarters in Granite, Md.

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Restrictions: No

Note: Related collections are at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Loyola College of Maryland, and the Ringling Museum in Florida.
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Jessie B. Davis Collection
PP24

Dates of Photographs: ca.1900-1946 (bulk 1900-1915)
Collection History: Van Buren Davis (1874 or 1875-1952) married Nellie Machen Davis in 1900. Nellie Davis was the daughter of Mary A. (Wells) and Arthur Machen. Van Buren Davis began making photographs prior to his marriage, using a view camera with bellows, black cloth, and glass plates. He printed his own photographs during some periods, but also took the glass plates to a Kodak store in Baltimore to be printed.
Accession Number: 75705
Physical Description: 72 photoprints, removed from album - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Most of the photographs were taken by Van Buren Davis. Subjects are people and places in and around Baltimore, including Druid Hill Park and Zoo, Reservoir Hill, views from Prospect Hill, and the ruins of the 1904 Baltimore Fire (especially at Hoen and Co.). There are scenes of family groups and picnics, Christmas tree and garden and rural scenes (probably Cecil County).

There are pictures of a 1906 Elks Convention, for which buildings in downtown Baltimore were lavishly illuminated with electrical lights, including department stores, City Hall, and the Courthouse.

 Other subjects include the Garrett Park Methodist Church, and trains and bridges in the Baltimore vicinity.

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Restrictions: No
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Steiger Family Collection
PP 25

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1868-1910
Collection History:  The Steiger family lived near Laurel in Howard County, Maryland, where William Tell Steiger (1801-1888) owned and operated Brightwood Farm. His wife, Hannah Van Patten Steiger (fl. 1865-1900) was a newspaper writer and editor in the 1880s. One family member was George Nye Steiger (1890-1961), a graduate of Occidental College in 1906, and of Harvard University in 1914 and 1923. An expert on the Far East, Steiger was a college professor and a Sunpapers correspondent on Chinese politics and society.
Accession Number: 75642
Physical Description: 26 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The Steiger family and their home, Brightwood, in Howard County, near Laurel, Md., as well as their winter home on the St. John River near Palatka, Florida. Also included is a photo of St. Philips Church, Laurel.

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Restrictions: No
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William G.D. Morrison Collection
PP 26

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1940s.
Collection History: The Rev. Lewis Beeman Browne (1867-1955) was born in Baltimore, the son of Lewis Beeman and Augusta Jessop Bayless Browne, and grandson of James P. Bayless and Mary Ann Jessop. In 1890, he married Eva Poumairat, and he became a deacon in 1888 and an Episcopalian priest in 1892. In the years 1888-1949, Rev. Browne served in Maryland parishes at Westernport, Sparrows Point, Raspeburg, Thurmont, Smithburg, Havre de Grace, Harford County, Frostburg, and Lonaconing.
Accession Number: 75648
Physical Description: 11 photographs and a number of various calling cards and "at home "cards - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Undated (19th century?) family photographs of the Jessop family, and several photos of Lewis B. Browne in 1944 and earlier (possibly made at St. John’s Church, Frostburg, Md.) in his study and with his pet bird.

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Restrictions: No
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Figgins Collection
PP27

Dates of Photographs: 1917-1970 (bulk 1917-1918)
Collection History: Lt. Bernard W. Figgins (1887-1963) was born in Washington, D.C. to Enoch and Corrie Figgins. Educated at the Virginia Military Institute, he served during World War I in the U. S. Navy and in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Married to Laura (Wise) Figgins, he later worked as a salesman and lived in the Baltimore area for 51 years.
Accession Number: 63335
Physical Description: 80 photoprints and 1 negative - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made or collected by Bernard W. Figgins. Images (some captioned) thought to originate during Figgins’ service in the U.S. Navy during World War I, 1917-1918. There are a few photos made in 1964-1970. Images depict ships (Stockton, USS Von Steuben, Jason, USS Hopkins) and crews including African-American sailors.

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Restrictions: No
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Herbert Sinclair Fairbank Collection
PP 28

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1908-1950
Collection Origins: Herbert Sinclair Fairbank (1888-1962) worked for 45 years in the Office of Public Roads of the United States Government, serving as Deputy Commissioner for Research from 1943 until his retirement in 1955 He was the son of C. Alexander and Sarah Sinclair Fairbank, and a 1910 graduate of Cornell University. In 1958, he received the first Thomas H. MacDonald Award, presented by the American Association of State Highway Officials.
Accession Number: 75368; transfer from Manuscripts Department.
Physical Description: 10 photographs and 30 miscellaneous items of printed ephemera - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Mr. Fairbank and his family, friends and colleagues. There is a group portrait of “Baltimore men at Cornell”, ca. 1908.

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Restrictions: No
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Leisenring Collection
PP 29

Dates of Photographs: 1900-1903
Collection History: It is not clear how this collection of photographs came to have the name Leisenring attached to it, but presumably the photographs were made or the collection donated by someone of that name. Leisenrings in Baltimore city were hotel proprietor Gideon Leisenring and his brother George W., a coal dealer. In 1903, a Mrs. Georgiana M. Leisenring lived at 406 N. Greene St. There were also Leisenrings in Lutherville: the grandson of Lutherville’s founder John G. Morris was Luther Morris Leisenring (1875-1965), son of G.M. Leisenring.
Accession Number: 13931?; unknown provenance.
Physical Description: 21 glass plate negatives with modern prints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Naval cadets at Annapolis, Maryland, the Maryland State Fair at Timonium with steeplechase race and military drills, fire engines and equipment, the Baltimore Zoo fire. Also represented are the yacht “Ivanhoe” and two masted sail boats in Baltimore harbor, a circus parade on Greene St. in Baltimore, an organ grinder and monkey on a Baltimore street, the Baltimore Cathedral and the Oheb Shalom synagogue.

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Restrictions: No
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Hughes Studio Photograph Collection
PP 30

Note: There are three sections of the Hughes Collection. The first section, always known as PP8, covers dates ca. 1910-1926. The second section, formerly known as PP30, covers dates ca. 1920-1946. This section has now been added to PP8. Both sections now making up PP8 consist mainly of vintage glass plate negatives for which modern prints were made during the 1980s at the Maryland Historical Society, with some vintage prints and film negatives. The third section of the Hughes Collection, called the Hughes Studio Photograph Collection, will continue to be known as PP30, and covers dates ca.
1940-1956. It consists of ca. 36,000 film negatives.

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1940-1956
Collection History: See also PP 8, Hughes Collection
Accession Number: 58693
Physical Description: 36,000 film negatives.

Subjects:
Photographs made by the Hughes Company: an extensive professional documentation of many aspects of life in Baltimore city and County, St. Mary's County and Annapolis, including street scenes, buildings, shipping, industry, businesses, recreational and sports facilities, public buildings, residences, churches, schools, monuments, and transportation. Also copy negatives of many historical prints, paintings, and documents.

Other topics identified include: advertising, display windows; posters. Women,  African Americans, slaves. Railroads, buses, automobiles. Ships,airplanes,aerial views. Funerals.  Fires and firefighting.  Grocers.  Architectural elements.  Furniture, fashions, hospitals, and hotels .

Photographs of  paintings; portraits, print making; stained glass. Native American implements.

Some Calvert family memorabilia.

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Restrictions: No
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