Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900-1979 (bulk 1910-1917 and n.d.)
Collection History: Eugene Gwynn McFee (b. ca. 1892, fl. 1913-1974) was the son of James Harker McFee and Virginia Roberta McFee who lived at 828 N. Fulton St. in ca. 1900. Eugene worked as a staff photographer for the Baltimore American ca. 1913-1919. During and after WWI he was in the Army, working as an X-ray technician at the U.S. General Hospital #2 at Fort McHenry.
Accession Number: 75897
Physical Description: 1459 items: glass plate and film negatives, modern prints, vintage prints - prints housed in 6 boxes.

Subjects:
McFee family portraits including children’s first communion and a school group portrait with Eugene McFee from ca. 1905. Other photographs of unidentified people are present, including Native Americans, children with toys (tricycle, dolls, goat-or ram-drawn sled), beach activities, costume parties, and groups of adults in various social settings. Several photographs depict Miss America contestants. Identified individuals include Baltimore Mayor Harry Preston, Maryland Governor Harrington, “Runt Walsh”, General Warfield, Dr. W.A. Councill (minister), and Billy Sunday.

Other subjects include Camp Meade, Fort McHenry and the U.S. General Hospital #2 during World War I, including a set of photos documenting soldiers’ head and facial injuries. There are images from the funeral of Woodrow Wilson (1924), Baltimore Police Captains, and early aviation including hot air balloons, biplanes, and Hubert Latham flying “Antoinetta”. There are many sports images, including Baltimore, Reading, Allmo and “The Autographs” baseball teams in ca. 1914, Johns Hopkins University football, ice boating, golfing, horse racing at Pimlico, fishing at Gwynn’s Falls, and boxing.

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Restrictions: No
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Crown Cork and Seal Collection
PP 33

Dates of Photographs: 1939-1945
Collection History: The Crown Cork and Seal Company of Baltimore was founded in 1892 by William Painter soon after he patented the “crown cork”, with a plant was in Canton. In 1898, Painter automated the process of filling and capping bottles. The company grew quickly, and by the time of Painter’s death in 1906, the company had plants in Europe, Asia, and South America. By the 1930s Crown Cork and Seal produced half of the world’s supply of bottle caps.
Accession Number: 75774
Physical Description: 12 photographic negatives and positives on 11x14 inch glass plates.

Subjects:
Photographic plates used as an intermediate step in the photolithographic process of printing bottle caps, designed for printing 72 caps onto sheet metal stock. They originated in 1939-1945, at the Crown Cork and Seal Company of Baltimore. Included are soda and beer bottle cap designs for companies in Baltimore and elsewhere in Maryland, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, and Cuba. (Note: Documentation of the collection from the auction house where purchased states that the plates are ca. 14 x 17 inches, and that they originated ca. 1915.)

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Restrictions: No
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Columbia Gas Construction Company Collection
PP 34

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1931-1932
Collection History: The Columbia Gas Construction Company apparently constructed gas pipeline in the eastern United States in conjunction with firms such as the Maryland Gas Transmission Company and the Indiana Gas Transmission Corps.
Accession Number: 75770
Physical Description: 585 photographs, loose and mounted in albums - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Predominant subject is gas pipeline construction in Maryland, Virginia, W. Virginia, and Indiana. Shows men and equipment at work in settings of mountains, open land, creeks and rivers. Some captions identify equipment and processes, and give location information.

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Restrictions: No
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Vincent Godfrey Burns Collection
PP 35

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1950 -1970s
Collection History: Vincent Godfrey Burns (1893-1979) was a Congregationalist minister, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., who earned degrees at Penn State (1916), Harvard University (1917), and Union Theological Seminary (1922). Burns wrote novels, several plays, and volumes of poetry. Moving to Anne Arundel Co., Md. in 1951, he was appointed by Governor Tawes as second Poet Laureate of Maryland in 1962.
Accession Number: 75743
Physical Description: 150 items, including 1 album, color and polaroid prints, and 25 negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Burns and friends during his later years, largely unidentified. Activities documented include Burns’ presentations at Maryland schools, and various ceremonial or social events.

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Restrictions: No
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Thomas G. Pullen, Jr. Collection
PP 36

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1917-1972
Collection History: Dr. Thomas Granville Pullen, Jr. (1898-1979) was born in Virginia. Educated at the College of William and Mary and at Teachers College, Columbia, Pullen taught in Virginia public schools, then came to Maryland in 1926 as a high school principal in Baltimore County. In 1932 he moved to school superintendancy, becoming Maryland State Superintendent in 1942 and presiding over desegregation of schools following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling. Upon retirement of that post, he served as President of the University of Baltimore from 1964-1969.
Accession Number: 75541
Physical Description: 45 photographs, including 7 negatives and 4 slides - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Subjects related to Dr. and Mrs. Pullen, their family and friends. The photographs are largely uncaptioned. One image depicts Dr. Pullen addressing a group at Coppin Teachers College. Some photographs depict a trip to Williamsburg, ca. 1917, and there is an image of the Island Bird sailboat of Talbot Co., Md.

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Restrictions: No
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Harwood Mason-Dixon Line Marker Collection
PP 37

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1930-1931
Collection History: The Mason-Dixon Line runs for 233 miles along parallel 39°43’ in the eastern United States, marking the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The present collection of photographs of milestones was made at the order of Mrs. Edward H. Boulton of Baltimore, Md.
Accession Number: 50088
Physical Description: 100 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Stones marking the Mason-Dixon Line, including both original and replaced milestones. The location of the stones is sometimes indicated. The emphasis of the collection is on Milestones 102 and below, or on the portion of the boundary from Washington to Cecil Counties. Included are two carte-de-visites of casts of the Calvert and Penn Arms taken from marker stones.

Note: Related materials are found in PP2, the Trussell Collection

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Restrictions: No
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Plimhimmon Hotel Collection
PP 38

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1884-1940
Collection History: The Plimhimmon Hotel on the beach front in Ocean City, Md. was founded by Mrs. Rosalie Tilghman Shreve in ca. 1890. Mrs. Shreve was a Civil War widow who ran a boarding house in Baltimore during the winter, and operated the Goldsborough Cottage at Ocean City in the summer. Encouraged by her success with the cottage, she built Plimhimmon Hotel, taking the name from the Oxford, Md. family estate of her father, Gen. Tench Tilghman.
Accession Number: 63277
Physical Description: 29 items, 7 are modern prints from glass negatives and 15 vintage prints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Plimhimmon Hotel, and the Goldsborough and Rose Cottages in Ocean City, Md. Included are views of the lobby, music room, ballroom, dining room, and guest rooms. Photos of hotel and cottage guests include an 1884 group in bathing suits, and guests playing badminton indoors, ca. 1940.

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Restrictions: No
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Radcliffe Collection
PP 39

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1865-1970s
Collection History: George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe (1877-1974) was a lawyer, banker, farmer, politician, historian and humanitarian. Radcliffe grew up on the Eastern Shore, and was educated at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. After admission to the bar, he worked in business before entering political service. He was Liquor License Commissioner of Baltimore City from 1916-1919, and became Md. Secretary of State in 1919. In the 1930s, he was regional advisor of the Public Works Administration, then served as a U.S. Senator from 1934-1946.
Accession Number: 73130; transfor from Manuscripts Department, MS 2280.
Physical Description: 21 glass plate negatives (some stereoviews) with modern prints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Subjects include the home of a Dr. William L. Larkin, and stereoviews of the Susquehanna Railroad Bridge under construction.

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Restrictions: No
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Rider Collection
PP 40

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1850s-1969 (bulk 1860-1900)
Collection History: The Rider family owned a Baltimore County tract of land known as Riderwood, near the area now known as Ruxton. Around 1880, the Rider family had numerous plots in the area, including Edward Rider’s estate called “Malvern”. William B. Rider (b. 1857) married Kate A. Bateman, whose family lived in Waverly (then Baltimore Co.).
Accession Number: 75813
Physical Description: 50 photographs, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen cartes de visite studio portraits - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Rider, White, McConkey, Haslup and Bateman family portraits, with pictures of their houses and other sites in the Ruxton and Waverly areas near Baltimore. There is a group portrait, captioned “The Literary Club of Ruxton at Thornton”.

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Restrictions: No
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Perine Collection
 PP 41

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1850s-1943
Collection History:  David Maulden Perine (1796-1882) served as Registrar of Wills in Baltimore city and county, and was owner of the Homeland estate north of Baltimore, which property was in his family from 1799. He married Mary Glenn, daughter of Judge Elias Glenn; two sons of the couple were the lawyer William Buchanan Perine (1823-1863) and a merchant and stockbroker, E. (Elias) Glenn Perine (1829-1922).
Accession Number: 49606; 49629; 49698
Physical Description: 649 items, including photoprints and glass and film negatives - prints housed in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Many images are reproductions of artworks, documents, and publications dating from the late 18th century to the 1940s, with a few copied items from the 17th century. There are relatively fewer original photographs, images made in the 1860s through the 1940s.

Copied documents relate to the genealogy of the Glen(n), Perine, Barroll, Washington, Bushrod, Ludwell, Buchanan, and Aylett families. The documents include diaries, plats, programs, newspaper items, and records of organizations such as St. Paul’s Church, The University of Maryland, and Friends’ Monthly Meeting. There are also copies of family portraits for which originals were paintings, drawings, or prints.

Subjects of original photographs are Perine family members and associates ca. 1860s through the early 1900s, including photographs of Capt. George A. Custer and Lt. James B. Washington, C.S.A. in the 1860s; Perine family homes and other historic houses documented during years 1915-1924, including Harwood and Claymont Houses (W. Va.), Homeland and the William B. Perine house at Charles and Eager Sts.; scenes of Baltimore City in the early 1900s; Friends’ Meeting houses in Baltimore and vicinity; the George Carey School (1883-1884) and the Wm. Marston School (1886).

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Restrictions: No
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Mueller Collection
PP 42

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1898-1925
Collection History: Frederick W. Mueller (d. 1963) was a builder, inventor, and photographer who lived on Ashland Ave. in Baltimore. He developed early panorama and cyclorama cameras, including one which was patented that could take “dome” pictures of the sky and horizon.
Accession Number: 63694
Physical Description: 62 items, including glass plate negatives with modern photoprints, and panoramic photoprints and film negatives - in 3 boxes.

Subjects:
Mueller family portraits, some by Fred Mueller, plus unidentified men, women, children with toys, church and road.

Panoramic photographs depicting Baltimore and vicinity: downtown and the harbor, Fort McHenry, Hanover Street Bridge under construction, Western Maryland Railroad yards, Port Covington, the Back River sewage disposal plant, and ruins of the 1904 Baltimore Fire. Some of the images are related to individuals or organizations: restaurateur Walter Hasslinger’s home on the Magothy River, the Bohemian Club at Bohemian Manor in Cecil Co., and the Oriole Lodge at the Recreation Pier.

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Restrictions: No
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Hoopper Collection
PP 43

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900-1910
Collection History: S. (Samuel) Steuart Hoopper (ca. 1884-1972) was an accountant/auditor and amateur photographer who came to Baltimore from Dorchester Co., Md. in 1893. Married in 1910 to Julia Fowler (1886-1974) of Baltimore, the couple had a daughter named Julia Fowler Hoopper (b. 1913).
Accession Number: 73888
Physical Description: 233 glass negatives with modern photoprints - prints housed in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Most photographs are by S. Steuart Hoopper, with some Hoopper’s wife Julia Fowler Hoopper Hoopper’s cousin William H. Radcliffe from Dorchester Co. The collection depicts Hoopper family members and homes, as well as scenes in Baltimore and the vicinity. These include the 1903 Elks Convention, 1904 Baltimore Fire, and views of Waverly, Govans, and Lutherville. There are also scenes at Pen-Mar, Md., Atlantic City, N.J., and Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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Restrictions: No
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J. Steuart Collection
PP 44

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1889-1903
Collection History: James Edmondson Steuart (1872-1954) was a lawyer who lived at 1035 St. Paul St. and at a family estate, Mt. Steuart at South River (Edgewater), Anne Arundel Co. He was the son of Dr. James H. Steuart and Ellen L. Duvall Steuart, whose home was at 123 W. Lanvale St. in Baltimore.
Accession Number: 55982; 55494
Physical Description: 355 glass negatives with modern photoprints - prints housed in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Steuart family homes on St. Paul and Lanvale Sts. in Baltimore, Fort McHenry, and scenes around Annapolis. There are many scenes at “Edilius”, evidently a summer home which may be in Maryland.

Outside of Maryland, subjects include New England water scenes (especially at Narragansett, R.I.), Cape May, N.J., Berkley Springs and Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., and Winchester, Va. There is an image of the ship Mayflower, and of a diorama of the Monitor and Merrimac.

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Restrictions: No
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City Hall Collection
PP 45

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860s-1919
Collection History: Edwin Clay Timanus (1863-1923) was Mayor of Baltimore from 1904-1907; J. Barry Mahool (1870-1935) was Mayor of Baltimore from 1907-1911; James Harry Preston (1860-1938) was elected mayor of Baltimore in 1911, serving two consecutive terms from 1911 to 1919.
Accession Number: 71216
Physical Description: 453 items, including photographic prints, glass negatives, and glass lantern slides - prints housed in 1 box, lantern slides housed in 7 boxes.

Subjects:
Baltimore scenes from ca. 1912-1919, reproductions of campaign advertising from the 1919 mayoral bid by James H. Preston, and reproductions of paintings of political and civic leaders,

 The glass lantern slides (ca. 1860s-1919) depict Baltimore City 1730-1900, words to “Maryland, My Maryland” and the “Star Spangled Banner”, Baltimore during the Civil War, and images used in the political campaigns of James H. Preston. There are Baltimore scenes from the early 20th century, some showing Baltimore under Mayor Timanus (1904-1907), and some connected with Mayor Preston’s accomplishments (1911-1919): paved streets and streecar tracks, the Fallsway Viaduct, Hanover St. Bridge, Lock Raven Dam construction, Montebello Filtration Plant, etc. The lantern slides are the work of Waldeck and J. Sussman of the Photo Stock Co. of Baltimore.

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Restrictions: No
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Academy of Sciences Collection
PP 46

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900
Collection History: The Academy of the Visitation convent was located for 90 years on Park Ave., Centre and Howard Sts. before moving to Roland Park in 1927. The Elkridge Hunt Club was formed in Howard County in 1878, taking its name from Elkridge Landing. About ten years later, the club moved to a site on North Charles St. in Baltimore Co. which was the former home of Governor Augustus Bradford. The estate known as Clifton, formerly the country home of Johns Hopkins, was sold to the city of Baltimore in 1894, becoming Clifton Park.
Accession Number: 73732
Physical Description: 40 items: glass plate negatives and modern photoprints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Images are mostly undated and unidentified. Includes depictions of the Academy of the Visitation, group portraits of the Elkridge Hunt Club, and the Clifton house, plus unidentified people and sites.

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Restrictions: No
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Trimble Collection of Hack-Maslin Family
PP 48

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and ca. 1870s-1930s
Collection History:  Baltimore business leader Benjamin Franklin Newcomer (1827-1901) was born in Washington Co. He married Amelia Ehlen (d. 1881) and their children included Nannie (1855-1901), Hattie N. (1861-1942), Waldo (1867-1934), and Mary L. (d. 1935). Mary married James M. Maslin; Nannie married Frederick Home Hack; Hattie married Henry Brooke Gilpin; and Waldo married Margaret Vanderpool of New York City. The children of Nannie and Frederick Home Hack included Waldo (1881-1940), Frank Newcomer, Frederick Home, Jr., and Amelia (Emily), who married Douglas Gordon Carroll in 1910.
Accession Number: 76465
Physical Description: 150 photoprints, including 2 albums - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Newcomer, Hack, and Maslin family members and friends. One image depicts a child with an African American nurse, and some images depict children dressed in colonial costume. There are three framed portraits of groups at Manor Glen, ca. 1928. A set of 55 images are scenes from the French and Belgian fronts during World War I.

One album contains cabinet and carte-de-visite format studio portraits which are mostly identified. The second album contains unidentified informal portraits of groups of people and views, possibly taken at a rural home called Linwood.

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Hoffman-Maryland Conservation Federation Collection
PP 49

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and ca. 1938-1951
Collection History: Harry Lee Hoffman, Jr. (1895-1980) was a nationally known conservationist, charter member and first president of the Maryland Outdoor Life Federation, and chair of the organization’s first convention in 1934. An advertising professional, Hoffman used his printing and public relations skills in his conservation work. Hoffman's own property, Ivy Hill Forest near Cockeysville, Md. became Oregon Ridge Park.
Accession Number: 76053
Physical Description: 380 photographs, including photoprints and film negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Exhibitions sponsored by the Maryland Outdoor Life Federation and the Maryland Conservation Federation, including the Outdoor Life Exhibition in 1939 and the Baltimore Flower Show in 1951, both at the Fifth Regiment Armory. The exhibit of 1951 includes many views of a proposed monument to conservation and restoration of land and water resources, which was in the shape of an oyster with several human figures, with the text: “As ye sow, ye shall reap”.

There are photographs of a Cherry Hill African American community meeting with Mayor D’Alessandro, ca. 1944. There are also images of the Ivy Hill Forest (Oregon Ridge Park), and a set of photographs taken in Maryland counties showing soil erosion and other conservation problems.

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Restrictions: No
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Harvey Family Collection
PP 50

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1906-1945
Collection History: Rose Lindsay Hopkins Harvey (1897-1980), daughter of Isabel Luke Hopkins and Robert Dixon Hopkins, grew up at Beechfield in Catonsville, and graduated from St. Timothy’s School. Her husband was F. Barton Harvey (1891-1977), a Baltimore native who was educated at the Calvert and Hill Schools and at Harvard University. Engaged prior to World War I, in which F. Barton served as an Army lieutenant in France, the two married in 1919. They had seven children, and lived near Lake Roland in north Baltimore.
Accession Number: 75860; transfer from Manuscripts Department.
Physical Description: 104 photographs including 1 album - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Hopkins and Harvey family members, including wedding and picnic photographs. There are snapshots of F. Barton Harvey’s military service in France during World War I, and a large group (44 miniature photoprints) from Robert Dixon Hopkins Harvey’s time as a military officer in China during World War II. There are also photos of Beechfield, Rose Hopkins Harvey’s childhood home in Catonsville, Md.

 The album of 30 photoprints, ca. 1910, deals with the Fossoway Parish Church in Scotland, with images of the church and its minister, Rev. P.B. Thom, and sites in Scotland including  bridges and castles.

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Restrictions: No
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Brantz Mayer/Hayden Collection
PP 52

Dates of Photographs: 1871
Collection History: These portraits were assembled to illustrate the book Baltimore: Past and Present with Biographical Sketches of its Representative Men (Baltimore, Md.: Richardson and Bennett, 1871). Brantz Mayer (1809-1879), at one time the President of the Maryland Historical Society, wrote a historical sketch of the city of Baltimore as introduction to the volume, of which the balance was biographies contributed by various writers.
Accession Number: 76140?; source unknown.
Physical Description: 60 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Largely unmounted albumen photographs printed by the Bendann Brothers to illustrate the book Baltimore Past and Present.  Each image is a portrait of a person featured in the book, with the subject’s autograph in the bottom margin; there are 49 people represented in the collection. Some images are copied from paintings or prints.

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Restrictions: No
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E.A. Williams Collection
PP 53

Dates of Photographs: 1872-1936 and n.d.
Collection History: The Williams family was from Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Captain Edwin A. (Anderson) Williams (fl. 1828-1873) was an officer in the Confederate Army, treasurer of the Roanoke Valley Railroad, a bank trustee, lawyer, and tobacco grower. He married twice, first to Elizabeth Ann Hamlett, and second to Lucy Page Kennon (fl. 1874-1889), and altogether had six children: Carter N., Edwin A. Jr, Thomas Nelson, Henry S., E. Kennon, and Alice Kennon (?). Carter N. Williams married Rosa Haskins in 1874 and had five children, including Edwin A. Williams, III (1878-1948), a Baltimore businessman and noted genealogist.
Accession Number: 57956
Physical Description: 6 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The photographs depict members of the E. A. Williams family; one is a tintype made at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

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Henry G. Granofsky/The U.S. Customs Service Collection
PP 54

Dates of Photographs: 1929-1972
Collection History: The creator of this collection, Henry G. Granofsky (1909-1980), worked for the U.S. Customs Service as an inspector, and was also the unofficial historian of the Baltimore Customs House. He collected memorabilia related to the Customs Service and frequently made slide presentations to various groups regarding the history and activities of the Customs Service.
Accession Number: 76142
Physical Description: 990 items, including photoprints, negatives, and 35mm slides - prints housed in 1 small box, slides housed in 4 metal boxes.

Subjects:
The negatives and photoprints (ca. 290 negatives with 55 corresponding photoprints) document activities of the United States Customs Service in Baltimore during the years 1929-1950, with respect to both freight control and immigration. Henry G. Granofsky is depicted, along with Customs Service coworkers, at work on boats of all sizes in shipyards and in the Baltimore harbor. There are also photographs of scenes around Baltimore unrelated to the Customs Service. These include pictures of a 1929 Bicentennial Pageant, businesses on E. Baltimore St. including theatres on “The Block”, and a camp at Harmony Point.

 The slides (645 items) were made ca. 1955-1972, and also document Customs Service activities, with several sets of images depicting shipping of particular products, e.g., sugar, ore, bananas, lumber, grain, etc. Of the 645 slides, a set of 322 depict the downtown Baltimore business district, many focusing on various stages of demolition and construction in the early 1960s, including a slide of the Ford’s Theater demolition.

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Robert E. Lee Hall Collection
PP 55

Dates of Photographs: [ca. 1900-1930?]
Collection History: Robert E. Lee Hall was a Baltimore pharmacist, doctor, and lawyer. After receiving a pharmacy license in Missouri, Hall came to Baltimore and practiced pharmacy from 1884-1894, then took a degree from the Baltimore University School of Law in 1894. Active in the Democratic party, he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1904, and was also involved in community politics.
Accession Number: 75644; 001656
Physical Description: 20 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Undated images which may originate from ca. 1900-1930. 6 photographs depict identified residential streets in the Old Annex of Baltimore, with captions emphasizing sub-standard infrastructure (pavements, sewers, etc.). Included streets are Montpelier St., the corner of Walpert Ave. and Adams St., Bay St., Lohrman Ave. and the corner of Allendale Rd. and Caton Ave.

In addition, there are 14 portraits of unidentified Chinese people, who may be members of the Lang or Fang family who lived on Gorsuch Ave. in Baltimore, as Hall’s papers contained some materials concerning this family.

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Dates of Photographs: n.d.
Collection History: The Kelly family were farmers in Harmons, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where they dealt predominantly with crops rather than livestock. Rufus Kelly (fl. 1884-1923) and Egbert Kelly (fl. 1890-1923) took over the farm from their father, Hezron Kelly (fl. 1814-1883). The Hawkins family intermarried with the Kelly family, and lived in Baltimore and Harmons, Md.
Accession Number: 76194
Physical Description: 1 photograph - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The collection consists of 1 photograph, an undated, unidentified tintype portrait.

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Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1860s-1883
Collection History: The Frick family were prominent Baltimore citizens: merchants, landowners, lawyers, and physicians, descended from John Conrad Frick who arrived in Philadelphia from Germany in 1688. His fourth son, Peter Frick, came to Baltimore, and married Anna Barbara Breidenhart in 1770. Peter Frick’s three sons were merchant John, lawyer William, and physician George. The Frick family bought, built on, and leased out property on Bolton Street, Park Avenue and McMechen Street, and other Bolton Hill locations.
Accession Number: 76101
Physical Description: 58 photoprints, including many tintypes - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of the Frick, Turnbull, Poultney, and Ramsay families. There are additional portraits of C. Oliver O’Donnell, F.S.S. Ussher, Baron de Stackl, and Kate Spense Washburn. There are a few copy photographs of paintings or miniatures, and some images depict buildings and landscapes. The tintypes are numbered as part of the Prints and Photographs Division’s Cased Photograph Collection unless unidentified.

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Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1865-1901
Collection History: Augusta Adele Smith (1865-1957) was the daughter of Lavinia Cooper Reip Smith and Joseph Stewart Smith. Joseph Smith was a banker/broker who lived at 1911 Eutaw Place in Baltimore. In 1891, Adele Smith married Benjamin Bohen Jones (1863-1943), and they moved to a house which Benjamin, a carpenter, built near Lake Roland.
Accession Number: 76219
Physical Description: 42 photographs, including 1 album, 1 tintype, and 2 ivorytypes - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of Augusta Adele Smith Jones and her family members and friends. Many of the portraits are unidentified; identified individuals include Lavinia Cooper Reip Smith, Benjamin Bohen Jones, Talbot and Helen Denmead, and Evans Rogers.

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Restrictions: No
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