Dates of Photographs: 1907-1930
Collection History: Dr. John T. King, Jr. (1890-1979) was a Baltimore internist, educator, and author, son of Dr. John T. and Mary Bowen Gees King. A graduate of Princeton University (1910) and Johns Hopkins Medical School (1914), King was an intern and resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1914-1916. In 1916 he married Charlotte Markell Baker (1891-1981), a graduate of Hood College, daughter of Virginia Markell and Joseph Dill Baker, a Frederick, Md. industrialist, financier and philanthropist.
Accession Number: 76260
Physical Description: 364 photoprints, including 2 photograph albums - in 1 box.

Subjects:
One album ca. 1907 depicts children and teenagers, mostly girls, and young adults. The children may be students at the Miss Porter’s School at Farmington, Conn. These photographs include many outdoor recreation scenes, including ice-skating, tennis, and water sports. There are many informal group portraits which are undated and unidentified, and a group class photograph with some people identified. Included are unidentified images of buildings, a harbor or river, a library, and theatrical productions.

The second album ca. 1907-1913 depicts the family and friends of J.T. King, Jr., showing young adults engaged in leisure activities, especially boating, camping in Maryland and in the Shenandoah Valley (Va.), with a few pictures of people in Baltimore and the 1913 Wilson inauguration in Washington D.C. People depicted include family and school friends, as well as people residing in the areas visited by King: the Henry family of Limeton, a Capt.Yancy and his family, and the Kaufmann family of Mauk’s Mill in the Shenandoah Valley.

A portrait of Benjamin Gees is included separately.

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Restrictions: No
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313th Infantry, 79th Division,
American Expeditionary Force,
World War I Collection
PP62

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1917-1919
Collection History: The 79th Division of the U.S. Army was created in the Spring of 1917 for the emergency expansion of armed services during World War I. The 79th Division’s 313th Infantry Regiment, headed by Colonel Claude B. Sweezey, was known as “Baltimore’s Own” due to the large number of men from the city. By July 1918, the Regiment with 3,667 men sailed to France to join the active front near Verdun, returning to the United States by June 1919.
Accession Number: 76282
Physical Description: 8 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, including ca. 1917 group portraits (long format) of the 313th Regiment’s Company D, and a long format picture of the ship Antigone which brought Regiment personnel back to the United States in May 1919, showing troops disembarking. There are also several photographs of (presumably) a victory parade of the 313th Regiment in Baltimore, ca. 1919.

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Restrictions: No
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Maryland Bicentennial Commission Collection
PP64

Dates of Photographs: 1976
Collection History: The United States Bicentennial was celebrated in 1976, marking the 200th anniversary of the emergence of the United States as a nation. In Maryland, festivities included events and re-enactments at historic sites across the state, especially at sites related to the Revolutionary War.
Accession Number: 76294; 76349
Physical Description: 41 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Bicentennial activities including re-enactments, in various Maryland locations including Annapolis, St. Michael’s, St. Mary’s City, and Anne Arundel and Carroll Counties at the time of the United States Bicentennial celebration in 1976. The photographs were made by photographers for the Maryland Division of Tourism, including Dave Harp, Bob Willis, and Tom Dorden.

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Restrictions: No
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Needham Collection
PP65

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1880-1971
Collection History: The village of Lutherville in Baltimore county was founded in 1852 by a group of Lutherans, including Rev. Dr. John Gottlieb Morris (1803-1895), his brother Charles Morris, and Dr. Benjamin Kurtz. The land on which Lutherville was founded had been part of several estates, including Amon Bosley’s “Regulation” and Charles Ridgely’s Hampton. Barrett’s Delight, built around 1820, was a Ridgely family home located east of Lutherville on Pot Springs Rd.
Accession Number: 76343
Physical Description: 43 photographs, including photoprints and negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
People, homes and other buildings in Lutherville and Baltimore. Included are an undated group portrait of the Lutherville School, and a group portrait souvenir of a 1906 trip to Gettysburg, both with people identified.

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Restrictions: No
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Mary Josephs Fowler Collection
PP66

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1870-1915
Collection History: Mary Josephs Fowler (1883-1980) was born in New Orleans, and her family moved to Baltimore during her childhood, where she graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1902. As an adult, she worked as a volunteer for the Family Welfare Association and went to France during World War I, working as a Red Cross canteen worker and as an assistant nurse at the front line near Soissons. In 1926, she married architect Laurence Hall Fowler.
Accession Number: 76138
Physical Description: 21 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Historic houses in Maryland, and group portraits (many with people identified) made at the home of Col. and Mrs. Douglas Cornell in Coburg, Canada ca. 1893-1895. One portrait depicts a Mrs. Spencer with Mary Josephs, made at the Caruso Theater ca. 1890.

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Restrictions: No
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Merle M. Chelf Collection
PP67

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1923-1933
Collection History: Merle Velma Martin Chelf was born in Baltimore. An artist and designer, she took evening classes at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and had lessons with Margie Martinet. She worked in the 1920s and 1930s for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company. In 1933, she was commissioned to do artwork for a cachet commemorating President James Monroe’s 175th birthday.
Accession Number: 76405
Physical Description: 17 photoprints, some attached to unbound album pages - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Two photographs depict Merle M. Chelf and acquaintances; others show a memorial at sea for President Warren Harding, an unidentified ship burning, and other maritime subjects.

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Restrictions: No
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Gaddess Collection
PP68

Dates of Photographs: 1884
Collection History: The Gaddess Brothers Steam Marble Works was a stone working operation specializing in cemetery work, producing marble and granite statuary, monuments, tablets, and vases. In 1884, the proprietors were brothers Charles W. (d. 1897), Thomas S., and Virginius Gaddess. These men took over the business in 1864 from their father, Alexander Gaddess, Jr. (1799-1873), who learned the stone working craft in apprenticeship to Thomas Towson.
Accession Number: 76422
Physical Description: 1 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
A front view of the Gaddess Brothers Steam Marble Works building.

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Restrictions: No
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Blanche Hungerford Latimer Collection
PP 69

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1881-1930 (bulk ca. 1913-1918)
Collection History: Blanche Hungerford Latimer (ca. 1889-1944) was born in Baltimore and attended Western High School and the Maryland Institute, on her way to becoming a portrait photographer. She studied with pictorialist Clarence H. White in New York City in ca. 1914, and married Walter Roland Latimer, Sr. (ca. 1878-1924), also White's student, in 1918.
Accession Number: 72251; 72542; 76488.
Physical Description: 115 photographs, including photoprints on platinum paper, three early color photos, and film and glass plate negatives - in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Most of the photographs were created by Blanche Hungerford Latimer, with some made by Walter R. Latimer, Sr., Paul Anderson, Clarence White, and others. Many of the photoprints are signed, and some contain notations regarding particular exhibitions where they were shown.

Box 1 contains 2 cased photographs, both portraits of Blanche Alice Crowther, later Mrs. R. Arthur Hungerford (an unmounted tintype ca. 1885, and a hand-colored image on milk glass in a velvet case ca. 1881). There are also 15 unidentified matted photographs, some of which correspond to identified images contained in Box 2. One mat contains 4 photoprints of the same negative demonstrating different printing processes, including platinum, carbon, and gum/platinum.

 Box 2 contains ca. 95 photoprints, many of which are captioned. Included are early color photographs (the Hess-Ives process). Subjects include portraits of Blanche Hungerford Latimer and others, scenes of New York including the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Woolworth Building. There is a group portrait of the students of Clarence H. White, and several other identified individual portraits, including Marie deFord Keller. In addition to the New York subjects, there are some  Maryland subjects, including Baltimore’s Old York Road and Grace and St. Peter’s Church.

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Restrictions: No
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Patterson-Bonaparte Collection
PP70

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1800-1870
Collection History: Elizabeth (Betsy) Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879), daughter of Baltimore merchant William Patterson, married Jerome Bonaparte (1784-1860), brother of French emperor Napoleon I, on Christmas eve of 1803. The marriage was anulled by Napoleon’s decree in 1806, while Jerome returned to Europe and remarried according to his brother’s wishes. Betsy and Jerome's only child, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (1805-1870), was raised by his mother and her family, graduated from Harvard, and married Susan May Williams (1812-1881) in 1829.
Accession Number: 76562; transfer from Gallery.
Physical Description: 24 items, including photographs (cased and uncased) and engravings (framed) - in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Portraits of Patterson-Bonaparte family members, relatives and descendants of Betsy Patterson and/or Jerome Bonaparte. Most of the photographs are cased daguerreotypes, and many of the prints are glazed.

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Restrictions: No
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Henry Rinn Collection
PP 71

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1894-1915
Collection History: Henry Rinn, Jr. (1861-1951) was a Baltimore photographer who had earlier been a music retailer and instructor. He began his photographic career on contract for the Hughes Company, shooting Baltimore buildings. By the early 1900s, Rinn made photographic postcards of Baltimore scenes, especially parks, monuments, steamships, and resorts, eventually producing the cards for wholesale. After 1905, he became known for color postcards which were produced in Germany.
Accession Number: 59452
Physical Description: 71 photographs including a few negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Baltimore buildings, including many office and apartment buildings. There are also some estate homes and waterfront buildings depicted, and a few sites outside of Baltimore and Maryland.

 Many of the photoprints are retouched; some have notations in German on the verso, specifying building colors and materials, and may have been sent to the firm in Germany which produced color versions of Rinn’s photographs as postcards.

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Restrictions: No

Note: The 8x10 prints in this collection may correspond to glass plate negatives in the Hughes Collection of the Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
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Western Maryland Railroad Collection
PP 72

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1910
Collection History: The Western Maryland Railway Company began as the Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Railroad in 1852. Originally intended to provide transportation between Baltimore and the Cumberland Valley and to handle trade in this region, it grew by the mid-20th century to incorporate more than 30 railroads, extending to Hagerstown by 1872, to Cumberland by 1906, and to Connellsville, Pa. by 1912.
Accession Number: 74836
Physical Description: 28 photographs, including glass plate negatives and photoprints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Scenery along the Western Maryland Railroad line and surrounding environs near Maryland towns of Frostburg, Cumberland, Parkhead, Carrollton, Wakefield, and Williamsport. The railroad track and a railroad engine are shown, along with bridges, river and adjacent canal.

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Restrictions: No
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Keene-Rasin Collection
PP 73

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860-1900
Collection History: (Isaac) Freeman Rasin (1833-1907) was a Democratic "boss" in Baltimore for many years. Married to Julia Ann Claypoole Rasin (d. 1899), their home was at 1039 N. Calvert St. John Henry Keene (d. 1914) was an attorney and denizen of downtown Baltimore, making his home at 100 E. Preston St. before moving to Glencoe in Baltimore County. The son of John Henry Keene of Lauraville, he practiced law with his brother Robert Goldsborough Keene.
Accession Number: 76678
Physical Description: 4 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of Sam Keene and Julia Claypoole Rasin, and pictures of Keene and Rasin homes in the Mt. Vernon area of Baltimore city.

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Restrictions: No
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William C. Steuart Collection
PP 75

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1885-1960
Collection History: William Calvert Steuart (1883-1977) worked for Consolidated Gas and Electric Company (later Baltimore Gas and Electric) from 1926 until retirement in 1948, and was well known in Maryland for his hobby of building ship models. In 1962, he gave his large collection of model ships to the Maryland Historical Society. He also made many photographs of boats.
Accession Number: 62643
Physical Description: Ca. 630 photographs, mostly nitrate and safety negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Boats, especially steamships, with many copies of photographs or printed images.

Many images of individual boats, which are often identified as to type, including paddle wheel steamer, screw steamer, stern-wheel steamer, day steamer, side-wheeler, bugeye, sailboat, tug, etc. Individual boats include Avalon, E. Clay Timanus, Lancaster, Louise, Mason L. Weems, Middlesex, Minnie Wheeler, Murray Bay, Nanticoke, Nelly White, Neuse, Penn, Phlox, Pilot Boy, Pocahontas, Pocomoke, and Tolchester, among many others.

The source of some copied images was advertisements for steam ship travel. There are also views of the Baltimore Harbor and shipyards at the beginning of the 20th century, the Light Street Pier before and after the Baltimore Fire, and Tolchester Beach ca. 1885.

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Restrictions: No
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Atkinson Collection
PP 76

Dates of Photographs: 1868-1906
Collection History: The heads of the Atkinson family in ca. 1900 were Matthew Smith Atkinson (d. 1906) and his wife Eliza Waller Blow Atkinson (d. 1931). Their children were Matthew Smith Atkinson, Jr. (1881-1948), Liza B. Atkinson (d. 1974 at age 88), and Allmand Blow Atkinson. The Atkinson family home was in Garrison, a village in the Green Spring Valley of Baltimore County, less than two miles SE of Owings Mills.
Accession Number: 74681
Physical Description: 142 items, including 1 album, glass plate negatives and modern photoprints - prints and album housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Atkinson family, friends, and home in Garrison (Baltimore Co.), as well as scenes of recreational activities in the Greenspring Valley, especially at the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club. Also depicted is a Maryland National Guard 5th Regiment encampment at Camp Wilmer, Pimlico (then Baltimore Co.).

In addition, there is 1 folder of 7 vintage photoprints (including cyanotypes) from September 1906 depiciting the Baltimore Jubilee Parade in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore city, and 1 album from 1868 documenting a trip to Niagara Falls with 10 photoprints and three printed cards.

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Restrictions: No
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Gittings Collection
PP 77

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1890s
Collection History: Richard James Gittings (1830-1882) was a noted criminal attorney who married Victoria Sellman Gittings (1837-1884), granddaughter of Revolutionary War hero Gen. Jonathan Sellman. The couple had six children, some of whom were quite young at the time of their deaths, whose care then fell to an elder brother, D. Sterrett Gittings (1861-1948). The family lived at an estate in Baltimore County and at a townhouse on Park Avenue. One of the children was Anna Sellman Gittings (1863-1943), the creator of the photographs in this collection.
Accession Number: 55940
Physical Description: 66 items, including vintage photographs, glass and film negatives, and modern photoprints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs by Anna Sellman Gittings, primarily depicting the Gittings home called Roslyn near Kingsville (Upper Falls) along with members of the Gittings family, friends and domestic servants (including African Americans). Many rural scenes along the Gunpowder River including Little Falls and Great Falls, and the vicinity of Joppa, Belair, and Philadelphia Roads in Baltimore and Harford Counties. Some images depict people at the Philadelphia Gunning Club.

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Restrictions: No
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J. Gilman D'Arcy Paul Collection
PP 78

Dates of Photographs: 1893-1960
Collection History: J. Gilman D’Arcy Paul (1887-1972) was the only child of D’Arcy Paul (1854-1890, b. Petersburg, Va.) and Charlotte Abbott Gilman Paul (d. 1954). The Gilman family estate was called Woodlands, located on Gorsuch Ave. By the 1920s, Gilman Paul and his mother lived at 16 Blythewood Rd. in north Baltimore. Paul also owned and operated a farm in Harford Co. called Land of Promise, near the outlet of Deer Creek into the Susquehanna River. The area was later part of Susquehanna State Park, which was established partly through Mr. Paul’s influence.
Accession Number: 64257
Physical Description: 1178 items, including photoprints, glass and film negatives, slides - prints and slides housed in 4 boxes.

Subjects:
Rural scenes and historic houses and estates in Baltimore City and County, and 12 other Maryland counties, especially Harford Co. These include Gilman and Paul family homes. Among the Harford County subjects is the Susquehanna River prior to construction of the Conowingo Dam. Another subject in the collection is arboriculture, with a survey of trees in Baltimore and vicinity.

Some photographs are identified as being by “Pickering/WPA”, and may correspond to images in the PP85, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection. Other photographs are identified as being taken by H. Archer, Samuel Mason, Jr., or Alexis Shriver.

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Restrictions: No
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Kniesche Collection
PP 79

Dates of Photographs: 1920s-1970s and n.d.
Collection History: Robert F. Kniesche (1906-1976) was a photographer of international importance who worked for the Sunpapers from the 1920s until his retirement. Kniesche specialized in aerial and animal photography. His photographs won many awards, and were exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peale Museum, and at universities and libraries.
Accession Number: 73383
Physical Description: ca. 2050 items, including film and glass negatives and modern prints - in 8 boxes.

Subjects:
Photographs made by Robert Kniesche and others. Subjects include airplanes and specific aircraft, including a dirigible, airmail plane, and an aerial dogfight. There are aerial views including the District of Columbia, and documents of a solar eclipse, a train wreck, and a tugboat breaking ice in the Baltimore Harbor. There are photos of theatrical productions at the 22nd Street Theater and the Lyric Opera House, celebrities including Lili Pons, Lucretia Bori, Rin Tin Tin, Babe Ruth, and Fritz Maisel, and portraits of Native American men.

Also typical Baltimore scenes, including "The Block", Arabbers, painted screens, marble steps, Halloween celebrations, public buildings, churches, and residences. There are maritime scenes, including harbor, oystering, ship building and launching, and log canoes. There are also many sports images, including horse racing, fox hunting, regattas and football. Football photos include Colts games and playser Gino Marchetti and Alan Ameche.

Additional images of airplanes and aviation, including the China Clipper, and many aerial photographs of Baltimore and vicinity: Essex, Pikesville, Belair, Ruxton farmland, Westminster, Frederick, Bowie, College Park, Dundalk, Annapolis, Edgewood, Cumberland, Havre de Grace, Towson, and Catonsville. Other Maryland locations include the Chesapeake Bay, Ocean City, Easton, and Cumberland.

Celebrities depicted include Veronica Lake, Betty Hutton, H.L. Menchen, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Wrong-way Corrigan, Rosa Ponselle, and Babe Ruth. There is also a sizeable section of nature photography, including zoo animals and domestic cats.

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Restrictions: No
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Hambleton Collection
PP 80

Dates of Photographs: [ca. 1860?] and 1928
Collection History: In Baltimore ca. 1860, T. Edward Hambleton, Jr. (1829-1906) established the banking firm of John A. Hambleton and Co. in partnership with his brother. T. Edward Hambleton, Jr. resided at 64 N. Carey Street and married Arabella Stansbury in 1852. The Hambletons were related by marriage to the Crawford family: Frank Sherwood Hambleton (b. 1855) married Anna Brooks Crawford (b. 1863) in 1884 in Baltimore.
Accession Number: 000049
Physical Description: 7 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Undated studio portraits (cartes de visite) of Cromwell, Hambleton, and Thysen family members (thought to have been made ca. 1860).

Also 2 snapshots of a garden party at Buckingham Palace (London, England), 1928.

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Restrictions: No
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Lillard Collection
PP 81

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1938-1948
Collection History: Jacques Ephraim Stout Lillard (b. 1894) was a genealogist who was employed from the  1930s-1960s by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Accession Number: 75217
Physical Description:  13 photographs including 1 carte de visite - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Formal and informal portraits of Lillard family members, and views of houses associated with the family in Maryland and Virginia.
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Restrictions: No
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Kummer Collection
PP 82

Dates of Photographs: early 1840s-[ca. 1860s]
Collection History: Sarah Agnes Kummer (fl. 1830-1872) was a teacher and school headmistress who established a school for young women in Baltimore in the mid 1860s. Mrs. Johnson was a housekeeper in Miss Kummer’s school.
Accession Number: 00219
Physical Description:  4 items - in 1 box and in the Cased Photograph Collection.

Subjects:
Undated studio portraits - one of Sarah Agnes Kummer and one of Mrs. Johnson - thought to have been made during the 1860s. Also, portraits of Sarah Agnes Kummer are housed in the Cased Photograph Collection: a daguerreotype, early 1840s (no. 305); and an albumen photograph, ca. 1860, cased within a medallion (no. 306).
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Restrictions: No
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Eastern Shore Photo Collection
PP 83

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1890-1900
Collection History: Maryland’s Eastern Shore peninsula comprises nine counties of Maryland, the entire State of Delaware, and two counties of Virginia, with Pennsylvania directly to the north of the penninsula. The creators of these photograph albums had a home in Millington on the Chester River in Kent Co., Md. at the border of Queen Anne’s Co.
Accession Number: 000279
Physical Description:  2  albums with a total of 140 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in the years ca. 1890s. There are many images of rivers, old mills and churches in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, including Unicorn Mills and the Sassafras River in Maryland, a mill and historic site at Gulph Mills, Pa., and scenes on Wissahickon Creek in or near Philadelphia. A number of images document ocean resort life at Rehobeth, Del., and others depict people engaged in recreational activities including boating, crabbing, picnics, skating, or visits to parks. There are also images of African Americans in Maryland.

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Restrictions: No
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Mulford Collection
PP 84

Dates of Photographs: 1897-ca. 1940s
Collection History: Adelaide Fehr Miller was the daughter of Jacob Henry Miller of Allegheny, Penn. She married Baltimore builder, real estate broker and banker Carroll Bates Blick, and was the mother of twin girls in ca. 1900: Emilie Bates Blick and Mariana Miller Blick. A third daughter born ca. 1910 was Adelaide Carroll Blick. The family lived at “Rosemere” overlooking Lake Roland in Ruxton (Baltimore Co.) and at hotel and other addresses in Baltimore City through the 1920s. They also spent time in Atlantic City, N.J. and at a farm (Tower Hill?) in St. Mary’s Co., Md.
Accession Number: 000234
Physical Description:  13 albums and 1 folder with a total of 1555 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Blick family members and homes, including Rosemere in Baltimore Co. and a farm (Tower Hill?) in St. Mary’s Co., Md. Many images of children, including the Blick twins Emilie and Mariana, at play with toys, riding in goat carts, holding kittens and puppies, dressed in Halloween and other costumes, etc. A few images depict women and children at Baltimore City sites including Mt. Vernon Place and Eutaw Place. Many group portraits include African Americans, and there is an image of African American children at a Christmas party, ca. 1913-1915.

St. Mary’s Co. scenes include farm views with workers, equipment, and animals, as well as Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent and St. Mary’s River views with steamboats. There are a few images of Charlotte Hall Academy, an unidentified convent with nuns, and unidentified priests.

Some non-Maryland locations are depicted, including Cape May and Atlantic City, N.J., and an unidentified urban setting (Philadelphia?).

Print processes include cyanotypes and platinotypes. Images are sporadically captioned and dated.

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Restrictions: No
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Historic American Building Survey
(HABS) Collection
PP 85

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1930-1940 (bulk 1936)
Collection History: The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) began in 1933 to collect documentary measured drawings, photographs, and written historical and architectural information for over 31,000 structures and sites in the United States and its territories, conducted by the National Park Service (U.S. Dept. of the Interior), the American Institute of Architects, and the Library of Congress, where the documents were deposited for preservation and access, and where they are now part of the Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections. In 1965, the Maryland Historical Society purchased a duplicate set of photographs of buildings in Maryland that were part of the survey.
Accession Number: 59581
Physical Description:  Ca. 827 photoprints - in 10 boxes.

Subjects:
Most of the photographs in this set were made in 1936 by E.H. Pickering and document approx. 343 structures and sites located in all Maryland counties except Allegheny and Garrett, and in Baltimore city and Annapolis. Included are urban and rural houses, churches, hotels, public buildings, mills, bridges, farms and industrial structures, as well as street views. For many subjects, there are interior as well as exterior views of the buildings, and architectural details.

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Restrictions: No
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College Club Collection
PP 86

Dates of Photographs: 1954-ca. 1970
Collection History: The College Club, Inc. is the Baltimore Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), a social and community action group founded in 1894 and chartered in 1908 for the purpose of gathering together women with college backgrounds to socialize and exchange ideas.
Accession Number: 000326
Physical Description: 12 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Activities of the College Club, Inc. during the 1950s, including a holiday party attended by exchange students, and a College Club booth at the Flower Mart in Mt. Vernon Square in Baltimore. There is also a photograph of the club’s quarters ca. 1955, and the campus of an unidentified university, possibly the University of Maryland in College Park.

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Restrictions: No
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Donald T. Tschudy Collection
PP 87

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1924
Collection History: Henry Keidel (1840-1919) was born in Germany and came to Baltimore with his family in 1852. He founded the Henry Keidel and Co. firm in the 1860s, a Baltimore hardware enterprise in operation until 1978. Howard A. Tschudy (d. 1981) started work as a clerk with Henry Keidel and Co. in 1904; in 1965, he became the owner of the company. A Dickeyville resident, Tschudy may descended from early European residents of the Dickeyville area, a Tschudi family who came from Switzerland and operated a grist mill on Gwynn’s Falls in the 18th century.
Accession Number: 000524
Physical Description: 4 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Views of Pickwick Rd. in Dickeyville, a portrait of Henry Keidel, and an image of razor straps.

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Restrictions: No
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Edwin Defrain Taylor Collection
PP 88

Dates of Photographs: 1905-1923
Collection History: The Honorable John E. Taylor (b. 1850) was well known in public life in Wicomico County in the early 1900s, representing the county for many years in the State Legislature. A Democrat, he was elected to the office of County Commissioner in 1891, and to the House of Delegates in 1897, and was influential in the development of telephone infrastructure in the region. Taylor married Miss Annie E. Defrain of Lewisburg, Pa.
Accession Number: 000694
Physical Description:   33 items, including prints and glass negatives - prints housed in 1 box and in the Medium Photograph Collection.

Subjects:
Wicomico County views, incuding steamboat wharves, a schoolhouse and a church, and portraits of John Edwin Taylor, family, and friends ca. 1905-1912. There are also 2 images of the Maryland General Assembly, 1912.

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Restrictions: No
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Sulpician Archives Collection
PP 89

Dates of Photographs: 1884-1891
Collection History: The Society of Saint Sulpice originated in Paris, France in 1642, taking its name from the Paris parish of Saint Sulpice. To preserve the Society during the French Revolution in the face of attacks on the Catholic Church, clergy were moved to North America. A group of Sulpician priests was sent to Baltimore, the recently established episcopal see headed by Bishop John Carroll, who soon arranged with the Sulpician Fathers to establish an ecclesiastical seminary in Baltimore. A site was purchased at the "One Mile Tavern" (Paca St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) and St. Mary's Seminary opened in July 1791, the first seminary in the United States. An extension of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice in Paris, it was headed by Frenchman Father Charles Nagot and several of his associates.
Accession Number: 000801
Physical Description:  74 items including glass plate negatives and modern prints - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
St. Mary’s Seminary at Paca St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Some images document activities surrounding the Seminary’s Centennial celebration in 1891. There are interior and exterior views of the campus, including chapels and classrooms. There are also group portraits of Cardinal James Gibbons and seminary faculty, and a photo of bishops at the 3rd Plenary Council in Baltimore, 1884. Some images depict an excursion to the St. Charles College in Ellicott City. There are also reproductions of paintings, which are portraits and devotional images.

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Restrictions: No
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Baxley Family Collection
PP 90

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1848-1918
Collection History: George Baxley (1771-1848) married Mary (Merryman) Baxley, and their son was Jackson Brown Baxley (1814-1896), a Baltimore pharmacist who married Mary Ann Nesbitt Rolston in 1850 and Gertrude Hyne Minifie in 1865. Jackson Brown Baxley's two sons - Jackson Brown Baxley, Jr. and Henry Minifie Baxley - were also pharmacists and physicians who practiced in Baltimore.
Accession Number: 000801
Physical Description:  43 items - housed in 1 box and in the Cased Photograph Collection.

Subjects:
Portraits of the Baxley, Minifie and Tonge families, made in ca. 1848-1918. The cased photographs include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. One photograph shows the doorway of the drugstore operated by J.B. Baxley, and two photographs show the home of William Minifie at 80 N. Greene St., ca. 1870. Several photographs show African American workers.

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Restrictions: No
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Naylor Collection
PP 91

Dates of Photographs: 1960-1977
Collection History: The city of Baltimore underwent redevelopment, known as Urban Renewal, in the 1960s and 1970s. From plans begun in the 1950s, the city demolished structures and built new ones in selected areas that were considered blighted. These included many residential areas, as well as the part of the downtown business district.
Accession Number: 000805
Physical Description:  234 35mm color slides and 8 photoprints.

Subjects:
The collection, which was titled “Changing Face of Baltimore”, contains images made or collected by Lawrence Naylor, Jr., documenting changes in Baltimore and vicinity, with several sets of images showing the same site in different years. Sites include Falls Road, Reisterstown Road, Joppa Road, and Belvedere Ave. areas, downtown before and after development at Hopkins Place, the Jones Falls Expressway, and the area near Park Ave. and Dolphin St. There are also some images of streetcars during their last years of operation in Baltimore.

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Restrictions: No
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Emily Hayden Collection
PP 92

Dates of Photographs: 1861-1945
Collection History: Emily Spencer Hayden (1869-1949) was a Baltimore photographer, born near Randallstown at the farm owned by her parents, Edward Spencer (1824-1883) and A.C. Braddie Harrison Spencer (d. 1882). After their parents' deaths, Emily and her siblings were cared for by Eliza Benson, an African American woman and a freed slave who would continue to live with Emily Spencer Hayden after her marriage to lawyer Charles S. Hayden in 1893.
Accession Number: 001655; 000807
Physical Description:  More than 300 photographs - in 4 boxes.

Subjects:
Most photographs were made by Emily Spencer Hayden during years ca. 1906 through the 1940s. Most are portraits of the Hayden, Agle and Alleman families, and of family friends including Lizette Woodward Reese. There are portraits of Eliza Benson ("Mammy"), an African American woman who worked and lived with Emily Hayden’s family for many years. There are also images of family homes, including Nancy’s Fancy in Catonsville.

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Restrictions: No
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Charles Chaney Album
PP 93

Dates of Photographs: 1902
Collection History: Charles Chaney was evidently a train enthusiast, and may have been an employee of the B&O or Pennsylvania Railroad, possibly working out of New York. In the early 20th century, the choices were many for people wishing to make holiday excursions by train in the mid-Atlantic region. From Baltimore, among the available train routes were the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore (PW&B) Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad, and the Northern Central Railroad.
Accession Number: 001044
Physical Description: 1 album with 42 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Titled “Vacation Memories, Summer ‘02”, the album  documents a holiday taken by Charles Chaney in August of 1902, with scenes in Washington, D.C.,  Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Specific locations include Woodberry, Lake Roland, and Hollins in Maryland, Harper’s Ferry, W.Va., and Mt. Vernon, Va. Many of the photographs depict trains and locations accessible by train, with several specific train engines identified, and one photo depicts an old horse car.

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Restrictions: No
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Baird Montgomery County Album
PP 94

Dates of Photographs: 1907-1912
Collection History: Montgomery County, Maryland was formed as a political unit in 1776, having formerly been a district of Frederick County. Named for General Richard Montgomery, the county originally encompassed lands (including Georgetown) that later became part of the District of Columbia. The county seat was established at what later became Rockville, which took its name from Rock Creek.
Accession Number: 001225
Physical Description: 1 album with 46 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photos made in the vicinity of Montgomery County, Md. Most photographs are dated and captioned, and were numbered by the album’s creator. There are scenes of the C & O Canal at Great Falls with locks and boats, the Rockville Fair, an air field in College Park, and a hotel and race track in Marlborough. Some scenes include identified people, and there is a photo of an African American family in Montgomery Co. There are also photographs of people on holiday at Atlantic City, N.J.

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Restrictions: No
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Howard-Gilmor Collection
PP 95

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1890-1908
Collection History: Katherine Hand Browne Howard (1866-1908) was the first wife of Benjamin Chew Howard (1868-1930). The couple had a home known as “Sherwood” at Riderwood in Baltimore County.
Accession Number: 75745; transfer from Howard-Gilmor Papers.
Physical Description: 11 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Exterior and interior scenes from 1908 of the Howard family home, “Sherwood” at Riderwood,  Baltimore Co. Also portraits of Katherine Hand Browne (Howard) from ca. 1890.

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Restrictions: No
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