Harris-Brent Collection
PP 96

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1888-1955
Collection History: The Lloyd family occupied Wye House (home and farm) in Talbot Co., Maryland for many generations, starting in 1650 and continuing into the 20th century. Among the generations of Lloyd family occupants were many statesmen, soldiers, and otherwise influential figures, including  three who served as Maryland state governor.
Accession Number: 55878
Physical Description: 10 photoprints - in 1 box and in the Medium Photograph Collection.

Subjects:
Portraits of the Lloyd, Lurman, and Tilghman families. These include wedding photographs, and a large group picnic with an African American waiter.

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Restrictions: No
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Chandlee Collection
PP 97

Dates of Photographs: 1889-1909
Collection History: The Mottu family of Baltimore, headed by Theodor Mottu who operated a lumber company which was later taken over by his sons, Thomas H. and Theodore Mottu, Jr. (1872-1952), intermarried with the Chandlee family in several generations. Alexander W. Chandlee (1864-1920) married Mary A. Mottu Chandlee (1865-1938), and Frances Chandlee married Theodore Mottu, Jr. Alexander W. Chandlee also headed a  business, his in china and glassware wholesale, which was later taken over by his sons, George Mottu Chandlee (b. 1887) and Theodore Mottu Chandlee (b. 1895). In ca. 1900, both families had members living within a few blocks in the Walbrook neighborhood of Baltimore.
Accession Number: 74532
Physical Description: 20 items, including nitrate negatives and photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Studio portraits and informal snapshots of Chandlee and Mottu family members and friends. One of the studio portraits is a “multigraph”, wherein several views of the same person are imposed into one overall composition. There are scenes of tennis, boys eating watermelon at Walbrook, people with bicycles, and a football team at Baltimore City College in 1905. There are several shots of the 1904 Baltimore Fire, including some unusual ones of the fire in progress from Federal Hill across the harbor. There are also some photos made at Bradford’s Grove, which may be in Washington Co., Md.

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Restrictions: No
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Cover-Long-Deekins Collection
PP 98

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1845-1909
Collection History: Margaret Lamar Deekens Cover (d. 1986) was born in Cumberland, the daughter of Francis S. and Mary Sprigg Long Deekens. She attended Sweetbriar College in Lynchburgh, Va., and came to the Baltimore area at some point, where she and her husband lived in Owings Mills. Loring Andrews Cover, Jr. (d. 1982) was the son of Loring A. Cover (1867-1949), who was a prominent Baltimore businessman.
Accession Number: 001248
Physical Description: 6 cased photographs, 85 mounted photoprints, and 1 album with 24 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of the Cover, Deekens, Long, and Lamar families, with many locations in Allegany Co. including Cumberland and Mount Savage. There are images of the estate “Strathmoor”, and the Woodland Tennis Club in Frostburg. Other subjects include recreational activities such as tennis, bicycling, and a picnic in the Mount Savage coal mine.

 The album, from the Civil War-era, contains carte-de-visite portraits of Harry Gilmor and Robert E. Lee, as well as Long, Lamar, and Deekens family portraits.

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Restrictions: No
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Coriell-Hardy Collection
PP 99

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1845-1916
Collection History: Isaac Coriell (d. 1882) was a contractor, and Alvin Coriell (d. 1904) was a lumber merchant. Alvin married Mary Lawrence Coriell, and one of their sons was dentist Louis Duncan Coriell (1878-1953). In the 1860s, Isaac and Alvin both lived at 631 W. Lombard St. Lewis M. Bower, a butcher who lived at the same address as the Coriells in 1865, married Mary Ellen Coriell in 1862. Katherine Coriell (1875-1936) married prominent dentist George E. Hardy (1868-1931); their son George E. Hardy, Jr. (d. 1980) was also a dentist.
Accession Number: 001428
Physical Description:  28 items, including cased, framed, and uncased photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Members and friends of the Coriell and Hardy families, including Alvin and Isaac Coriell, Mary Ellen Coriell Bower, Mary Ellen Irby Hardy, George Hardy, Jr., and a “Miss Townson, governess”. There are many daguerreotypes in the collection, plus ambrotypes and tintypes.

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Restrictions: No
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Adler-Hamburger Collection
PP 100

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1870-1945
Collection History: Selma Van Leer Hamburger Adler (1898-1991), born in Baltimore to Jeannie Van Leer Hamburger (1868-1942) and Benjamin Hamburger (1864-1929), was educated at Western High School, Goucher College, and Columbia University in New York. After serving as Goucher College’s assistant registrar in the 1920s, Selma was assistant to the director of the Maryland War Commission. She married Leon Adler (1885-1980, born in Knoxville, Tenn.) in 1927.
Accession Number: 001429
Physical Description:  26 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of Adler and Hamburger family members, from ca. 1870-1945, including an 1870 portrait of Manes Hamburger and his wife. There are photographs of Camp Hancock (Ga.) and Camp Meade (Md.).

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Restrictions: No
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Old Town Merchants and
Manufacturers Association Collection
PP 101

Dates of Photographs: 1956
Collection History: The Old Town Merchants and Manufacturers Association was founded in 1883 as an organization of wholesale and retail merchants, formed to promote the interests of the Old Town section of East Baltimore along Gay Street and to deal with problems involving trade and more general civic issues.
Accession Number: 76234
Physical Description:  1 photoprint - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Group portrait of officers of the Old Town Merchants and Manufacterers Association and guests at their Annual Banquet in 1956. People are identified.

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Restrictions: No
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McGlannan Family Collection
PP 102

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1910
Collection History: Collection may depict the McGlannan family, headed by Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. McGlannan, the former a notary public with the Baltimore insurance firm of Lawford and McKim. In 1910, the family’s home was at 2005 Madison Ave. in Baltimore.
Accession Number: 000313
Physical Description:  27 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photos taken in Baltimore and Garrett County, ca. 1910. The photos may have been removed from an album. The images are not captioned, but include many informal individual and group portraits of McGlannan family members and friends in urban and park settings. There are images of people in a horse-drawn carriage, an automobile, and disembarking from a train, and of young women in graduation gowns and clowning for the camera – e.g., doing handstands or perched in a tree.

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Restrictions: No
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Evans-Perkins-Black Collection
PP 103

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860-1955
Collection History: J. Nelson Black (b. 1851), a farmer on land near the Principio Furnace in Cecil Co., Md., was prominent in social, agricultural and church circles. He married Mary G. Barnes in 1891, and the couple had two daughters, Edith C. and Mary. Members of the Evans family lived near Rising Sun in Cecil Co. at the end of the 19th century.
Accession Number: 000821
Physical Description:  17 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of Miss E. Black, Anna Tuft, Mary Alice Taylor, and John W. Perkins, as well as unidentified portraits. Some of the images are studio portraits and some are snapshots in rural or farm settings.

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Restrictions: No
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Philip H. Goodman Collection
PP 104

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1949-1965
Collection History: Philip H. Goodman (d. 1976) was a Baltimore Mayor and City Council member and a Maryland State Senator. Goodman also practiced law in Baltimore, founding the firm Goodman, Meagher and Enoch. He was married to Dickee Howard Goodman, and their son was Gilbert Goodman.
Accession Number: 001462
Physical Description: 2 albums and 6 folders, with a total of 74 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Collection documents the political career of Philip H. Goodman, Baltimore Mayor and City Council member and United States Senator, including the Dandy Fifth Democratic Organization and women participants in Goodman’s senatorial campaign. Goodman is pictured in many group, official, and ceremonial settings, with political figures and celebrities including Baltimore mayors Thomas D’Alessandro and William Donald Schaefer, Maryland governors Marvin Mandel and Theodore McKeldin, George Jessel, President John F. Kennedy, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The first album is titled “Inauguration, Philip H. Goodman as President of the City Council of Baltimore, May 21, 1959”.  The second album is titled “Hon. Philip H. Goodman, Mayor of Baltimore, Dec. 6, 1962”. Both albums contain newsclippings in addition to photographs.

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Restrictions: No
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La Paix Collection
PP 105

Dates of Photographs: [ca. 1910?]
Collection History: The house called La Paix was designed by J. Appleton Wilson for the Lawrence Turnbull family in 1885. Located on York Road near Sheppard Station in Towson (Baltimore County, Md.), La Paix was destroyed in 1964 and the site now contains St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Accession Number: 74770
Physical Description: 8 large-format photoprints (18.5 x 24 cm., mounted on boards 32 x 38 cm.).

Subjects:
Photographs made by Getz; all document La Paix, including interior and exterior views. Some images show people who are mostly identified.

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Restrictions: No
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D.R. Stiltz and Co. Views of Baltimore Collection
PP 106

Dates of Photographs: 1864
Collection History: Daniel R. Stiltz was a Baltimore photographer, with offices at various addresses on Baltimore St. in the 1850s-1860s.
Accession Number: 47453; 54446; 56611; 63566; source unknown.
Physical Description: 41 albumen carte de visite photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
A wide range of Baltimore views. Churches predominate, with some schools, public buildings, and theaters.

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Restrictions: No
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Legg Collection
PP 107

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1905-1938
Collection History: Joseph Baker Legg (1885-1940) lived at 2508 N. Calvert St. in Baltimore and worked as an adjustor with the C&P Telephone Co. by the 1920s. At some point, he began systematically documenting Baltimore buildings and sites through photography, focusing especially on residences in the center of the city which seemed destined to be destroyed.
Accession Number: 48338a; removed from manuscript and clipping collection.
Physical Description: 1093 items, including film negatives and photoprints - in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Baltimore residences, parks, monuments, churches, museums, street scenes, gardens, and public buildings. Some images are copies of earlier photographs or of prints depicting Baltimore. There are also depictions of sites in Baltimore County, Annapolis, Williamsport, and elsewhere in Maryland, and in Washington, D.C., Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Included are many houses in Baltimore, some of which are not well-documented elsewhere: Glen Ellen and many now-demolished Mt. Vernon area residences. One set of images documents a hydraulic construction process underway on University Parkway in Roland Park. There are also scenes of a 1911 ground-breaking ceremony for a Boy Scout headquarters in Mt. Washington, with many individuals identified.

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Restrictions: No
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Maryland Photographers Collection
PP 108

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and [1860s-1916?]
Collection History: Although most of the portraits in this collection are unidentified, the collection documents the institution of studio portrait photography in Maryland, and especially in Baltimore, in the last part of the 19th and in the early 20th century.
Accession Number: 002712; various sources.
Physical Description: 61 photoprints - in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Mainly studio portraits of unidentified subjects made by photographers in Maryland, mostly in Baltimore, although there are a few photographs from outside Maryland, and a few non-portrait images by Aubrey Pearre. Most of the photographs are mounted on cards imprinted with the photographer’s or studio’s name and address.

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Restrictions: No
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Agnes Susan Jay Collection
PP 109

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and ca. 1880s
Collection History: Located on Mount Royal Avenue near Aberdeen in Harford County (Md.), the Swansbury estate (also known as Swan Creek) has been in the possession of the Griffith-Smith-Lee-Jay family since ca. 1750.
Accession Number: 62920
Physical Description: 1 album and 3 folders with 45 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Studio portraits, made primarily by photographers in Baltimore, but also Philadelphia, Paris, Brooklyn, Indianapolis, San Diego, San Francisco, and elsewhere. Subjects are mostly unidentified men, women, children; they are family and friends of the Jay family, whose home was at “Swansbury” in Harford County, Maryland.

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Restrictions: No
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Fowler Collection
PP 110

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1860s
Collection History: Henry Oliver Thompson (1865-1937) and Charlotte de M. Thompson were the children of Henry Fenwick Thompson (1830-1910) and Margaret Sprigg Oliver Thompson. The family lived at 78 W. Monument St. in Baltimore during the 1860s. Henry Fenwick Thompson was a non-practicing attorney and art connoisseur who made frequent trips to Europe for research in art and history archives.
Accession Number: 64574
Physical Description: 27 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Studio portrait cartes de visite, one of which has color added. Most of the photographs are unidentified and undated, although a few have dates in the 1860s. The subjects are men, women and children who are formally and often elaborately attired; the children depicted may be Henry Oliver and Charlotte de M. Thompson. Some of the portraits were made by photographers in Paris and London, as well as Baltimore.

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Restrictions: No
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Collection
PP 111

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900-1925
Collection History: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began operation in 1827, and would soon transport passengers from Mt. Clare, Mt. Royal and Camden Stations in Baltimore to destinations in New York, Washington, Cumberland, Cleveland, Chicago, and St. Louis. After the Civil War, the railroad wished to increase ridership by capitalizing on the scenic beauty of its routes, developing a system of restaurants and hotels along the routes to provide enjoyable resting points or holiday destinations, including the Deer Park Hotel which opened in 1873 near Oakland in Garrett County, Md.
Accession Number: 001228
Physical Description: 26 items: photoprints and glass plate negatives - prints housed in 1 box.

Subjects:
Victorian houses and hotels in the vicinity of Oakland, Maryland (Garrett County), including the Deer Park Hotel in Deer Park. Interior and exterior views.

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Restrictions: No
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Robert Vogel Glass Plate Negatives Collection
PP 112

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1895
Collection History: Unknown
Accession Number: 001229
Physical Description: 12 glass plate negatives.

Subjects:
Images are only generally identified. Several views are in Baltimore, including the Druid Hill Park boat house and a crowd at Mt. Vernon Place. There is one image of an elderly African-American woman on the Patuxent River in St. Mary’s County, Md. Others depict maritime scenes which may be in Maryland.

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Restrictions: No
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William Carter Collection
PP 115

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900-1917
Collection History: William M. Carter (1880-ca. 1917) was most likely the son of Hiram and Mary Carter, the former 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: 001728
Physical Description: 1106 items, including 2 albums - in 2 boxes.

Subjects:
Most of the photographs are thought to have been made by William M. Carter in ca. 1900-1917. Primary subjects are Baltimore scenes: buildings (houses, stores, churches, schools, and other public buildings), construction and destruction in the city, bridges, night and winter scenes, landscapes and seascapes, animals, parks (Druid Hill, Patterson, River View, and others), railroads, festivals and sporting events. There are also many unidentified portraits of groups and individuals, including children. Another set of photoprints are studio portraits of unidentified men, women and children.

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Restrictions: No
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Warner-Wright-Thom Collection
PP 116

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1845-1858
Collection History: The Warner, Wright, and Thom families of Maryland were residents of Baltimore City and Queen Anne’s County. Among them were lawyers, doctors, financiers, and political figures including senators and governors. Ella Lea Wright Thom (1837-1861) was the daughter of Eliza Lea Warner Wright (1800-1864) and William Henry DeCourcy Wright (1795-1864). Ella married Dr. Joseph Pembroke Thom (1828-1899) in 1857, and their son W.H. DeCourcy Wright Thom (1858-1932) was born the following year; a second son was born in 1861.
Accession Number: 001736
Physical Description: 10 cased photographs, housed in the Cased Photographs Collection.

Subjects:
Portraits (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes) of Warner, Wright, and Thom families, including Mary Lea Warner, Clintonia Wright (May Thomas), Eliza Lea Warner Wright, William Henry DeCourcy Wright, Ella Lea Wright Thom, and DeCourcy Wright Thom. There are also several portraits of unidentified men.

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Restrictions: No
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Henry Keidel Collection
PP 117

Dates of Photographs: 1908-1942
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: 001822
Physical Description: 8 photoprints - in 1 box and in the Medium Photographs Collection.

Subjects:
Portraits of Henry Keidel and other individuals, including a group photograph of the staff of Henry Keidel and Co. There are also scenes in Dickeyville and Hillsdale, and several unidentified buildings.

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Restrictions: No
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Canton Improvement Association Collection
PP 118

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1973-1985
Collection History:  The Canton region of Baltimore city is along the harbor in the southeastern part of the city. The Canton Improvement Association was incorporated in 1970, promoting quality of life for Canton residents and providing leadership for activism on many issues.
Accession Number: 001820
Physical Description: 112 items, mostly photoprints with some negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The photoprints include color and polaroid snapshots and larger format b/w photoprints mounted on boards. Subjects are mostly unidentified, but include residential and industrial views in the Canton area.

Neighborhood events (some apparently sponsored by the Canton Improvement Association), including a 1978 Canton Day Parade attended by Barbara Mikulski, a 1979 event attended by Mayor William Donald Schaefer, a demonstration in support of the Lemko Towers senior citizen residence, and the development of a park space at the corner of O’Donnell St. and S. Decker Ave.

Specific structures include Canton Methodist Church, St. Brigid’s 2nd Church, Canton Evangelical, and the Enoch Pratt Free Library branch at Ellwood and O’Donnell Sts. Other images include Canton homes and businesses, recreation facilities, industrial apparatus, and decrepit sites and structures.

Canton residents are sometimes identified, usually by first name only; those identified include Tom Canole, Ken Moore, and Tom Hopes.

There are a few images of streets in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.).

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Restrictions: No
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Francis E. Old, Jr. Collection
PP 119

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1930-1940
Collection History: Francis E. Old, Jr. (fl. ca. 1930-1985) was a book editor who worked for the Williams and Wilkins publishing company in Baltimore. In the 1930s, Old photographed Baltimore city sites which he felt were “in danger of razing or of natural disintegration because of age and lack of care” (according to Dorothy Old, from a 1987 letter to the Maryland Historical Society).
Accession Number: 001811
Physical Description: 71 items: photoprints and film negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Streets and buildings in Baltimore city. The sites and structures run the gamut from fine townhomes such as the McKim House and the Carroll Mansion to the tiniest of Baltimore rowhomes in alleys like Born Court. There are some distinctive aerial photographs of streets and buildings in the downtown business district.

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Restrictions: No
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Denton (Maryland) Photo Collection
PP 120

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1906
Collection History: The town of Denton on the east side of the Choptank River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was originally named “Edenton” for Sir Robert Eden, proprietary Governor of Maryland in 1769-1774; the “E” was dropped after the Revolution, when Governor Eden left Maryland for England. Denton was established as county seat of Caroline County in the early 1790s.
Accession Number: 001960
Physical Description:  20 photoprints including 1 album - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made by Leroy Francis Smith depicting buildings and scenes in and around Denton in Caroline County, Md. There are rural streets with horse-drawn carriages, a court house, businesses such as a hardware store and a bank, a prison, bridges and trains, and boats including the steam boats Avalon and Joppa.

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Restrictions: No
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DeCourcy Wright Thom Collection
PP 121

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1892-1901
Collection History: DeCourcy Wright Thom (1858-1932) was the son of Ella Lea Wright and Dr. Joseph Pembroke Thom. In 1885, he married Mary Pleasants Gordon Thom (d. 1892) and the family’s home was at 1208 N. Charles St. in  Baltimore City, where Joseph Thom worked as a banker and broker. In the 1860s, a house at 14 E. Franklin St. in Baltimore City became the home of Mary Thom’s parents, Douglas Hamilton Gordon (1817-1883) and Anne Eliza Pleasants Gordon (1836-1901).
Accession Number: 001961; 76698
Physical Description: 2 albums and 19 folders, with at total of 86 photoprints - in 3 boxes.

Subjects:
Exterior and interior views of the Thom family home at 1208 N. Charles St., and of the Gordon family home at 14 E. Franklin St., both in Baltimore. The interior views are excellent examples of eclectic high style décor including furnishings, decorative objects, and wall and window treatments. One image depicts a children’s bedroom with toys, and there is an overview of the 1200 block of N. Charles St.

There are also portraits of family members, including Douglas Hamilton Gordon and Anne Eliza Pleasants Gordon, with many unidentified individuals including children.

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Restrictions: No
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John McCormick Collection
PP 122

Dates of Photographs: 1927-1964
Collection History: John McCormick was a Baltimore illustrator who worked for more than 33 years on The Baltimore News-Post and American. In addition to cartoon style drawings for newspaper publications, he also worked in the court system, and created composite drawings of crime suspects for the Police Department.
Accession Number: 002007
Physical Description: 9 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
All photographs show John McCormick; in most he is working on a sketch, either from observation or from a description given to him by another person, as at a crime scene. There is one image of McCormick doing a drawing demonstration at the Maryland Institute.

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Restrictions: No
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Paul Parrot Album
PP 123

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1925-1926
Collection History: The creator of this album was Paul Parrot (1898-1981), a French-Canadian medical doctor who came to Baltimore in ca. 1925-1927 to study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where his studies apparently focused on water purification. Returning to Canada, where his home was in Sillery, Quebec, Dr. Parrot was named Registrar General of the Province of Quebec, a post he held for 37 years.
Accession Number: 001224
Physical Description:  1 album with ca. 500 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made and album assembled by Dr. Paul Parrot. Many of the photographs depict students and activities at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, some showing group visits to water purification and sewage treatment facilities in the region of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Most of the people are identified by name, and nationality is indicated in some group portraits of students.

Baltimore views include downtown streets, the Anneslie development on York Road, Federal Hill, Fort McHenry, Druid Hill, Patterson, and Clifton Parks, views from the Washington Monument, and buildings of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Other locations documented include New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Syracuse and Ithaca, N.Y., Boston, Alabama, Ohio, and Niagara Falls. Parrot often photographed water supply facilities and dams in places visited in addition to traditional landmarks – buildings, parks, schools and monuments.

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Restrictions: No
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E. Tilghman Earle Collection
PP 124

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1900-1941 (bulk ca. 1940-1941)
Collection History: There is no information about who made the present collection of photographs, or when or for what purpose. The donor’s mother, Leola Earle, had the photographs in her possession, but it is not clear whether she made or collected them. Among the subjects of the collection is Elizabeth Bellis (d. 1903), one of the founders of the Empty Stocking Club, who was married to Frederick Dorton. Their son was Frederick Babcock Dorton, former husband of Elizabeth Tilghman Earle.
Accession Number: 002036
Physical Description:  78 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Mainly buildings in and around Baltimore, with some from Baltimore County and Annapolis. Included buildings are museums, schools, churches, hospitals, monuments, theaters, and service stations.

There are a few identified portraits, including Elizabeth Bellis Dorton (Mrs. Frederick), ca. 1900, and Leola M. and Elizabeth Earle with George Nyce in Washington, D.C., ca. 1925.

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Restrictions: No
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Wilson Family Collection
PP 125

Dates of Photographs: 1881-1897
Collection History: Robert T. Wilson (1860-1919) and his wife Mabel Chunn Wilson (d. 1951) lived in Baltimore, where Robert was a physician in practice with his father Dr. Henry P.C. Wilson (1827-1897). Robert’s siblings included Henrietta (Etta) Chauncey Wilson (Whiteley), Henry Parke Custis Wilson, William Griffith Wilson, Alicia Brewer Wilson (Barber), and Emily Brewer Wilson (Waters).
Accession Number: 74517
Physical Description: 8 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Primarily studio portraits from Baltimore photographers, with a few less formal outdoor portraits. The subjects are family and friends of Dr. Robert T. Wilson and his sister, Etta Wilson Whiteley.

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Restrictions: No
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Baden Collection
PP 126

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and 1870-1955
Collection History:  Baltimore businessman Richard Thompson Baden (1868-1940) married Elinor Williams Robertson Baden (1869-1949) in 1895, and they had 1 daughter. Richard Baden organized the Holland, Baden & Ramsey company in 1916, and was active in the Association of Credit Men. The relationship of the Badens to the Nuttle family is not known, but the Nuttles were from Denton, Md. Elbert Ray Nuttle (1884-1939) worked at the American Bonding Co. (later the Fidelity & Deposit Co.) in Baltimore starting in 1910. Married to Margaretta Pyles Nuttle (d. 1979), they had 4 sons.
Accession Number: 002069
Physical Description: 107 photographs, including negatives, ambrotypes, tintypes, and platinum prints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Many of the images are unidentified or only partially identified, and few are dated. The subjects are portraits of Richard T. Baden, his wife Elinor Williams Robertson Baden and his daughter Elinor Robertson Baden, as well as group portraits including Richard Baden in business settings.

Unidentified and partly identified portraits include members of the Nuttle and Baden families.

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Restrictions: No
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Views of Alexandroffsky and The Crimea Album
PP 127

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1875
Collection History:  Alexandroffsky was the residence built in 1853 by railroad machinist Thomas DeKay Winans (1820-1878) on W. Baltimore St. at Fremont Ave. in Baltimore City, razed in 1928. The Crimea was Winans’ country house, overlooking Franklintown Rd. from Leakin Park. Built shortly before the Civil War, Crimea and surrounding property became city-owned park land in the 1940s.
Accession Number: 51271
Physical Description: 1 leather and gilt-tooled album with 17 photographs.

Subjects:
All images depict Winans’ estates Alexandroffsky and The Crimea, ca. 1875. Alexandroffsky views include the house, conservatory, gardens, gazebo, statuary, pond and fountain, varied plant materials, greenhouse, and an image showing African American men working with scythes on the grounds. Views of the Crimea include the house, grounds, springhouse, and waterwheel. There is also a reproduction of a painting showing the “Cigar Boat”, an invention of Thomas, William, and Ross Winans.

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Restrictions: No
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Tolchester Photograph Collection
PP 128

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1883-1925
Collection History: With the advent of steamship routes on the Chesapeake Bay, Tolchester Beach in Kent Co., Md. became a favorite destination for Baltimoreans, 27 miles across the bay. After the 1880s, improvements were made to the park, and eventually there were hotels, restaurants, and facilities for games, picnics, horse-racing, etc. The Tolchester Steamboat Company, incorporated in 1878, ran excursion steamships to Tolchester Beach from Pier 15 at Light Street in Baltimore.
Accession Number: 001232
Physical Description: 75 photoprints - in 2 boxes and in the Large Photographs Collection.

Subjects:
Tolchester Beach in Kent County, Md., including views of the beach, parks, amusements, and hotels, with excursion steamships of the Tolchester Steamboat Company on the Chesapeake Bay including Louise, Susquehanna, and Express. There are views of a flood and damage from a storm at Tolchester Park ca. 1915.

There are also 9 photos of rallies at Mt. Vernon Place in Baltimore, ca. 1917 (some are dated). Several depict a ground-breaking ceremony for the Lafayette monument, attended by French Marshall Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre and Baltimore Mayor James H. Preston.

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Restrictions: No
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Mahrenholz Baltimore-German Theater Collection
PP 129

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1938-1939
Collection History: The Deutscher Ring (German Circle) was an organization of German-American clubs in Baltimore, housed at Lehmann Hall on Howard St. and later at Deutsches Haus at Cathedral and Preston Sts. Johanna (Hannchen) M. Mahrenholz emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1913. Her husband was Otto Mahrenholz who worked as a commercial artist and lithographer. Both were involved in theatrical productions of the Deutcher Theater-Verein, a Deutscher Ring-affiliated group.
Accession Number: 001465
Physical Description:  5 photographs - in 1 box, with related scrapbook materials.

Subjects:
Most photographs were made by Eduard Althausen and are captioned to identify people in the scenes. The images are portraits of theatrical groups at the Deutscher Theater-Verein (ca. 1938), a silver wedding anniversary party of Hannchen and Otto  Mahrenholz (1938) and a New Year’s party (1938-1939) at the Deutsches Haus.

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Restrictions: No
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Gooden Family, Mt. Vernon Motor Co. Collection
PP 131

Dates of Photographs: 1907-1930
Collection History: The Mount Vernon Motor Company was one of several automotive businesses owned and operated by Benjamin Franklin Gooden (d. 1944) in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore ca. 1907-1935. Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth Gooden (d. 1963) had four children: C. Freeman (b. 1905), Elizabeth (b. 1907), Lillian (b. 1908), and Benjamin, Jr.
Accession Number: 001478
Physical Description: 13 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Automobiles connected with the Mount Vernon Motor Company, which are identified as to make and characteristics. Some of the vehicles were involved in a 50 mile State Championship auto race at Electric Park in 1907. There is an interior view of the Central Tire Service store. There are also pictures of the Gooden family driving automobiles, including a 1919 road trip to the beach.

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Restrictions: No
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Gover Family Collection
PP 132

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860-1907
Collection History: People by the name of Gover lived in Harford County, Md. dating back to the 1700s, and many were there throughout the 19th century, so it is difficult to accurately place the people depicted in this collection. Some of the Govers had ties to Baltimore.
Accession Number: 001480
Physical Description: 10 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Gover family and friends, mainly studio portraits, some with props. The portraits are all in carte de visite format, including tintypes and albumen prints. There is one photograph of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad station in Belair, 1907.

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Restrictions: No
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Olmstead Collection
PP 133

Dates of Photographs: 1914-1915
Collection History: According to the 1914 publication Industrial Survey of Baltimore, the Baltimore food packing industries were growing rapidly in the few years just prior. The R. E. Roberts Company, Inc., located at the foot of Fell Street, processed and packed oysters. The survey states that in 1914 there was one concern in town engaged in clarifying and packing olive oil, which may have been the Pompeian Olive Oil Company.
Accession Number: 76025
Physical Description: 15 photographs

Subjects:
Early 20th century food industries in Baltimore city, including scenes of workers processing and canning oysters at the R. E. Roberts company, workers processing spinach, and storage apparatus in the Pompeian Olive Oil Company album with workers dispensing oil into containers. At several of these sites, inspections are underway by U.S. Department of Agriculture Pure Food Inspector John F. Earnshaw. All photographs are captioned “U.S.D.A. photo by A. J. Olmstead” and dated; some have subject identification.

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Restrictions: No
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Baltimore Sesquicentennial Celebration Collection
PP 135

Dates of Photographs: 1880
Collection History: The Baltimore Sesquicentennial, celebrated October 11-19, 1880, marked the 150th anniversary of the city’s founding in 1730 with festivities including oration, tableaux, meetings, music, five days of parades, the illumination of the city, and pyrotechnic displays.
Accession Number:
Physical Description: 40 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Baltimore Sesquicentennial celebration in 1880: views are primarily Baltimore city streets, with monuments, hotels, stores, and business establishments decorated for the event. There are some group portraits and views of parades including floats. Many of the photographs are mounted onto board, and are captioned and dated on the margin, identifying street locations and landmarks. Unmounted photographs are not captioned or dated.

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Restrictions: No
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Liberty Housing Company, Dundalk Collection
PP137

Dates of Photographs: 1918
Collection History:  Dundalk was the first planned community in Baltimore County. The St. Helena section of Dundalk was marketed by the Liberty Housing Company, with houses designed by Baltimore architect Edward L. Palmer, Jr. in conjunction with Edward Henry Bouton, the developer of Roland Park in Baltimore city.
Accession Number: 73623
Physical Description: 17 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Construction by the Dundalk Company in 1918, showing several stages of housing construction in the St. Helena section of Dundalk. Workers are shown, including African Americans. All photos are captioned within the image with date and location.

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Restrictions: No
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Wier-Wayland Family Collection
PP 138

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860-1960 (bulk 1880s-1920's)
Collection History: Robert Wier (b. ca. 1846) married Sarah Frances (Fannie) Cushing in Baltimore in 1872. Their daughter Edith (b. 1873) married Martin Houseworth Wayland of Orange, Va. in 1897, and their son was Robert Wier Wayland (b. 1898). The Cushings were an old Baltimore family, several members of which were stationers and booksellers during the 19th century.
Accession Number: 002408; 002699; 002703; 002939
Physical Description: 465 photographs, including 5 albums, nitrate negatives, tintypes, and an ivorytype - in 5 boxes.

Subjects:
Mainly formal studio portraits of Johnson, Cushing, Wier, and Wayland family members, along with informal portraits, some in outdoor settings in Baltimore and Tolchester, Md.. Some photographs depict the Hom family and other Chinese Americans. There are also photographs of Robert Wier Wayland as a child on scout camping trips.

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Restrictions: No
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Halethorpe Air Meet Collection
PP 139

Dates of Photographs: 1910
Collection History: The air meet held at Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Maryland in November 1910 featured aviators Hubert Latham, Count Jacques de Lesseps, Charles Willard, J. Armstrong Drexel (Doescel?), Eugene Ely, Arch Hoxsey, and James Radley. Featured planes included Latham’s Antoinette, plus examples of the Bleriot monoplane and Wright biplane.
Accession Number: 002720
Physical Description: 21 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Aircraft and pilots taking part in the November 1910 Air Meet at Halethorpe in Baltimore County. There are portraits of aviators who participated in the meet, including Hubert Latham, Arch Hoxsey, Eugene Ely, Count Jacques de Lesseps, and James Radley. Planes are also documented, including Latham’s Antoinette and Bleriot monoplanes and the Wright Biplane.

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Restrictions: No
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Tickner Funeral Home Collection
PP 140

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1880-1942
Collection History: The Wm. J. Tickner and Sons funeral home began operation in 1878, founded by William J. Tickner (1839-1928). The establishment was located variously on S. Eutaw and N. Gilmor Streets, later moving to North and Pennsylvania Avenues.
Accession Number: 002717
Physical Description:  49 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
William J. Tickner and Sons funeral home at various points in its existence. Included are views of activities, personnel, interior and exterior views of the establishment. These show stylish furnishings, hearses, a garage with hacks for hire, and a coffin showroom.

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Restrictions: No
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