Dates of Photographs: 1871-1901 and n.d.
Collection History: The Merchants’ Exchange in Baltimore was located at the southwest corner of Gay and Water Streets. Designed by Benjamin Latrobe in collaboration with Maximilien Godefroy, the building was constructed in ca. 1815-1820, and demolished in ca. 1901-1902.
Accession Number: Various.
Physical Description: 22 photographs including 1 nitrate negative - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Exterior views of the Merchants’ Exchange building in Baltimore; many images depict the building’s demolition in ca. 1901-1902. Two images from the 1870s may be copies of earlier photographs. There are also two copies of drawings or prints, one of which may date to 1817.

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Restrictions: No
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Dates of Photographs: [ca. 1867-1870?]
Collection History: One event depicted in this collection may be the sailing of the John T. Ford in June 1867, which drew thousands of spectators to the wharves along South, Pratt and Light Streets in Baltimore. The steamship Juniata is also depicted; built in 1849 for the Baltimore and Susquehanna Steam Company, Juniata ran to the Susquehanna River on a daily schedule in the 1850s-1870s, departing from West Falls Avenue in the Baltimore harbor.
Accession Number:
Physical Description: 6 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photoprints are attached to a single board, with the caption “Views in the harbor of Baltimore Md.”.  Although undated, the photographs are thought to have originated in the late 1860s to 1870, and may originally have been stereoviews. Subjects include the steamboat Juniata; views of crowds at the wharves, possibly on the occasion of the sailing of the John T. Ford in 1867; a view of the harbor from Federal Hill; and views of unidentified sail boats in the harbor.

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Restrictions: No
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Clarence Beckett-Maryland National Guard
Aerial Photo Collection
PP 144

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1935-1940
Collection History: In March 1936, widespread flooding along streams and rivers affected towns in Western Maryland and West Virginia. Maryland National Guard personnel of the 104th Photo Section of the 29th Division Aviation departed from Logan Field to photograph the area and observe conditions. Among the crew was Master Sergeant Clarence Beckett, who made the photographs in this collection.
Accession Number: 002947; 002948
Physical Description: 17 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photos by Clarence Beckett of the Maryland National Guard 104th Photo Section of the 29th Division Aviation: aerial views of Maryland, including the inner harbor and downtown Baltimore, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and Fort McHenry. There are many aerial views of sites affected by flooding along the Potomac River in March 1936, including Hancock, Big Pool, Williamsport, and Point of Rocks, Maryland.

Some images show planes including a Pan American Airlines x14714 plane, a Martin 130 series seaplane and prototype of the “China Clipper” used by Pan Am. There are also pictures of an unidentified monoplane after crashing in a field in August 1940.

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Restrictions: No
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Rokos Family Czech-American Collection
PP 145

Dates of Photographs: ca. late 1880s-1960
Collection History: Joseph Klecka (d. 1926) was among the first Czech immigrants to Maryland. Married to Marie Hranicka Klecka (d. 1913), he owned a saloon in the Bohemian section of Baltimore which was centered along Broadway from roughly Monument to Preston Streets. Klecka was a founder of the “Slavie” Savings and Loan Association, and started a political dynasty from the 7th Ward of Baltimore City.  One of Klecka's daughters, Marie “Mamie” Klecka Rokos (1893-1982), married Gustav L. Rokos (d. 1926), a bakery owner.
Accession Number: 003228
Physical Description: 39 photographs - in 1 box and in the Medium Photographs Collection.

Subjects:
The photographs document the Czech community in East Baltimore, especially the Rokos and Klecka families. Subjects include a grocery store and a saloon, family portraits and wedding photographs, and views of funeral processions and people lying in state. There are several views of the Sokol Hall at Preston and Gay Sts., a portrait of young women in the Sokol Organization, and a 7th Ward picnic at a park in Dundalk.

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Restrictions: No
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Bosley-Kimbrel Family Collection
PP 146

Dates of Photographs: 1870 and 1920-1970
Collection History: The lineage of the Bosley family starts in Maryland with immigrant Walter  Bosley (1675-1715). One of his descendants was Martha Emily Bosley (1856-1934), who married Robert Alexander Kimbrel (1853-1906) in ca. 1876. At some point, the Bosley and Dimmitt families were linked by marriage. Beal Dimmitt was the third son of William Dimmitt (d. 1805, Baltimore Co.).
Accession Number: 001223
Physical Description:  7 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Portraits of the family of Robert Alexander Kimbrel and Martha Emily Bosley Kimbrel, made in 1870 and 1920-1934. There are also photographs made in 1952-1970 of Dimmitt family gravestones in Baltimore, and in Kentucky and Ohio.

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Restrictions: No
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Philip B. Perlman Collection
PP 147

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1917-1952
Collection History: Baltimore native Philip B. Perlman (1890-1960) began many years of public service in ca. 1917. He first worked as an assistant in the State Law Department, became Assistant Maryland Attorney General in 1918, and was appointed Secretary of State by Gov. Ritchie in 1919. In the 1920s, Perlman became City Solicitor of Baltimore, established a private law practice, and advised on city and state commissions into the 1940s. Moving to national politics, Perlman became U.S. Solicitor General from 1947-1952 under President Harry Truman.
Accession Number: 003483; 003511
Physical Description:  11 photographs - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Individual and group portraits including Philip B. Perlman, H.L. Mencken, Governor Albert C. Ritchie, Adjutant General Henry M. Warfield, Senator George L. Radcliffe, Emerson C. Harrington, Adlai Stevenson, and President Harry S. Truman with his Commission on Immigration and Naturalization. Several of the photographs were taken at the Governor Ritchie’s 1920 inauguration. Some are autographed.

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Restrictions: No
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Evergreen-Red Cross Institute for the Blind Collection
PP 148

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1918-1920
Collection History: The Red Cross Institute for the Blind was organized in 1917 to cooperate with General Hospital No. 7 and the Federal Board for Vocational Education in the rehabilitation of military personnel who became vision-impaired during service. Located on Cold Spring Lane between Charles Street and York Rd. in north Baltimore, the Institute trained men in general and work skills adapted to their visual impairment.
Accession Number: 002812
Physical Description:  70 photoprints mounted on cloth - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs made by the Hughes Company; some of them were printed in the menu/program for a dinner honoring Sir Arthur Pearson on Jan. 16, 1919. All photos have captions.

Soldiers at the Red Cross Institute for the Blind learning various skills: typewriting, braille reading, and work skills such as dictaphone, book binding, machining, vulcanizing, agriculture, salesmanship, and massage. There are also photographs of recreational activities: music, dancing, basket-making, swimming, bowling.

Many soldiers are depicted, but not identified, including African American soldiers. Administrators of the Institute are depicted, including founder Col. Bordley and director Lawrence W. Wallace. Photographs of visiting dignitaries include Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Helen Keller, General John J. Pershing, and Captain Delveaux of the Belgian Institute for Blind Soldiers.

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Restrictions: No
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Clara Lips Collection
PP 149

Dates of Photographs: 1898-1902
Collection History: Clara Lips was the daughter of Theodore Francis Lips (d. 1927) and Mary L. Lips. In 1898, the family lived in the West Arlington section of Baltimore. One location documented is the Old Franklin (or Franklintown Rd.) leading from west Baltimore to Franklintown at the western edge of present-day Leakin Park, following the course of Gwynn’s Falls.
Accession Number: 003515
Physical Description: 1 album with 64 photographs.

Subjects:
 The album is inscribed on front cover: “To Clara / from A.J. Laciar / Xmas 1900”. Images in Baltimore include several monuments and Druid Hill Park, with scenes of Silver Spring Road and Garrett’s Bridge. Scenes in the Baltimore vicinity include Lake Roland and Loch Raven, a ravine at Stevenson, Md., and views of the Old Annapolis and Old Franklin Roads.

Many photographs depict people, who are unidentified. These include several groups of African American women and children and an image of Spanish Prisoners captured in the course of the Spanish American War. There are also several photos of buildings in Washington, D.C., both government buildings and businesses illuminated for the inauguration of President McKinley, 1901.

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Restrictions: No
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Harry E. Elgert Collection
PP 150

Dates of Photographs: 1901-ca. 1925
Collection History: Harry Edward Elgert (1880-1965) was a Baltimore businessman who worked with J.A. Manger and Co. for over 60 years and was active with the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce. In 1901 Elgert married Sophia Elizabeth Krumrein (d. 1947) and they had 4 daughters, living in the Beverly Hills section of north Baltimore.
Accession Number: 003576
Physical Description: 5 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
All photographs depict members of the family of Harry and Sophia Elgert of Baltimore. Several of the photographs are matte collodian prints, toned with platinum.

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Restrictions: No
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Gail-Hinrichs Family Collection
PP 152

Dates of Photographs: 1890-ca. 1952
Collection History:
The Gail and Hinrichs families were related and had homes on the same block in north Baltimore ca. 1890-1910. The G.W. Gail mansion was on Eutaw Place and the Hinrichs’ home was on Linden Ave., in the block between Ducatel and Whitelock Streets. Ella and John E. Hinrichs headed the Hinrichs family in 1900. Ella’s parents were George Wilhelm Gail (b. 1828, Giessen, Germany) and Mary Sophie Felgner (b. 1837, Baltimore). G.W. Gail was a principal in the Gail and Ax Tobacco Company.
Accession Number: 003716
Physical Description: 27 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
The subjects are Hinrichs and Gail family members, and scenes of their homes in north Baltimore. There are photos of the Hinrichs home on Linden Ave., the Gail family mansion on Eutaw Place and a residence in Roland Park. There is a photograph of children with a play house and one of adults on bicycles. There is also a group portrait of a 40th class reunion of Johns Hopkins University, ca. 1952.

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Van Lear-Black Collection
PP 153

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1925-1930
Collection History: Van Lear Black (1875-1930) was a Baltimore banker and businessman turned civil aviation pioneer. From 1915 until his death, he was chairman of the board of the A.S. Abell Company, Sunpapers publishers.  In 1927, Black undertook a plane journey around the world to prove the viability of civil air flight, with a Fokker plane chartered from the Royal Dutch Airline, K.L.M., completing the first intercontinental flights of such length for purely civilian purposes.
Accession Number: 003717
Physical Description: 34 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Black’s plane and boat travels, including maps of his air route London-South Africa-Japan. There are photographs of him and his crew with the Fokker aircraft and at sites in Europe, Asia and Africa including the Acropolis in Greece, pyramids of Egypt, Rhodesia and Siam. There are pictures of the Dinka tribe in the Sudan, Africa.

Other travel documents include photographs of ships and aircraft: the maiden voyage of Japanese cruise ship Tatsuta Maru, the Maryland Free State airplane and wreck, and the yacht Sabola. There is also a also pictures of Black and his wife Ida Perry Black in Eskimo clothing given them by Richard E. Bird.

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Restrictions: No
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U. S. Naval Academy Collection
PP 154

Dates of Photographs: 1892
Collection History: The United States Naval Academy, known originally as the Naval School, was established in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. George Bancroft in Annapolis, Md. at the site of Fort Severn.
Accession Number: 002812
Physical Description: 24 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Images are said to be made by Frances Benjamin Johnston; all depict the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Included are images of the Yard and entrance gate, midshipmen aboard practice ships and in dress parade, the Episcopal Chapel, various campus facilities including living quarters, and landmarks such as the Tripoli Monument.

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Restrictions: No
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County Courthouse Photograph Collection
PP 155

Dates of Photographs: 1954
Collection History: The courthouses of Maryland were built in various architectural styles. The buildings are are frequently sited in prominent locations in public squares within the county seat. Queen Anne’s County has the oldest courthouse still in use in the state, in use since 1792.
Accession Number: 003203
Physical Description: 2 albums with 33 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs depict 22 county courthouses in Maryland; all are captioned on the verso with county or town (or both), and some also provide a judge’s name. Albums are soft-cover “King-Pak” booklets from the Read Drug and Chemical Company of Baltimore (“Read’s).

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Restrictions: No
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Grove Hill Collection
PP 156

Dates of Photographs: [ca. 1890]
Collection History:  Grove Hill, originally a farm located on the old Brighton Rd., is on present-day New Hampshire Avenue in Brinklow, near Sandy Spring in Montgomery Co., Md. The main house was built by Thomas Tyson and his wife, Mary Ellicott Tyson after they acquired the property in 1836, and presently incorporates buildings and additions from various eras, including log cabins from the late 1700s.
Accession Number: 74916
Physical Description: 15 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Photographs thought to originate ca. 1890, and may depict the property known as Grove Hill in Montgomery Co., Md. Images of grounds and buildings, including a clapboard house and outbuildings. Images of people near the house, including an African American family and domestic workers. Other subjects include a horse and carriage and a wooden dam on a stream.

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Restrictions: No
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Nitrate Negative Collection
PP 158

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and ca. 1910
Collection History: The Nitrate Negative Collection was assembled from various sources, one of which is a set of photographs which were probably issued as photo-postcards in ca. 1910.
Accession Number:
Physical Description: 884 nitrate negatives.

Subjects:
In-depth documentation of Baltimore City and the following Maryland counties: Baltimore, Worcester, Anne Arundel, Calvert, Prince George’s, Frederick, Harford, Allegheny, Cecil, Howard, Somerset, and Talbot. Included are many main street views and residental or business settings, as well as churches, parks, monuments, historic houses, schools, military bases, hotels and restaurants, and waterfront scenes showing bridges, boats, fishing, and bathing beaches. The coverage is especially strong for Ocean City, Md. in Worcester Co.

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Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home Collection
PP 159

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1861-1900
Collection History: The facility that became the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers’ Home in Pikesville (Baltimore Co., Md.) dates back to 1818, when it was a Federal Arsenal. In 1888 it was converted into a residence for soldiers who served the Confederacy during the Civil War, remaining in operation until 1932.
Accession Number: 002809; 003964
Physical Description: 22 photoprints - in 1 box, with large-format photoprints stored separately.

Subjects:
Facilities and residents of the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers’ Home in Pikesville (Baltimore Co.).

Portraits of individual Confederate officers include William H. Murray, Franklin Buchanan, Josiah Tatnall, Harry Gilmor, Isaac R. Trimble, Wade Hampton, and Bradley T. Johnson. There are group portraits of C.S.A. regiment reunions and other outings.

Other images include: memorabilia in a relic room (“Confederate Bazaar”), a horse-drawn covered carriage with driver, wheel chairs, a carriage house, the Confederate Monument in Loudon Park Cemetery (Baltimore, Md.), and the 2nd Maryland Infantry C.S.A. Monument on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg Battlefield (Penn.).

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Restrictions: No
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Edward S. Clark/Sailing Craft of the
Chesapeake Bay Collection
PP 160

Dates of Photographs: n.d. and ca. 1941
Collection History: The creator of this collection was Baltimore native Edward Story Clark (1894-1952) who worked in shipping in Baltimore and elsewhere and was active in the Maritime Museum of the Maryland Historical Society. His study of Chesapeake Bay sailing craft documents the large number and variety of small sailing vessels employed in the region.
Accession Number: 54401
Physical Description:  2 albums with 72 photoprints along with scrapbook materials - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Various sailing craft on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, including bugeyes, scow-sloops, pungies, flatties, schooners, ram schooners, skipjacks, and log-canoes. Captions for most of the vessels include a date and geographic location where the vessel was built. The craft are depicted under sail, in dry dock, and at docks. Maryland locations depicted include Baltimore’s harbor, Curtis Bay, Cambridge, St. Michaels, Georgetown, Oxford, and Crisfield.

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American Colonization Society/ Liberia Collection
PP 161

Dates of Photographs: [1860s?]
Collection History: The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 to support the emigration of free-born African Americans and emancipated slaves from the United States to Africa. In 1821, a site was acquired for the settlement in the region of Cape Mesurado (Montserrado), soon to be called Monrovia, Liberia, and the organization assisted in resettling around 6000 individuals between 1821 and 1867.
Accession Number: 1867.21 or 57681?
Physical Description: 30 photographs - including 4 negatives - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Undated but thought to have been created in the 1860s; photographs document towns, people, dignitaries and officials (identified) in Liberia and Sierra Leone, West Africa, including the towns of Monrovia and Harper. There is also a map of the township of Harper at Cape Palmas, Liberia.

Photoprints were originally part of an album, the binding of which remains in the collection.

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Germania Maennerchor Album
PP 164

Dates of Photographs: 1865
Collection History: The Germania Maennerchor (men’s choir) was established in ca. 1870, with quarters first on W. Lombard St. (ca. 1880s-1912) and later on N. Howard St. (ca. 1913-1917). The choir was one of 40 German singing societies in Baltimore in 1890, part of a lively and prominent German culture in Baltimore during the last part of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Accession Number: 005072?
Physical Description:  1 album with 50 carte de visite photoprints.

Subjects:
Members of the Germania Maennerchor of Baltimore, studio portraits by H. Merz of New York, identified on verso with man’s name and (frequently) vocal range. Album is stamped on the front “Germania Maennerchor Baltimore”, and on the back “Saengerrunde New York 1865”.

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Restrictions: No
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Baltimore Sewerage and
State Roads Commission
Construction Projects Collection
PP 165

Dates of Photographs: 1908-1924
Collection History: In 1906, the state of Maryland prohibited Baltimore from discharging sewage into the Chesapeake Bay or any of its tributaries, and provided $10,000,000 for a sewerage system, with a matching amount for the project coming from the city on a bond issue. Under Mayor Edwin Clay Timanus, the city began construction of the sewer system, and the project was continued by Mayors J. Barry Mahool and James Harry Preston. At the same time, development of Baltimore’s infrastructure of streets and railroads continued with the creation of the Paving Commission in 1911.
Accession Number: 004672?
Physical Description:  245 photoprints mounted on cloth - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Some photographs were made by J.W. Schaefer, Edgar Schaefer, J.F. Reed, or Eckman and Brown. Most photographs are captioned as to location and dated.

While the focus of the photographers was on new construction or the conditions of existing infrastructure (tracks, tunnels, pavement and sidewalks) in Baltimore city, the collection forms an excellent record of numerous city streets, including residential, commercial and industrial districts, as well as transportation in the city, especially street railroads of the United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore. Many photographs show pedestrians and construction workers, including African Americans.

There are a few images of street railroad infrastructure from other states: Minnesota and Louisiana.

The set of photoprints was originally a photo album which has been disassembled.

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Restrictions: No
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The Fair of the Iron Horse Album
PP 167

Dates of Photographs: 1927
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. The Fair of the Iron Horse was a centenary exhibition and pageant of the railroad, held September 24-October 8, 1927 in Halethorpe (Baltimore Co., Md.).
Accession Number:
Physical Description:  1 album with 221 photoprints.

Subjects:
Album documents the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse at Halethorpe (Baltimore Co., Md.), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s centenary celebration. All images are captioned.

Images depict the fairgrounds, showing many exhibits, spectators, and characters and floats from the pageant. Pageant participants included costumed individuals portraying historical characters such as Peter Cooper, but also actual Native Americans who are Blood and Piegan people of the Blackfeet Nation. From this latter group there are portraits of Princess Dawn Mist and Chief Two Gun White Calf.

Exhibits featured railroad engines and cars from the first hundred years of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, along with many aspects of transportation including rail construction, telegraphy, baggage, traffic, and commercial development.

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Restrictions: No
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Hengst Collection
PP 168

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1890
Collection History: Dr. J. Edwin Hengst was a Baltimore pharmacist.
Accession Number: 72600
Physical Description: 390 photographs in 1 album.

Subjects:
Dr. Hengst's drug stores at Central Avenue and Gay St. and Monument and Ensor Streets. His family, friends, and pets and their Old Town, Baltimore neighborhood. Ashland Square, Madison Square , Thaler's Stove Company, and Central Ave. Included are interesting views of the drugstore interiors, neighborhood saloons, Baltimore schools, (Samuel Ready School, Eastern and Western High Schools) churches and parks, the East Baltimore Driving Association, and extensive scenes of Loudon Park cemetery plots.

Winter scenes include the 1899 Blizzard, a Christmas garden, and winter sports.

Finding Aid: No
Restrictions: No
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McHenry Howard Collection
PP 171

Dates of Photographs: 1882-1886
Collection History: Transferred from MS 469. The photographs were taken by McHenry Howard, a former Maryland Confederate officer.
Accession Number:
Physical Description:  3 photograph albums.

Subjects:
House, gardens, outbuildings, graveyard, and grounds of Wye Plantation in Talbot County. The town of Oakland in Garrett County. The Youghiogheny, Elk, and Brandywine Rivers. Other places include West Union, Fort Pendleton, and Chester County, Pennsylvania. Recreation: tennis, fishing, donkey carts.

Finding Aid: No
Restrictions: No
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Alonzo May Collection
PP 172

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1860-1890
Collection History: Related to MS. 995; Alonzo May (1856-1912) was a Baltimore musician and theatre historian, and author of the book Men and Women of the Stage.
Accession Number: 73389
Physical Description:

Subjects:
Portraits of nineteenth century stage personalities, Baltimore area theatres and buildings connected with the stage.

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Restrictions: No
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Coale Collection
PP 176

Dates of Photographs: ca. 1850-1863
Collection History:  George B. Coale (1819-1887), an amateur photographer,  pursued a life-long career as an insurance executive in Baltimore, working with the Merchant’s Mutual Marine Insurance Co. In his leisure time, Coale wandered over the country lanes surrounding Baltimore with camera, in pursuit of the perfect picture.
Accession Number:
Physical Description:  47 photoprints - in 1 box.

Subjects:
Views along Falls Road to the northwest and along Windsor Mill Road to the southwest of Baltimore. Included are farms, mills, hotels, quarries, train tunnels and bridges, houses, and ruins. There are views of Stricker’s and Hollingsworth’s mills, Nelson’s Hotel, a Catonsville blacksmith shop, and the Jones Falls and Patapsco Rivers. There is also an image of African-American men at a shanty/wash-house, and one carte de visite portrait of George B. Coale.

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Restrictions: No
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