On-Line Museum Exhibits
The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
The MdHS’s textile and costume collection provides insight to Maryland history from a distinctly different vantage point. Women, those who most often made these textiles, recorded their lives in this visual format. More...
On-Line Library Exhibitions
Baltimore Architecture: Then and Now
Baltimoreans past and present have endowed their "Monumental City" with a priceless "built heritage," but each generation diminishes its patrimony of buildings and monuments as readily - sometimes even more readily - than it adds to its list of bequests. The documentation of this process of simultaneous addition and subtraction has always been part of the mission of the Maryland Historical Society. More...
More than Meets the Eye: History of Maryland Through Prints, 1750-1900
Maryland, and especially Baltimore, were fortunate to attract a number of highly accomplished lithographic artists. The resultant prints pleased their contemporaries and make real the state’s past. Few can resist the desire to look at pictures, and thousands of words, in truth, cannot replace their visual effect. The craftsmanship of prints conveys an absolutely infectious pleasure. Few will be able to resist poring over them. More...
Maryland in Focus: Photographs of Maryland, 1845-1970
Who takes the photographs in your family? Who keeps them? Are they carefully arranged in albums or packed away in shoeboxes? Eventually each of us becomes the curator of a collection of photographs that document our life. How do you choose forty photographs to display from among 400,000? The wealth of material available poses the problem of what to leave out, not what to include. This documentary is the end result. More...
Maryland, colony and state, features prominently in the history of America’s mapping. One of the earlier colonized regions, it has appeared on maps (in varying degrees of detail) for more than 350 years. At first, interest was focused mainly on the Chesapeake Bay area, but when the colonized area expanded to the west, so did maps. More...
Maryland is a state of many contrasts. From the ocean in the East to the mountains in the West, the panorama of Maryland’s geography stretches across much varied terrain. Matching this geographical variety is Maryland’s history - in particular, its record of "firsts." More...
19th-century Baltimore Album Quilts
Masonic Building, 223-225 North Charles Street
House of Refuge Baltimore
Water Street, c 1875
Mapping Maryland
Maryland Firsts
