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Sunday Best: a volunteer reflects on photo crowdsourcing

By ⋅ June 13, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Last week the Maryland Historical Society opened a satellite photograph exhibit, “Paul Henderson: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs,” at Baltimore’s City Hall. The show marks our latest efforts to identify the people and locations in the Henderson Photograph Collection. Earlier this year, MdHS hosted an event to kickstart this process. The following is a reflection [...]

Everyday People: Paul Henderson Collection Goes to City Hall

By ⋅ May 23, 2013 ⋅ 2 comments

  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Imaging Services Department at MdHS. Through some wild confluence of ambition and scheduling, I agreed to curate and deliver a 48-piece photography exhibition the very week of the debut of my new documentary, HIT & STAY, at the Maryland Film Festival. I can’t really [...]

Lost City: The Regent Theater

By ⋅ April 25, 2013 ⋅ One comment

The theaters, night clubs, and restaurants that once made Pennsylvania Avenue Baltimore’s center for African-American entertainment  are today a receding memory. In the segregated Baltimore of the early to mid twentieth century, the Avenue was where African-Americans went to see the latest films, have a drink at one of the many nightclubs and bars, and hear [...]

Paul Henderson Collection: Who or Where?

By ⋅ February 28, 2013 ⋅ One comment

The Paul Henderson Photograph Collection contains over 6,000 photographs of mostly unidentified African Americans from ca. 1935-1965. When the Paul Henderson: Baltimore’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs, ca. 1940-1960 exhibition opened in 2012, several people from the media asked why it was important for MdHS to identify the people Henderson photographed in and around Baltimore. If you’ve ever [...]

So this is Christmas…

By ⋅ December 20, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

…and here are a few images of good cheer from the Maryland Historical Society’s collection of photographs. Happy Holidays!

An American Tragedy

By ⋅ November 29, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Many who devote their lives to bringing about social change can recall a single incident or episode that altered their perceptions and determined their path in life. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks recalls that one of the first ways she realized the difference between “a black world and a white world” was when, as a [...]

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