"On the evening of May 13, 1861, General Benjamin Butler and 1,000 Union soldiers arrived at Baltimore's Camden Street Station by train. Under the cover of a thunderstorm, they fortified Federal Hill to ensure the city of Baltimore remained under Union control, after the Pratt Street Riot less than a month earlier."
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Marsh Market fountain on Baltimore Street
Subject:
Baltimore (Md.), Markets, Street scene, Washington Monument, Landscape, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Photographs, Cased object 
Item ID:
MC711-3
Creator:
Clark, Henry H., 1815-?
Description:
Marsh Market fountain on Baltimore Street. Shows Marsh Market fountain and McDonald's Lottery building in foreground. Full plate daguerreotype by Henry H. Clark, ca. 1845-1850.
Date of Original:
ca. 1845-1850
Collection:
Cased Photographs Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum, Special Collections Department
Type/Size:
Image, 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Restrictions:
Restricted to copy print only in the Special Collections Department. For more information, please contact special_collections@mdhs.org
Rights:
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society. For reproduction and permission information, please contact imagingservices@mdhs.org 
