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Valentine’s is coming…
… to underbelly this Thursday. Guest-blogger Lara Westwood gets down with love in a look at the history of the Vinegar Valentine: “A Wife for Old Nick,’ ca. 1840-1910, MdHS, Valentine Ephemera, Series...
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Down with Love: A Brief History of the Vinegar Valentine
“A Professional Scandal Monger,” 1840-1910, MdHS, Valentine Ephemera, Series Z. While rummaging through our Valentine’s Day card collection in a search for long forgotten declarations of love and...
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“Facing the Masks”: Masked Mystery Solved
“The White Masks Inspecting a Prisoner at Detective Headquarters,” Hughes Company Photograph Collection, unknown photographer (possibly James W. Scott), ca.1909, MdHS, PP8-585 / Z9.584.PP8. Last week...
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A Short History of Hoes Heights
A view looking north along Evans Chapel Road and east to Roland Park. Hoes Heights. Ornamental wall. Back of Roland stand pipe, City Buildings Collection, 1926, MdHS, PP236.1771A Ever wonder about Hoes...
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Paul Henderson Collection: Who or Where?
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...
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Antoinette in the Air: Hubert Latham and His Historic Flight Over Baltimore,...
Hubert Latham (1883-1912), photographer unknown, ca. 1910, MdHS, MC1985-1. Hubert Latham was almost the first person to fly an airplane over the British Channel. If the French aviator and adventurer...
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Lost City: The Sulzebacher House
Sulzebacher House, ca 1865, MdHS, CC956. West Baltimore was once a densely packed, vibrant neighborhood full of theaters, local businesses, and industry. Drive down many of the streets today and you’re...
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A Whale of a Tale: the Mysterious Case of the Tolchester Whale*
“Go See the Whale at Tolchester”, lithograph by R.H. Eichner & Company, 1889, Large Prints, Maryland Historical Society. It’s hard to work at the Maryland Historical Society and not be familiar...
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Your Baltimore Canaries: a very brief history of Baltimore’s second...
Look up, Baltimore baseball fans! You’ve come a long way. The origin of baseball in Baltimore is a ridiculously complicated affair. Scant photographic evidence remains and accounts in newspapers, which...
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Let’s hear from O’s manager Paul Richards: “A keen baseball mind”
Paul Richards (in Orioles jacket) with Washington Senator’s manager, Chuck Dressen, and President Eisenhower at the home opener at Griffith Stadium, Wash., D.C. “President Eisenhower at Griffith...
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