When longtime Baltimore Sun photographer Robert Kniesche died in 1976, a colleague praised him as “one of the best cameramen…
We are proud to announce that MdHS has been awarded a federally funded grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation…
The anti-alcohol crusade of the nineteenth century lives on as one of the most notable and far reaching reforms of…
How does the small underbelly editorial team cope with colleagues traveling to the beach, mountains, and parts unknown while we’re…
Sitting down in a field or on a city bench, pulling out a sketch pad, and drawing a building or…
Last week the Maryland Historical Society opened a satellite photograph exhibit, “Paul Henderson: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs,” at Baltimore’s…
After a brief hiatus, processing has recommenced full tilt on the Morris Soper Papers. Recent Goucher graduate and MdHS intern…
On Monday, May 13, the FBI and NARA returned twenty-one of the documents stolen from the Maryland Historical Society Library…
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Imaging Services Department at MdHS. Through some wild confluence…
Abercrombie & Fitch – the name brings up images of young, scantily clad men and women staring out from advertisements…
With the fifteenth annual Maryland Film Festival underway, many Baltimoreans have no doubt noticed that filmmakers from around the globe…
MdHS cataloger Kristi Thomas recently pulled together all of the institution’s holdings on the French Spoliation Claims, a little-known group of…
The theaters, night clubs, and restaurants that once made Pennsylvania Avenue Baltimore’s center for African-American entertainment are today a receding…
In 1904, Baltimore was buzzing with scandal – Jessie Key Habersham had disappeared again. This was not the first…
Today, April 11, is National Pet Day. We here at the state’s most pet-loving, pro-adoption historical repository thought you might like…