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The Photographs of Robert Kniesche

July 25th 2013

When longtime Baltimore Sun photographer Robert Kniesche died in 1976, a colleague praised him as “one of the best cameramen…

 

Ocean City: The Great Hurricane of 1933

July 24th 2013

We are proud to announce that MdHS has been awarded a federally funded grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation…

 

King Alcohol: Temperance and the 4th of July

July 3rd 2013

The anti-alcohol crusade of the nineteenth century lives on as one of the most notable and far reaching reforms of…

 

Summer Vacation: Greetings from Ocean City!

June 27th 2013

How does the small underbelly editorial team cope with colleagues traveling to the beach, mountains, and parts unknown while we’re…

 

Lost City: Baltimore Town

June 20th 2013

Sitting down in a field or on a city bench, pulling out a sketch pad, and drawing a building or…

 

Sunday Best: a volunteer reflects on photo crowdsourcing

June 13th 2013

Last week the Maryland Historical Society opened a satellite photograph exhibit, “Paul Henderson: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs,” at Baltimore’s…

 

Morris A. Soper Papers - Coming Soon! (or 25 years late...)

June 6th 2013

After a brief hiatus, processing has recommenced full tilt on the Morris Soper Papers. Recent Goucher graduate and MdHS intern…

 

Big Stories in Small Pieces of History: President Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial (March 13-May 26, 1868)

May 30th 2013

On Monday, May 13, the FBI and NARA returned twenty-one of the documents stolen from the Maryland Historical Society Library…

 

Everyday People: Paul Henderson Collection Goes to City Hall

May 23rd 2013

  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Imaging Services Department at MdHS. Through some wild confluence…

 

Baltimore's Clothes Horse: David Abercrombie

May 16th 2013

Abercrombie & Fitch – the name brings up images of young, scantily clad men and women staring out from advertisements…

 

AV Report: Attention All Filmmakers

May 9th 2013

With the fifteenth annual Maryland Film Festival underway, many Baltimoreans have no doubt noticed that filmmakers from around the globe…

 

The Quasi-War (1798-1801): Diplomatic Treasures from a Long Forgotten Dispute

May 1st 2013

MdHS cataloger Kristi Thomas recently pulled together all of the institution’s holdings on the French Spoliation Claims, a little-known group of…

 

Lost City: The Regent Theater

April 25th 2013

The theaters, night clubs, and restaurants that once made Pennsylvania Avenue Baltimore’s center for African-American entertainment  are today a receding…

 

The Gypsy Queen of Baltimore*

April 18th 2013

  In 1904, Baltimore was buzzing with scandal – Jessie Key Habersham had disappeared again. This was not the first…

 

National Pet Day

April 11th 2013

Today, April 11, is National Pet Day. We here at the state’s most pet-loving, pro-adoption historical repository thought you might like…