Who cares what the so-called experts predict for the Orioles this season? The Ravens did okay last season, the O’s looked pretty…
Look up, Baltimore baseball fans! You’ve come a long way. The origin of baseball in Baltimore is a ridiculously complicated…
It’s hard to work at the Maryland Historical Society and not be familiar with the R.H. Eichner & Company…
West Baltimore was once a densely packed, vibrant neighborhood full of theaters, local businesses, and industry. Drive down many of…
Hubert Latham was almost the first person to fly an airplane over the British Channel. If the French aviator and adventurer…
The Paul Henderson Photograph Collection contains over 6,000 photographs of mostly unidentified African Americans from ca. 1935-1965. When the Paul Henderson:…
Ever wonder about Hoes Heights? The hidden and oft-overlooked north Baltimore neighborhood of Hoes Heights bears the name of Grandison…
Last week we reached out for help toward understanding a photograph, and wow, did we get it. Our photo from…
While rummaging through our Valentine’s Day card collection in a search for long forgotten declarations of love and fidelity, an…
… to underbelly this Thursday. Guest-blogger Lara Westwood gets down with love in a look at the history of the Vinegar…
Last month we solved a longstanding photograph mystery that we never expected to solve, that is until we rolled up our…
While writing a previous post that looked at the debate over the oldest house in Baltimore, a coworker introduced me…
On an auspicious afternoon in late September 1903, a crowd of Baltimoreans converged onto the intersection of Mount Royal Avenue and…
In 1863 the Baltimore City Council approved a $300,000 loan to construct a billion gallon capacity reservoir in the newly…
Among the many mysterious photographs in MdHS’s collections, two of an elephant stand out as particularly unsettling. Buried in the…