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This summer, under the direction of Loyola University Maryland English Professor Jean Lee Cole, I was part of a group…
Greyscale watercolor side-profile miniature portrait of Rachel Gratz Etting (1764-1831). She wears a black dress and a white bonnet tied…
Miniature portrait on ivory of Jacob I. Cohen (1744-1823), ca. 1780, by Abraham (ca.1750-1806) or Joseph (ca.1760-1803) Daniel. Cohen was…
Presented by the MCHC Maritime Committee In partnership with the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Maryland Center for History and…
Oil on canvas self portrait painting of Jacob Glushakow (1914-2000), c. 1935-1950. Born into a large Jewish Baltimore family, he…
Verda Mae Freeman Welcome (1907-1990) was a public school teacher, civil rights activist, and one of the first Black women…
Daguerreotype portrait of Rachel Gratz Etting (1764-1831), after an engraving by Thomas Gimbrede. She was the daughter of Barnard Gratz…
Oil on canvas portrait painting of Judith Solomon Cohen (Mrs. Israel I. Cohen) (1766-1837), ca. 1830-1835, by an unattributed American.…
Oil on canvas portrait painting of Mendes Israel Cohen (1796-1879), ca. 1835-1840, by an unknown artist. Cohen was born in…
Esther Lazarus (1900-1980) was a social worker and the Director of the Baltimore Department of Welfare in Maryland, from 1953…