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Three-quarter length portrait of Barbara Pollock Katz (1934-2022) by Maryland artist Sam Robinson. Barbara Katz Served as President of the…
Oil on paper on board portrait painting of “Maria I. Cohen” (1794-1834), ca. 1815-1820, by Joseph Wood. Maria was one…
Oil on canvas portrait painting of “Shinah Solomon Etting” (1744-1822), ca. 1813, by John Wesley Jarvis. Shinah was born in…
Oil on panel portrait painting of “Jacob I. Cohen” (1744-1823), ca. 1800, by Charles Willson Peale. The Cohen family has…
Several days after Benjamin and Kitty Cohen hosted their glamorous party, James Macon Nicholson (1807-1975) dutifully fulfilled his promise to…
Originally posted July 18, 2013 July in Maryland can be truly miserable. The temperature sizzles at over 100 degrees for…
In this blog post Baltimore’s history of housing discrimination and the pursuit of fair housing is examined.
In his home town of Baltimore Judge Simon Sobeloff (1894-1973) was known as a man of principle and conscience. Though…
Look up, Baltimore baseball fans! You’ve come a long way. The origin of baseball in Baltimore is a ridiculously complicated…
Visit our Digital Collections to view a sampling of materials from the oral history collections. Browse or search the oral history guides…