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Oil on canvas self portrait painting of “Carl Bersch” (1834-1914), ca. 1900-1910, by Carl Bersch. Born Carl Friedrich Eduard Bersch…
Oil on Canvas portrait painting of Elizabeth Parker Foulke Beirne (1815-1864), ca. 1820, by James Peale. She was born in…
Oil on canvas painting of “The Visitor”, ca. 1910-1911, by Alice Worthington Ball. The artist (1869-1929) lived at 213 Monument…
Opalotype portrait of Robert Wier (1846-1930) in a case with red velvet interior. Wier lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and was…
Andrew Boyd Cross was a strongly polarizing figure in the divisive public issues confronting the United States, the state of…
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel A.M.E.) is a Baltimore landmark. It is a tribute to the city’s African…
“There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.” –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd,”…
The Southeastern Baltimore neighborhood of Fells Point was, until recent years, a rough and tumble sort of place – a…
One hundred nine years ago this month, Maryland suffragists took to the Baltimore streets in a momentous march for women’s…