Tag: Underbelly
The great hall of the Maryland Historical Society is graced with the presence of a mastodon—a replica of a large…
What happened to the movie business in Baltimore? Between 1900 and 1970 about 235 movie theatres in Baltimore opened and closed.…
Lubov Breit Keefer – musician, scholar, teacher, arts activist – was born in 1896 in the industrial city of Nikolaev…
The Protestant Infant Asylum of Baltimore City was founded in 1875 to provide refuge for orphaned and abandoned babies. It…
The Paint and Powder Club, established in 1893 as a philanthropic and social club, is dedicated both to camaraderie among…
Back in the days when Baltimore was a manufacturing center, neighborhood bars were gathering places for the blue collar workers…
On April 28 of this year, Baltimore born ragtime and jazz pianist and composer Eubie Blake and his partner Noble…
“John Wesley Gibson represented himself to be not only the slave, but also the son of William Y. Day, of…
In early 1900s Baltimore, Mt. Royal Avenue looked quite different from the land originally developed in 1881 carved from portions…
Between 1776 and 1820 Baltimore grew like kudzu on a riverbank. Geographically three settlements, the original town, Old town and…