Md. Historical Society Photographs

Wallace Stebbins & Sons 100-102 South Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland circa 1912 Hughes Company 8x10 inch glass negative Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society MC6988 Google Maps Street View of the area today:

National Marine Bank Gay Street and Water Street, Baltimore, Maryland circa 1915 Hughes Company 8x10 inch glass negatives Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society MC7071 A MC7071 B

Google Maps Street View of the building today:

Union Station (present day Pennsylvania Station), from southeast 1501-1525 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland circa 1905 John Dubas (fl. 1905-1973) 5x7 inch glass negative Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society MC9075 A Before Pennsylvania Station at 1500 North Charles Street in Baltimore, there was Union Station. Google Maps Street View of Penn Station today from Charles Street:

Baltimore City Jail Baltimore, Maryland 1900 Unidentified photographer 5x7 inch glass negative Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society MC2356

Google Maps Street View of the area today:

Old Terrapin Park, aka Orioles Park 1938 Present day East 30th Street (to the north), East 29th Street (to the south), Barclay Street (to the west), and Greenmount Avenue (to the east), Baltimore, Maryland Unidentified photographer Subject Vertical File (Baltimore - Stadiums) Maryland Historical Society [SVF]

Frederick “Fritz” Maisel at Oriole Park Oriole Park, Baltimore, Maryland circa 1931 Robert F. Kniesche (1906-1976) 4x5 inch acetate negative Kniesche Collection Maryland Historical Society PP79.18

Read about the history of the Baltimore Orioles and Oriole Park, which burned July 4, 1944, in Lost City: The Burning of Oriole Park on underbelly.

[Baltimore] City Hall, Centennial Illumination [100 Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland] 1914 Unidentified photographer 8x10 inch glass negative Glass Plate Negative Collection Maryland Historical Society Z9.956.PP11

Google Maps Street View of Baltimore City Hall from Gay Street:

Fire Department, Engine No. 38, front 700 block, West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland June 28, 1926 Unidentified photographer 3.5x4.5 inch film negative Baltimore City Buildings Photograph Collection Maryland Historical Society PP236.0182 A

Google Maps Street View of the area today:

Mt. Royal Hotel East Mt. Royal Avenue and North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Maryland 1929 (top), 1931 (bottom) Unidentified photographer 8x10 inch negative Subject Vertical File (Baltimore - Hotels) Maryland Historical Society [SVF]

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Google Maps Street View of the hotel today (now apartments):

[View of dock and street] Thames Street near Ann Street, Baltimore, Maryland Undated Robert F. Kniesche (1906-1976) 4x5 inch acetate negative Kniesche Collection Maryland Historical Society PP79.497

Google Maps Street View:

[Street scenes] 908 South Sharpe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 1904 John Dubas (fl. 1905-1973) 4x5 inch glass negatives Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society MC9170 .1 MC9170 .2 MC9170 .3

908 South Sharpe Street today via Google Maps Street View:

Chris Martin. [Atlantic-Southwestern Broom Company.] Baylis Street and Boston Street, Baltimore, Maryland 1977 Elinor B. Cahn 8x10 inch photograph The East Baltimore Documentary Photography Project Baltimore City Life Museum Collection Maryland Historical Society 1982.19.1.105

"Chris Martin has been making brooms for forty years at the Atlantic South Western Broom Company."

Copyright Elinor B. Cahn, 1977.

Atlantic-Southwestern Broom Company building today via Google Maps Street View: