Views of African American Life in Maryland

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100 block of East Pratt Street, Baltimore
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Roads--Widening--Maryland--Baltimore; Pedestrians--Maryland--Baltimore; Urban African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric...
Photograph taken looking east from Light Street at the 100 block East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Traffic on the street includes pedestrians, a streetcar, and horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It is thought that this photograph was taken...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

100 block of North Carey Street, Baltimore
Men--Maryland--Baltimore;Architectural ironwork--Maryland--Baltimore;Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the 100 block North Carey Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Thomas Dixon and built in 1850-1851, these Waverly Terrace brick row houses feature a rear porch balcony framed by intricate cast-iron fencing (the fronts of the...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

100 block of North Caroline Street, Baltimore
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles; Restaurants--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking north at the west side of the 100 block North Caroline Street from its intersection with East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street consists mostly of three-story brick row houses, some of which have stores on...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

1000 block of Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Urban African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Street lighting--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Housing--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking south at the 1000 block Druid Hill Avenue from its intersection with Hoffman Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the sidewalk to the right are numerous African Americans: two children are playing at the corner; behind them,...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

10th Street, Crisfield
Streets--Maryland--Crisfield; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Crisfield; African Americans--Maryland--Crisfield; Bank buildings--Maryland--Crisfield; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Crisfield;...
Photograph of 10th Street in downtown Crisfield, Maryland. On the right is an African American couple walking along Tenth Street toward Main Street. To their right is a one-story corrugated metal building with Coca-Cola signs on its front wall and...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

1912 Democratic Party National Convention at the Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore
Democratic National Convention (1912 : Baltimore.Md.);Catering and hospitality--Maryland--Baltimore;African American men--Maryland--Baltimore;Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century;Fifth Regiment Armory (Baltimore, Md.)
Photograph of delegates at the 1912 Democratic National Convention held at the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore, Maryland. This was the first convention where the democrats used primaries to choose their delegates. Woodrow Wilson received the...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

1959 Baltimore Orioles baseball team at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore
Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team)--History--Pictorial works;Baseball players--Maryland--Baltimore;Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.)--History--Pictorial works;Sports sponsorship--Maryland--Baltimore;Gunther Brewing Company
Photograph of the 1959 Baltimore Orioles baseball team, their trainers and coaches, batboys, and announcers posing in front of the center-field scoreboard sponsored by the Gunther Brewing Company at Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street in Baltimore,...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

200 block of South Caroline Street, Baltimore
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Urban African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Beer signs--Maryland--Baltimore; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking south at the 200 block South Caroline Street from its intersection with East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Many African Americans are walking along the sidewalks or sitting in chairs or on the front steps of the...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

500 block of South Broadway Street, Baltimore
Broadway (Baltimore, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Horse-drawn vehicles--Maryland--Baltimore; Central business...
Photograph taken looking south at the 500 block South Broadway Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the right in this block are three-story brick row houses with businesses on the ground floor. Several people are standing in front of the first...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"A Southern Oyster Peddler", an illustration by B. West Clinedinst in Harper's Weekly
African Americans in art; Peddlers--Maryland--Baltimore; Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931; Oysters; Harper's Weekly (New York, N.Y.)--Illustrations
Photograph of an illustration entitled "A Southern Oyster Peddler" by B. West Clinedinst that appeared on page 173 of Harper's Weekly of March 2, 1889. This illustration depicts an African American oyster peddler in Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Clear Sky, Turkey Hill on the Susquehannah", J. Hill engraving of John H. B. Latrobe watercolor
African American men--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Hill, John, 1770-1850; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting,...
Black and white photograph of the J. Hill engraving of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Clear Sky, Turkey Hill on the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Two young...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Dark Foreground, View on the Susquehannah", John H. B. Latrobe watercolor
African American boys--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting, American--19th century
Black and white photograph of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Dark Foreground, View of the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Signed E. Van Blon, a pseudonym used by...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Ladies of Hagerstown Administering to Our Wounded", a sketch by Theodore R. Davis appearing in Harper's Weekly
War--Relief of sick and wounded--Maryland--Hagerstown; Women--Charitable contributions--Maryland--Hagerstown; Davis, Theodore R. 1840–1894; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war
Photograph of a sketch entitled "Ladies of Hagerstown [Maryland] Administering to Our Wounded" by Theodore R. Davis that appeared on page 645 of Harper's Weekly on October 11, 1862. This illustration depicts a group of women carrying baskets or...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Maryland Hospital", Laurent Deroy lithograph of Augustus Köllner drawing
Maryland Hospital; Hospitals in art--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Lithoghraphy; Hospital architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington College Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Carriages and carts; Deroy, Laurent,...
Photograph of a lithograph entitled "Maryland Hospital" by Isodore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) of a drawing ("drawn from nature") by Augustus Köllner (1813-1906), published by Goupil, Vibert and Company in 1852. Maryland Hospital (Baltimore, Md.),...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Moses, The Baltimore News Vendor", Sindall lithograph of Thomas Waterman Wood painting
African American men in art; Clothing and dress in art; Newspaper vendors--Maryland--Baltimore; Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903; Sindall, Harry S., fl. 1850s
Black and white photograph of a Maryland Historical Society (MHS) lithograph of the oil-on-canvas color painting entitled "Moses, the Baltimore News Vendor." The original painting of that title was completed by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) in...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Old ordinary" at number 100 St. John Street in Havre de Grace, Harford County
African Americans--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Porches--Maryland--Havre de Grace
Photograph of the "old ordinary" at number 100 St. John Street in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland. Built ca. 1814 as an ordinary, i.e., an inn or tavern that offered lodging to travelers, this brick building with a wide wooden veranda off...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"The News of Yorktown", a J. L. G. Ferris painting of Tench Tilghman announcing victory to citizens of Maryland's Eastern Shore
Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805; Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781; African American boys--Maryland--Talbot County; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
Black and white photograph of a 1921 color painting entitled "The News of Yorktown" by the renowned American historical painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, depicting Tench Tilghman announcing an American victory at the Battle of Yorktown to citizens...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

"The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment", lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, Baltimore
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century; African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century; Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century; Constitutional amendments--United States; Metcalf & Clark; ...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

Aircraft workers assembling landing gear for medium bomber at Glenn L. Martin plant, Baltimore
Aircraft industry--Maryland--Baltimore--Employees; Glenn L. Martin Company; World War, 1939-1945--African Americans;
Photograph of two aircraft workers assembling the landing gear of a medium bomber at the Glenn L. Martin Company segregated plant in the Canton section of Baltimore, Maryland. These African American mechanics were the products of the government's...
Views of African American life in Maryland - Enoch Pratt Free Library

Aircraft workers assembling pilot's compartment at Glenn L. Martin plant in Canton, Baltimore
Airplane factories--Employees--Maryland--Baltimore;Glenn L. Martin Company;African American men
Photograph of three African American aircraft workers assembling the pilot's compartment of a bomber plane at the Glenn L. Martin Company segregated plant on Oldham Street in the Canton section of Baltimore, Maryland. These young African American...
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