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Election Recollection: Albert C. Ritchie, 1928
Gov. Ritchie runs for President. “Governor Albert C. Ritchie runs for President, 1928,” MdHS, MC7898.1. “Election Recollection” is a series we’ll run from now through January’s Presidential...
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Election Recollection: Albert C. Ritchie, 1932
Gov. Ritchie runs for President, again, or the highs and lows of electoral politics. “Governor Ritchie runs for President, 1932,” MdHS, MC6691-2. Governor Ritchie during his second run for the...
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Election Recollection: All Politics is Weird
This week, with the final Obama-Romney debate bearing down on us, we thought it would be fun to take a look at some of the more bizarre political and election-related items in our holdings. In doing so...
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The Death of Sport
Among the many mysterious photographs in MdHS’s collections, two of an elephant stand out as particularly unsettling. Buried in the Subject Vertical File, an artificial collection that was compiled...
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Masked Mystery
What do you think is going on in this photograph? “Detective room, Police Department,” Hughes Company Photograph Collection, unknown photographer (possibly James W. Scott), ca.1910, MdHS, PP8-585 /...
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“Facing the Masks”: Masked Mystery Solved
“The White Masks Inspecting a Prisoner at Detective Headquarters,” Hughes Company Photograph Collection, unknown photographer (possibly James W. Scott), ca.1909, MdHS, PP8-585 / Z9.584.PP8. Last week...
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Your Baltimore Canaries: a very brief history of Baltimore’s second...
Look up, Baltimore baseball fans! You’ve come a long way. The origin of baseball in Baltimore is a ridiculously complicated affair. Scant photographic evidence remains and accounts in newspapers, which...
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Everyday People: Paul Henderson Collection Goes to City Hall
Can you identify these sharply dressed young men? “Two Unknown Young Men,” MdHS, HEN.08.01-004. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Imaging Services Department at MdHS. Through some wild...
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Then and Now: The Owl Bar
The Owl Bar has long been a favorite after-work drinking spot for MdHS staffers. A decent beer selection, cheap happy hour specials, and some of the best brick oven pizza in town are only part of the...
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The Death of Topsy: a book review
Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison. Atlantic Monthly Press, 369 pages, $27. If there’s...
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The Dream of the ‘90s is Alive: Pre-processing the Joseph Kohl Collection
Whatever you do, do not mistake the title of this post as a diss. Kevin Keelty of Monkeyspank, date unknown. PP284, MdHS. REFERENCE PHOTO The photographs taken by Joseph Henry Adam Kohl (1957 – 2002),...
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A Monumental Undertaking
If you are fortunate enough to live or work in Mount Vernon, you’ve probably noticed the barricades that recently went up around the Washington Monument. The Baltimore Sun has been covering the project...
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Kohl’s Orioles, 1993
Our Baltimore Orioles are off to a bit of a slow start this year, but it is ridiculously early to start worrying. But this doesn’t mean that many of us won’t start worrying or haven’t already started....
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Capturing the Movement: Before and After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in...
Paul Robeson (2nd from left) is joined by Dr. John E. T. Camper, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for Justice (4th from left) and—we believe—a young A. Robert Kauffman of Interracial Fellowship Youth...
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A Pictorial Tour of the Washington Monument (under renovation)
Underbelly staffers Eben Dennis and Joe Tropea were recently invited by Lance Humphries, chairman of the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Restoration Committee, to tour the Washington Monument as work on...
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Baltimore bands in the ’90s: more Joe Kohl photo mysteries
MdHS needs your help identifying bands, people, dates, and places from the Baltimore music scene of the late 1980s and ’90s in the photos below. Please help if you can. Reference photo #1: SOLVED,...
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The entire Julius Anderson Photograph Collection is now online
Station North before there was such a thing. Street scene. Intersection of Charles Street and North Avenue, ca.1920-1930. 1994-42-083, MdHS. In order to raise awareness of our amazing photograph...
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A sneak preview of “Paul Henderson: Photographing Morgan (1947–1955)”
Underbelly presents this sneak preview ahead of the opening of the Maryland Historical Society’s popular traveling exhibition of the work of photojournalist Paul Henderson. Paul Henderson:...
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Staff Favorites: “Behind the Scene’s At Hutzler’s”
As we’ve previously pointed out, choosing a favorite thing among millions of archival materials stored at MdHS is a practically absurd task. While this writer skews toward more modern fare, say for...
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The Case of Kevin Archer
In 1986 Anti-Apartheid demonstrations spread across the nation’s college and university campuses. Shantytown protests sprang up at Dartmouth, Georgetown, George Washington, Johns Hopkins (JHU), Penn...
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