The Lawn. Howard County Houses (Elkridge), circa 1900

The George Washington Dobbin Photograph Collection consists of 251 photographs in three boxes.

Boxes 1 and 2 consist of 240 stereoviews, the majority of which were created by George W. Dobbin. Images by other photographers are identified in the container list. There are also images taken by Langenheim Brothers of Philadelphia, R.D. Crum of New York and other photographers. Subjects include: The Patapsco River; Elyville Bridge; Ellicotts Mills; Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, unidentified images of people and places, and more. There are also non-Maryland photographs including images of Italy, New York City, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, the Delaware Water Gap from Pennsylvania and other locales. There are also two images of Charles Blondin, the first tight-rope walker to cross the Niagara Falls.

Box three contains 11 prints featuring George Dobbin, the Dobbin family, “The Lawn” and the Friday Club, a group of Baltimore lawyers organized in 1852, of which Dobbin was a member. The box also contains a short history and some sketches of the Dobbin family home, “The Lawn.”