York Rd. at Chestnut Hill, 1909

The collection consists of one box with 15 folders containing 245 photoprints made in 1908-1924. The set of photoprints was originally a photo album, but has been disassembled; the images remain mounted onto cloth sheets. Some photographs were made by J.W. Schaefer, Edgar Schaefer, J.F. Reed, or Eckman and Brown. Most photographs are captioned as to location and dated.

While the focus of the photographers as evidenced by caption text was on new construction or the conditions of existing infrastructure (tracks, tunnels, pavement and sidewalks), the collection forms an excellent record of numerous city streets, including residential, commercial and industrial districts, as well as transportation in the city, especially street railroads of the United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore. Many photographs show pedestrians and construction workers, including African Americans.

There are a few images of street railroad infrastructure from other states: Minnesota and Louisiana.