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Last horsecar in Baltimore, Loraine Cemetery, circa 1898

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: PP23.239

Dates

  • circa 1898

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Extent

From the Collection: 2.50 Linear Feet (6 full Hollinger boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Related Materials

Neg Z8.745.PP23; dup/copy neg .Z5.278.PP23.

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists of 897 glass plate and film negatives made circa 1899-1930, with modern prints for the entire collection. The modern prints are housed in 6 boxes; the glass negatives are stored by size in the glass negative storage section, according to negative catalog numbers; the film negatives are nitrate negatives stored in the nitrate storage area.

Subjects are Baltimore scenes, including architectural details, businesses (banks, offices, hotels, restaurants, theaters, and amusement parks), churches and cemeteries, government and public buildings (meeting halls, markets), historic houses, monuments, museums, warehouses, and waterways.

Documented events include an Advertising Men's Convention (1913), the Democratic National Convention (1912), Homecoming (1906), the Star-Spangled Banner Centennial (1914), and an unidentified air show.

Documented locations include numerous Baltimore streets and buildings, neighborhoods including Fells Point and Dickeyville, and counties including Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Howard, and Prince George's. There are images of towns, woodlands, farms, lighthouses. Several photographs depict slave quarters in Granite, Maryland.

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository

Contact:
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750