Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series IV of the Paul Henderson Photograph Collection is comprised of eighteen boxes and contains mostly unidentified portraits. There are also images of weddings; women-organized church gatherings; classrooms; Morgan State College (now University) sports and teams; gatherings; graduations; churches; banquets; and funerals.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series III of the Paul Henderson Photograph Collection is comprised of nineteen boxes and mostly contains unidentified portraits from circa 1948-1949. There are also photographs of churches and priests; Druid Hill Park; funerals; graduations; weddings; the Fitzgerald Apartments; sports; classes; social groups; and birthday celebrations.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series III of the Paul Henderson Photograph Collection is comprised of nineteen boxes and mostly contains unidentified portraits from circa 1948-1949. There are also photographs of churches and priests; Druid Hill Park; funerals; graduations; weddings; the Fitzgerald Apartments; sports; classes; social groups; and birthday celebrations.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Twenty-seven items in three boxes and one framed photograph, spanning circa 1890-1910, most items are not dated. Contents include photographic prints, one etched plate with wood backing, and postcards.

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Abstract The Bailey interview provides many details about lower-middleclass African-American life in Baltimore from the 1900’s through the 1970’s. There is much detailed discussion of her strict disciplinarian parents and the enjoyment of her childhood. She discusses topics such as: family moves, salaries, religion, race relations (“she was once mistaken for an Italian and her brother a white”) and segregation. Coming from one of only two African-American families living in her neighborhood, she...

Description Members of Baltimore's African-American elite had been able to secure secondary educations in city schools since the opening of the 'Colored High School of Baltimore' in 1901 in a building at Nos. 1201-1215 Pennsylvania Avenue [g.v.] but by 1920 that building was almost 30 years old and, additionally, was bulging at the seems as more and more Americans of all races acknowledged the importance of a high-school education. As Baltimore's first Republican mayor in over a decade William F....

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Photograph depicts an unidentifed African American soldier sitting with his legs straddling a rough rail suspended in the air at the Union military base in Point Lookout, Maryland. This was a common device for punishing soldiers during the Civil War and was called "the mule," "the wooden horse," or "riding the rail." The image is captioned "Nigro prisoner" and the soldier guarding the prisoner appears to also be African American.