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The Sussex (hotel), African American boy posing, Seaford, Delaware, undated

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of one box with two albums containing, respectively, 37 and 103 photoprints; a total of 140. The photos depict the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in the years circa 1890s. There are many images of rivers and old mills and churches in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, including Unicorn Mills and the Sassafras River in Maryland, a mill and historic site at Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania, and scenes on Wissahickon Creek in or near...
Dates: undated

Aunt Louisa, aged 96 (African American woman in front of house), undated

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of one box with two albums containing, respectively, 37 and 103 photoprints; a total of 140. The photos depict the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in the years circa 1890s. There are many images of rivers and old mills and churches in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, including Unicorn Mills and the Sassafras River in Maryland, a mill and historic site at Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania, and scenes on Wissahickon Creek in or near...
Dates: undated

Picnic party at the piers, with people including an African American woman, undated

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of one box with two albums containing, respectively, 37 and 103 photoprints; a total of 140. The photos depict the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in the years circa 1890s. There are many images of rivers and old mills and churches in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, including Unicorn Mills and the Sassafras River in Maryland, a mill and historic site at Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania, and scenes on Wissahickon Creek in or near...
Dates: undated

Amelia Hack with Cazia (African American nurse), 1889

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: PP48.66
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of 1 box with roughly 150 photoprints, including 2 albums, which are undated or made in circa 1870s-1930s. Subjects are portraits of Newcomer, Hack, and Maslin family members and friends. One image depicts a child with an African American nurse, and some images depict children dressed in colonial costume. There are three framed portraits of groups at Manor Glen, circa 1928. A set of 55 images are scenes from the French and Belgian fronts during World War I....
Dates: 1889

“Always in Our Memories” (commemorating deceased African American entertainers), undated

 File — Box: 2
Identifier: PP301.645
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eubie Blake photograph collection consists of more than 3300 items from the estate of Eubie Blake. The bulk of the materials are photographs, primarily black and white photographic prints. These are identified as “prints” in the container list. There are also color prints and film negatives. The collection also contains some correspondence, ephemera, printed materials, newspaper clippings, and other items.The collection is broken down into eight series by subject. There is...
Dates: undated

African American dance in Gymnasium, circa 1911-1936

 File — Box: 4
Identifier: 1966.3.132
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Bureau of Recreation Photograph Collection consists of four boxes of 893 images, primarily photographic prints with a few film negatives, depicting activities sponsored by the Baltimore Bureau of Recreation, the Playground Athletic League, and the Children’s Playground Association from 1911 to 1936. The images encompass children from different ethnic and racial groups at parks, playgrounds, public schools, and public libraries engaged in various recreational and leisure time activities....
Dates: circa 1911-1936

Men working on roof, including African American men., undated

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Identifier: PP30.372
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The overall scope of PP8 is 10 boxes containing close to 1,500 images from circa 1910-1946, of which approximately 1,250 are modern prints from vintage glass or film negatives, 50 are vintage prints, and 200 are unprinted vintage negatives. The Hughes Collection provides an extensive professional documentation of many aspects of life in Baltimore city and county, and other Maryland counties. These materials document life in Baltimore City and County, and other Maryland counties...
Dates: undated

Construction of unidentified fortifications by African American laborers, undated

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: PP230.706
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Civil War Photograph Collection contains images representing over 70 years of history, from 1861 to 1935. The bulk of the subjects, however are from the Civil War, and primarily date from 1861 to 1865. Since the majority of photographs appear to be the work of Mathew Brady, the type of photographic processes present in the collection are relatively easy to identify. The two main processes present are card photographs, which include carte de visites and cabinet cards, and albumen prints....
Dates: undated

African American workers on an unidentified dock, undated

 File — Box: 3
Identifier: PP230.322
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Civil War Photograph Collection contains images representing over 70 years of history, from 1861 to 1935. The bulk of the subjects, however are from the Civil War, and primarily date from 1861 to 1865. Since the majority of photographs appear to be the work of Mathew Brady, the type of photographic processes present in the collection are relatively easy to identify. The two main processes present are card photographs, which include carte de visites and cabinet cards, and albumen prints....
Dates: undated

L. Katzenstein - copy of a African American man., 1945 February 22

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 57
Identifier: 169-45
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Note: There are two sections of the Hughes Collection. The first section, known as PP8, covers dates circa 1910-1946. This portion of the collection consists of vintage glass plate negatives for which modern prints were made during the 1980s at the Maryland Historical Society, with some vintage prints and film negatives. The second section of the Hughes Collection, called the Hughes Studio Photograph Collection, is known as PP30, and covers dates circa 1940-1956.The Hughes Studio...
Dates: 1945 February 22