Baltimore businesses

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The Library Company of the Baltimore Bar was established in 1840. This collections consists of receipted bills and vouchers, 1855-1860.

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The Little Italy oral history collection oral history collection consists of 16 interviews with Italian Americans or Italian immigrants from Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood, circa 1979-1980.

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The Parks Sausage Company was founded in 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland by entrepreneur Henry G. Parks, Jr. and became the first African American-owned business to be publicly traded on the New York Stock exchange. The collection consists of black and white photographs and ephemera related to the company and Henry Parks from 1960-1983.

Abstract The Penn-North oral history collection is a series of interviews revolving around the residential and retail experiences in the Penn-North neighborhood of Baltimore in the early to mid-1900s. The interviews cover a range of topics, including housing developement, employment opportunities, entertainment options, ethnic makeups, the civil rights movement, political activity, and rising crime. As interviewer Elaine Eff puts it in her interview with Umberto "Bert" Correlli and Alan Christian,...

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This oral history collection contains interviews with 27 employees and customers of the White Tower restaurant in Baltimore, a hamburger fast food chain, circa 1993-1994. Narrators discuss their memories of White Tower and the social change that took place amid the civil rights movement.