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Workers laying streetcar tracks at Howard and Saratoga streets, looking north, June 23, 1914.Laying Streetcar Tracks at Howard and Saratoga in 19141 min readRows of white Chesapeake Bay steamboats tied up along the Baltimore harbor, with the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower and downtown buildings behindBefore Harborplace: The Light Street Wharves and the Working Basin8 min readSun graphic of the 1979 Camden Yards plan: a block map lettered A to K between Pratt and Hill streets, with a sketch of the planned office towers, hotel and housingThe Camden Yards That Almost Was: Baltimore’s $170 Million Plan, 1979-19848 min readFront and profile prison photographs of Al Capone, balding and in a prison shirt, with a placard reading No. 397-CAL Terminal Island 1-7-39Al Capone in Baltimore: His Four Months After Prison, 1939-408 min read
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The tall Hotel Rennert with a cupola and awnings rises behind trees, beside a neighboring ivy-covered house, across a cobblestone street in Baltimore.The Hotel Rennert, Where Maryland’s Democratic Bosses Held CourtGlenn DavisThree Worst Acquisitions in Orioles HistoryEvening Sun front-page photo headed Where Bomb Damaged Mayor's Home, showing the wrecked rear of the Broening house, August 6, 1927The 1927 Bombing of Mayor Broening’s Home in BaltimoreA small blue-and-white plane lodged in the upper deck of Memorial Stadium, seen between the goalpostsThe Day a Plane Crashed Into Memorial Stadium
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A boy smoking a cigarette while seated on wooden steps beside an open doorway.A Boy on the Steps, Baltimore in 19381 min read
A detailed bird’s-eye drawing of Baltimore with harbor piers and boats in the foreground and downtown streets extending into the distance.Baltimore Rebuilt, Seen From Above in 19121 min readThe German merchant submarine Deutschland off Baltimore in July 1916, crew on deck and a tug pouring smoke alongsideThe German Submarine That Docked at Locust Point in 19168 min readPortrait of Thomas F. McNulty with a large mustache and white bow tie, 1914Tom McNulty, Baltimore’s Singing Sheriff9 min readSeated studio portrait of John Wilkes Booth holding a cane, with a handwritten inscription above.Before the Infamy: John Wilkes Booth’s Baltimore Debut3 min read