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Glenn DavisThree Worst Acquisitions in Orioles History4 min readAI-colorized version: Orthopedic patients gather outside a Fort McHenry ward; several use crutches and one is seated in a wheelchair.When Fort McHenry Became a Hospital for Wounded Soldiers4 min readWorkers 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 read
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AI-colorized historical photograph of Hubert Latham in a cap and flight clothing, seated at the steering wheel of an Antoinette monoplane.The Day Hubert Latham Flew Over Baltimore and Half a Million People Looked UpGutted brick walls and heaps of rubble left by the Great Baltimore Fire, with surviving buildings behind themThe Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, From the Hurst Building to Jones FallsThree-story brick Collegiate Gothic school building with broken windows on a West Baltimore street corner, 1988Frederick Douglass High School: Baltimore’s First Black Public High SchoolSam Crane, the Former Oriole Convicted of a 1929 Double Murder
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Johns Hopkins Hospital’s domed buildings behind a lawn and fence, with a streetcar and overhead wires in front.Johns Hopkins Hospital: Its Design and Early Images2 min read
The American Brewery’s ornate towers, arched windows and main entrance, photographed in 1973.The Brewery Behind the Towers on Gay Street2 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 readBaltimore rooftops and chimneys with the Washington Monument rising at the right and church towers in the distance.The Washington Monument Above a City of Rooftops1 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 read