A Video of the Area Before Camden Yards

We posted some cool old photos of the area during construction last week. Here’s a great video that we dug up from around the same time.

Source: Kevin Mueller

More from Ghosts of Baltimore

Historic American Buildings Survey, From an old photo, DISTANT VIEW (Left to right, Church at Calvert and Pleasant Streets and First Unitarian Church, Charles and Franklin Streets) - Washington Monument, Mount Vernon Place & Washington, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Skyline in the 1870s

March 31, 2014

Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie theatre

Lined Up Outside Movie Theater

January 8, 2014

July 1938. Man sleeping in the Baltimore fish market. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Dick Sheldon for the Farm Security Administration.

Man Sleeps With the Fishes

December 12, 2013

Amazing Lost Baltimore Streetcars

February 21, 2019

Baltimore Kids in the Winter of 1961

January 31, 2014

Baltimore Sun - December 30th, 1839

Reward: Strayed or Stolen Horse

December 27, 2013

Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features various views of Baltimore prior to 1853. The center view is from Federal Hill but differs somewhat from others in the collection taken from the same point. From the upper left corner, in clockwise order, the small surrounding views are as follows: Washington Monument, Market-Street, Broadway, City Hotel and Battle Monument, Odd Fellows Hall, St. Paul's Church, Exchange Hotel, Calvert Street City Spring, Lighthouse and Fort McHenry, Gateway of Greenmount Cemetery, The Cathedral, St. Alphonsus Church and Zion's Church. The Market Street scene in upper row is a miniature replica of the Market Street print in this collection, Cator Print number 168. The Odd Fellows Hall at Gay and Fayette Streets was built in 1831 and enlarged in 1843. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1817 after designs by Robert Cary Long, was destroyed by fire in 1854. It stood on the site of the present St. Paul's Church which was built immediately thereafter. Among the other prominent structures shown, Old Zion Church, St. Alphonsus Church and Greenmount Cemetery gateway are standing today. The view of the harbor was made from the landward side of the Lazaretto.

Look at Baltimore in 1853

April 13, 2015

Lovely 1920s Film Footage of Baltimore’s Pigtown

April 8, 2019

Johns Hopkins hospital in 1903

Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1903

September 5, 2013

Complete circle view of Baltimore from the Emerson Tower in 1913

Wow! 360-Degree View of Baltimore from Emerson Tower (1913)

September 3, 2013

1801 Warner & Hanna map of Baltimore

1801 Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore

September 12, 2013

1912 bird's-eye view of Baltimore

Incredibly Detailed 1912 Bird’s-Eye View of Baltimore

September 20, 2013

German U-Boat Deutschland (1916)

German U-Boat Deutschland Arrives in Baltimore (1916)

September 30, 2013

Trash and Old Tires Litter the Shore at the Middle Branch of Baltimore Harbor, 01/1973.

This is What Baltimore Harbor Looked Like in 1973

September 19, 2013