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Baltimore in an 1837 Drawing

A drawing from the Library of Congress presents a view of Baltimore in 1837.

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Baltimore in 1837
Baltimore in 1837. Source: Library of Congress.

This is pretty cool. It’s a drawing that we dug up at the Library of Congress, showing Baltimore as it looked back in 1837.

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