Fried Scrapple for 15 Cents!

Here’s a cool old photo taken in April of 1939. It shows restaurant signs on Baltimore St. Some pretty good prices!

Baltimore, Maryland. Restaurant sign on Baltimore street (1939)

Source: Library of Congress

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sunset over Ft. McHenry in 1906

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1801 Warner & Hanna map of Baltimore

1801 Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore

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Annapolis view in 1896

Lovely 1896 Aerial View of Annapolis

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This map is Plate No. 25 from a J.H. Colton atlas that we believed was published in 1857. Copyright statement on map: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." On verso: "The District of Columbia", text on three columns.

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1853 Towson Town Plan

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Complete circle view of Baltimore from the Emerson Tower in 1913

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Map of the city and county of Baltimore, Maryland. From original surveys by J.C. Sidney, C.E.

1857 Map of the City and County of Baltimore

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1912 bird's-eye view of Baltimore

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Wiessner Brewery, 1700 North Gay Street, Baltimore

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German U-Boat Deutschland (1916)

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Lovely 1920s Film Footage of Baltimore’s Pigtown

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