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Exploring History Through Images from the Library of Congress

Historic American Buildings Survey E. H. Pickering, Photographer June 1936 VIEW FROM NORTHEAST - Waterloo Row, 606-628 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Explore the past and present through images from the Library of Congress. See the difference between a painting from the 1830s and a photograph of the same area in the 1930s.
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Check out these great images from the Library of Congress. The first one is a painting from the 1830s, and the second, a photograph of the same area in the 1930s.

Historic American Buildings Survey E. H. Pickering, Photographer June 1936 FROM A WATER COLOR PAINTED IN 1831, CATER COLLECTION, NUMBER 181; ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - Waterloo Row, 606-628 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Historic American Buildings Survey E. H. Pickering, Photographer June 1936 FROM A WATER COLOR PAINTED IN 1831, CATER COLLECTION, NUMBER 181; ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Waterloo Row, 606-628 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Historic American Buildings Survey E. H. Pickering, Photographer June 1936 VIEW FROM NORTHEAST - Waterloo Row, 606-628 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Historic American Buildings Survey E. H. Pickering, Photographer June 1936 VIEW FROM NORTHEAST – Waterloo Row, 606-628 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

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Suggested Reading

July 1938. "Man who lives in row house. Baltimore, Maryland." Walkies, anyone? Photo by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration.
A Man Who Lives in a Row House in Baltimore, Maryland in 1938 (with Photo)
July 1938. "Rear of grocery store in Baltimore." Only hinting at the delights that await within. Medium format nitrate negative by John Vachon.
Take a Trip Back in Time to 1938 with a Photo of an Old Grocery Store
West Lexington looking northeast - 310, 308, 304 West Lexington
Exploring the 300 Block of West Lexington in the 1980s
St. Mary's Seminary, Mother Seton's House, 600 North Paca Street, Baltimore (1936)
The Transformation of Mother Seton's House at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore (1936)

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