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Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore
This is a photo of the Helen Delich Port located along the Patapsco River. This photo of the port, one of largest in the U.S., was taken in 1849. Today, the port handles a...
This is a photo of the Helen Delich Port located along the Patapsco River. This photo of the port, one of largest in the U.S., was taken in 1849. Today, the port handles a...
I came across this ad from 1969 for a restaurant chain called Gino’s Hamburgers. The fast food chain was founded in 1957 by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche....
Interesting photo. This guy has to be ridiculously tired to sleep there. Source: Shorpy
Read’s Drug Store was a Baltimore based chain of drug stores founded in the 1800’s by William Read. The downtown store was one of the first stores involved in the country’s very first anti-segregation...
This is a photo from 1909 showing a boy picking berries near Baltimore. Maybe he was in the previous photo that we posted here. Source: U.S. National Archives
What a cool photo! This shows Woodrow Wilson with his buddies on the Johns Hopkins Glee Club in 1883. Source: Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Flickr
Here’s a beautiful old photograph from 1887 of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Today, it’s called Lovely Lane United Methodist Church. Source: Cornell University Flickr
Here’s a cool old map of part of Anne Arundel County from 1877. Source: Library of Congress
What a beautiful old photograph of Memorial Stadium. Source: Library of Congress
Now this is totally fascinating. This is an advertisement that we found in The Baltimore Sun printed on February 13th, 1912. And, as you can see, it’s for the voyage that Titanic never made from...