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Dockworkers on payday, children on their front steps and streets before the buildings changed. These photographs show Baltimore at work and at home.

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Dockworkers gathered beside a waterfront building, with the steamship Bodo and horse-drawn wagons behind them.Payday on Baltimore’s WaterfrontMar 11, 2023Baltimore Shipyard Workers on a Break in 1943Mar 4, 2023An aerial view of what is now considered the Inner Harbor shot October 20, 1948. (Robert F. Kniesche/Baltimore Sun)Baltimore Harbor from Above in 1948Mar 1, 2023

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1920 view of Baltimore Harbor from the airCurtis Bay from the Air in 1920Feb 27, 2023Outdoor Market Stalls on Eutaw Street in the 1920sFeb 22, 2023Baltimore at Night from Emerson Tower in the 1920sApr 30, 2019A Class at the Boys’ Latin School of MarylandApr 29, 2019The B&O Railroad Terminus at Locust PointApr 25, 2019Baltimore Harbor from Federal Hill in 1872Apr 14, 2019
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