Ghosts of BaltimoreThe lost and untold stories of Baltimore

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Faces & Places of Yesterday

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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Baltimore Row Houses in April 1939Apr 11, 2019Bell & Bro. photograph of Baltimore Harbor, with people on a hillsideBaltimore Harbor Around 1870Mar 20, 2019Introducing Baltimore's new trackless trolley with vest pocket guide to the Caroline-Preston-Gilmor St. no. 21 line, in effect, March 6, 1938A Pocket Guide to Baltimore’s Trackless Trolley in 1938Mar 15, 2019Baltimore Jitneys in the 1910sMar 12, 2019Baltimore Streetcars in 1915Feb 21, 2019An Imperial Airways Flying Boat Over Baltimore in 1937Feb 20, 2019Homewood Apartment BuildingThe Homewood Apartment Building in the 1910sJul 10, 2018Annapolis view in 1896Annapolis and Eastport in 1896Apr 19, 2018Baltimore from the sky in 1932Baltimore from the Air on July 7, 1932Feb 25, 2018
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