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Amazing Lost Baltimore Streetcars

  • February 21, 2019
Incredible series of photos from 1915 showing Baltimore streetcars across the city. Published by the president of the United Railways & Electric Company.
Photo shows cafe at 626 E. Baltimore Street and store at 628 E. Baltimore Street (Source: Baltimore Sun, Nov. 27, 1939, p. 14)

Check Out East Baltimore Street in 1939

  • December 29, 2017
This cool old photo shows the 600 block of East Baltimore Street back in April of 1939. Click on it to see more details. Source: Library of Congress Here is the same view today...
Annapolis, Maryland, 1917. "Graduation exercises, U.S. Naval Academy." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

Naval Academy Graduation in 1917

  • August 21, 2016
This great old photo shows graduation festivities at the Naval Academy back in 1917. What a stunning photo. Source: Shorpy This was also cross-posted on our sister-site, Cool Old Photos.
South Charles Street, looking north, Baltimore. Charles Center area. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Building on left side. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Collection. Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, 8x10 glass, Box 3. Note: Reference photograph.

Then and Now: Looking Up South Charles Street in 1905

  • February 9, 2015
Here’s a great show looking up Charles Street in 1905. Source: Maryland Historical Society Here’s the same view up South Charles Street today. You can see the Baltimore and Ohio Building still stands in this...

1896 Map of Reservoir Hill, Penn North, Bolton Hill, and Druid Heights

  • February 12, 2014
This is a cool old map from 1896. Check it out and click on it for a larger version. Source: Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library Here’s the same area on a Google Map today. [googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=39.308535,-76.630669&spn=0.024074,0.045104&t=m&z=15&output=embed]
Colonel Hawkins

Confederate Officer’s Opinion of Lincoln’s Assassination

  • November 14, 2013
This is an interesting, short article from The Baltimore Sun, printed on April 27th, 1865. It’s a letter to the newspaper from a Confederate officer, imprisoned at Camp Chase in Ohio after the end of...
The City of Baltimore / sketched and drawn by C.R. Parsons. (1880)

1880 Bird’s-Eye View of the Baltimore

  • October 31, 2013
How cool is this print? This bird’s-eye view of the city was done in 1880. Source: Library of Congress
Baltimore Sun advertisement October 22nd, 1853

Giles’ European Hotel Advertisement (1853)

  • October 22, 2013
Here’s an old advertisement from 160 years ago today, printed in The Baltimore Sure. This is for the Giles’ European Hotel at 124 Baltimore Street.
This double-ended, 1918 vintage Baltimore Traction Company Brill streetcar has just begun its in-bound journey from Ellicott City, Maryland, heading east to Baltimore on the No. 9 line. Positioned here at 8304 Main Street, car 5706 is about to plunge down a fairly steep grade (about 5%) that bottoms out at the Patapsco River crossing seen here. It must climb a longer but less arduous slope on the other side.

Ellicott City Trolley (1955)

  • October 17, 2013
Here are a couple cool old photos that we dug up on Shorpy. It’s a vintage 1910s streetcar running in 1955. Source: Shorpy Source: Shorpy
1801 Warner & Hanna map of Baltimore

1801 Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore

  • September 12, 2013
What an incredible old map. This is Warner & Hanna’s map of the city in 1801. Source: Johns Hopkins Library