This old photo from sometime in the 1990s shows the beloved old Memorial Stadium from the inside. The field is overgrown and the not a soul in the stands. Source: Library of Congress...
Here is a series of photos that we fond on Flickr that show Baltimore as it looked in the 1980s. The photos below were taken on November 25th, 1987 Baltimore's Business and Government...
This is one of those great photos of regular life in Baltimore. It shows a group of young men getting ready for tip-off in a game of basketball in 1935. B&W photograph of...
This is a photo looking down the 500 block of S. Glover St. around 1930. What's really cool is that the homes are still there and look pretty much the same except for the entrance steps...
This is a fascinating map from 1838, showing a potential route for a canal between Baltimore and Washington. Source: Library of Congress...
This is a travel map of Baltimore from 1848. Click on it for a larger version. Source: University of Texas Libraries...
What a terrific old map. We have struck a gold mine of excellent cartographic material with the Johns Hopkins digital collection. This one shows Baltimore in 1872. Click on it for a much larger, detailed version.
We posted this photo a while back, but now have a clearer version to share with you. Click on it for a much larger version. Circa 1903. "Baltimore from Federal Hill." A freight...
Such a sad time ...
How cool is this? What a great find on Ancestry.com. We came across the Bambino's 1920 application for a passport that fall, because he was traveling to Cuba to play in some barnstorming games. According to sources...
This isn't from the distant past, but I had to share it because it's such a cool image of Baltimore. The photo below was taken by NASA from the International Space Station on October 16th, 2012....
Here's an interesting old advertisement that we dug up in The Baltimore Sun. This was printed on December 30th, 1839. ...
Check out this great old postcard of Johns Hopkins Hospital. The date is unknown, but I'm guessing it was somewhere in the early 1900s. Source: National Institutes of Health...
The date on this photo is somewhere in the latter half of the 19th century. Maybe somewhere in the 1870s? What do you think? Source: Library of Congress...