Here's a photo which appears to be from some time in the 19th century. Historic American Buildings Survey, From an old photo, DISTANT VIEW (Left to right, Church at Calvert and Pleasant Streets...
Faces & Places of Yesterday, The Best Of / 30.09.2013
German U-Boat Deutschland Arrives in Baltimore (1916)
This is a pretty interesting piece of history. In July 1916, the German Merchant Marine U-Boat Deutschland arrived in Baltimore. Source: Kevin Mueller The submarine Deutschland arrived in port on July...
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Faces & Places of Yesterday, The Best Of / 19.09.2013
This is What Baltimore Harbor Looked Like in 1973
This is bleak. Times were tough in the 1970s. Here's a shot of what Baltimore Harbor looked like in 1973. Trash and Old Tires Litter the Shore at the Middle Branch of Baltimore...
What a great old antebellum map of Baltimore and the county. This one is from 1857 and we dug it up at the Library of Congress. Map of the city and county of...
What an incredible old map. This is Warner & Hanna's map of the city in 1801. Source: Johns Hopkins Library...
Faces & Places of Yesterday, Featured, The Best Of / 10.09.2013
Wow … Incredible Colorized Photo of Boy in Slums (1938)
Source: Jordan Lloyd And here's a link to the original....
This is absolutely amazing. We found the original advertisement in the Baltimore Sun for John Wilkes Booth's acting debut in Richard III. The play was at the Charles Street Theatre on Tuesday, August 14th, 1855.
Photos like this are the reason we love doing this blog. And, what makes it even better is that the building is still around. Thank God for architectural preservation. This is a photo of the old...
Here is another great photo from the Library of Congress. It shows the hospital at Johns Hopkins in 1903. Source: Library of Congress...
Faces & Places of Yesterday, The Best Of / 03.09.2013
Wow! 360-Degree View of Baltimore from Emerson Tower (1913)
This is amazing ...