Tag: 1910s

This cool old photo shows the Homewood Apartment Building at East 31st Street and North Charles Street, taken sometime in the 1910s. Source: Flickr & UMBC...

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...

Check out this fascinating old map of Baltimore's waterfront industries from almost 100 years ago. Click on it for more details. Source: Library of Congress

Check out this great old postcard of Baltimore from 1914. It shows what was then called McLane Place, now the intersection of Baltimore and...

Here is a beautiful old photo of the Lubins Theatre, which I believe is on the 400 block of East Baltimore St. You can...

Here's a great series of photos of the Baltimore waterfront from the early 20th century. Source: Library of Congress

Here is a great old photo from the Maryland Historical Society. This is a terrific resource, and you should think about donating to them...

Remember the post we did a while ago about the German sub that visited Baltimore Harbor during World War I? It was the Deutschland in 1916, before...

Continuing the Prohibition theme for this week, here's an article that we dug up from The Baltimore Sun, printed on November 28th, 1918. Remember that Prohibition started...

You read that correctly. This is a ghastly accident that we read about in The Baltimore Sun, printed on May 8th, 1911. Falling between freight cars...

Here's an advertisement for the Southern Hotel opening in 1918, printed in The Washington Times. The building was located at 14 Light St., but sadly...

Wow. This is amazing. Click on it for a much larger version. Source: Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library

Check this out. It shows Teddy Roosevelt in Baltimore on September 28th, 1918 for the fourth Liberty Loan campaign at the old Oriole Baseball...

Now this is totally fascinating. This is an advertisement that we found in The Baltimore Sun printed on February 13th, 1912. And, as you can...