1920s
Night views from Emerson Tower and photographs of schools and markets sit alongside newspaper stories about Baltimore in the 1920s.
Baltimore tried a traffic light you could change by honking your horn. The Sun even reported a barking dog setting one off.
Tom McNulty, the campaign singer in our logo, challenged a zero-vote return in 1911 and became Baltimore’s sheriff two years later.
The papers made celebrities of the Candy Kid and the Tiger Girl, but we went looking for Robert H. Holtman, the Maryland Penitentiary guard who died after the 1925 escape.
How Sam Crane went from Jack Dunn’s Orioles to two murder convictions in Pennsylvania, and why Connie Mack spent years trying to get him out.
Police chased three theories about who bombed Mayor William F. Broening’s Forest Park home in 1927, and none of them led to an arrest.
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Rod Stewart went home with one of its paintings. For 73 years, Haussner’s in Highlandtown served sauerbraten under gilt frames stacked to the ceiling.
The story of Maryland’s first public high school for Black students, from two added grades in the Peale building on Holliday Street in 1883 to the alumni who made it famous.
A photograph of Bernard Logue on a homemade bicycle leads to a 1984 newspaper account of his family’s Baltimore bicycle shops.
An aerial photograph labeled Curtis Bay records part of Baltimore’s harbor in 1920.
An old photograph shared by Mike shows pigs in Pigtown, while film footage offers another view of the neighborhood.
Old photographs show outdoor stalls on Eutaw Street at Marion and another market view at Lexington.
An old photograph looks across Baltimore’s night skyline from Emerson Tower in the 1920s.
This high-altitude photograph records an aerial view of Baltimore in 1927.
This road map shows Maryland during the 1920s, when motorists could use it to navigate beyond Baltimore.
An old view shows the French Consulate at Charles and Centre streets in the 1920s, paired with a later street-view comparison.
An old class photograph shows boys attending the Boys’ Latin School of Maryland.
A February 1, 1921 photograph records the Pennsylvania Railroad’s grain elevator in Canton.
This Annapolis map records Naval Academy grounds and improvements through June 1924.
Prohibition agents seized a shipment labeled as cereal from a vessel arriving at a Pratt Street wharf from Philadelphia.
A photograph from about 1925 leads to census records, a draft card and an obituary for William J. Hunt of Catonsville.