Tag: 1920s

This lovely image of Baltimore Harbor was taken from the air in 1920. Check it out. Source: National Archives

Italian anarchists destroy Mayor William Broening's home with a bomb in 1927. Baltimore was placed on a war basis for protection soon after the explosion.

Now this is one of the cooler maps that we've found. It shows the campus of the Naval Academy in 1924. Source: University of Texas...

If you were fortunate enough to own an automobile in the 1920s, you might take a map like this and explore the countryside outside...

How cool is this high-altitude photograph of the city. Click on it for a much larger version and tell us what you see. The...

Such a sad time ... not being able to drink beer? What a horrible idea Prohibition was. Below is an article that we dug up...

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...

This is a beautiful old photograph from 1925 showing a home in Catonsville. And, it's one that makes you wonder who the people are....

Here's a great photo that we dug up showing Calvin Coolidge attending the unveiling and dedication of the Lafayette Statue in Mount Vernon Place. This...

This is a crazy story that we came across in The Baltimore Sun, not unlike a story we found for Ghosts of DC. This was...

Here's an old photograph from 1926. This is the Second Presbyterian Church at 4200 St. Paul Street. Source: Library of Congress You can't really get this...

Here's a great find from the Maryland State Archives website. It's a detailed plat of Guilford from May 10th, 1926.   Source: Maryland State Archives

Now this is really cool, and you can see how the neighborhood received its name. Pigs! Anyone recognize where this is? Source: Mike Copperthite

Now this is a resourceful young man. The young man is Bernard Logue of 2527 E. Monument St. It appears that the image below...