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Leonora Jackson: “A Name that Will Live in Musical History”
Leonora Jackson, ca 1900, PP306.023, MdHS (reference photo) Although largely forgotten today, violinist Leonora Jackson was among a group of pioneering female classical musicians who broke down a...
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Curtis W. Jacobs’ Diary and Account Book, 1854–1866
Shortly past noon today, April 19, 2018, the niggling “we are forgetting something” hovering on the edges of our brains suddenly took shape. It is 157 years since Union troops on their way to...
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“Happy play in grassy places:” Baltimore’s Playgrounds in Photographs, 1911-1936
Children at Patterson Park, August 1916, Harry B. Leopold, Bureau of Recreation Photograph Collection, BCLM Collection,1966.3.786, MdHS. Happy play in grassy places; That was how in ancient ages...
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Carlin’s Park: “Baltimore’s Million Dollar Playground”
Large pagoda-like structures welcomed visitors to the park. Carlin’s Park Entrance, undated, Lydia Livingston Keys, MC8813-8, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Maryland Historical Society. On...
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The Tale of John Brown’s Letter Book
John Brown’s Letter Book, 1859, MS 155, MdHS (reference photo) The Maryland Historical Society has in its collection a small, tattered letter book written in the hand of famed abolitionist John Brown....
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Scattered across the Globe and the Political Spectrum: The Tilghman Family in...
Tench Tilghman can be seen with George Washington in this Charles Willson Peale painting. George Washington and his generals at Yorktown. Oil on canvas by Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1781. 1845.3.1....
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Researching Curious Revolutionaries at MdHS
The Lord Baltimore Fellowship was a wonderful way to expand my own research on the history of fossil display in museums, and curatorial research on the Peale family for the American Philosophical...
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Tracing the Travels of Maryland’s African Americans
American Colonization Society’s Warehouse, Monrovia. Unidentified photographer. Not dated. 9 x 12 inch photograph printAmerican Colonization Society / Liberia Collection. PP161-I-24 , MdHS. In high...
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Wallis Warfield Simpson: Baltimore’s Would-Be Queen
“Duke and Duchess of Windsor.” Unknown photographer, undated. MS 1772, MdHS. (Reference photo) On December 11, 1936, Britain’s king made a live broadcast on BBC Radio in which he publicly abdicated...
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Claire McCardell: In Print & Out of the Box
[Figure 1] Portrait of Claire McCardell, photograph by Shelburne Studios, undated, PP238.11.012 (Reference Photo). Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Claire McCardell...
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