Maryland on Film @ MdHS on Oct. 13th
Maryland on Film The MdHS library has compiled approximately two hours of footage from eight films from our collections to be screened as part of Free Fall Baltimore on Saturday, October 13. Screenings...
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“I feel strange—but its a grand occasion,” said MdHS President George L. Radcliffe, dressed in a bushy brown wig, yellow-plumed black hat, tunic, and breeches of Cecilius Calvert, as he stood with...
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Movember at MdHS
It’s Movember, so here’s a contest! As you may have heard November is Movember, which is national mustache month. The Movember Foundation seeks to raise awareness about prostate cancer and other male...
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41st Annual Monument Lighting and MdHS Open House
An image of the Washington Monument from Mayor William Donald Schaefer’s 1973 holiday card. Original pen and ink drawn by Baltimore artist Betty Wells. Ephemera, Series I, MdHS. Like so much of the...
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Everyday People: Paul Henderson Collection Goes to City Hall
Can you identify these sharply dressed young men? “Two Unknown Young Men,” MdHS, HEN.08.01-004. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Imaging Services Department at MdHS. Through some wild...
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Sunday Best: a volunteer reflects on photo crowdsourcing
Last week the Maryland Historical Society opened a satellite photograph exhibit, “Paul Henderson: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs,” at Baltimore’s City Hall. The show marks our latest...
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A Stitch in Time: Replicating the Star-Spangled Banner 1964-2013
Recently while processing the Hutzler Photograph Collection,* the library staff came across a familiar scene: patriotic stitchers sewing an immense American flag. THEN: Flag seamstresses circa 1964....
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Return of the Whipping Post: Mining the Museum
(This is the second part of a two part series – The first part of the story was posted on October 3, 2013 and can be read here.) Artist Fred Wilson in front of a 1904 dollhouse, part of one of the...
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“Home-made wines made of dandelions”: Prohibition in Maryland
Are these men drinking plain old apple cider or enjoying some harder stuff?Drinking cider, November 30, 1930, A.Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, MC8277-32, MdHS. This Saturday...
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Baltimore and the Age of the Bicycle
The city of Baltimore grew up in the Age of the Bicycle. The introduction of the first precursor to the bicycle, the Draisine or hobby-horse of 1818, corresponds with Baltimore’s triumphant entry onto...
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43rd Annual Monument Lighting and MdHS Open House
An image of the Washington Monument from Mayor Schaefer’s 1973 holiday card. Original pen and ink drawn by Baltimoer artist Betty Wells. Ephemera, Series I, MdHS Like so much of the City of Baltimore,...
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Facing the Great War: World War I and the Beginnings of Modern Rehabilitation
The Maryland Historical Society will partner with the National Park Service and the Baltimore School for the Arts to produce Facing the Great War, three original short plays performed by BSA’s...
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Designing the Washington Monument
An early design by Mills. Washington Monument, Elevation of Front by Robert Mills. Washington Monument Competition. From MS 876: Washington Monument Papers, 1810-1843. MdHS, 1991-49-3. This...
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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte – The Woman I Have Come to Know
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, oil on panel by Francois Kinsoen, 1817. MdHS, XX.5.72. Elizabeth “Betsy” Patterson Bonaparte was just another name to me when I arrived at MdHS in 2012 as a volunteer...
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Maryland on Film II: Free Fall/Bird Flu edition
Choo! We think our birds have the flu. Neither the O’s nor the Ravens can catch a break lately, so why not spend Saturday watching free movies, eating free popcorn, perusing a massive book sale, and...
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When Maryland Almost Got Philadelphia: The Remarkable Story of the...
Detail of Charles Mason’s and Jeremiah Dixon’s A Plan of the Boundary Lines between the Province of Maryland and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware… Engraved by Henry Dawkins and James Smither....
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A sneak preview of “Paul Henderson: Photographing Morgan (1947–1955)”
Underbelly presents this sneak preview ahead of the opening of the Maryland Historical Society’s popular traveling exhibition of the work of photojournalist Paul Henderson. Paul Henderson:...
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The Mastodon in the Museum
Reproduction of the Mastodon bones excavated by Charles Willson Peale on display at the Maryland Historical Society. The great hall of the Maryland Historical Society is graced with the presence of a...
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History Engaging Youth: Studying Civil Rights History in Maryland
Students from St. Charles High School in Waldorf visited the Historical Society in March and analyzed original documents about their local community such as this account book from the late 19th century...
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#AskAnArchivist Day is October 5th!
Let us know all of your burning questions!! October is American Archives Month! The Maryland Historical Society Library staff will be celebrating our amazing collections all month long and connecting...
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