School No. 23
Wolfe Street and Gough Street, Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1926-1927 (built 1886)
Unidentified photographer
2.75x4.5 inch film negative
Baltimore City Buildings Photograph Collection (Box 3)
Maryland Historical Society
PP236.0841A
PP236.0842A
PP236.0843A
Google Maps Street View of the area today:
Violetville villas
Violetville, Maryland (may be Baltimore City or Baltimore County)
June 13, 1905
John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973)
4x5 inch glass negative
Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC9175 .1
MC9175 .2
Violetville, a neighborhood in southwest Baltimore and Baltimore County, rests on what used to be land owned by Charles Carroll of Carrollton (a signer of the Declaration of Independence). In the 1870s, part of the land was sold to Adam W. Joh, a German farmer, St. Agnes Hospital, and Maryland’s Industrial School by Carroll’s granddaughter, Louisa Caton, AKA the Duchess of Leeds. The city annexed Violetville around 1918-1919.* Violetville was named Best Neighborhood by Baltimore City Paper in 2005. Take a look at the Violetville Community Association page for more information.
The area of Violetville via Google Maps:
*Schidlovsky, J. (1979, Aug. 20). Violetville Prepares Defense of Tranquility. The Baltimore Sun.
Stump, W. (1953, Jan. 11). Man in the Street: Louis Joh. The Baltimore Sun.
Foster Brothers Manufacturing Company
320-325 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1905
Hughes Company
8x10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC7038
Full image and detail. Click to enlarge.
Google Maps Street View of the area today:
National Union Bank
15 East Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1905
Hughes Company
8x10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC7046
Unfortunately, this beautiful building was torn down. Take a look at what replaced it (to the right of the Macht Building):
Longshoremen
Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland
October 1927
A. Aubrey Bodine (1906-1970)
4x5 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
B1361
President Eisenhower throws out the first pitch at home opener, Griffith Stadium
Washington, D.C.
April 15, 1957
Robert F. Kniesche (1906-1976)
4x5 inch negative
Kniesche Photograph Collection
Maryland Historical Society
PP79.1208
Home opener, Washington Senators v. Baltimore Orioles. Also pictured: Chuck Dressen (wearing Senators jersey) and Paul Richards (wearing Orioles jacket).
New Howard Hotel
6 North Howard Street, Baltimore, Maryland
1924
Hughes Company
8x10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC6477
Google Maps Street View of these buildings today:
Post Office addition
Guilford Avenue and Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland
ca. 1910
Hughes Company
8x10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC6991
Google Maps Street View of the area today:
White Coffee Pot
301 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland
Not dated (ca. 1956)
Cronhardt & Sons
8x10 inch gelatin silver print
Triangle Sign Company Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
1982.2.38
Google Maps Street View of the area today:
The Archway Motors sign
300 block, North Hilton Street, near Edmondson Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland
Not dated
Hughes Company
8x10 inch gelatin silver print
Triangle Sign Company Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
1982.2.3
Today this building appears to be the Baltimore City Department of Social Services Hilton Heights Center (Google Maps Street View):
Fish Market
[35 Market Place, Baltimore, Maryland] (Current address)
ca. 1908
Unidentified photographer
Rinn Collection
Maryland Historical Society
PP71.32
Full image with two details. Click to enlarge.
The Fish Market (also known as Centre Market) is now the site of Port Discovery Children’s Museum.
Google Maps Street View of the building today:
Brickyard
Ashland Avenue and Patterson Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland
1913
John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973)
5x7 inch glass negative
Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC9164 .2
Full image and detail. Click to enlarge.
Google Maps Street View of area today:
Watts Drug Company, Inc.
North Eutaw Street and West Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland
1922
Hughes Company
8x10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC7064
Full image and detail. Click to enlarge.
Shows Watts Drug Company, Dr. Varden dentist office sign, and a painted sign for Ford’s Theatre.
Google Maps Street View of area today:
Market scene
Bond Street ? and Charles Street ?, Baltimore, Maryland
1937
Robert F. Kniesche
4x5 inch acetate negative
Kniesche Photograph Collection
Maryland Historical Society
PP79.547.1
The photograph was described as “Bond Street and Charles Street” but based on this Google Map, those streets do not intersect. It could have been described this way because A). Someone read the description incorrectly; or B). Those streets intersected at one point.
Hochschild Kohn building
North Howard Street, Baltimore, Maryland
Not dated
Unidentified photographer
7.5 x 9.25 gelatin silver print
Triangle Sign Company Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
1982.2.1
Before their store at York Road and Belvedere Avenue, Hochschild Kohn opened a department store on North Howard Street, near Lexington Street. They were Baltimore’s first local downtown department store and the first to abandon this area. Read more about the department store in Baltimore Style Magazine.
Google Maps Street View of area today:
