Starting in circa 1850, the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) photographic collection contains well over one million items including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, albumen prints, salted paper prints, acetate negatives, and more. Photographs are part of MdHS's Special Collections Department, H. Furlong Baldwin Library.
Digital reproductions of originals are property of MdHS. For image reproduction and permission info: MdHS Imaging Services. Feel free to share these images with proper citation.
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Curated by Jennifer A. Ferretti (former Curator of Photographs, MdHS). I am not an MdHS employee and in no way represent the institution. All views are my own.
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Fidelity Trust Company building (showing water curtain)
Charles Street and Lexington Street, Baltimore
ca. 1915
Hughes Company
8x10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC7207 .1
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curtain was an invention to protect skyscrapers from the dangers of nearby fires in the aftermath of the 1904
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