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.
jferretti@mdhs.org
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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Enoch Pratt Library
Mulberry Street, Baltimore
ca. 1907
John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973)
5 x 7 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC9057
Enoch Pratt Library opened the Central Library on January 5, 1886. Within three months, the library would open four more branches in Baltimore. Read more about the history of the Pratt Library, one of the the oldest free public library systems in the United States.
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