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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Houses
Columbia Pike, Ellicott City, Maryland
August 1936
E.H. Pickering
Historic American Building Survey Collection
Maryland Historical Society
PP85.228.E
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I can’t say with complete certainty but it seems this photograph was taken on what is now called Old Columbia Pike in Ellicott City, before it meets Frederick Road/Main Street. The Google Maps Street View below seems to be just about where the original photograph was taken.
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