The Baltimore Harbour, in Maryland, circa 1930. News Photo Getty Images


HOWARD & LEXINGTON STREETS 1930s Historic baltimore, Baltimore city

Resources for locating maps and understanding the mapping of Baltimore City:. Elkridge (1930 Census) 6.2 Horace E. Wennagle: home 24 Mallowhill Ave (1929 directory) 5th district, 28th ward 6.3 John J. Ghingher, Bank Commissioner of Maryland: MD Bank Comm in Union Trust Building (1933 Md Manual) Baltimore and St. Paul (1930 directory) 1st.


Hamilton in the 1930s Historic baltimore, Baltimore city, Old photos

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.. 18th century. 1729 - Town of Baltimore founded.; 1752 - 25 houses and 200 inhabitants. 1763 - Mechanical Fire Company organized. 1767 - Baltimore designated county seat.; 1770 - Henry Fite House built. 1773 - Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser newspaper begins publication.


Md. Historical Society Photographs

For those studying Baltimore's social, economic, and redevelopment history,. 1930 and 1940 population figures on race and foreign-born are also included along with a clever tool that highlights grading and density outward from the city centers. The subscription, database PolicyMap also recently added a new section called Historic Lending.


Howard & Lexington shopping district, 1930s Historic baltimore

The Emden in 1928. Credit: German Federal Archives. Reports that the Nazi warship Emden would soon arrive in Baltimore on a goodwill tour began appearing in area newspapers in April 1936. The.


1930s Photo of the Baltimore Basilica Somewhere In Time, Baltimore Md

Baltimore was the origin of a major railroad workers' strike in 1877 when the B&O company attempted to lower wages. On July 20, 1877, Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll called up the 5th and 6th Regiments of the National Guard to end the strikes, which had disrupted train service at Cumberland in western Maryland.


19301965 The Great Depression and World War II Baltimore’s Civil

The following institutions hold microfilm of City Directories of the United States 1861-1930: Baltimore County Public Library. You can also view many of these City Directories through paid subscriptions to Ancestry.com, Fold3.com, and others. List compiled by Malissa Ruffner, Amy James, and Owen Lourie


1935 Aerial Photo of Baltimore 1930s Aerial photo, Aerial, Aerial view

1930-1965: The Great Depression and World War II From the 1930s through the 1960s, African Americans in Baltimore, joined by some White supporters, organized and pursued a renewed campaign of protests fighting for equal employment and education at home in Baltimore and around the country.


Baltimore Inner Harbor, '1930 Historic baltimore, Baltimore city

Source: BG&E Collection, Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE.12679 ~ Date: October 10, 1939. James R. Edmunds built two great urban hospitals. University Hospital (1936), a sleek moderne tower, was the best Baltimore example of its style, and is still impressive despite its many accretions. Women's Hospital in Bolton Hill (1939, now MICA's.


The Baltimore Harbour, in Maryland, circa 1930. News Photo Getty Images

Aubrey Bodine / Baltimore Sun. A 1930s view of the Peabody Institute in Mount Vernon. Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun. The York Road underpass, built in 1930, became obsolete when the trains stopped.


Vintage Baltimore Maryland Postcard The New Viaduct And Skyline, A C

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University's Center on Society and Health have found that Baltimore neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s still have lower rates of homeownership and.


Baltimore in the 1930s Archives Page 2 of 4 Ghosts of Baltimore

1935, Jan. 5. Baltimore Trust Company went into receivership under John D. Hospelhorn. 1935, June 8. Maryland Thoroughbred Omaha won Triple Crown like his father, 1930 winner Gallant Fox, marking first time a father and son won title.. 1935, June 18. In Murray v.Pearson et al., Baltimore City Court ordered integration of University of Maryland School of Law.


Where Are These Row Houses? 1930s Baltimore Waterfront, Baltimore City

Two-way traffic and a street car move along Charles Street above the south-side tracks at Pennsylvania Station in the 1930s.. A section of the old Baltimore Basin was filled and a parking area.


A Picture of the Baltimore Basilica From the 1930s Ghosts of Baltimore

Heroes Members of the Kamaradschaftsbund of Baltimore, German Day, 1937 (Baltimore Sun) Our Town What the rise of Nazism looked like in Baltimore during the 1930s By Andrew Holter A few years ago.


Cathedral looking north from Center Street, 1930s Historic baltimore

City of Neighborhoods (1850-1950) II. City of Neighborhoods (1850-1950) Anderson, Alan D. The Origin and Resolution of an Urban Crisis: Baltimore 1900-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women during World War II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.


10 Light Street Baltimore,Md. circa 1930 Historic baltimore

Like many twentieth-century maritime ports, Baltimore had a significant liquor and grain trade prior to prohibition. 2 The industry held such importance that Maryland, as a state, passed few laws enacting the federal prohibition mandate and enforcement was uneven. 3 This led to a prolific underground liquor industry including a number of prominent speakeasies such as The Owl Bar, located in.


400 block, Howard Street (west side north from Lexington Street

In the late 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) created "residential security maps" for over 200 American cities as part of the federal government's program of housing and mortgage relief. These maps analyzed the level of risk of lending for mortgages (and similar services such as homeowners' insurance) in various neighborhoods within each city, with a scale running Green.