Smallpox Victim

“This Man Was Never Vaccinated Against Smallpox,” Baltimore Health News 16, no. 2 (Nov. 1939).

Source: learnnc | Image provided by Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College. | LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education | New York State Department of Health Photograph

History

Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day). Crowd gathered outside Hochschild-Kohn and Company. Howard Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Blakeslee Lane, August 14, 1945.

               Source:   mdhs | Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department, Maryland Historical Society

Harry Houdini

Crowd watching Harry Houdini, Over 500,000 people gathered in front of the Sun Building to watch Harry Houdini hang upside-down, 50 feet above the ground, for the two and a half minutes it took for him to escape from a straitjacket, Charles Street, Baltimore, April 26, 1916

mdhsphotographs | Baltimore City Life Museum Collection | Maryland Historical Society

Vintage Photo

Regent Theater employees, 1627 Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore, September 1948 

Source: mdhsphotographs | Paul Henderson Photograph Collection | Baltimore City Life Museum Collection | Maryland Historical Society

Ruth Bayton

Ruth Bayton was an African American performer who became popular in Europe in the 1920's. She was born in White Stone, Virginia in 1903 and lived in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York before leaving for the Continent. - Source: flickr.