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Photographs of Baltimore form the heart of the News American Photograph Collection. Telling the story of daily life in a major American city, these images preserve the many faces of Baltimore. This photograph of rowhouses faced with formstone in Locust Point was used by the News American to illustrate "street life in the shadow of industry" during the 1970s. The Indiana Grain Elevator can be seen in the background. The Domino Sugars factory was also a close neighbor of Locust Point residents. As the News American reported in 1983, "Industry rings Locust Point, but it doesn't drive residents away: Forty percent of the households (in Locust Point) haven't moved in more than 30 years." |
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In 1931 Babe Ruth visited his former home, the St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore. |
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Employees of the Oriental Brewery seem ready to sample their product. |
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Camden Station in the late nineteenth-century. This former terminus for both the Main and Washington branch lines of the B&O Railroad now compliments the new Camden Yards stadium complex. |
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The Emerson Tower (better known as the Bromo-Seltzer Tower) stands proudly on Lombard Street. The 51-foot, 17-ton revolving Bromo-Seltzer bottle on top was removed in 1930. |
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The progressive era reform movement encompassed groups such as the Housewives Alliance who urged for pure food and drug legislation. |
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Pedestrians and street vendors had not yet been forced off the street by the automobile in this view of Lexington Street around 1908. |
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Voters and police assemble outside a barbershop turned polling place. Before the Civil War, election violence was so prevelant that wags often referred to Baltimore as "Mob Town." This early twentieth-century image suggests that elections still attracted a police presence. |
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Street cars were a key factor in the growth of cities like Baltimore. |
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A proud city official models his new street cleaner in 1922. The newspaper caption noted that the new equipment did the work of 35 men. |
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This worker at the Baltimore-American Sugar Refinery has drawn an audience. The exact event documented by this photograph is unclear. |
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Many women's clubs actively supported the women's suffrage movement. In this 1913 photograph, members of the Maryland Federation of Women's Clubs arrive at Mt. Royal Station in Baltimore. |