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Psychedelic Relic
The process of accepting donations of books, photographs, manuscripts, and other items into the Maryland Historical Society’s collection can be unpredictable. Donations run the gamut from a single...
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Antoinette in the Air: Hubert Latham and His Historic Flight Over Baltimore,...
Hubert Latham (1883-1912), photographer unknown, ca. 1910, MdHS, MC1985-1. Hubert Latham was almost the first person to fly an airplane over the British Channel. If the French aviator and adventurer...
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“We only aspire to save”– The Nursery and Child’s Hospital of Baltimore
The Protestant Infant Asylum of Baltimore City was founded in 1875 to provide refuge for orphaned and abandoned babies. It was one of several similar privately funded charitable institutions which...
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“The darkest hours are often the harbingers of a bright dawn:” The Diary of...
This silhouette made in 1825 is the only known image of Hester Ann Wilkins Davis. 1960.89.1, Museum Department, MdHS. The library recently acquired a diary kept by Hester Ann Wilkins Davis during the...
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