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Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
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Baltimore Street Scene with Billboards

Date: 03 05 1929
Description: Sherwood Avenue lined with parked cars and billboards advertising "Esso," "Miller Bros." restaurant, "Wrigley's" chewing gum, "Koester's Honey Bread" and o...
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International Auto Wagon Bookmobile

Date: 1913
Description: An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ...
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Support the Sugar Workers

Date: 05 1948
Description: On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking...
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Children on the Picket Line

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t...
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Courtyard on 40 Albemarle Street

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Description: A slum courtyard on 40 Albemarle Street, with laundry hanging to dry. There are broken doors and a barrel on the ground.
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Remington Rand Inc. Truck

Date: 1940
Description: International model D-15-M (Metro) truck owned by Davidson Transfer & Storage Co. and operated under lease by Remington Rand, Inc., in Baltimore. A man is ...
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Archer's Laundry Truck

Date: 1940
Description: A man in a uniform standing at the back of an International Metro truck owned by Archer's Laundry [and] Dry Cleaning. The side of the truck includes the sl...
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Regal Laundry Truck

Date: 1940
Description: International model D-15-M truck with a 113-inch wheelbase and a Metro body owned by the Regal Laundry. According to the original caption, the truck was o...
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Merchants Delivery, Inc. Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Uniformed driver stepping down from an International model D-2-M truck with a 113-inch wheelbase and a Metro body in a residential neighborhood. According ...
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Sears, Roebuck and Company Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Two uniformed men unload a refrigerator from the back of an International D-30 truck used by the Sears, Roebuck, & Co. truck in front of a residence. A ma...
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a man with two mules on the left pulling a boat up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A large wooden building is on the right bank in the behi...
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Mt. Vernon Place

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Description: View of the park at Mt. Vernon Place, with a lion statue honoring the French artist Antoine-Louis Barye in the foreground, and a fountain and four addition...
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Housing Development

Date: 1930
Description: Housing development. A man and a woman walk on the sidewalk in a tidy housing development. Greenbelt was one of three planned communities along with Greend...
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down the cobblestone Main Street lined with storefronts. Features a large tree in the foreground as well as a horse-drawn carriage parked next to a re...
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Business Section and Manhattan Hotel

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Description: Elevated view of the business section of town with the Manhattan Hotel and railroad station.
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Street Scene

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Description: View down a road scattered with carriages and people. Stores line the sides of the street.
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Main Street

Date: 1950
Description: View down Main Street with a horse-drawn carriage and large brick buildings.
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Trolley Car

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Description: View down street towards a trolley car which began running in 1933.
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Hammond-Hardwood House

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Description: The Hammond-Hardwood House's colonial kitchen features a fireplace with furniture surrounding it, a clock and candle holders atop the mantle, and lamps and...

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