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Neighborhoods

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Baltimore City Fair, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0042-FAIR
Scope and Contents

The Baltimore City Fair, Inc. Records documents the work of the organization that managed the Baltimore City Fair between 1970 and 1991. The collection consists primarily of financial records, but also includes newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1971-1991

Baltimore Heritage Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0010-BH
Scope and Content Note This collection documents the history and work of Baltimore Heritage, Inc. between 1961 and 2019. The collection includes the founding documents of the organization, committee work, event and program promotions, edcuational program and tour materials, programs and studies related to the preservation of specific buildings and neighborhoods, documented preservation concerns regarding buildings in the city, and community histories. Materials are mainly textual and include meeting minutes,...
Dates: 1945-2019

Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: R0014-BNHP
Abstract From 1978 through 1981, the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project (BNHP) recorded and collected oral histories from longtime residents of seven Baltimore neighborhoods -- Highlandtown, Hampden, Park Heights, Little Italy, South Baltimore, Old West Baltimore, and East Baltimore--and with workers in and around the Port of Baltimore. These oral histories attempted to uncover information about select aspects of neighborhood life and the experience of neighborhood residents from the perspective...
Dates: 1978-1981

Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: R0016-BNIA
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a data set of neighborhood surveys conducted in 1983 by Matthew Crenson for his book, "Neighborhood Politics." The Data set series documents neighborhoods throughout Baltimore City. The Publications series includes community and neighborhood profiles for various locations in the city dated 1980-1996. This series also includes documentation from 1999 on the proposed structure of the "Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Center."

Dates: 1979

Bolton Hill Community Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0078-MRIA
Scope and Contents

The collection documents the activities of the Mount Royal Improvement Association from 1928 to 2005, and the Bolton Hill Community Association from 2018 to 2021. The collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, strategic plans, newsletters, membership lists, financial records, flyers, legal briefs, newspaper clippings, maps, blueprints, and a scrapbook in addition to subject files.

Dates: 1928-2021

Butchers Hill Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0179-BHA
Scope and Contents

The collection documents the actions and business of the Butchers Hill Association, a neighborhood civic group in southeast Baltimore City, from the late 1970s through 2020. Topics addressed within the collection include: land use, redevelopment, drug activity, vacant housing, absentee landlords, citizen inspectors, the Baltimore City Fair, work with the Community Law Center and SECO, Patterson Park improvements, and annual events like flea markets, open houses, and garden tours.

Dates: 1970s-2020

Community Association of Sudbrook Park Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0136-CASP
Scope and Contents

The collection includes copies of early Olmsted planning documents and early photographs of the community. The bulk of the collection consists of organizational records of the community association. Materials include newsletters, meeting books, membership directories, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, reports, association correspondence, maps, and presentation boards for various community projects.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Concerned Citizens for Butchers Hill Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0021-CCBH
Scope and Contents

The Concerned Citizens for Butchers Hill Records documents the history and functions of the community organization between 1977 and 1997. Materials are mainly textual and include articles of incorporation, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, publications, deeds, grants, and subject files relating to neighborhood and homeownership topics. Some subjects of note include tenants issues, rent, property taxes, section 8 housing, construction, zoning, and mortages.

Dates: 1977-1997

Divided Baltimore Course Recording , 2015

 File
Scope and Contents “Divided Baltimore: How Did We Get Here, Where Do We Go?”: A course taught by veteran University of Baltimore faculty members and guest lecturers in both face-to-face and online formats for undergraduate and graduate students during the fall semester of 2015. The course focused on a broad-based, multi-disciplinary approach to address Baltimore’s long-standing issues regarding segregation and inequalities.The topic of section 1: How did Baltimore get to be so segregated?...
Dates: 2015

East Baltimore Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: R0038-EBOH
Scope and Contents Note This collection includes 13 audio interviews on cassette tape, and 13 text interview transcripts, and indices to interviews. (Please note: Some interview transcripts are partial or incomplete.) The interviews document the personal histories of longtime East Baltimore community activists and residents. Subjects of note include the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition (HEBCAC) and other neighborhood improvement organizations, Middle-East Community organization, Bethlehem Steel,...
Dates: 1997