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Maryland--Baltimore

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:

Belvedere Hotel Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0011-BHC
Scope and Contents

This collection contains organizational records documenting functions of the Belvedere Hotel between 1904 and 1970. It includes a sampling of correspondence, minutes, contracts, financial records, appraisals, and operational records (including guest ledgers, banquet records, personnel files, purchasing records and other similar records) of the Belvedere Hotel Corporation and the Sheraton Belvedere Corporation which purchased the Belvedere Hotel in 1946.

Dates: 1904-1970

Betty Garman Robinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: R0157-BGR
Abstract Betty Garman Robinson was a community organizer in Baltimore, Maryland from the 1970s until her passing in 2020. She has contributed to multiple nonprofit and grassroots organizations including Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA), Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative (BNC), Save Middle East Action Committee (SMEAC), Northeast Good Neighbors (NEGN), and others. In 2003, Robinson was awarded an Open Society Institute Fellowship to teach the history of social justice and community...
Dates: 1983-2017

Blakeslee Lane, Incorporated Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: R0013-BLI
Scope and Contents This collection contains 181 still images created by Blakeslee-Lane, Inc. between 1930 and 1966. Collection includes photographs and five glass-plate negatives showing Baltimore City, Maryland buildings, monuments, landmarks, street scenes, and panoramas. The collection also includes 180 digitized copies of images in the collection. Some images of note include aerial photographs of the city, city skyline photographs, images of Druid Hill Park, row houses, churches and places of worship,...
Dates: 1930-1966

Board of Trade of Baltimore City Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0017-BOT
Scope and Contents

Collection contains materials documenting the incorporation, meetings, and work of the Board of Trade of Baltimore City between 1878 and 1918. Materials include articles of incorporation and by-laws, meeting minutes, and annual reports.

Dates: 1878-1918

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

Center for Poverty Solutions Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: R0033-CPS
Scope and Content Note The Center for Poverty Solutions Records documents the activities of the Center between 1989 and 2005. The collection contains materials documenting the activities of the various functions of the Center including the Food Committee, the office of the Executive Director, the Communication Office, the Development Office, and the Program Office. Materials are mainly textual and include annual reports, legislation documentation and testimony, newspaper clippings, lobbying and project...
Dates: 1989-2005

Chester L. Wickwire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: R0031-CLW
Abstract

Chester L. Wickwire (b. 1913 – d. 2008) was a social and political activist who advocated for civil rights and social welfare and fought against segregation in twentieth-century Baltimore, Maryland, and who was a Chaplain emeritus of Johns Hopkins University. This collection documents his work with Levering Hall YMCA at Johns Hopkins University, his position as Chaplain, and his social advocacy work.

Dates: 1886-2002

Church Women United of Greater Baltimore Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0035-CWU
Scope and Content Note This collection documents the activities of the Church Women United of Greater Baltimore between approximately 1926 and 1996. The collection includes organizational records representative of the functions and administration of the group. Materials include newsletters, brochures, correspondence, reports, financial statements, statistics, membership lists, public relations information, photographs, and materials related to events and programming. Some significant topics represented in this...
Dates: 1926-1996

Citizen Schaefer Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: R0034-CS
Scope and Content Note This collection includes recorded interviews which were used to create 'Citizen Schaefer,' Maryland Public Television's 2009 documentary focused on William Donald Schaefer's career in Maryland politics. The collection materials are audiovisual and digital, and include video interviews on 25 individual DVD-R discs and interview transcripts on 1 CD-R disc. Also present is archival footage from the WMAR-TV Collection held at Special Collections and Archives. The collection includes interviews...
Dates: 2008

Citizens Housing Council of Baltimore Records

 Collection
Identifier: R0027-CHCB
Scope and Contents This collection documents the early activities and history of the Citizens Housing Council, an organization of social workers who advocated for improvements for low-income housing in Baltimore, Maryland, between 1940 until its merger with the Citizens Planning & Redevelopment Association in 1941. Materials are mainly textual and include meeting minutes from the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, bylaws, resolutions, newsletters, documentation of the organization's merger,...
Dates: 1940-1941