Maryland--Baltimore--Bolton Hill

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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.

Scope and Contents The Frank R. Shivers Research Papers contains much of the publication-related work from Shivers' career. Included in the collection is the compiled research and notes utilized in both his published and unpublished work. The local subject matter of these projects ranges from architecture, geography, and education to extensive research into the life and work of Baltimore writer and satirist, H. L. Mencken. Contents include personal notes and research, correspondence, maps and photographs,...

Scope and Contents The Midtown Academy Records contains records from Sarah Fawcett-Lee, a former president of the nonprofit Midtown Academy, Inc., and founding members of the organization, Wendy Samet and Elizabeth Nix. The records relate to Midtown Academy, a public K-8 charter school in Baltimore, Maryland, and the governing nonprofit's work and functions. The collection documents administrative work, board meetings, fundraising, an oral history project, volunteer work, and governance related work. Materials...

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The collection contains photographic transparencies (color positive slides) created by R. Julian Roszel, Jr. between 1956 and1970. The images document Baltimore street scenes in areas like Mount Vernon, Bolton Hill, downtown, and the Inner Harbor. Photographs of houses that stood in Bolton Hill before urban renewal demolition in the 1960s are of particular note. Images of razed houses include the 1200 block of Park Avenue and the 1400 block of Linden Avenue, among others.

Abstract

The collection documents the life and career of Thomas H. Ward, a former Baltimore Circuit Court judge, Baltimore City Councilman, president of Mount Royal Democratic Club, and founder of the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells point. The collection includes materials related Urban Renewal in Baltimore and Ward's opposition to the proposed East-West Expressway in the 1960s.

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The Urban Renewal Files collection contains 2 boxes that include correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, community flyers and pamphlets, community organizing materials, and legislation related to the issue of urban renewal at the municipal, state, and national levels between 1960 and 1970. Urban renewal efforts and neighborhood preservation initiatives were prominant community concerns in Baltimore City throughout this time period.