Maryland--Baltimore--Mount Royal

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.

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.