Baltimore City Archives Record Groups, Manuscripts, and Miscellaneous Transferred Collections

Baltimore Record Groups

• BRG1: Baltimore Town Commissioners
• BRG2: Early Records of Baltimore
• BRG3: Baltimore City Commissioners
• BRG4: Baltimore City Property Tax Records (see more about researching Property Tax Records here)
• BRG5: Appeal Tax Court
• BRG6: City Auditor
• BRG7: Civil Service Commission
• BRG8: Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation
• BRG9: Mayor’s Office (see further information about researching the Mayor’s Office here)
• BRG10: Court House Commissioners
• BRG11: Election Records
• BRG12: Cartographic Records
• BRG13: Law Department (see further information about researching the Law Department here)
• BRG14: Baltimore Aviation Commission
• BRG15: National Star Spangled Banner Centennial Commission
• BRG16: City Council (see further information about researching the City Council here)
• BRG17: Burnt District Commission
• BRG18: Economic Development Commission
• BRG19: Health Department
• BRG20: Fire Department
• BRG21: Municipal Museum
• BRG22: War of 1812 Records (you can view the digital copies of this entire series here)
• BRG23: Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission/Citizens Emergency Relief Committee
• BRG24: 1964 Charter Revision Commission
• BRG25: Water Supply Records
• BRG26: Baltimore Municipal Journal
• BRG27: 1969 Commission on Amendments to the Baltimore City Charter
• BRG28: 1973 Charter Revision Commission
• BRG29: Department of Legislative Reference
• BRG30: Electrical Commission
• BRG31: Department of Education
• BRG32: Register’s Office
• BRG33: Redevelopment Commission
• BRG34: Public Bath Commission
• BRG35: Contracts and Bonds
• BRG36: Board of Estimates (see further information for researching the Board here)
• BRG37: Board of Awards
• BRG38: Civil Defense Records
• BRG39: Harbor Records
• BRG40: Collector of Taxes
• BRG41: Miscellaneous Administrative Records
• BRG42: Market Records
• BRG43: Comptroller
• BRG44: Municipal Harbor Belt Railroad
• BRG45: Jones’ Falls Commission
• BRG46: Harlem Park Commission
• BRG47: Department of Public Works
• BRG48: Department of Housing and Community Development
• BRG49: City Hall Construction Records
• BRG50: Central Payroll Division
• BRG51: Department of Recreation and Parks
• BRG52: Commission on Efficiency and Economy
• BRG53: Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals
• BRG54: Bureau of Accounting Operations
• BRG55: Passenger Arrival Records
• BRG56: Civil War Records
• BRG57: Enoch Pratt Free Library
• BRG58: Street Improvement Records
• BRG59: State of Maryland Papers Pertaining to Baltimore City
• BRG60: Department of Planning
• BRG61: Department of Audits
• BRG62: Charles Center- Inner Harbor Management, Inc.
• BRG63: Sewerage Commission
• BRG64: Baltimore City Jail
• BRG65: Bureau of Treasury Management
• BRG66: Model Cities Agency
• BRG67: Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
• BRG68: Agency Reports and Publications
• BRG69: Community College of Baltimore
• BRG70: City Fair
• BRG71: Easter Sunrise Service
• BRG72: Baltimore City Trustees Records
• BRG73: War Memorial Commission
• BRG74: Traffic Commission of Baltimore City
• BRG75: Government Publications
• BRG76: Reference Indices
• BRG77: Administrative Files
• BRG78: Board of Liquor License Commissioners
• BRG79: Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology
• BRG80: Topographical Survey Commission
• BRG81: Manumission Records
• BRG82: Department of Transportation
• BRG83: Councilmanic Services
• BRG84: Civil Rights and Wage Enforcement

• BRG85: Office of the Labor Commissioner

• BRG86: Finance Department

• BRG87: Curator of City Hall

• BRG88: Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts

• Baltimore Manuscript Collections

• BMS1: New Marsh Wholesale Produce Market
• BMS2: Walter Ireland Dawkins Papers
• BMS3: The Baltimore Monumental Subscription Book
• BMS4: Bouldin Family Survey Records
• BMS5: Baltimore Sesquicentennial Celebration Records
• BMS6: Mayor Joshua Vansant Memoirs
• BMS7: Whetstone Point Land Sale Records
• BMS8: John W. Kratz Papers
• BMS9: Joseph Robinson Book Auction Record
• BMS10: Safeco Title Company Collection [of Maps]
• BMS11: Association of Veterans of the Mexican War
• BMS12: Baltimore Equitable Society
• BMS13: Wisner Photographic Collection
• BMS14: Classified Municipal Employees Association
• BMS15: Chapman Family Papers
• BMS16: Walter Sondheim Jr. Papers
• BMS17: Baltimore City Firefighters Monument Committee
• BMS19: Robinson & Cox Insurance Brokers
• BMS20: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
• BMS21: Miscellaneous Microfilm
• BMS23: Morgan University Research Collection [EMPTY]
• BMS24: Afro-American Newspaper Collection
• BMS25: Michael Tepper Ship Manifest Collection
• BMS26: Baltimore City Archives Miscellaneous Photograph Collection
• BMS28: Antoinette “Toni” Ahrens Fells Point Shipbuilding History and Research Collection
• BMS29: Sidney Brower Collection- Urban Renewal Plans and Studies
• BMS30: Jenifer Family Papers Collection (see: MSA SC 6003 for description and inventory)
• BMS31: Baltimore City Directories Collection
• BMS32: Baltimore City Historical Society Manuscript Collection
• BMS33: History of the Baltimore City Police Department Gifts and Acquisitions
• BMS34: William M. Hackley Collection
• BMS35: William F. Coye Sr. Photographic Collection
• BMS36: Jones Falls: plans, images, and other visual records
• BMS37: Richard J. Cox and Edward C. Papenfuse Map & Atlas Collection for Baltimore City
• BMS38: Papenfuse virtual collection of subject and original document files relating to Baltimore
• BMS39: James and Chris Bready Collection of stereo views of Baltimore, manuscripts, books, and postcards
• BMS40: Cropps and Corrie Murder Trial Scrapbook
• BMS41: The Builder’s Exchange of Baltimore City Collection
• BMS42: Olmsted Drawings and The Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL) Collection
• BMS43: Baltimore City Historical Society Map Collection
• BMS44: Neighborhood Design Center Projects Archives
• BMS45: Marie Bauernschmidt Scrapbook Collection
• BMS46: Baltimore City Archives Digital Research Collection
• BMS47: Terry Levering Newspaper Collection
• BMS48: Judge James F. Schnieder Reference Collection
• BMS49: Judge John Carroll Brynes Collection
• BMS50: Robert (Bob) Tennenbaum Collection
• BMS51: Alumni of Eastern High School Collection
• BMS52: Sun Newspaper Library Reference and Government Publications Collection

• Baltimore Transferred Collections

• BTR21: Provident Hospital Archives Collection (on deposit from the Maryland State Archives)
• BTR31: Maryland Architectural Drawings Collection (on loan from the Maryland Historical Society)
• BTR35: Barry Bethlehem Steel Collection
• BTR40: The Peale Center Architectural Reference Collection
• BTR42: Baltimore City Historical Society Topic Files Collection