Appendix C: Additional Original Sources for African American Research

Total Images: 1061 images

Baltimore City Directories (404 images)
Maps (475 images)
Newspapers (120 images)
Photographs (50 images)
Graphics (12 images)

The Maryland State Archives hopes to be able to incorporate scanned images of the following materials from its collections into A New Body of Citizens. The documents marked by a bullet are those intended to be scanned as part of the Library of Congress/Ameritech award:

Census Schedules

From the original census schedules of the U.S. Census Bureau in the collections of the Maryland State Archives:

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Mortality Schedule, 1850 [MSA S 1184-5, MdHR 50,300-5, 3/47/9/5]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Manufacturers Schedule, 1860 [MSA S 1184-8, MdHR 50,300-8, 3/47/9/8]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Mortality Schedule, 1860 [MSA S 1184-9, MdHR 50,300-9, 3/47/9/9]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Mortality Schedule, 1870 [MSA S 1184-13, MdHR 50,300-13, 3/47/9/13]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Population Schedule, 1880, Baltimore City, Wards 1-4 [MSA S 1184-18, MdHR 50,300-18, 3/47/9/18]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Population Schedule, 1880, Baltimore City, Wards 5-7 [MSA S 1184-19, MdHR 50,300-19, 3/47/9/19]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Population Schedule, 1880, Baltimore City, Wards 8-11 [MSA S 1184-20, MdHR 50,300-20, 3/47/9/20]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Population Schedule, 1880, Baltimore City, Wards 12-15 [MSA S 1184-21, MdHR 50,300-21, 3/47/9/21]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Population Schedule, 1880, Baltimore City, Wards 16-18 [MSA S 1184-22, MdHR 50,300-22, 3/47/9/22]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Population Schedule, 1880, Baltimore City, Wards 19-20 [MSA S 1184-23, MdHR 50,300-23, 3/47/9/23]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Manufacturers Schedule, 1880 [MSA S 1184-37, MdHR 50,300-37, 3/47/9/37]

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Mortality Schedule, 1880 [MSA S 1184-38, MdHR 50,300-38, 3/47/9/38]

City Directories

From 1855 to 1890, directories for the city of Baltimore included a separate section for the listing of "colored persons." The Maryland State Archives proposes the scanning of the section listing African Americans from the city directories for the period 1855-1880. Directories would be borrowed for scanning from a local institution.

Matchett's Baltimore Directory, for 1855-'56; Containing the Names, Dwellings and Occupations of the Householders, an Engraved Map of the City, with References Designating the Wards and Public Buildings; Directions for Finding the Streets, Lanes, Avenues, Squares, Wharves, &c. With a Local Register.... (Baltimore: R.J. Marchett, [1856]), 351-384.
Woods Baltimore City Directory: Containing a Correct Engraved Map of the City, a Business Directory, a Street Directory Compiled Expressly for this Edition; and an Appendix of Much Useful Information (Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1860) 427-459.
Woods Baltimore City Directory: Containing a Correct Engraved Map of the City, a Business Directory, a Street Directory, and an Appendix of Much Useful Information, 1865-'66 (Baltimore: John W. Woods, [1866]), 443-484.
Woods Baltimore City Directory: Containing a Correct Engraved Map of the City, a Business Directory, a Street Directory, and an Appendix of Much Useful Information (Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1870), 673-760.
Woods Baltimore City Directory: Containing a Correct Engraved Map of the City, a Business Directory, a Street Directory, and an Appendix of Much Useful Information (Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1875), 659-743.
Woods Baltimore City Directory: Containing a Correct Engraved Map of the City, a Business Directory, a Street Directory, and an Appendix of Much Useful Information (Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1880), 865-992.

Maps

Thomas Poppleton, Plan of the City of Baltimore, 1851 [MSA SC 1427-1-489]
J.H. Colton & Co. City of Baltimore, 1855 [MSA SC 1427-1-26 or MSA SC 1399-1-109]. Indicates wards.
O.W. Gray & Son, Baltimore, 1855? [1875?] [MSA SC 1399-1-240] Indicates wards.
A.A. Fullerton & Co., Baltimore, 1857? [MSA SC 1399-1-154]
S. Augustus Mitchell, Plan of Baltimore, 1860 [MSA SC 1427-1-27, MSA SC 1399-1-107, or MSA SC 1399-1-153]. Indicates wards.
Simon J. Martenet, City of Baltimore, 1865 [1866] [MSA SC 1399-1-75]. From Martenet's Map of Maryland (Atlas Edition).
S. Augustus Mitchell, Plan of Baltimore, 1870 [MSA SC 1427-1-529]
G.W. & C.B. Colton, Colton's Baltimore, Maryland, 1871 [MSA SC 1399-1-871]. From Colton's General Atlas.
S.J. Martenet, H.F. Walling & O.W. Gray, City of Baltimore, 1873 [MSA SC 1399-1-262 or MSA SC 1399-1-672]. From New Topographical Atlas of the State of Maryland, pp. 35-36.
Frank A. Gray, Gray's New Map of Baltimore, 1875 [MSA SC 1427-1-28]
Frank A. Gray, Gray's New Map of Baltimore, 1876 [MSA SC 1427-1-542]
George M. Hopkins, City Atlas of Baltimore, Maryland and environs from official records, private plans, and actual surveys, based upon plans deposited in the Department of Surveys, 1876 [MSA SC 1399-1-265]
George M. Hopkins, Map of the City of Baltimore, 1877 [MSA SC 1399-1-263]. From Atlas of Baltimore County, pp. 72-73.
G.M. Hopkins, Fifteen Miles Around Baltimore including Anne Arundel County, 1878 [MSA SC 1427-1-1391]
Frank A. Gray, Gray's New Map of Baltimore, 1878? [MSA SC 1399-1-155]. Indicates wards and shows population tables.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Co., Baltimore, vol. 1, 1879 [to be borrowed from the Baltimore City Life Museums]
Sanborn Fire Insurance Co., Baltimore, vol. 2, 1880 [to be borrowed from the Baltimore City Archives]
Charity Organization Society [pub.], Baltimore, ca. 1880 [MSA SC 1427-1-1613]. Shows police districts.
George F. Cram [pub.], Map of Baltimore, 1886 [MSA SC 1399-1-150]
Daniel Appleton & Co., Map of Baltimore, Maryland, 1892? [MSA SC 1399-1-152]
George W. Bromley & Co., Atlas of the City of Baltimore from Actual Surveys and Original Plans, 1896 [MSA SC 1427-1-298]. Shows types of buildings, house and block numbers, wards, street car tracks, railroads, fire hydrants, businesses, schools, churches, and some landowners.
George W. & Walter S. Bromley, Atlas of the City of Baltimore, 1906 [MSA SC 1427-1-1502]. Includes outline map of Baltimore with words and index to atlas symbols, materials, house numbers, block numbers, stables, railroads, street car lines, fire hydrants, and a street index for all plates.
Topographical Survey Commission, Atlas of the City of Baltimore, 1914 [MSA SC 1427-1-380, MSA SC 1427-1-1504, or MSA SC 1427-1-1505]. Includes city of Baltimore showing wards, detailed area maps, street index, keyed to building materials, public land and cemeteries, block numbers, street car lines, house numbers, railroads, creeks.
George W. & Walter S. Bromley, Atlas of the City of Baltimore from Actual Surveys and Original Plans, 1915 [MSA SC 1427-1-299 or MSA SC 1427-1-1389]

Newspapers

Selected issues from Baltimore newspapers relating to events in African American history, 1840-1920, such as the 1869 Memorial Day parade and 1870 parade commemorating the ratification of the 15th Amendment will be scanned and linked to the main page of the HTML.

Government Documents

BALTIMORE CITY SUPERIOR COURT (Certificates of Freedom) 1857-1864 [MSA C 165-2, MdHR 40,131-7, 2/15/8/4]

BALTIMORE CITY SUPERIOR COURT (Certificates of Freedom) 1865 MSA C 165-3, MdHR 40,131-6-3, 2/15/8/3]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 1851-1854, 20, i, pp. 136-483 [MSA C 192-1, MdHR 12,039-2, 2/32/14/20]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 21, i, 1854-1858 [MSA C 192-2, MdHR 12,040, 2/32/14/21]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 22, i, 1858-1861[MSA C 192-3, MdHR 12,041, 2/32/14/22]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 23, i, 1861-1865 [MSA C 192-4, MdHR 12,042, 2/32/14/23]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 24, i, 1865-1871 [MSA C 192-5, MdHR 12,043, 2/32/14/24]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 25, i, 1871-1879[MSA C 192-6, MdHR 12,044, 2/32/14/25]

BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS (Indentures) 26, i, 1879-1916, [MSA C 192-7, MdHR 12,045, 2/32/14/26]

BALTIMORE CITY JAIL (Runaway Docket) 1854-1864 [MSA C C 2065-1, MdHR 6799-2, 2/72/4/21]

BALTIMORE CITY AND COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket) 1832-1836 [MSA C 2064-1, MdHR 6797-2, 2/72/4/19]

BALTIMORE CITY AND COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket) 1836-1850 [MSA C 2064-2, MdHR 6798, 2/72/4/20]

BALTIMORE CITY AND COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket) 1850-1853 [MSA C 2064-3, MdHR 6799-1, 2/72/4/21]

Photographs

A selection of photographs from the following collections will be included in A New Body of Citizens:

Baltimore When She Was What She Used to Be Collection
Photographs, 1850-1930, of Baltimore and the changes which took place in the city. Many of the photographs depict the streets, workplaces, and environments familiar to the African-American Community at that time, as well as African-Americans at work and at play. The collection was created by Mame Warren during her work on the book Baltimore When She Was What She Used to Be: A Pictorial History. [MSA SC 2167]
The Robert G. Merrick Archives of Maryland Historical Photographs
Photographs from the period 1840-1940 illustrating a cross section of Maryland life and culture, including transportation, recreation sports, agriculture, watermen, cities and towns businesses and shops, education, family life, resorts politics and parades. [MSA SC 1477]

Examples of images from these collections include:

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Robert G. Merrick Archives of Maryland Historical Photographs) Baltimore Fish Market stalls, [MSA SC 1477-6235]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Baltimore When She Was What She Used to Be Collection) Storefront, N.T. Slee Bicycle Store. 2310-2312 Madison Avenue. Men and bicycles in front of store, 1895-1901. [MSA SC 2167-28]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Baltimore When She Was What She Used to Be Collection) Empire Steam Laundry. Fayette and Front Streets. Horse drawn wagons and workers in front of laundry, ca. 1886 [MSA SC 2167-36]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Baltimore When She Was What She Used to Be Collection) Nannies pose with their charges, Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore. Vintage perambulator with one child and doll. [MSA SC 2167-57]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Marion E. Warren Photographic Collection) Swimming pool at Gwynn's Falls Park, ca. 1915 [MSA SC 1890-4436]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Marion E. Warren Photographic Collection) Express shipment of oysters leaving oyster house, ca. 1905 [MSA SC 1890-4461]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Marion E. Warren Photographic Collection) Locker room at School No. 108 on Caroline St., 1922 [MSA SC 1890-4704]

Graphics

E. Sachse & Co., Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore, 1869. This large scale panoramic map printed in 12 sections meticulously details buildings, streets, and other objects characteristic of the urban landscape. [MSA SC 3132]

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