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East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Erica Ann Scardina, born on her mother's birthday, reclining on her parents' bed.
Greek Orthodox christening.
The last unit of the "I am an American Day" Parade is hardly out of sight before the clean-up begins. South Linwood Avenue.
Chris and Craig Russell in their remodeled home on Fairmont Avenue. Their contractors went bankrupt and the sub-contractors had to be paid by the Russells for services they had already paid the contractor to perform.
Father George, Greek Orthodox Good Friday service.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
The group at the Eichenkranz Restaurant. They jokingly refer to themselves as the "Medicare Four" and the "Social Security Swingers," Highlandtown.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Herman Dischers, plant custodian for the now closed National Brewing Company building on Conkling Street, Highlandtown.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Bernie Zill in his antique shop with no name, 1700 block of Eastern Avenue, Fells Point.
View of East Baltimore looking west. Brick row houses and white marble steps symbolize these working neighborhoods. White marble steps represented a note of elegance and a mark of respectability to newly arriving European immigrants. Keeping them clean became an art.
Avenue Bridge, Baltimore
Piling Copper Cakes
Young Street Urchins at Play, Baltimore
Parade in Patterson Park before St. Elizabeth's annual Palm Sunday balloon Mass.
Holiday shoppers on "The Avenue," Eastern Avenue, East Baltimore's largest business district, Highlandtown.
Dr. Andrew Kunkowski graduated from medical school in 1922 and opened his practice on Eastern Avenue. He is still seeing patient four mornings per week.
View of Patterson Park looking North from the top of the Pagoda. The park is the center for recreational activities for the community.
Virginia Jensen, age ninety-four, is a former suffragette and an active democratic worker. The American flag was presented to her on her 90th birthday by Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski.
Alice and Junior.
Before the ground-breaking for Santoni's market.
(Ports of America, portfolio) Baltimore (Index)
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Ribbon-cutting for section eight houses on Duncan Street, renovated through HUD. Residents pay according to their ability from $25 to over $200 per month. Butchers Hill.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Girl Scout, Highlandtown.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Sofa bed, Fells Point.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Second Time Around is owned and operated by sisters Helen and Sylvia Phillips. They rarely purchase stock for the shop because family members pass along their saleable items.
A Canton homeowner maintaining East Baltimore's reputation for clean streets.
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
First Communion Class, Saint Elizabeth's Church, from the East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Summer Afternoon, East Baltimore Street
Albert Vogt was born in Germany in 1900 and came to America in 1924. His Eastern Avenue barbershop has served the Highlandtown residents for more than eighty years.
Bikers Take a Break. Sunday Afternoon in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, September 1973, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements
Baltimore Gunsmith
Delores Connors, Memorial Day wreaths, Sgt. Henry Gunther Post V.F.V.
Art Circus Participants, Patterson Park, from the East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
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