by Ida Zago | Feb 9, 2018 | Baltimore, Location
[Portrait of two women], The Baltimore Collection, Accession number 2001.0017.0015, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. Again and again as I worked with ‘my’ six photographs from “The Baltimore Collection” I reflected on what had initially drawn me to...
by Ethan Barnett | Dec 13, 2017 | Baltimore, Theorizing the archive
To improve user experience listen to this while reading. If you take a glance at this photo, many potential scenarios come to mind. Are they related? Is she his caretaker? Are they neighbors? Does he know that she’s black? Do they love each other? One critique of the...
by Dorothy Fisher | Dec 13, 2017 | 588 North Gay Street, Baltimore, Location, Studios
All of us engaged in this project approached “The Baltimore Collection” from different perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds. Much of our discussions about the collection centered around archival practices as we discussed the process of creating metadata to be...
by Ethan Barnett | Dec 11, 2017 | Baltimore, Theorizing the archive
“We depend on images to give substance, if not meaning, to the fleeting moments of our life. A world without photographic images is almost inconceivable.”- Susan Sontag Many of my memories and the memories people have of me are paired with some sort of...
by Dorothy Fisher | Dec 9, 2017 | Baltimore, Lewis Gwynn, Location, Studios
This Baltimore Collection photograph of an unidentified woman standing on a residential street presents many challenges to the researcher. Badly faded, the details are almost imperceptible. We can see the contours of a woman in the foreground, wearing a long,...
by Katharine Fitzgerald | Dec 8, 2017 | Baltimore, Location
A child looks adoringly at a woman who sits comfortably in a cloth-backed chair. They appear to be on a porch, with a cedar-shingled wall behind them and a flatwoven rug over a cement ground beneath their feet. She tries to amuse him with a teddy bear, but fails to...
