Browse Exhibits (18 total)

This exhibition of photographic prints and negatives contains images of Baltimore buildings, monuments, and street scenes taken by Blakeslee-Lane, Inc. circa 1930-1961.

This exhibit provides a sampling of television news clips from WMAR-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. The selected video clips feature images of life in Maryland's Eastern Shore. WMAR-TV was the first television station in Baltimore and the eleventh in the United States. Its first broadcast aired on October 30, 1947.

This exhibit examines community opposition to expressway construction in Baltimore during the 1970s through the organizational records of the Movement Against Destruction (MAD). Founded in 1968 as a coalition of 25 neighborhood and community groups, MAD's leaders included George and Carolyn Tyson, Barbara Mikulski, Walter Orlinsky, Norman Reeves, and Parren Mitchell.

This exhibit presents documentation related to Baltimore's urban renewal efforts during the 1960s. The files include correspondence, speeches, editorials, newsletters, flyers, and maps from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Renewal plans for the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are highlighted, along with responses from neighborhood residents and homeowners' associations.

This exhibit presents text and selected images from the Poppleton Historic Survey, conducted in 1975 by Phoebe B. Stanton for the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development. Items in this exhibit are from the Greater Baltimore Committee Records.

This exhibit explores the collection of the League of Women Voters of Baltimore City and celebrates the legacy and centennial of Women's Suffrage. Through a mixture of photographs and documents from the League's archive this digital exhibition seeks to communicate how the League has devoted itself to the city of Baltimore through various women-led events, initiatives, and programs. Culminating in a legacy of non-partisan political engagement and social activism for over a century. 

Betty Garman Robinson was a lifelong activist. During her more than forty years living Baltimore, Maryland, she was heavily involved in community organizing in the city, in areas including workers' rights, public health, and community displacement. This digital exhibit explores Robinson's activism in Baltimore through textual materials from multiple collections at the Special Collections & Archives.

The purpose of this web collection is to a create sketch of early Roland Park, Baltimore. This is done by presenting a series of side-by-side photographs, old and new, of this well preserved historic neighborhood and its environs. The original project was two years in the making, 2008-2010. It was hosted at the Roland Park Civic League's website, RolandPark.org, of which I was at the time the webmaster. That section of the RolandPark.org site is now defunct. Its place is now taken by this new, enlarged version of the collection, now kindly hosted by the University of Baltimore. This second edition of the collection is considerably larger in scope than was the first, both in terms of the number of photos and subpages and in terms of its geographic reach. The photos in this edition extend beyond Roland Park's boundaries, well into Ruxton in Baltimore County.

This exhibit highlights the groundbreaking work of the White Lung Association (WLA). Founded in 1979, White Lung Association (WLA) was a worker-led nonprofit advocacy group based in Baltimore dedicated to supporting people exposed to asbestos while calling for industry and government regulation, accountability, and reform. They provided training courses and information to workers (particularly, but not limited to, workers in industrial manufacturing jobs)  and the public on occupational health and safety, labor, workers’ rights, and public health.

It operated as an advocacy group for shipyard workers, steelworkers, autoworkers, and workers from other labor industries who sought reforms in the ways industries, corporations, labor unions, and medical providers handled asbestos exposure.

The WLA was also active in helping government agencies create regulations for the protection of the public from asbestos exposure, particularly in public schools. The group’s efforts helped change national, state, and local laws concerning asbestos inspection, training, and safe disposal.

Credits: The exhibit was researched, curated, and published online by Jessica Douglas in 2025-2026.