Women's History Month: Bessie Anderson, Black Baltimore Educator
#WomensHistoryMonth2023 #ColoredTrainingSchool (now #CoppinStateCollege)- then located at #DolphinStreet and #PennsylvaniaAvenue...
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Percy Glascoe's Plantation Orchestra
_Old Colored YMCA - Druid Hill Ave 1
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Philip J. Merrill
Dec 3, 2022
Charting the Great Migration: Afro American Newspaper & World War I
#ChartingTheGreatMigration Article by #JacquesKelly in the #BaltimoreSun #WorldWarI #AfroAmericanNewspaper Rare primary source material...
Philip J. Merrill
Oct 12, 2022
National Savings Day
#NationalSavingsDay2022 Created by #CapitalOneBank in 2017 to encourage people to establish savings goals #FinancialLiteracy...
Philip J. Merrill
Aug 2, 2022
The Baltimore Red Book
#TellTheTruthTuesday #BlackBusinessMonth #BmoreHistory #OldWestBaltimore Y'all have heard of the #GreenBook or the #BlueBook (otherwise...
Philip J. Merrill
Nov 11, 2021
Harvey Johnson Junior High School #106
An #OldWestBaltimore legend For those that don't know, in 1931 the Baltimore City Public School System named a South Baltimore junior...
Philip J. Merrill
Sep 28, 2021
Upcoming Zoom Talk: Captain George W. Brown and Black Maritime Legacy
#BlackMaritimeLegacy #SteamboatExcursionist #BlackEntrepreneurism #ChesapeakeBay #JimCrow #OldWestBaltimore Register for my October 8,...
Philip J. Merrill
Sep 21, 2021
🚨 Upcoming Artifactual Journey Podcast Episode 🚨
Stay tuned for the next #ArtifactualJourneyPodcast episode with Wesley Chandler Wood where we discuss the illustrious history of the...
Philip J. Merrill
Sep 4, 2021
The Martinsville Seven: 70 Years Later
We've included this post on oldwestbaltimore.com because Philip J. Merrill, our CEO & Founder, spent the first years of his life in...
Philip J. Merrill
Sep 3, 2021
Artifactual History
Even #HurricaneIda couldn't stop the start of this collaborative effort. #FriendsSchoolBaltimore and #NannyJackAndCoLLC are...
Philip J. Merrill
Sep 1, 2021
Baltimore City Historical Society Award
So, this happened yesterday while I was in my hometown, #BaltimoreMaryland. Thankful to the ancestors that provided a way to document...
Philip J. Merrill
Aug 31, 2021
Black Maritime Legacy
#MountAuburnCemetery (Established in 1872) #BaltimoreMaryland #CityoftheDeadforColoredPeople #MountWinansCommunity (Established between...
Philip J. Merrill
Aug 14, 2021
Historic Drip: Vintage Beach Attire
#RealPhotoPostcard #VintageBeachAttire #HistoricDrip #GlascoeGeeStokesFamily #OldWestBaltimore Fannie Glascoe Gee Date unknown This real...
Veronica A. Carr
Mar 13, 2020
Chattin' with Cab Calloway's Grandson, Peter C. Brooks
#OldWestBaltimore #CabCalloway #HistoricDrip #ArtifactualJourney In #ArtifactualJourneyPodcast Episode 25, host Philip J. Merrill talks...
Philip J. Merrill
Mar 3, 2020
Estelle Hall Young and the Independent Republican League
#WomensHistoryMonth #OldWestBaltimore #BlackWomanhood #19thAmendment #BaltimoreSuffrageMovement Estelle Hall Young founded the...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 28, 2020
Upton Mansion
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #HistoricDrip #OldWestBaltimore #UptonMansion-811 West Lanvale Street #ArtifactualJourney...
Veronica A. Carr
Feb 18, 2020
Stylin' Sepia Sisters
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #ArtifactualJourney #HistoricDrip #OldWestBaltimore #DouglassHighSchoolClassof1924- 96 years ago!...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 17, 2020
George Motley Lane
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #GeorgeMotleyLane (1866-1912) #LaurelCemeteryBaltimore #Virginia #OldWestBaltimore #UnionBaptistChurch...
Philip J. Merrill
Dec 25, 2019
Happy Birthday Cab Calloway!
#HappyBirthdayCabCalloway (December 25, 1907-November 18, 1994) #Bandleader #Author #HorseOwner #OldWestBaltimore #DouglassHighSchool...
Philip J. Merrill
Dec 14, 2019
Holiday on the Avenue: Pennsylvania Avenue Lafayette Market Association
#OldWestBaltimore #PennsylvaniaAvenue #LafayetteMarket #PennsylvaniaAvenueMarket #PennsylvaniaAvenueBlackArtsandEntertainmentDistrict...
Philip J. Merrill
Nov 17, 2019
On This Date: Freedom Sunday Rally (November, 17, 1963)
#OnThisDate-November 17, 1963 (56 years ago) #FreedomSunday #SharpStreetMemorialUnitedMethodistChurch #NAACP #CivilRightsHistory...
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