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Baltimore: Men (Unlabeled)

From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00009)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00010)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Joseph Passano, Jr., of 123 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00073)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00074)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00075)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00076)
Back of photo identifies the photographer as M. Stahn, 87 N. Gay Street, Baltimore, Maryland.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00080)
Labeled on front "Uncle George."   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00084)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00085)
Photographer identified in the back of the photo as G. Grill, 113 N. Washington St., Baltimore.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00087)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00088)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00093)
Photographer identified on the back of the photo as J. W. Perkins, 256 Pennsylvania Ave., Baltimore.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00094)
Photographer identified on the back of the photo as Bachrach, N.E. corner of Eutaw and Lexington Streets, Baltimore.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00095)
Photographer identified on the back as M. Stahn, 87 North Gay Street, Baltimore. From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (Album A.  MGS00109)
Gallery identified on the back as the Gem Picture Gallery, 9 N. Gay Street, Geo. W. Hewitt & Co. Photograph and Frame Gallery.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert. According to his website, "Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos,” this photo is in a “leather bound CDV album with photos of the same era taken in Baltimore, Great Britain and Charleston, SC." (Album B.  MGS00114)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00137)
Photographer identified on the back as Baumgarten, corner Baltimore & Exeter Streets.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert. According to his website, "Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos,” this photo is in a “leather bound CDV album with photos of the same era taken in Baltimore, Great Britain and Charleston, SC." (Album B.  MGS00118)
There is a lot of information written on the back of this photo, but unfortunately none of it allows for an obvious identification of the subject of the photo. The information on the back reads:   "Mr. & Mrs. J. M. [Klawansky] / Dave & Annie / married / March 29, 1898." (Image of back of photo.) From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00146)
Photographer further identified on the back of photo as Bendann Brothers, 207 Baltimore St.    From the collection of Gary Ruppert. According to his website, "Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos,” the album containing this photograph “is a very small leather bound book in very good condition. The photos are extremely interesting. Most of them were made in Baltimore, however, there are images from Washington DC; Norfolk, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware and Hightstown, New Jersey.” Identified subjects include "Anna Davis. . . Alexander Goodridge from New Orleans who is identified as 'Your Brother and Friend' and . . . Robert Grimshaw, a distinguished elderly gent with top hat and cane whose image was made in a Wilmington, Delaware studio. Most interestingly, his date of birth is included on the back ... 7 February 1788." (Album C. MGS00124)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00158)
(From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00160)
Inscription on back of photo reads, ""I hope this card that I here send/A small momento be/So when you count up jolly chaps/Just look and think of me. Respectfully Billy." According to Gary Ruppert's notes, this photo was labeled "in Memoriam" on the original album page. (Image of back of photo.) From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (Album F. MGS00162)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00165)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00166)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00170)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00180)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00183)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00185)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00188)
Photographer identified in the back of the photo as Wagner & Sons, 68 West Baltimore Street Near Gay Baltimore, Md.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00304)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00311)
Photographer identified on back of photograph as F. Wagner & Sons, 63 W. Baltimore St., S-W Cor. of Gay.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00316)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00325)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00324)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00339)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00348)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00365)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Louis Walzl, No. 157 South Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00372)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00381)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Wm. L. Spedden, 65 W. Baltimore St.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00397)
Photographer identified on back of photo as M. L. Robinson, 472 W. Baltimore St.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00396)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00392)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00393)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00411)