MGS Photo Vault

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Baltimore: Women (Unlabeled)

From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00012)
Back of photo labeled: "Aunt Mollie."  (Image of back of photo.) From collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00039)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00072)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00077)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00079)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Towson & Proctor, 163 N. Gay St., Baltimore.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00081)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00083)
Appears to be a photograph of a painting or a photograph made to look like a painting.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00091)
Photographer identified on the back as Bachrach & Bro., corner of Eutaw & Lexington Sts., Baltimore.   From the Gary Ruppert collection.   (MGS00098)
Photographer identified on the back as M. Stahn, 87, North Gay Street, Baltimore. From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (Album A. MGS00106)
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.  MGS00111)
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.  MGS00113)
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. MGS00122)
Photographer identified on the back of the photo as Stanton & Butler, 79 W. Fayette Street.   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. MGS00123)
(From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (Album D. MGS00151)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00159)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00161)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00164)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (Album F. MGS00168)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00181)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00187)
Photographer identified on the back of the photo as F. Wagner & Sons, 63 West Baltimore St. near Gay.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00329)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert. (MGS00190)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00330)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00333)
Back of photo labeled: “Rough on rats / For old acquaintance / sake from / ‘Sis’ / Jan 1901." (Image of back of photo.) From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00319)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00334)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00322)
Photographer identified on the back of the photo as Quartley, 11 E. Baltimore St..   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00335)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00328)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00338)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00356)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00364)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Plumley, 588 N. Gay St., Baltimore, Maryland.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00373)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Wunder, 478 W. Baltimore St.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00398)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Young, 465 W. Baltimore St.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00399)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00394)
Photographer identified on back of photo as Culpepper, 127 W. Baltimore St.   From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00395)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00402)
Back of photo is labeled, but overwritten and illegible. (Image of back of photo.) From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00405)
From the collection of Gary Ruppert.   (MGS00410)