Album, 1927
Dates
- 1927
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Extent
221 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Description
Black leather cover stamped with gold lettering: "D. Willard." Title page has illustration and text: "The Fair of the Iron Horse/Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore [and] Ohio Railroad/Baltimore, Maryland/September 24-October 8, 1927." Some of the photoprints have color added.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one album containing 221 black and white photoprints, some of which have color added. The album documents the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse at Halethorpe (Baltimore County, Maryland), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s centenary celebration. All images are captioned.
Images depict the fairgrounds, showing many exhibits, spectators, and characters and floats from the pageant. Pageant participants included costumed individuals portraying historical characters such as Peter Cooper, but also actual Native Americans who are Blood and Piegan people of the Blackfeet Nation. From this latter group there are full portraits of Princess Dawn Mist and Chief Two Gun White Calf.
Exhibits featured railroad engines and cars from the first hundred years of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, along with many aspects of transportation including rail construction, telegraphy, baggage, traffic, and commercial development.
Creator
- From the Collection: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org