Picnic grounds, Tolchester Beach Amusement Park, circa 1910

The collection consists of two boxes with 23 folders. There are a total of 74 photoprints (14 larger format photos are stored separately) from circa 1883-1925 of Tolchester Beach in Kent County, Maryland. Included are views of the beach, parks, amusements, and hotels at Tolchester, with excursion steamships of the Tolchester Steamboat Company on the Chesapeake Bay including Louise, Susquehanna, and Express. There are views of a flood and damage from a storm at Tolchester Park in 1915.

Additionally, there are nine photographs depicting crowds gathered at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland to celebrate the arrival of the Marshal of France, Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, and the French Mission. Joffre was visiting the city as part of a French delegation touring the country after the United States entered World War I. Women, men, and children holding American flags comprise these crowd scenes and small groups of African Americans are integrated in the crowds as well.