Leon Abramson, undated

The collection consists of one albums and six folders, containing a total of 74 photoprints dating from 1949-1965. The first album contains 40 photoprints and is titled "Inauguration, Philip H. Goodman as President of the City Council of Baltimore, May 21, 1959". The second album contains 25 photoprints and is titled "Hon. Philip H. Goodman, Mayor of Baltimore, Dec. 6, 1962". Both albums contain newsclippings in addition to photographs and both lack captions and dates for the images included.

Images in the collection document the political career of Philip H. Goodman, Baltimore Mayor and City Council member and United States Senator, including the Dandy Fifth Democratic Organization and women participants in Goodman’s senatorial campaign. Goodman is pictured in many group, official, and ceremonial settings, with political figures and celebrities including Baltimore mayors Thomas D’Alessandro and William Donald Schaefer, Maryland governors Marvin Mandel and Theodore McKeldin, George Jessel, President John F. Kennedy, and Eleanor Roosevelt.