McFee photograph collection

The collection consists of 7 boxes containing 948 photoprints. Of these, Boxes 1-3 contain 419 modern photoprints made at the Maryland Historical Society in the 1980s from vintage glass plate negatives created 1910-1930, and Boxes 4-7 contain 529 vintage photoprints from 1900-1930. The subjects of some vintage photoprints duplicate those of the glass negatives and modern prints. In addition, there are 92 film negatives for which we do not have prints (although some vintage photoprints may correspond to these negatives).

There are McFee family portraits including children's first communion and a school group portrait with Eugene McFee from roughly 1905. Other photographs of unidentified people are present, including Native Americans, children with toys (tricycle, dolls, goat-or ram-drawn sled), beach activities, costume parties, and groups of adults in various social settings. Several photographs depict Miss America contestants. Identified individuals include Baltimore Mayor Harry Preston, Maryland Governor Harrington, "Runt Walsh", General Warfield, Dr. W.A. Councill (minister), and Billy Sunday.

Other subjects include Camp Meade, Fort McHenry and the United States General Hospital #2 during World War I, including a set of photos documenting soldiers' head and facial injuries. There are images from the funeral of Woodrow Wilson (1924), Baltimore Police Captains, and early aviation including hot air balloons, biplanes, and Hubert Latham flying "Antoinetta". There are many sports images, including Baltimore, Reading, Allmo and "The Autographs" baseball teams in 1914, Johns Hopkins University football, ice boating, golfing, horse racing at Pimlico, fishing at Gwynn's Falls, and boxing.

The collection also contains two folders of printed ephemera located in box 7, which includes postcards, business and calling cards, programs, several issues of The Trouble Buster, a magazine of the U.S. Army General Hospital (1918-1919), and one issue of The American Shooter(1916).