Baltimore Collection

In 2001 the University of Delaware received an assortment of photographs of uncertain provenance and in need of conservation. Found in Maryland, the donated materials, 53 late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs, include tintypes, albumen prints, matte collodion prints, silver gelatin printing-out prints (POP), silver gelatin developing-out prints (DOP) and one halftone. Several photographs are studio portraits taken in the Baltimore area; the donated photographs became known as The Baltimore Collection. The collection includes photographs from other areas, including Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Washington, D.C. Most individual sitters have yet to be fully identified; many appear to be Black or African American. This site presents research undertaken during the Fall 2017 graduate-level course Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive and is complemented by a companion site: http://sites.udel.edu/baltimorecollection/