What are some other archival repositories or local history resources that might be useful for my research?
Answer
There are a number of other archival repositories, local history resources, digital resources, and online databases that may help with your archival research.
Baltimore Heritage
Founded in 1960, Baltimore Heritage, Inc. is Baltimore’s nonprofit historic and architectural preservation organization.
Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP)
CHAP helps preserve and revitalize neighborhoods, celebrates City history, and promotes historic preservation as a proven economic driver for Baltimore City.
Explore Baltimore Heritage
Explore helps historians, students, and residents tell the stories behind Baltimore's buildings and neighborhoods.
Maryland State Archives
The Maryland State Archives holds state government records of permanent value. Its collections date from Maryland's founding in 1634, and include colonial and state executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land, and court records; church records; business records; state publications and reports; and special collections of private papers, maps, photographs, and newspapers.
Baltimore City Archives
The Baltimore City Archives, in cooperation with the Maryland State Archives, manages Baltimore city government records of permanent value.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA)
MARMIA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and access of movies and sounds that document the arts, history, and culture of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
Maryland Center for History and Culture (Previously Maryland Historical Society)
The Maryland Center for History and Culture includes library, museum, and archival collections including over 350,000 objects and seven million books and documents. The institution provides services through its museum, library, press, and educational programs.
Preserve The Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
The Baltimore Uprising Project is a community-driven digital repository that collections and preserves perspectives and experiences of the protests and unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore police custody in 2015.
Digital Maryland
The statewide digitization program of the Maryland State Library Resource Center / Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world with millions of books, records, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, newspapers and more in its collections. LOC collects, preserves & provides access to its universal collection. The Special Format Collections and Digital Collections provide access to numerous primary sources in a variety of formats including manuscripts, prints and photographs, oral histories, and more.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. The mission of NARA is to preserve documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government that are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are retained forever. Highlights from the collections at NARA include family histories and genealogical resources, military service records, immigration records, and American historical topics.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Chronicling America is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.
Baltimore Afro-American Newspapers (Historical) (UBalt access only)
This database includes images of all the content of The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper (also known as The Afro) including articles, ads, illustrations, and cartoons. It covers issues from 1893-1988.
Baltimore Sun (Historical) (UBalt access only)
This database includes articles from Baltimore’s main daily newspaper from its first issue in 1837 to 1991. Full-page views including photos are available as well as PDF versions of articles.