Once Upon a Time Photos: 5.15.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 5/15/09

PastPerfect Accession #: CP 1.2009.001

Status: Partially Identified. Photograph of the Queen Ann's Lodge Sr. performance, with women dressed in various costumes, late 1940s. Front row, seated, (L-R): Shirley Meister, Annette Steel, Marilyn Libowitz, Ethel Americk, Mollye Pollokoff and unidentified. Middle row (L-R) Freda Libowitz, Ida Jaffe, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Shirley Libowitz, unidentified, Bess Horshoff, unidentified, unidentified. Back row: all unidentified.

Special thanks to Gabriel Meister, Jerry Libowitz, and Susan Rubenstein.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 5.08.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 5/08/09

PastPerfect Accession #: 2001.040.037

Status: Partially Identified. Esther Fox Flehinger is in the front row on the right end; Margie Buckner is in the back row on the left row; Emily Levy is 2^nd from left in the back row. 1920s.

Special thanks to Mardi Robinson.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 5.01.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 5/01/09 and 01.02.09

PastPerfect Accession #: 1995.013.027

Status: Unidentified.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 4.17.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 4/17/09

PastPerfect Accession #: 1991.007.009

Status: Unidentified.

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Special JMM Member Deal with Port Discovery!

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Preservation Maryland Conference

Last week, I had an opportunity to attend the annual Preservation Maryland conference, as it was hosted here in Baltimore. I've attended once before a few years ago, and while it's a little different in focus and scope than what we do at the Museum, I find it to be relevant and fascinating. This year, I had the opportunity to tour some of Baltimore's historic churches (including one with a link to Lloyd Street Synagogue), participate in a workshop on documenting and recording historic structures, listen to a case study of African-American archaeology, and attend a workshop on preserving cemeteries.

During the tour of historic churches, we visited St. Alphonsus, which was - like the Lloyd Street Synagogue - designed by architect Robert Carey Long, Jr. It even opened in 1845 - the same year as LSS! Not only that, but St. John the Baptist, the Lithuanian parish that occupied LSS from 1889 - 1905, moved to St. Alphonsus in the 1910s. I couldn't get over how different the building was from ours. Whereas LSS is Greek Revival in architectural style, this is truly German Neo-Gothic at its finest. Such opulence. I can understand why Long was a popular architect if he could swing back and forth in styles so easily.






I'll post more later today or tomorrow.