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Baltimore’s Downtown Department Stores Part 3

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Compiled by K. Meghan Gross, former JMM curatorial assistant. Originally published in Generations – Winter 2001. 1929: Brager of Baltimore and Eisenberg’s Underselling Store merge. Albert Brager founded Brager of

Baltimore’s Downtown Department Stores Part 2

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Compiled by K. Meghan Gross, former JMM curatorial assistant. Originally published in Generations – Winter 2001. 1888: Hutzler’s department store opens on Howard Street. Following the trend of acquiring property

Camp Louise

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Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie HERE. Last week I was processing photographs that were a gift of Camps Airy & Louise. These

Baltimore’s Downtown Department Stores Part 1

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Compiled by K. Meghan Gross, former JMM curatorial assistant. Originally published in Generations – Winter 2001. The department store is a relatively new institution. In 1840 there were no department

Travels with Grace: Florida, 1925 Part 3

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today Grace continues her trip through Florida, exploring Palm Beach, St. Petersburg, and Tampa.  Palm Beach March 17,

Travels with Grace: Florida, 1925 Part 2

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today Grace continues her trip through Florida, exploring Palm Beach, Miami, and their environs.  From Daytona to W.

An American in Palestine

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Mendes I. Cohen Tours the Holy Land Part I: World Traveler Written by Dr. Deb Weiner. Originally published in Generations 2007-2008: Maryland and Israel. “Very few of the Jews in Jerusalem

Travels with Grace: Florida, 1925

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Welcome to the next segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Travels with Grace, where we’re sharing (and annotating) posts from the travel diaries of Grace Amelia Hecht, native Baltimorean, b.

Dressing the Part

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Department Store Fashions and the Stylish Jewish-American Woman Written by Melissa Martens Yaverbaum, former JMM curator. Originally published in Generations – Winter 2001. Baltimore’s grand department stores were more than