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Traveling with Grace: Beginning to Explore Sweden

Grace begins her travels through Sweden, this week landing in Goteborg and traveling to Karlstad and Falum! Special thanks go to JMM volunteer Harold Toppall for his transcriptions of Grace’s travel

Maryland’s “Jew Bill”

Today we’re using our Voter Education blog to dive back into history and to talk about the Jew Bill in Maryland. This bill was a big turning point for Jewish

Welcome Home

A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. After the Armistice on November 11, 1918, American forces began the slow

After the Great Baltimore Fire

A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. On the morning of Sunday, February 7, 1904, a building near the

Traveling With Grace: En Route to Sweden, 1950

This week we embark on a new journey with Grace Hecht. This particular 1950 trip takes us across the Atlantic! Special thanks go to JMM volunteer Harold Toppall for his transcriptions

A Dive Into Our Collections for Mother’s Day

Our Director of Collections and Exhibits, Joanna, kindly offered to pull together a selection of photos from our collections to help us celebrate Mother’s Day (which is this coming Sunday,

Traveling with Grace: Home Again

This week’s entry for our #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace is short and sweet, detailing her final two days on the road in 1947. To read more of Grace’s travels, click

Class Pictures

Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie HERE. I don’t know about you, but my house is boring me a bit. Seeing the same

Be an Upstander: Sadie Jacobs Crockin

Last week, we shared our newly online The A-Mazing Mendes Cohen exhibit, which allows us to revisit the story of this extraordinary Baltimorean with even more people. Inspired by this

Traveling with Grace: Heading East

In this week’s entry for our #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace, the party continues eastward towards home, enjoying some time in Indiana, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. To read more of