Tag: research

Digging In To The Collections: Dora Buckstein

A blog post by Director of Collections and Exhibits Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Exhibit research can be an opportunity to look more closely at some

A Research Dive: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum

Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie here. A few weeks ago, I received an information request about the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.  The person

A Walk around our Neighborhood

A blog post by Graham Humphrey, Visitor Services Coordinator. To read more posts by Graham click HERE. For those of you who don’t know, our self-guided walking tour takes visitors

Learning Their Names

A blog post by Collections Manager Joanna Church. To read more posts by Joanna click HERE. Like many historical societies and museums, we have a large number of photos in

A False “Rosetta Stone”

A graphic rendering of the exterior of the Lloyd Street Synagogue, a large building with columns. The building is pink and grey, with navy shadows and there’s a light blue sky.

Earlier this fall I had the opportunity to speak to the brotherhood of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation about the life of Mendes Cohen and the origins of Jewish Baltimore.  In preparation

Who Was Sam Eig?

A blog post by Research Historian Deb Weiner. If you do much traveling in and around Montgomery County, you may have driven on Sam Eig Highway. I found myself on

Two Birth Control Pioneers

A post by historian Dr. Deb Weiner. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on the upcoming edition of Generations magazine, which will soon go to press. The theme