Civil War Photographs On View In Maryland

BALTIMORE, MD.

:"The Civil War in Maryland: Rare Photographs from the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society and its Members" is on exhibit in the galleries of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library of the Maryland Historical Society. The exhibition will be on view to October 14.

Curated by Ross J. Kelbaugh, the exhibit is the largest collection of original photos of Civil War Maryland ever displayed, including many images never before exhibited, and cover the time period just before the start of the conflict through the postwar era.

The exhibit features rare images from Maryland Union collector Arthur G. Barrett, Civil War authors Ross J. Kelbaugh and Daniel Carroll Toomey, Maryland Confederate collectors David P. Mark Sr and Frederick D. Shroyer, and others.

Exhibition highlights include rare outdoor photographs of the Carroll family's Doughoregan Manor, portraits of the first African American casualty of the Civil War, unpublished photographs of Fort Federal Hill in Baltimore and other Union camps around Maryland, rare Civil War stereoviews that can be viewed in 3-D and a newly discovered portrait of the citizen killed in the Pratt Street Riot who may also be the first Confederate soldier ever killed in the Civil War.

Ross J. Kelbaugh, an active member of the society's library committee since 1987, has assembled the largest private collection of vintage Maryland photographs and related material in the state. His interest and passion for the Civil War and historic photographs began when he was in elementary school at the start of the Civil War Centennial and continues today.

Kelbaugh, co-author of the Baltimore County Public School's eighth grade American History gifted and talented curriculum, retired from his career as an American history teacher at Catonsville High School in 2001.

Kelbaugh is the author of the Directory of Maryland Photographers, 1840-1900, Introduction to Civil War Photographs and the recently published Introduction to African American Photographs, 1840-1950.

The Maryland Historical Society is at 201 West Monument Street. For information, www.mdhs.org or 410-685-3750, extension 349.