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Triple Shootin in Essex

Posted on April 19, 2013 by atomictv

WJZ reportin’ ’bout a shootin’ (via buckleyworks.blogspot.com)  

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Marie and Albert Kawalski, 615 S. Bond St., Baltimore, MD (1905)

Posted on April 18, 2013 by atomictv

Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine (Library of Congress, 7/1909) Marie and Albert Kawalski. 615 S. Bond St., Baltimore, Md. Albert is 10 and Marie 11 years old. They worked, with mother, last winter, shucking oysters for Varn & Beard Packing … Continue reading →

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Five Years after The Wire… Baltimore is still Poverty-Plagued City

Posted on April 15, 2013 by atomictv

Five years after The Wire left screens, the TV set remains… how the real Baltimore is still poverty-plagued city of series By Katie Davies (The Daily Mail, 4/10/2013) They are images which wouldn’t be out of place in the opening … Continue reading →

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“Black Babies”: Candy With Odious Title Made Here, Baltimore, 1947

Posted on April 11, 2013 by atomictv

(The Baltimore Afro- American, 8/2/1947) Candy With Odious Title Made Here “Oh we’ve been making them for years and years,” said the woman manager at Fred Foos’ local candy concern Thursday, concerning the “Black Babies” delicacy the company circulates in Baltimore and … Continue reading →

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