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- Vestiges
- Linking the two
- Home security system, the early years
- One Surviving Old-Timer
- The Doughboy Abides
- China Doll!
- People are definitely heavier
- Cirkut Camera?
- Logjam
- Cute and terrifying
- That Wallpaper
- Enduring
- Just the thing
- I can just see it
- The kid in the back --
- Government-provided daycare
- Small town America
- Coca-Cola
- Have a nice trip --
- The Jukebox
- Art Deco
- I Have To Ask
- Where the signs are
- Dapper Hepcat!
- A cool guy
- Decoless
- Dedication
- Hot Dogs or Oysters?
- The car
- Minstrel show anywhere nearby?
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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Vintage photos of:
Gloria Victis: 1903
Baltimore circa 1903. "Confederate Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Mount Royal Avenue." Sculptor Frederic Ruckstull's allegorical bronze "Spirit of the Confederacy," whose Latin inscription means "Glory to the Vanquished." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Odd railing system
This looks like kind of an inappropriate railing around, what I would think, was an important monument. It looks like it was sloppily enlarged.
[It's a temporary enclosure to protect the freshly-laid sod around the new statue. -Dave]
114 Years Later
All the trees make it hard to see what the surrounding area looks like.
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