Baltimore History Photos
If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, click "Identify people in photo" below each photograph. Or, contact Jobi Zink at 410-732-6400, x26 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.
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Where Fun Never Ends: Several girls and boys in crowns and capes climb on a wooden jungle gym with a sign that reads:
“Extra Terrific Purim Carnival Family Fun Plus Sun Feb. 27 11-5 pm Jewish Community Center.”
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Your Art’s Desire: Several women and two men gather around a table holding paints and brushes, looking at a painting on an easel. The back is marked: “5” in purple pencil, “P18” in blue ink, “4” in red ink and “O A Fall ’83” in pencil.
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Craft Fun: Six small children sing as one holds a channukiah made of paper tubes and tissue paper. There is a stamp on the back for photographer Sam Edlavitch of Baltimore. Can you identify anyone in this photo?
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Celebrate!: A woman and a boy on a chair hold a banner that reads “Happy Hannukah” above five children sitting on the floor. The back is marked “3 col A” in grease pencil and “N. S(???)” in pencil.
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Snack Time: Two women and three men stand at a table with a bottle, candles and pastries at what appears to be a Shabbat celebration.The back is stamped “photo by Jack Eisenberg.”
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Sabbath Salutations: This photo shows an Oneg Shabbat held on May 4, 1973, taken by Sam Edlavitch.
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In Gratitude: Two woman hold a poster that reads “Our thanks to Sally Thorner Guest Auctioneer Purim Carnival ’87 Auction ‘The JCC’.”
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High Stakes: Two women and a man sit at a poker table with onlookers in what appears to be a Jewish group’s “casino night” program.
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Season Of Joy: Six older men and women sitting in a sukkah. The back of the photo is marked “4”.
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Several teenage boys and girls sit around a table and pass a seder plate. The back is marked “Youth Seder 73” and “69” and “70” in blue ink. There is a stamp on the back for photographer Sam Edlavitch of Baltimore.
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Fun Galore: A man and woman each hold a straw hat with a “Purimz- apoppin 77” sign on the front. There is a photographer’s stamp on the back for Sydney S. Sussman Photography in Baltimore in this 1977 photograph.
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They’re Selling Aunt Sadie’s What? Three women stand behind a decorated flea market table at a Purim carnival. There is merchandise on the table which has a flea market sign on the front of it in this undated photograph.
In partnership with the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Baltimore Jewish Times is helping to fill in the gaps of local history by presenting these photos and seeking your clarification. More of the Jewish Museum of Maryland's extensive photograph collections are at www.jewishmuseummd.org.