Food the Old-Fashioned Way-Getting Groceries in 19th-Century Baltimore

In the days before Uber Eats and DoorDash, Baltimore’s residents got their food the old-fashioned way—by purchasing ingredients and preparing it themselves at home. While some residents tended small gardens, raised fowl, or worked the local waterways for fish, oysters, crabs, and other … Continue reading →

First Central Bank of the United States

Figure 1. Front of a cast iron bank from the Nathan Mansfield privy (c. 1850-1870) at the Federal Reserve Site (18BC27) in Baltimore. This flat piece of cast iron (Figure 1) was once part of a coin bank produced around 1872 by J. & E. Stevens of Cromwell, Connecticut. Known as a … Continue reading →