Interior, Peale Museum (before 1931)

ID: 189 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS MD,4-BALT,55--3
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Interior, Peale Museum (before 1931)

View of the stair hall at the Peale Museum before the 1931 restoration, rephotographed by E.H. Pickering, September 1936.

This file appears in: Peale Museum

By Johns Hopkins
On August 15, 1814, almost exactly one month before the Battle of Baltimore and the bombing of Ft. McHenry in the War of 1812, Rembrandt Peale opened "Peale's Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Paintings" on Holliday Street in downtown Baltimore.…