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Birthday of a Soldier – Camp Meade, Maryland (1918)

January 29, 2024 No Comments

Private Ray L. Andrew was stationed at Camp Meade, a US Army cantonment established between the cities of Baltimore and Washington, DC, in July of

Martha works at the Y – Baltimore, Maryland (1925)

July 14, 2022 No Comments

In January of 1925, Martha Randall was on her Christmas Break from school. Unexpectedly, Martha had received a postcard from another young woman she had

A Flower from Aberdeen – Gorsuch Mills, MD (1911)

May 16, 2022 No Comments

Mrs. John Jefferson lived in Gorsuch Mills, a village in northern Baltimore County, Maryland. The community is due south of Stewartstown (York County), PA. (Gorsuch