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Baltimore City Archives Records Collection

MSA SC 5511
Dates1777-1997
Mediumoriginal
RestrictionsContact the Baltimore City Archives directly for access: msa.bca@maryland.gov
StorageSeries 1: Passenger Arrival Records, 00/23/11/42-61, plus some oversized manifests also located at B5/11/5/16-17
Series 5: Baltimore City Council Records from RG 16, 00/22/11/64, 00/22/13/33, 00/22/11/59,
Series 7: Health Department Records from RG 19, 00/22/11/59
Series 9: City Commissioners records from RG 3, 00/22/12/52
Certain records remain in Conservation.
Description
Records transferred from the Baltimore City Archives, including passenger ship manifests and Baltimore County election returns. Most on temporary deposit from 2009-2011 during a move of the Baltimore City Archives to a new facility.
Please search for Baltimore City Archives records for access.
Record Groups, formerly on deposit from contain miscellaneous case files, law department dockets, harbor records, City Council proceedings, Mayoral correspondence and administrative files, City Commissioner files, Health Department records, zoning ordinances, Department of Housing and Community Development, City Hall Construction Records, and Central Payroll Division records.

Reference index available online, see William G. LeFurgy, ed., The Records of a City: A Guide to the Baltimore City Archives, 1984. LeFurgy, building on the work of Richard Cox and his staff, provides a general overview of the Record Groups of the Baltimore City Archives.

For the WPA inventories on which the Record Groups were based, see MSA CE 40.

For additional online resources, see also Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, A Guide to Research and Writing About the History of Baltimore City at msa.maryland.gov/bca.

Additional Baltimore City Archives records on microfilm inventoried under MSA SC 5636.
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Please type all reference inquiries regarding Baltimore City Archives records or microfilm reels and send in an email addressed to msa.bca@maryland.gov


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