Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos

Julius Hebbel created this cabinet card of Louis Diggs' grandfather, George Grant Diggs who was born in the mid-1800s and lived in Boring, Piney Grove, Maryland. Julius Hebbel's studio was located in Baltimore from 1873 through 1903, for most of that time on North Gay Street.
 
 
 

Slightly beyond the 19th-century, this photo is none-the-less quite interesting. It is a graduation picture of Louis Diggs' mother, Agrada Lynn Deaver Diggs who was a graduate of Baltimore Normal School, now Coppin State College. The photo was made by Penn Studios on Pennsylvania Avenue.
 
 
 
 

A fashion-plate of her time, this beautiful photo captured Ariel Ellen Diggs probably in the early 1900s. The photo studio is not known.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Another fascinating picture from Louis Diggs. This is Hilton Smith Diggs who was born late in the 19th-century and served in World War I in France. This photo shows him in his military uniform.