Baltimore City Archives

The Baltimore City Archives "is the central depository for government records of permanent value.

Arguments of cronyism in the city librarian's office resulted in the creation of the Bureau of Archives within the Department of Legislative Reference in 1927.

During the late 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) assigned workers from the Historical Records Survey (HRS) to the Baltimore City Archives, the outcome being twelve hundred detailed worksheets and a completed index of the records of the Archives.

Despite this work, the archives fell into disrepair until the 1970s, when a renewed interest in Baltimore's history was the impetus for the creation of the position of City Archivist.

[5] They have received an NHPRC Grant,[6] and work has since commenced to create more access to the holdings, including more detailed descriptions in their online guide[7] and the addition of Web 2.0 tools, such as Flickr.