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This is a photo of Upton Mansion from 1936, eleven years before it housed the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts. The Institute was a thriving music school open to all races at a time when Peabody remained closed to African-American students.

After her 1914-1915 service with the Red Cross Mercy Ship expedition in Pau, Alice Henderson remained in France serving with the American Fund for the French Wounded for which she was awarded service and recognition medals.
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[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]

After receiving Paul A. Brent’s request for assistance with his application to the Peabody Conservatory, Dr. Jackson wrote this letter to the Honorable Howard W. Jackson, Esq., the former mayor of Baltimore, asking for support.

In this letter, Douglas H. Gordon, a member of the Peabody Institute Board of Trustees, responds to William L. Marbury with his opinion on the admission of Paul A. Brent to the Conservatory. Gordon was the only trustee who did not agree to admit…

FDC RP Stamp Supplement for RP Birthday Cachet by Doris Gold, hand-painted with 2 Metropolitan Opera stamps, canceled in Meriden, Connecticut, Jan. 22, 1997. Addition of Rosa Ponselle stamp and New York Sept. 10, 1997 cancelation. Original notes by…