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Cabaret Music Hall, Paris France

Known as “Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus," and even the "Creole Goddess,” Baker was lead in this revue.

In 1943, the Baltimore Adult Activities Council held a roundtable discussion at the Enoch Pratt Library, addressing the topic of racial prejudice and how to teach children in a way that would lead to better race relations.

The YMCA handbook listed these synagogues, as well as several others over the following years, as resources where Jewish students could turn. In many instances they did, with several meetings of the Menorah and Zionist Societies taking place in the…

Photograph of performers from Baltimore Musicales at the George Peabody Library before the ensemble's recital inspired by Rosa Ponselle. Left to right: Ka Nyoung Yoo, Claire Galloway, Annie Gill, Thea Tullman Moore, and Min Jin.

Program for 2018 concert by Baltimore Musicales featuring music associated with Rosa Ponselle. The concert was sponsored by the Arthur Friedheim Library and took place at the George Peabody Library.

Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. Olmsted's public…