Nov 30, 2012

“Days Remembered,” a recently published picture book by The Baltimore Sun, provides a visual march through history. The images span over a century of photography, taken by The Baltimore Sun staff photographers, starting with the very first picture, published in 1901.

: Photography debuted in The Sun on September 30, 1901, with the publication of a one-column image of Chief Judge James McSherry of the Maryland Court of Appeals. (Baltimore Sun)

: An Armistice Day parade marches smartly by the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Place on November 11, 1918, marking the end of the “war to end all wars.” (Baltimore Sun)

: After the Great Fire swept Baltimore on February 7-8, 1904, more than 140 acres and 1,300 buildings lay in ruin. Damage was estimated at up to $150 million, nearly $4 billion in today’s dollars. (Baltimore Sun)

: Where Inner Harbor tourists now walk, shop and dine, bay steamers tied up at Light Street wharves waited for passengers and cargo bound for East Coast ports in 1920. (Baltimore Sun)

: The Fair of the Iron Horse, which celebrated the centennial of the founding in 1827 of the B&O, the nation’s first common carrier railroad, drew thousands to Halethorpe to witness a pageant of locomotives and humanity. (Baltimore Sun)

: While not as famous as Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly, Baltimorean William Ruppert did his best to uphold the city’s reputation in the 1920s as the “Flagpole Sitting Capital of the World.” (Baltimore Sun)

: Everything from ham and beans to beef stew and hot dogs was available at the coffee house. Also advertised were “Tables for Ladies,” in this photo from the early days of the Depression. (A. Aubrey Bodine/Baltimore Sun)

: In this classic pose during a 1931 exhibition game at Oriole Park, Baltimore native George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. demonstrates why he’s called the “Sultan of Swat.” (Leroy B. Merriken)

: Once, it didn’t seem like summer without a day trip aboard the Tolchester. The excursion steamer awaits annual repairs at the Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. before the 1938 season. (Baltimore Sun)

: At 12:29 a.m. April 7, 1933, H.L. Mencken, “the Bard of Baltimore,” marks the end of Prohibition with a glass of Arrow Beer at the Rennert Hotel. “Pretty good,” he says. “Not bad at all.” (Frank A. Miller/Baltimore Sun)

: The 804-foot-long dirigible Hindenburg, the “Titanic of the Skies,” soars above the Bromo-Seltzer Tower on its way to Lakehurst (N.J.) Naval Air Station on August 11, 1936. Nine months later, it would explode at Lakehurst, killing 35 passengers and crew. (Baltimore Sun)

: Navy recruits salute after taking the oath at Flag House in Baltimore in June 1942. Thousands of brave Marylanders heeded their country’s call. (Baltimore Sun)

: The Henn quadruplets – Tommy, Donald, Bruce and Joan – on their first birthday. Their father, Charles J. Henn Jr., was a Baltimore bookbinder and Army sergeant who married Dorothy Geast of the British army in 1945. The quadruplets, born on December 22, 1946, at St. Agnes, were a sensation. (A. Aubrey Bodine/Baltimore Sun)

: A streetcar travels the Guilford Avenue Elevated line in 1940. The streetcar-only trestle extended from Saratoga to Biddle Street from 1895 to 1950. (Baltimore Sun)

: Staff Sgt. Worton Cohen of Baltimore and members of the Yankee Division take a break from the war after the victory at Ardennes in February 1945. (Lee McCardell/Baltimore Sun)

: Cars and owners line up for gasoline rations at a Richfield station at Gilmore Street and Lafayette Avenue in Baltimore during World War II. (Baltimore Sun)

: Irene Grzech of the Red Cross Motor Corps changes a flat. Nearly all the aid volunteers were women, and many took mechanics courses to enable them to make needed repairs. (Baltimore Sun)

: The Bay Bridge nears completion in March 1952. Soon, motorists would no longer have to take the ferry across the Chesapeake Bay or make the long trek around it. (A. Aubrey Bodine/Baltimore Sun)

: A worker in the blast furnace at Bethlehem Steel Co. In the 1950s, the Sparrows Point plant in Baltimore County was the worldÕs largest steel mill. (Robert F. Kniesche /Baltimore Sun)

: Johnny Unitas checks a first-down measurement in the 1959 NFL title game at Memorial Stadium. The Colts would repeat as champions, defeating the New York Giants again, 31-16. (Joseph A. DiPaola Jr./Baltimore Sun)

: Tropical Storm Able brought heavy rain and flash flooding on September 1, 1952, that turned Main Street in Ellicott City into a torrent and swept cars toward the Patapsco River. (Frank A. Miller/Baltimore Sun)

: Seen from the air, a Dundalk-area housing development seems almost a work of abstract art in 1955. (A. Aubrey Bodine/Baltimore Sun)

: Thousands turned out on Gay Street to see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during a get-out-the-vote campaign in October 1964, when he was announced as Nobel Peace Prize laureate. (Paul M. Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)

: The Lafayette Courts high-rises on Aisquith Street opened to high hopes in 1955. But the public housing was plagued by drugs and crime and eventually demolished in 1995. (Richard Stacks/Baltimore Sun)

: Longshoremen unload rubber at the B&O Railroad’s pier at Locust Point in 1960. It was once a familiar sight to see workers carrying hundred-pound stems of bananas off boats in the harbor. (A. Aubrey Bodine/Baltimore Sun)

: A National Guardsman can do little as a shop burns out of control amid the 1968 riots. Insurers estimated damage in Baltimore at $8 million to $10 million during the unrest. (William H. Mortimer/Baltimore Sun)

: Third baseman Brooks Robinson and catcher Andy Etchebarren converge on pitcher Dave McNally after the Orioles swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966 to win their first World Series. (Paul M. Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)

: Colts linebacker Mike Curtis, right, goes after Donald W. Ennis, left, of Rochester, N.Y., who grabbed the ball during a game in December 1971. Curtis decked the fan, but Ennis got up smiling. (Carl D. Harris/Baltimore Sun)

: Colts legend Johnny Unitas walks off the field at Memorial Stadium for the last time. His last pass there in a Colts uniform was a short completion that Eddie Hinton turned into a 63-yard touchdown against the Buffalo Bills in December 1972. (Irving H. Phillips Jr. /Baltimore Sun)

: Donald Kroner buzzed the field, then crashed in the upper deck at Memorial Stadium minutes after the Pittsburgh Steelers demolished the Colts, 40-14, in a playoff game December 19, 1976. (Lloyd Pearson/Baltimore Sun)

: With sails filled and the bay waters foaming about them, Maryland’s skipjack fleet races off Sandy Point State Park before the start of the oyster season in 1970. (Clarence B. Garrett/Baltimore Sun)

: Baltimore native Barry Levinson sets up a shot in 1980 during the filming of “Diner,” the first of four films that make up his “Baltimore trilogy.” (Baltimore Sun)

: In 1981, ecdysiast Fannie Belle Fleming was better known as Blaze Starr at her Two O’Clock Club on The Block, where she also told jokes and sang songs, including one she wrote about her ample bosom, “38 Double-D.” (Paul M. Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)

: A tearful Earl Weaver, headed into retirement, ponders the last regular-season game against the Brewers in 1982. He would return as Orioles manager for the 1985 and 1986 seasons and enter the Hall of Fame in 1996. (Bill Hotz/Baltimore Sun)

: Baltimore director John Waters and drag queen extraordinaire Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, share a light moment outside the Senator Theatre at the world premiere of “Hairspray” in 1988. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

: When the Baltimore Colts slipped out of town on March 29, 1984, bound for Indianapolis aboard a fleet of Mayflower moving vans, it broke a city’s heart. (Lloyd Pearson/Baltimore Sun)

: First baseman Eddie Murray takes it all in from the back seat of a convertible during the victory parade after the Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to one in “The I-95 Series” in 1983. (Baltimore Sun)

: Cal Ripken Jr. shows the emotions of the moment on September 6, 1995, after he broke Lou Gehrig’s record streak of 2,130 consecutive games. Ripken would make an impromptu lap of the field at Camden Yards, shaking hands and high-fiving fans. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)

: A flotilla of kayaks makes a slow parade through a tidal marsh near Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in April 1997. (Perry Thorsvik/Baltimore Sun)

: The Woman’s Industrial Exchange, its waitresses and the menu never seemed to change, and that’s the way Baltimoreans liked it. From left, Trish Hall, Loretta Tarbert, Marguerite Schertle, Charlotte Zimernack, Carrie Geraghty and Margaret Brogna in 1995. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

: Officer Ray Cook detains a suspect at gunpoint on Edmondson Avenue in 1997. The youth was wanted on a warrant for armed carjacking. (Andre F. Chung/Baltimore Sun)

: Going topless is sometimes the only way to beat the heat of a Baltimore summer, as Samantha Robinson, Greg Roy, Kelli Robinson and Sherrie Stancill demonstrated in 1988 when the mercury hit 104 in Pigtown. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

: Called by the spirit, three churches hold a mass baptism through immersion in the waters of Big Gunpowder Falls in August 1996. (Linda Coan/Baltimore Sun)

: Gloria Marino, 9, of Bel Air, covers her ears from the roar of the jet engines on her father’s A-10, left. Lt. Col. Dan Marino, an A-10 “Warthog” pilot with the 104th Fighter Squadron arrived after returning from five months in Afghanistan along with seven other pilots and support crew. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)

: Bugler Joe Kelly sounds the traditional call to the post for the Preakness at Pimlico in 1994. The successful Chicago jazz artist was known for jazzing up his racing gigs. (Chien-Chi Chiang/Baltimore Sun)

: In 1999, Johnny Unitas visited Memorial Stadium, where he played for the Colts from 1956 to 1972. The stadium was razed from 2001 to 2002. A heart attack felled Unitas in September 2002. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: A Sun photographer on assignment met this rosy-cheeked child in reindeer skin boots and a hat made from Arctic fox fur in a grocery store in a tiny Siberian village in 1996. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

: Pope John Paul II prays at the Basilica of the Assumption during a visit to Baltimore in 1995. America’s first cathedral was designed by Benjamin H. Latrobe, the architect of the U. S. Capitol. (Chiaki Kawajiri/Baltimore Sun)

: Workers carry heavy sheets of steel as they break up obsolete U.S. warships on the shores of Alang, India, in 1997, at considerable risk to laborers and the environment. (Perry Thorsvik /Baltimore Sun)

: Tactical officers teach 17-year-old James Phelps the importance of saying âsirâ on the first day of boot camp for juveniles at the Savage Mountain Youth Center in Western Maryland. AndrÃ© F. Chung/Baltimore Sun)

: David Zinman, then-musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, works with violinist Hilary Hahn in 1998. Hahn, who took her first lesson at age 3, has won two Grammies. (Perry Thorsvik/Baltimore Sun)

: Linebacker Ray Lewis celebrates the Ravens’ 34-7 win over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV on January 28, 2001. The leader of the defense was the game’s Most Valuable Player. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

: Rescue workers shift rubble by hand at the World Trade Center site in New York the day after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in a search for survivors. (John Makely/Baltimore Sun)

: An American Airlines jet hijacked by five terrorists plunged into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, killing all aboard the plane and 125 people on the ground. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

: Marine Lance Cpl. Marcco Ware of Los Angeles carries a wounded Iraqi soldier in the opening week of the Iraq war in March 2003. U.S.-led forces occupied Baghdad on April 9. (John Makely /Baltimore Sun)

: Lonny Baxter, Juan Dixon and Tahj Holden celebrate Maryland’s 64-52 victory over Indiana and first NCAA men’s basketball championship in 2002. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

: Hasim Rahman, a Baltimore native, takes a punch from his 4-year-old son Sharif. âThe Rock,â a 20-to-1 underdog, knocked out champion Lennox Louis in 2001 to win the heavyweight title. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)

: In April 2008, Sophia Jones sheds tears of joy at the safe return of her son, Spc. Tony Jones of the Maryland Army National Guard, who had been deployed in Iraq. (Monica Lopossay/Baltimore Sun)

: As head of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume, a former Baltimore city councilman and U.S. representative, was among those arrested during a protest of discriminatory hiring practices at the Supreme Court in 1998. (Elizabeth Malby/Baltimore Sun)

: Jacob Roberts, 5, salutes the coffin of his father, Allan Michael Roberts, a Baltimore firefighter killed while battling a rowhouse fire in October 2006. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Aberdeen native Cal Ripken Jr. sheds tears as he talks of his family during his Hall of Fame induction in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 2007. The Ironman played in 2,632 straight games for the Baltimore Orioles. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)

: Cold water did not scare Ed Griffin, a scantily clad Darth Vader from Reisterstown, during the relatively balmy Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesapeake Bay in January 2006. (David Hobby/Baltimore Sun)

: Eric Kammeyer removes the âdixie cupâ cap from the Herndon Monument, a 21-foot greased obelisk at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, in 1997. Tradition holds that the plebe who replaces the cap with a midshipmanâs hat will be the first from his class to attain the rank of admiral. (John Makely/Baltimore Sun)

: Minavar Sariyeva, 80, was living underground with her daughter in a closet-size dugout in 2001. The Azerbaijanis fled their homes during the war with Armenia in 1992. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Marilyn Johnson, 10, knew the victims of the arson that killed Angela and Carnell Dawson and their five children in October 2002 in their home on East Preston Street. A 22-year-old drug dealer angry at their “snitching” pleaded guilty in 2003 and was sentenced to life in prison. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

: Foiled Again, with Shane Burke aboard, clears a jump during the 112th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup steeplechase in Glyndon in April 2008. (Doug Kapustin/Baltimore Sun)

: Police comforted one another in January 2011 during a vigil for William Torbit Jr., who was killed by a fellow officer during a shootout outside the Select Lounge on Paca Street. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

: Police take up positions in a Baltimore alley during a drug raid on Lombard Street in 2011. Among those arrested was Felicia Pearson, who played “Snoop” on the TV series “The Wire.” (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: A forensics expert marked remains found in 1994 in a mass grave in Honduras, where a CIA-trained military unit made opponents of the rightist Honduran government âdisappearâ in the 1980s. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

: The stripes of a Grevyâs zebra, also known as the imperial zebra, appear as a form of natureâs art. The species, now found mostly in northern Kenya, is considered endangered. (Jeffrey F. Bill/Baltimore Sun)

: Petty Officer Josh Cackowski of Duluth, Minn., shares a moment with his 18-month-old son Jacob after the USNS Comfort returned to Baltimore from the Arabian Gulf during the Iraq war in 2003. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)

: Park Avenue rooftops looked like icing on a cake after two major snowstorms on February 5-10, 2010. The storms dropped more than 40 inches and made it the snowiest month on record in Baltimore. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)

: The shock was deep after a police car hit a fire engine on U.S. 40 in October 2010, killing Officer Tommy Portz, 32. He was the third Baltimore officer killed in less than a month. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

: Summer Matthews and a less enthusiastic Dylan Henderson don hats for a picture in 2009 at the Flower Mart, a May tradition in Mount Vernon Place. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)

: After winning the Kentucky Derby, Barbaro shattered his hind leg in the Preakness at Pimlico in 2006. After a months-long struggle that riveted public attention, the horse was euthanized. (Doug Kapustin/Baltimore Sun)

: Supporters put hundreds of plastic flamingos outside City Hall in 2009 amid a permit dispute over a large flamingo sign at a Hampden restaurant. Many would later castigate Cafe Hon’s owner for trademarking “hon,” a local term of endearment. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)

: Mark Sanders as Edgar Allan Poe speaks to Halloween revelers at the Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore, where the poet and mystery writer is spending eternity. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Horses and riders are already on the track as the sun rises at Pimlico Race Course in May 2012. Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another would also win the Preakness, but an injury would keep the colt from pursuing the first Triple Crown since 1978 in the Belmont Stakes. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Rob Holland of Nashua, N.H., pilots his Veteran Home Loans MX2 stunt plane 3,000 feet above Ocean City in June 2011 in preparation for the annual OC Air Show. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)

: Baltimore Orioles teammates mob Nolan Reimold after he scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox, 4-3, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday, September 28, 2011. The loss eliminated the Red Sox from playoff contention. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

: The National Aquarium was the setting for the marriage of Caroline Trowbridge and Devon Minarik of Hunt Valley, who sealed their vows in 2011 with a kiss in front of smiling dolphins. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In 2012, Anna Eileen Dilks crawls through a muddy trench in the Wet and Sandy Drill, part of a 14-hour physical and mental training course and leadership challenge for Naval Academy plebes. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)

: Coach John Harbaugh walks off the field with quarterback Joe Flacco after a dropped touchdown pass and missed “chip-shot” field goal brought a sudden end to the Ravens 2011-12 season in the AFC championship against the New England Patriots. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)

: The Navy’s precision Blue Angels fly low over Fort McHenry in June 2012 during Baltimore’s Star-Spangled Sailabration marking the bicentennial of the War of 1812. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

The pages in the book are filled with samplings of everyday life mixed with historical events such as; Seabiscuit beating triple-crown winner War Admiral at Pimlico in 1938, rioting in the streets of Baltimore following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Cal Ripken, Jr. surpassing Lou Gehrig’s streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games in 1995 and the terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Centers on 9/11.

A common thread for these images were Baltimore Sun photographers who were masters at their craft and passionate about their work. They were capable of handling many different types of photographic subjects, while bringing their own unique vision to the newspaper.

Among those award-winning photographers was A. Aubrey Bodine, probably the most famous of all Sun photographers, whose stylish work became the signature for the Sun Magazine for many years. His work is represented throughout the pages of “Days Remembered.”

Others photographers included Leroy B. Merriken noted for covering the Orioles for more than half a century and Robert F. Kniesche, former head of the photo department, who innovated aerial photography at The Sun. Richard Stacks created beautifully toned black and white photographs on all subject matter. And more recently Jed Kirschbaum brought a whimsical and personal style to the pages of the newspaper.

Kirschbaum recently retired from The Baltimore Sun after 34 years as a staff photographer. At a recent panel discussion concerning the book “Days Remember,” he stated, “No matter whom I was photographing and what the situation was, I always tried to leave the subject with their sense of dignity.”

This rich history of photojournalism carries on today. The photography department has always been like a family. There are no clashes of egos. Each photographer relishes in the success of the other. Senior photographer Gene Sweeney, Jr., with 29 years at The Sun, is as talented as ever shooting sports. Junior photographer Lloyd Fox has 23 years in Baltimore and deserves to have his name mentioned with the best photographers to have worked at The Sun.

Over the past century, photography in The Baltimore Sun has continued as photojournalists have come and gone. A collection of their work and the high standards they set for themselves lives on in the book “Days Remembered.”

“Days Remembered” can be purchased by going to baltimoresunstore.com or by calling 410-332-6247.

Days Remembered: Iconic photography of The Baltimore Sun

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