{"id":1679,"date":"2015-02-18T03:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T03:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2025-04-16T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:28:07","slug":"research-tip-an-enoch-pratt-library-card-provides-access-to-valuable-digital-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/research-tip-an-enoch-pratt-library-card-provides-access-to-valuable-digital-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Tip:  An Enoch Pratt Library Card Provides Access to Valuable Digital Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dr Hayden, the Director of the Enoch Pratt Library, holds a library card. \" class=\"wp-image-1680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Get the card. Dr Hayden, the Director of the Enoch Pratt Library, holds a library card. Source: Enoch Pratt Free Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Enoch Pratt Free Library has many excellent resources for those digging into state, local, and family history.\u00a0 Those materials include microfilm reels containing practically every extant newspaper in Maryland, including all the county weeklies.\u00a0 In the serials department, you will also find the Evening Sun and the Baltimore News American, papers which genealogists and others often overlook as they tend to rely on the Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maryland Department is another strength.&nbsp; This unit has been collecting and organizing books and other types of materials on every subject since 1935. as long as the information is about Maryland&nbsp; &nbsp;It has over 50,000 volumes pertaining to the State, 300,000 items on over 7,000 subjects in vertical files, and lots of photographs, maps and atlases.&nbsp;&nbsp;Items I often use in this reading room are the telephone directories.&nbsp; The stacks contain volumes for&nbsp; rural counties going back to the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for a perhaps over a decade, I have been using the great databases, which are accessible from the convenience of your home. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives (1835 to 1987), for example, is available online and is text searchable.&nbsp; Other online&nbsp;publications include the Washington Post (1877 \u2013 1994), the New York Times (1851 \u2013 2007), the Baltimore Afro-American (1893 \u2013 1988), and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The institution also has a number of general magazine and scholarly databases available for patrons.&nbsp; One of those is JSTOR, the virtual repository for scholarly journals, including many of the&nbsp;state historical society&nbsp;journals from around the nation.&nbsp; Another, which those studying or communities will find valuable, is the Sanborn Map&nbsp;database for communities all around the State.&nbsp; You may find many these to be of assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Pratt&#8217;s&nbsp;electronic holdings are strong and continue to grow.&nbsp; To access these valuable text searchable resources, you need a Baltimore City Library Card.&nbsp; All Maryland&nbsp;residents are eligible, but you do have to visit any branch in the city to receive the card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are resources I use all the time, as they help me find evidence beyond what the local papers provide.&nbsp;&nbsp;I also use them&nbsp;to locate reference dates, which allows me to access the local non-indexed materials without spending countless hours on a search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will find these Enoch Pratt databases to be of great assistance when doing genealogical research.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"serials at enoch pratt library\" class=\"wp-image-1683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/8719673895_4c9fcbcc0e_h.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Serials Department at Enoch Pratt has practically every published Maryland newspaper in microfilm, including all the county weeklies. Source: Enoch Pratt Free Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enoch Pratt Free Library has many excellent resources for those digging into state, local, and family history.\u00a0 Those materials include microfilm reels containing practically every extant newspaper in Maryland, including all the county weeklies.\u00a0 In the serials department, you will also find the Evening Sun and the Baltimore News American, papers which genealogists and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research Tip: An Enoch Pratt Library Card Provides Access to Valuable Digital Resources - Mike&#039;s History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Get an Enoch Pratt Library Card to help you with your local and family history research. 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