Pictures: Celebrating 175 years of Baltimore Sun photos

Paul M. Hutchins, Baltimore Sun

Sun photographer Paul Hutchins took the graphic picture where shadows double a stairway that winds around an oil tank located at the Ashland Deepwater Terminal in Canton.

A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Sun file photo

A. Aubrey Bodine?s sepia-toned photos were legendary. His 1948 ?Oyster Tonger? shows his tactile use of light and reflection, which masks the back-breaking work of a Tilghman Island waterman.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

Towson University womens' lacrosse teammates #9 Ashley Waldron and #8 Sarah Maloof rejoice after their team beat James Madison University 8 to 7 in the CAA championship to win a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Monica Lopossay, Baltimore Sun

R.J. Voigt prays for lots of things, his family, all the other sick children, but most importantly for him, after losing most of his hearing and ablity to speak, not to lose his eyesite. R.J. knew if he lost his vision there was no way he could become a cancer doctor and help others like himself. In 2004 Baltimore Sun photographer Monica Lopossay visually told the tragic story of Ronald Joseph Frank Voigt, know as R.J. who died from cancer at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The story centers around children who are terminally ill and how institutions such as Hopkins grapple with how to make the child's final journey better. They want to ease pain and other symptoms, counsel parents, give children a voice. R.J.'s mother Michele Voigt wanted to keep her son alive as long as possible, but realized he was in pain, and the miracle cure she prayed for wasn't going to happen.

Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun

Michael Phelps darts through the water as the morning sun illuminates the Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center pool during practice and Karl Merton Ferron uses the lighting to highlight the Olympian.

Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun

On October 20, 2010 Baltimore city police officers comfort each other near the accident scene involving another officer. Barbara Haddock Taylor photographed the scene on route 40 in West Baltimore where a city police car and a city fire engine were in an accident.

Richard Stacks, Baltimore Sun

A year after the Supreme Court?s Brown vs. Board of Education ruling ended school segregation, first-graders recite the Pledge of Allegiance in 1955 at Gwynns Falls Elementary School.

Richard Stacks, Baltimore Sun

In 1966, a Ringling Brothers & Barnum Bailey circus clown kicks back and reads the paper until time to don his costume in this Richard Stacks photograph.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

Jed Kirschbaum photographed these rolls of steel at Bethlehem Steel Corporation Sparrows Point Division's new, in 2000, $300 million cold sheet mill. At Sparrows Point the facility is known as "The Field of Dreams". Steel is porous and while the rolls are coated, exposure to moisture can work on the outer layer of some rolls depending on the coatings.

Lloyd Pearson, Baltimore Sun

A police officer keeps the peace at Gay and Orleans streets after the riots that swept the city after the April 4, 1968, assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Baltimore Sun file photo

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace lies in the back of a station wagon Monday after he was shot as he campaigned in Laurel, Md., in his bid for the Democratic primary vote. This photograph was made by camerman J.A.Bowman of Laurel.

Baltimore Sun file photo

The Sadie F. Lewis, a bugeye workboat from Chance, Md., docks at Iron Warf alongside Boston Street.

Doug Kapustin, Baltimore Sun

The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse program was once again on top as they beat Duke University 12-11 at M&T stadium to win the 2007 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Division I Championship match.

Chiaki Kawajiri, Baltimore Sun

As part of the 2007 Hon Fest in Hampden, Celine Goins, shows off her big hair on stage as she competes in the Bawlmer's Best Hon Contest. The contest began in 1994 and is a vision of the sixties-era women with beehive hairdos, blue-eye-shadow, spandex pants and something, anything with leopard print.

Frank A. Miller, Baltimore Sun

In 1952 a flash flood caused by a hurricane washed 21 cars down the main street of Ellicott City along with household furnishings and store merchandise. Frank A. Miller photographed some of the cars piled up near the depot yard at Main Street and Maryland Avenue.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

In August of 1995, John Hudson looks out from his truck at one of his younger customers John Boias, 3, of Meadowood Townhomes in Edgewood, who had to deal with a rapidly melting fudgsicle. Beth Boias (John's mother) said that after the ice cream truck it's usually time for a shower for the youngster. Because a lot of customers run to the truck barefoot, "Mr. John" will often put down a towel for them to get off the hot pavement, or pull close to the grass.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

Washington Metropolitan police violently subdue a large group of young protesters, linked to the Anarchist movement, as the protesters attempted to storm a barricade at 7th and D Streets during the Presidential Inauguration for George W. Bush. The police are wielding PVC tubes taken from the protesters' banner, which was destroyed at the start of the melee. The police also used pepper spray to push the protesters back from the intersection.

Linda Coan, Baltimore Sun

A mass river baptism through total immersion took place in the Big Gunpowder Falls River. Three churches participated: Solid Rock, Judah Praise, and Holy Temple of Truth.

Baltimore Sun file photo

The Sun made history on Sept. 30, 1901, two weeks after Theodore Roosevelt became president after President William McKinley's assassination. The Sun ran a photograph. It was a profile shot (right) of Chief Judge James McSherry of the Court of Appeals of Maryland to illustrate a brief story announcing the start of the court's fall term.

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

Molten metal heats in the Furnace at Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point. Owned by The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which was based in Bethlehem, Pa., which was once the largest producer of steel in the United States. It was a major supplier of steel for ships, ammunition and other ordnance during World War I and World War II, and it stood as a symbol of the industrial might of a nation.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

Rebecca Girvin leans out the second floor window of her home in the 700 block of East Lake Avenue in the Lake-Walker neighborhood to push snow off her front porch roof. She had trouble extending the broom far enough to push the snow over the edge of the roof. With the sun shining, area residents began to dig out after the latest snowfall, which brought the total snow accumulation in Maryland this winter to a record-breaking 79 inches.

Monica Lopossay, Baltimore Sun

With tears of joy, Sophia Jones embraces her son Specialist Tony Jones with Maryland Army National Guard. Soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment are returning home overseas duty supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

This early morning fire on E. Preston St., killed Angel Dawson and her five children, and left her husband Carnell Dawson, in critical condition. By early afternoon when Sun photographer Amy Davis arrived to photograph the scene, teddy bears and signed condolences filled the top step of the N. Eden St. side entrance to the house. Marilyn Johnson , 10, a 4th grader at Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. E.S., where the three youngest Dawson children went to school, knew all the young victims. Neighbors said that the home had been firebombed recently after Angel Dawson had testified against drug dealers, and the common view was that this fire was retribution against the family for standing up to local drug dealers.

Baltimore Sun file photo

Dorothy Rolley at 227 N. Linwood Avenue participated in a long held Baltimore tradition as she washes the marble steps to her home.

Baltimore Sun file photo

A year before the crash, in 1936, Baltimoreans had been excited by the news that they would get a glimpse of the giant Hindenburg, which was to circle the city late on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 8.

Chiaki Kawajiri, Baltimore Sun

In October of 1995 became the center of attention for the Catholic church as Pope John Paul II came to visit. The Pope visited a number of locations in the city including praying at the Basilica of the Assumption, pictured, and holding mass at Camden Yards where some 60,000 people attended.

Gene Sweeney Jr., Baltimore Sun

In 2002 Sun photographer Gene Sweeny, Jr. traveled to Salt Lake City to capture this picture of Olympian Jim Shea who could not be contained after he won the gold medal in the "Skeleton" competition. Shea had just lost his grandfather, (also a medalist in speedskating) and was the crowd favorite. His father was also and Olympian, but never medaled.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

Mayor Wiliam Donald Schaefer and Barbara Mikulski take ballet lessons at The Baltimore School For The Arts.

Paul Hutchins, Baltimore Sun

Third baseman Brooks Robinson, pitcher Dave McNally (center) and catcher Andy Etchebarren exult as the Orioles win their first World Series in 1966 at Memorial Stadium, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

During the second major snow storm to hit the Baltimore region in days, Sun photographer Jed Kirschbaum captured this artistic picture of snow swept rooftops along Park Avenue as high winds made for a picturesque urban snow scene.

Paul Hutchins, Baltimore Sun

In August of 1965 Brooks Robinson, star 3rd baseman for the Baltimore Orioles takes time to play catch with his son at the Stadium before the Orioles' game.

Joseph A. DiPaola, Jr., Baltimore Sun

Sun photographer Joseph DiPaola got this picturesque photo of Mrs. Charles J. Kafka sitting with her wash as she had it out to dry in the Patterson Park neighborhood.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

Flower Mart revelers have been gathering at the foot of the Washington Monument to celebrate spring since 1917. Here, Summer Matthews and a less-than-enthusiastic Dylan Henderson in 2009.

Joseph A. DiPaola, Jr., Baltimore Sun

In this prize winning photo finish of the the 1962 Preakness, Sun photographer Joseph A. DiPaola captured Greek Money on the right ridden by Johnny Rotz as he wins by a nose over Ridan ridden by Manuel Ycaza. The photo clearly showed that jockey Ycaza clearly leaning over and arm-locking his elbow into Rotz's stomach, which the track stewards had missed. In a subsequent hearing Ycaza was suspended when the Maryland State Racing Commission used DiPaola's photo as evidence.

Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun

While attending the Otakon convention, which celebrates Japanese animation, Matthew Miklos of Stanford, CT, takes a cigarette break outside the Baltimore Convention Center. His character is called "21."

David Hobby, Baltimore Sun

Dressed as a scantily clad Darth Vader, Ed Griffin, of Reisterstown, runs into the Chesapeake Bay during his first ever Polar Bear Plunge and David Hobby photographed the moment. The air on January 28, 2006 was 60 degrees, but the water was a less inviting 37 degrees for the tenth annual event, which drew large crowds due in part to the unseasonably warm weather.

Monica Lopossay, Baltimore Sun

Maurice Gordon Bey Sr.(back right) and an unidentified man beat a young man they believe is involved in the murder of Bey's 15 year-old son, Maurice Gordon Jr.

Leroy Merriken, Baltimore Sun

Leroy Merriken photographed Babe Ruth in his classic pose at the plate during ad exhibition game at Oriole Park in 1931.

Lloyd Fox, Baltimore Sun

An Amish man is pictured in front of the Nickel Mines Amish School where unprecedented violence took place when a gunman carrying 600 rounds of ammunition burst into the one-room schoolhouse, ordered out the boys and several women, bound the girls and shot 11 of them execution-style, killing at least four.

Gene Sweeney Jr., Baltimore Sun

Ray Lewis celebrates with confetti flying around him after the Ravens win Super Bowl XX in Tampa Bay, Florida on January 28, 2001 and Gene Sweeney Jr. was there to show us the emotion of the moment.

A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Sun

Longshoremen manually unload rubber from the holds of a ship docked at the B & O Railroad?s pier in Locust Point, in this 1960 international-award-winning photo.

Robert F. Kniesche, Baltimore Sun

President Eisenhower throws out the first pitch at the 1957's opening day baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Senators as Managers Chuck Dressen (Washington) and Paul Richards (Orioles) watch.

Baltimore Sun file photo

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, noted civil rights leader, greets thousands of admirers on a motorcade tour up North Gay Street on his tour after winning the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

Minavar Sariyeva, 80, is pictured in 2001 outside the underground dug-out where she lives with her daughter, Suraya Sariyave, 31, in a space barely larger than a walk-in closet, and with a ceiling so low one has to stoop. She said, "I want you to tell people in America about me." When our group of foreigners, including photographer Algerina Perna, approached her, she wanted to know if we were the ones who were going to build houses for her village. Some of the neighbors are afraid to go into the dug-outs for fear snakes will bore holes into the floors and walls and ceilings. This area is known as Lachin Winterland. For the past century, it was used by shepherds in the winter who brought their sheep from Lachin, a mountainous area, to this lowland which was much warmer. Azerbaijanis fled from Lachin to Vagazin during the 1992 war with Armenia, and whole families have since used these underground dug-outs year-round as their homes, with several people living in very small spaces originally made for 1 or 2 people.

Christopher T. Assaf, Baltimore Sun

Ravens linebacker Antwan Barnes, right finds a new way to stop Eagles running back Brian Westbrook, by the seat of his pants, relatively, for a two-yard loss in the third quarter of their games.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

At Eastern District Police Headquarters, a boy, age 10, was arrested for holding up a 9 year old boy with a .22 caliber revolver to get a beanie cap (both pictured at left). He was in handcuffs at the station, waiting to be taken home by his mother.

Elizabeth Malby, Baltimore Sun

At the climax of the NAACP hosted protest of discriminatory hiring practices in the Supreme Court, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume is arrested for crossing the police line in an attempt to deliver resumes of minority law students to Chief Justice William Renquist.

Lee McCardell, Baltimore Sun

Sunpapers war correspondent Lee McCardell took this gruesome picture on May 23, 1945. American soldiers had ordered townspeople of Neunburg, Bavaria, to attend services and act as pallbearers for 161 Jews slain by SS Troops.

Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun

Cal Ripken, Jr. played in a string of 2,632 consecutive games, a major league baseball record that is known as "The Streak." On Sept. 6, 1995, he played in his 2,131st straight game, breaking Lou Gehrig's record and becoming baseball's Iron Man.

Baltimore Sun file photo

An elevated view of the Lexington Market looking west along Lexington Avenue on a busy market day.

Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun

Barbara Haddock Taylor took this picture while on assignment in Siberia, Russia. Barbara said, "It's one of my favorite pictures. This small child was standing in a grocery store in a tiny native Siberian village. I like the contrast between a very mundane setting, such as a grocery store, that happens to be located in the wildest, most exotic setting I could possibly imagine. We see little children in grocery stores all the time, but they're not clad in Arctic fox hats and reindeer skin boots. Russia was a wonderful mystery to me--symbolized in this small way."

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

The night before Halloween Algerina Perna photographed Mark Sanders portraying Edgar Allan Poe at Poe's Frightful Halloween! which was held at Westminster Hall, in the graveyard, and the Westminster Catacombs.

Andre F. Chung, Baltimore Sun

First day of Boot Camp, October 26, 1998, at the Savage Leadership Challenge facility, James Phelps, 17, experiences Induction Day with the help of three Tactical Officers. Andre F. Chung photographed the TACS making sure he understood the importance of using "Sir!" whenever he spoke shortly after he got off the bus.

Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun

Pilot Rob Holland of Nashua, NH, maneuvers his MX2 plane over Ocean City more than 3,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, the day before the 2011 OC Air Show. The picture was taken with a GoPro Digital camera mounted to the wing tip of the plane. The palm sized camera was programmed to automatically take a picture every three seconds.

Hans Marx, Baltimore Sun

Famed Baltimore Sun photographer Hans Marx got a different angle as the construction of the east tower of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge looking west across the bay. In the foreground is electrician Nicholas C. Guerieri.

Weyman D. Swagger, Baltimore Sun

Judy Agnew congratulates her husband, Spiro Agnew, following his victory in the the gubernatorial election in 1966, and Weyman Swagger documented the her reaction.

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

The Star Spangled Open Championship, the annual cheerleading competition, was held at First Mariner Arena on January 8, 2006. Algerina Perna captured the girl in the center singing, "We represent the lollipop guild" as her team, The Cheer Madness Sky Rockets, cheered to a Wizard of Oz theme.

Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun

Police position themselves in the alley behind a house in the 1200 block of Lombard during a raid in March of 2011. More than 30 people were arrested in connection with a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation. Of those taken into custody was Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, the actress who played "Snoop" in "The Wire" TV show.

Perry Thorsvik, Baltimore Sun

Twisting and gliding clear across Dorchester County, a group of kayaks winds through a creek in the Transquaking River in this aerial photograph by Sun photographer Perry Thorsvik.

George Cook, Baltimore Sun

The Skipjack oyster boat "Martha Lewis" works along the Choptank River along with other skipjacks shown in the background.

John Makely, Baltimore Sun

As soon as the second World Trade Tower was attacked in New York City on September 11, 2001, Sun photographer John Makely drove to Manhattan. He didn't arrive till the early morning hours the next day. He worked his way to ground zero of the attack when the sun rose on September 12th. He took this picture as workers started climbing on the rubble that was the remnants of the north tower.

Chien-Chi Chang, Baltimore Sun

Prior to the running of the 119th Preakness race Sun photographer Chien-Chi Chang found this interesting perspective to get a picture of buglar Joe Kelly as he sounds out the traditional start of the race.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

On September 11, 2001 firefighters were still battling flames when Sun staff photographer Amy Davis showed up on the scene of the Pentagon after a terrorists flew a commercial airliner into the building. Smoke could be seen for miles and a large gash could be seen where the plane had hit the west wall of the building.

Michael Lutzky, Baltimore Sun

There is no better excuse for an overheated photographer to jump in a cool fountain than to make a picture. During a string of 100 degree days the weather became the news and when Sun photographer Michael Lutzky saw these four kids (l-r Twedell Bell, Damond Wallace, Ernest Robinson and Raymond Wallace) in the fountains at the Inner Harbor (Calvert/Pratt), he rolled up my pants and climbed in with them.

Elizabeth Malby, Baltimore Sun

Elizabeth Malby captured the excitement of the 2006 Maryland Terrapins womens basketball team as the All Tournament Team Most Outstanding Player Laura Harper (top) hugs teammate Marissa Coleman after evening the score and securing overtime before winning the NCAA National Championship at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston.

Monica Lopossay, Baltimore Sun

Corps Cadets console each during prayer and the lowering of the American Flag to half staff on Virginia Tech campus the day after a lone gunman shot and killed 32 people on the Blacksburg, Virginia campus.

Albert D. Cochran, Baltimore Sun

A 12 alarm blaze destroyed almost all of the old Cross Street Market plus a half a block of homes before it was brought under control by fire fighters in May of 1951.

Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore Sun

A marker placed by forensics expert near the first of five sets of skeletons exhumed at a mass grave site in Honduras. This is the first ever dig in Honduras to try to exhume and identify remains of the disappeared from the 1980s

Hans Marx, Baltimore Sun

In a 1951 photo that Hans Marx titled ?Mind Over Matter,? a bocce ball player lets it roll as his comrades look on.

Garo Lachinian, Baltimore Sun

In 1994 Sun photographer Garo Lachinian traveled to Cuba to document daily life. During his visit he captured this image of a young boy from the town of Cojimar swimming out to bid farewell to Wilma Perez, her husband Roberto Gonzalez and 12 others who are departing at dusk from the beach at Cojimar towards the Florida Straits on their home-made raft. This image won 1st place in General News in the World Press Awards.

J. Pat Carter, Baltimore Sun

Jacqueline Comegys holds son T.J. (one of 3) talks about burns (to her other son) from heating pipes and desire to move from Lafayette Courts public housing.

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

Crystal Lee Hindla, 5, and her brother, Howard Evans Hindla, 6, are photographed by Algerina Perna in 1999 against a Cadillac owned by their grandparents, Dave and Adrienne Long, with whom they live. Baltimore city is buying out the residents of Wagners Point under the eminent domain law because the city needs space for the sewage treatment plant expansion. The majority of residents also want to move because of the high cancer death rate which they attribute to chemical companies which surround the community.

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

Hall of Fame quarterback, Johnny Unitas, poses in 1999 in Memorial Stadium where he played for the Colts. The stadium demolition began in 2000.

Doug Kapustin, Baltimore Sun

For the 2006 Preakness The Sun added an additional elevated photo position with a view of the finish line. As it turned out, it was the perfect view as Barbaro pulled up lame in front of the Pimlico Grandstands, holding up his rear leg which had been fractured. Despite many attempts by the owner to save the horse, he eventually was euthanized in 2007.

Lloyd Pearson, Baltimore Sun

Mayor William Donald Schaefer had promised to jump into the National Aquarium seal pool if the aquarium didn?t open on July 1, 1981. It didn?t, and he did.

David Hobby, Baltimore Sun

A young red fox plays as it leaps between rolls of harvested hay on Michael Pishvaian's, farm in Poolesville, MD.

Lloyd Pearson, Baltimore Sun

It was Dec. 19, 1976, and less than 10 minutes after the Pittsburgh Steelers had crushed the Baltimore Colts, 40-14 in an AFC playoff game at Memorial Stadium when a plane crashed into the seats at Memorial Stadium. Donald Kroner, a former charter pilot, had crashed a rented, low-wing, blue-and-white Piper Cherokee into the upper deck of the end zone, losing a wing in the process. Kroner, who would serve three months of a two-year sentence for malicious destruction of property and violation of city aviation ordinances.

Lloyd Pearson, Baltimore Sun

Under cover of a night snowstorm, the Colts steal out of their Owings Mills complex on their way to Indianapolis on March 29, 1984.

Monica Lopossay, Baltimore Sun

Capt. Shane R. Mahaffee, who was injured while serving in Iraq, gets a final prayer before his burial at Ascension Cemetery in Libertyville, Illinois.

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A homecoming parade is held for the 115th Infantry pictured are (left to right) Col. Milton Reckord, Maj. Proston Lawa, Lt. Col. John D. Markay, Lt. Col. Finley, Lt. Frank Hancock, Maj. James Knight, Maj. Bruce Wylio, and Capt. Harlan Johnson. All of them are from the 29th Division.

Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun

The "smiles" of the dolphins swimming nearby create a happy atmosphere in Kim Hairston's photograph of Caroline Trowbridge and Devon Minarik kissing near the dolphin exhibit at the National Aquarium after their wedding.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

This 2010 portrait of Baltimore icon John Waters was taken at one of his favorite watering holes the Club Charles. Waters had written about that contained chapters on his favorite haunts in the area.

Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun

An aerial view of The Chesapeake Bay Bridge was photographed by Kim Hairston.

Paul Hutchins, Baltimore Sun

This picture was taken of famed burlesque dance Blaze Starr in her dressing room at the Silver Slipper in Washington DC. Blaze was the queen of burlesque on Baltimore's famed "Block" as she was the star attraction at the Two O'Clock Club for over twenty years.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

Sun photographer Jed Kirschbaum took this whimsical picture of heavyweight boxer Hasim Rahman as he pretends to gives in to his hard punching four year old Sharif near the end of his workout.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

Grayson Gilbert, 6, of Towson left a note beneath the Jesus Statue before his surgery for pancreatic cancer. Jed Kirschbaum captured a moment when he visited the statue again during an office visit to Hopkins. He had asked his mother if they could go the long way out and see the statue.

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The Great Baltimore Fire started on the morning of Feb. 7, 1904, at John E. Hurst building located near present day 1st Mariner Arena. The first alarm sounded at 10:48 a.m. and the fire quickly spread, eventually destroying 1,500 buildings over 140 acres. In this particular shot The Alexander Brown and Company building was the only one to survive in the immediate area.

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Surrounded by a sea of Beatles fans at today's performance, a man and boy (upper left) seem to be trying to shut out the din of music and shrieks in the Baltimore Civic Center. Witnesses said it was impossible.

Andre Chung, Baltimore Sun

Staff photographer Andre F. Chung chanced upon this June 1997 arrest of a carjacking suspect detained by Officer Ray Cook at Edmondson and Allendale avenues.

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

Marguerite Schertle, 94, holding an iced tea, was the dean of waitresses at the old Woman?s Industrial Exchange. In this 1995 photo, Schertle is surrounded by her veteran colleagues, from left, Trish Hall, 57; Loretta Tarbet, 80; Charlotte Zimernack, 68; Carrie Geraghty, 88; and Margaret Brogna, 84.

John Makely, Baltimore Sun

As a right of passage from moving from the plebe-year to upperclassman, the freshman class of the United States Naval Academy must climb an obelisk monument smeared with lard. The object of the exercise is to replace a plebe's "dixie cup" with an upperclassman's cap. The one who succeeds, it is believed by some, will become the class' first admiral.

William Klender, Baltimore Sun

Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. positions himself to play the position of catcher as he plays baseball with kids down in Little Italy.

Ellis, J. Malashuk,Baltimore Sun

Layman Norman Yokely was considered one of the greatest pitchers ever, compared to Satchel Paige, Bob Feller and Lefty Grove. After playing for Baltimore and a number of other Negro League teams, he retired and opened a shoeshine parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Baltimore Sun file photo

On December 28, 1958 Baltimore Colts fullback Alan Ameche advances through a big opening provided by teammates to score the winning touchdown in overtime period against the New York Giants during the NFL Championship football game at Yankee Stadium in New York. The Colts won 23-17 in overtime for the title and the game became known as the "greatest game."

A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Sun

A. Aubrey Bodine photographed their unusual shapes which were accentuated by the snow striping their sides, to make a picture taken in 1959 that won prizes in shows all over the world-Australia, France, South Africa, Brazil, Hong Kong, to name only a few of the places. The trees grow on Backbone Mountain in Garrett County the highest point in Maryland 3,340 feet.

John Makely, Baltimore Sun

Sun photographer John Makely was embedded with the 3rd Battalion, Fifth Regiment convoy on a Tuesday morning when it came under attack. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Marcco Ware, from Los Angeles, carries an injured Iraqi soldier who was shot three times during the attempted ambush. One Marine was killed, one injured during the attack which resulted in about 40 dead Iraqi soldiers and thirty POW's.

Perry Thorsvik, Baltimore Sun

Indian workers carry a 350kg sheet of steel across the Annapurna Shipyard in Alang, India. This technique is the cause of many foot and let injuries. The Sun's coverage of this story lead to a Pulitzer Prize.

Jeffrey F. Bill, Baltimore Sun

Jeffrey F. Bill photographed Magnet, the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore's male polar bear, taking a dive in the crisp cool water on a mild winter day in January, 2006.

Joseph A. DiPaola, Jr., Baltimore Sun

On a hot day, cool water and a old hulk of a ship make a perfect way to have some fun and beat the heat for a group of youngsters.

A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Sun

In 1936 noted Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine photographer workers on the docks at Long Warf loading watermelons onto a boat.