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Baltimore History Evenings Presents: Through the Lens of Three Generations: The Phillips Family of Photographers

  • Baltimore City Historical Society 610 Park Avenue Baltimore, MD, 21201 United States (map)

At 7 PM on March 18, 2021, we’ll meet Webster Phillips of the I. Henry Phillips Photo Project via Zoom. Phillips has spent the past few years digitizing the photographs of his grandfather, Henry Phillips, a photographer for the AFRO, and his father, Irving Phillips, the first Black photographer at The Baltimore Sun. For three generations, Webster Phillips’s family has been documenting life in Baltimore — from segregation to Brown v. Board, Roosevelt to Reagan to Obama. His father and grandfather worked for the The Sun and the AFRO, as well as for themselves, covering major national events with as much care as they covered graduations and birthday parties.