Decay threatens important Baltimore history archives

"Among the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s little-known treasures are the vertical files in the Maryland department. They hold 7,000 large envelopes full of yellowing newspaper clippings, reports and documents detailing Baltimore’s life and development, mostly from the 1930s to the 1980s.
For information about Baltimore during World War II or about the city’s housing and education problems, visiting the vertical files is mandatory.
Over the years, the vertical files have spawned innumerable books, dissertations and term papers. But many of those brittle files are literally turning to dust." Read on.