Vintage 1977 Morton C. Tadder Baltimore Inner Harbor Signed Black & White Sepia Tone Large Cityscape Photograph

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Monumental and rare Morton C. Tadder (1928 - 2020) sepia / black & white hand signed and mounted-on-frame photograph of … Read more Monumental and rare Morton C. Tadder (1928 - 2020) sepia / black & white hand signed and mounted-on-frame photograph of Baltimore Inner Harbor, 1977.

Morton C. Tadder, a veteran Baltimore professional photographer who was the Orioles' team photographer for 44 years and was among the first photographers in the United States to take pictures of the Beatles when they performed at the Civic Center in 1964.

Morton C. Tadder photographed every president of the United States from Truman to Carter.

When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Washington in 1957, Mr. Tadder followed the royals in an open car taking pictures that were used by the British press. He photographed Fidel Castro in 1959 and through the years carloads of movie stars, including a camera-shy and somewhat aged Cary Grant.

“He didn’t like having his picture taken,” he told Mr. Burger, who wrote a 2014 profile of him for the City Paper. “I guaranteed he would like mine. When I showed him the finished print, all he could say was, ‘You’re right.' ”

Mr. Tadder, who began photographing the Orioles in 1954, continued taking team photos until 2004, when he retired and was given a team jersey with his name on the back and the number 44. “That’s how many team pictures I had done,” he told the City Paper.

Mr. Tadder donated most of his photography collection to the Maryland Historical Society, now the Maryland Center for History and Culture, and his sports work can be found in the collections of the Orioles and Indianapolis Colts.

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