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“Welcome Home” at SAAM captures the neighborhoods of East Baltimore
Multiple Maniacs to Edie the Egg Lady in Pink Flamingos and the villainous Queen Carlotta in Desperate Living.In 1975, photographer Elinor Cahn captured Massey, who died in 1984, posing in front of her Fells Point thrift store, Edith’s Shopping Bag. The image is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and is currently on display as part of a photographic time capsule from nearly a half-century ago, one capturing the neighborhoods of East Baltimore.
