Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team); August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Kilroy, Matthew Aloysius, 1866-1940; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and...
Advertisement (color poster) for the Kilroy cigar printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars, by Isaac Friedenwald of Baltimore. To H. L. and his brothers, this poster was a...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Daisy" cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. The woman in this advertisement is wearing a short sleeved dress with hat, long gloves,...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Vienna International Exhibition (1873); Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Marguerite" cigars printed by Geo. S. Harris and Sons of Philadelphia for H. L. Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. On the right sitting on a cloak covering a rock is a...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Girls in art; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Color advertisement for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In the center of this advertisement is a young girl wearing a sun dress and looking at a butterfly perched on her...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for Havana Rose cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In this advertisement three young women dressed in shoes, stockings, and summer...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
Advertising cards--United States; Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Color advertising card. On one side (page 1) is a depiction of two angelic female figures holding a banner displaying the United States flag as they rise above a globe of the Earth on which the words North America are displayed and below which is a...
Greeting cards--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Christmas and New Year's greeting card to his parents for the 1887-1888 season. At 7 years of age, a very young and very humble "Harry", the name his family called him as a boy, shows an early ability...
Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Typewriters;
Typewriter used by H. L. Mencken. On this tiny Corona typewriter, H. L. Mencken wrote some of the finest prose ever produced in America. He used this typewriter for all of his books and many of his articles published before 1930. Mencken was a...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Bible and evolution; Creationism; Dayton (Tenn.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.--Press coverage--Maryland--Baltimore;
The first carbon page of his typescript for "The Tennessee Circus", one of the columns H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken wrote for the Evening Sun about the proceedings in Dayton, Tennessee before he left to cover the Scopes trial. While some readers...
Autobiographies; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing first typescript page of the preface to H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Happy Days (1940), the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy. These books contain some of the most delightful prose of this American journalist.
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Portrait photography; Private schools--Maryland;
Portrait photograph of Frederick Knapp, principal of F. Knapp's Institute, the school H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken attended as a boy. Although he readily used the rod to bring about discipline, Professor Knapp, as Mencken noted in his autobiography...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Prohibition--United States;
Photograph taken about 12:30 a.m. April 7, 1933 of H. L. Mencken being served "his first public glass of post-Prohibition beer" at the Rennert Hotel bar. Located on the southeast corner at Saratoga and Liberty Streets, the Rennert had been one of...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by Richard Walzl of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken as a young boy. In this picture Mencken is about 3 years old. According to Mencken, the photographer was Richard Walzl of 205 West Baltimore Street.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken as a young boy sitting on a wall. In this photograph he is thought to be 8 years old. (Editor's note: This studio photograph was probably taken by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer in October of 1888...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by Richard Walzl of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his brother Charles Edward. H. L. Mencken is about 3 years old in this picture.
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (right) and his brothers Charles Edward (left) and August (center) standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1903.
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Canoes and canoeing; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (right) and his brothers August (left) and Charles Edward (center) posing for pictures in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1906. H. L. is sitting on a wooden chair...
