Baltimore Polytechnic Institute--Report cards; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Heathan days, 1890-1936; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards;
Document dated April 1896 showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Baltimore Polytechnic Institute senior class report card. This report card includes his monthly grades from October 1895 through April 1896. "Harry", as he was still known, seems to...
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...
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; 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 H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of his mother Anna Margareta (Abhau) Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1895.
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; 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 H. L. Mencken of his father August Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street on January 1, 1895.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of his brother August and sister Anna Gertrude sitting on the steps of their summer house in Mount Washington about 1894. August is holding a stuffed doll, and Anna Gertrude is holding a kitten.
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Newspaper days, 1899-1906;...
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper while seated in the Baltimore Herald's temporary office on South Charles Street. The Baltimore fire, one of the major American conflagrations, began on...
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.
Automobiles--Maryland; Gill, Howard W. (Howard Warfield), 1883-1912; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Thirty-five years of newspaper work: a memoir;
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken riding in an automobile driven by Howard W. Gill in 1908. Mencken mentions Gill, a pioneer Maryland motorist who owned an automobile dealership, in his memoir Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir....
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Carter, Robert I. (Robert Inglee), 1868-; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial...
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing with colleagues behind the cast iron gates of the Baltimore Country Club about 1902. Standing from left to right are James Forbes, Robert Edison, Robert I. Carter, Harry Henkel, H. L. M.,...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Hawks, Arthur W. (Arthur Worthington), Jr., 1878-1949; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis),...
Portrait photograph taken in the spring of 1920 of 20-year-old H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing next to Arthur W. Hawks, Jr. (seated), friend and fellow reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald. Mencken knew Hawks from school. Arthur and his...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great...
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, his uncle (on his mother's side) Charles H. Abhau, and a fellow Baltimorean (Louis) Kemp Hennighausen aboard a ship most likely heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the staff of the Baltimore Herald on June 17, 1906, the day the operations of the paper were suspended. Members of the staff are (from left to right): top row--an unidentified man, Robinson...
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;
Portrait photograph taken in November 1913 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and other Saturday Night Club members at the Rennert Hotel in Baltimore. The Saturday Night Club was an informal group of doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists,...
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards; Private schools--Maryland;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's final report card for his first year of education at F. Knapp's Institute, dated June 30, 1887. According to the report card, "Master Harry Mencken" was considered to be "a good boy and scholar!" From...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph probably taken about 1894 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Baltimore Polytechnic Institute class of 1896. Mencken is sitting in the front row, fourth from the left.
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 either late 1889 or early 1890 by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his siblings. Harry, as H. L. was called by his family, is standing (right) next to his brother Charles Edward, while seated...
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--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1892 by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his siblings. Twelve-year-old Harry, as H. L. was called by his family, is standing (right) next to his brother Charles Edward (left), while seated...
