Anderson, William, 1820-1892; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Freedmen--Maryland--Baltimore County; Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Slavery--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Perine family
Photograph of William Anderson (1820-1892), also known as "Uncle Bill", sitting on a rock in a field at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. A former slave, he served the Perine family first as the coachman...
Anderson, William, 1820-1892; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Freedmen--Maryland--Baltimore County; Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Slavery--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Perine family
Photograph of William Anderson (1820-1892), also known as "Uncle Bill", standing by a tree at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. A former slave, he served the Perine family first as the coachman and, then,...
Dixon, William B., 1890-1963--Portraits; African American businesspeople--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Blackstone Studios (Baltimore, Md.)
Photographic portrait of William B. Dixon (1890-1963), made at Blackstone Studios, Inc. In 1937, he and two other African American men opened Metropolitan Finance Corporation, the first African American owned and operated loan business licensed in...
African American women; Ferguson, Barbara C., 1937-1994; Mayors; Pullen, Madeline L.; Schaefer, William Donald; Watson, Carmena F., 1934-;
Photograph of Mayor William Donald Schaefer meeting with community leaders (clockwise from center) Carmena F. Watson (1934-), Barbara C. Ferguson (1937-1994), and Madeline Pullen of the Lafayette Square Association at Expo '83 in Baltimore,...
African American women; Architecture, domestic; Baltimore (Md.); Housing rehabilitation; Mayors; Schaefer, William Donald; United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development;
Photograph of Mayor William Donald Schaefer stenciling numbers on a home in the 2600 block Huron Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This photograph shows the Mount Winans Homes rehabilitation project, the first of its kind in the nation. Sponsored by...
Photograph of a tree planting ceremony held at Sharp and Hill Streets in Baltimore, Maryland to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington and honor the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Standing at the microphone is Lawrence Cardinal Shehan (1898-1984),...
African Americans; Baltimore (Md.); Mayors; Schaefer, William Donald;
Photograph of Mayor William Donald Schaefer (front row, right) at a public meeting launching "The Great Baltimore Land Rush" and held at the War Memorial building at Gay and Lexington Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. The meeting provided...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Stonemasonry; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking south at ruins of the William A. Gault and Son Building on East Lexington Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The posted sign indicates that William A. Gault and Son operated a stonemasonry business from offices at...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Fire chiefs--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Portraits;
Photograph of former Chief Engineer (Fire Chief) William C. (Corbell) McAfee (1865-1906), who, when Chief Engineer George W. Horton was injured within an hour of the start of the 1904 fire, was asked by Mayor Robert M. McLane (1903-1904) to take...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Dandy Dude" from William Carleton's comedy, "The Dude," sung at Ford's Opera House by Thatcher, Primrose, and West's Minstrels. Between 1882 and 1889, George Thatcher, George H. Primrose, and William...
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886; Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891; Beane, Fannie; Behman, Louis C., 1855-1902; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923; Broadsides; Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932; Gilday, Charles; Ingersoll, Robert...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Jumbo!" a parody sung by Fanny [sic] Beane and Charles Gilday. Fannie Beane and Charles Gilday were traveling comedy performers who, after marriage, continued to perform as a team. "Jumbo" was one of the...
At the time of the Antietam Battle on September 17, 1862, William McKinley was the Commissary Sergeant with the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served hot coffee and food to the soldiers in the regiment on the spot where the monument...
Line engraving of a variation on a scene from Romeo and Juliet (Act IV, Scene V) by William Blake after an illustration by John Opie, published March 25, 1799 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside,...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York; Buildings--New York (State)--New York; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.);
Hand colored print after the painting by Jennie Brownscombe that was published by the Klackner Galleries of New York in 1913. The picture represents a view of Wall Street, from a point a little east of Hanover Street, in the year 1790, or during...
Buildings; Cityscapes; Monuments; Streets; War memorials;
Engraving by Archibald L. Dick from the painting by William H. Bartlett. The two-volume work, American Scenery by N.P. Willis, London, 1840, contains Griffith's engraving of this scene among others after paintings by Bartlett. As that seems to have...
Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes; Locust Point (Baltimore, Md.);
Engraving by William Wellstood from the Ladies Repository that features an interesting view of Baltimore from Whetstone Point, known today as Locust Point. On Federal Hill may be seen the signal house, originally set up in 1797 by Captain David...
Cityscapes; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; War memorials;
Hand colored engraving by Henry Griffiths after William Henry Bartlett's painting that features a view of the Battle Monument. The engraving was taken from Willis' American Scenery, 1840, and has been colored by hand.
Buildings; Church buildings; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; Monuments; Soldiers; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Lithograph by Thayer & Co., Boston, after a sketch by William Lydston, Jr., that features a view of the encampment of the Boston City Greys at Baltimore in July 1844. This crack military outfit came to Baltimore in the year named, the visit...
