Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
Photograph taken looking north at the east side of the 300 block North Caroline Street from its intersection with Mullikin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists of several two- and three-story brick row houses. On the first floor of...
Photograph taken looking west from North Front Street at the 1000 block Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing off to the side (left) and in the doorway of the first of these two- and three-story brick row houses are several groups of...
Photograph of a copy of an architect's drawing showing the south front of original Homeland (17__-1839), the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. The drawing was done in 1917 by architect Howard Sill (1867-1927). In the...
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Mechanical drawing dated January 17, 1909 of the front (radiator and fender) and left front side (tire and fender) of an unidentified Spoerer motor vehicle. Scale: 1/4. C. S. S. Co. stands for Carl Spoerer's Sons Company.
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; City dwellers--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pratt Street at the west side of South Bethel Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This narrow street consists of two- and three-story brick row houses, with streetlights and utility poles set at intervals along the sidewalk. In the...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing showing the south front of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
Photograph of Colvin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Between these two-story brick row houses is an alley or passageway bridged by an archway between the houses. Flyers are hanging in the front window of the house on the left, while a small dog is...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Horses; Livery; Maryland; Metis; Native Americans; Ox driving; Oxen; Railroads; United States History; Wagons;
Photograph of Red River oxcarts hauling hides, an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a celebration of its one hundredth birthday held from September 24 to October 15, 1927 at outdoor fairgrounds in...
African American boys; Annapolis (Md.); Architecture, domestic; Bitters; Drugstore employees; Drugstores; Electric lines; Pedestrians; Sidewalks; Streets; Telephone lines;
Photograph of the City Drug Store at number 164 Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland. Standing in front of and to the left of the front door of the store are several sale clerks, perhaps even the owner. A sign over the door reads "Soda Water." In the...
Advertising; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Signs and signboards;
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
African American life--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works;African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Ragpickers--Maryland--Baltimore; Scrap...
Photograph of the south side of the 1000 block Ashland Avenue between Ensor and Aisquith Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These mostly two-story brick row houses are small and in poor repair. On the nearest corner, a Caucasian man is standing in...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Baby's Got A Tooth" from a song written by Charley Reed and arranged by H. Wannemacher (music not included). This broadside tells the story of an eight-month-old baby boy who has just received his first...
Broadsides; Front Royal, Battle of, Va., 1862; Johnson, Bradley T. (Bradley Tyler), 1829-1903; Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War...
Document containing the broadside entitled "On the Fight of the First Maryland Regiment." This Union broadside tells of the bravery of the First Maryland Infantry (U.S.A.) commanded by John R. Kenly in its fight against the First Maryland Infantry...
Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobiles--Equipment and supplies; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Parts; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing an unsigned order for a 4-cylinder, 5-passenger Spoerer commercial vehicle. Typed on Carl Spoerer's Sons Co. stationery and dated July 27th, 1908, this unsigned order gives the description of and the parts to be used in this...
World War, 1939-1945; Air defenses; Civil Defense--Baltimore (Md.);
Rules and regulations for driving during air raid warning periods. The rules include stipulations as to who may driving during air raids, the use of emergency cards, driving speeds, lights, passing of other cars, keeping a clear view through the...
Concerts; Drawing; Musicians; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck entitled "A Quartette." In this sketch, members of the Wednesday Club have gathered for the performance of a string quartet. Frank Clark and Frank Frick are the two men standing at the far left. George B. Coale is seated in...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Ellicott City (Md.); Architecture--Domestic; Mansions;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a mansion near Ellicott City, Maryland. In the center foreground, a small boy stands in front of the mansion. In the right foreground, a woman walks carrying a small child. A child sits in the...
Photograph taken from Ensor Street at the north side of the 900 block East Madison Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing in the street in front of the second house is an African American woman looking into a wooden bucket while two African...
