Marriage records--Maryland; Maryland--Genealogy; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Registers of births, etc.--Maryland;
Document showing the marriage certificate of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's parents, August Mencken and Anna Margareta Abhau, dated November 11, 1879. This four-page document includes a page to record their own births and the births of their...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Document showing the first typescript page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's commencement address delivered at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute on June 23, 1896, when he was just 15 years old. This first page of Mencken's speech clearly shows his...
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...
Correspondence schools and courses; Journalism--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing the first page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's "student's test" for the Associated Newspaper Bureau School of Journalism. Completed but never sent, this document provides a glimpse into the 19-year-old Mencken's aspirations for a...
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; Philosophy, German--19th century; Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860; Title pages;
Document showing the title page of the book entitled The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Henry L. Mencken. Published in 1908 by Luce and Company, this was the first "complete popular [treatise] upon Nietzsche and his philosophy in...
African Americans; Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Minstrels; Slavery; Songs; ; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884
Document containing the broadside entitled "Kingdom Coming" from a song written by Henry Clay Work (music not provided) and published in 1862. This broadside, told in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, relates with wry humor...
Soldiers--United States; Victory Book Campaign; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Irving Spellens that shows an open book with the portrait of a soldier and the year "1943" on the left page and the words "Victory Book Campaign" on the right page. Positioned above and below this image, respectively, are the words...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken sitting at the dinner table in his home at number 1524 Hollins Street while reading the June 18, 1927 edition of the Baltimore Sun newspaper and holding a pint of beer. In the background are a...
Dedications; Inscriptions; Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Pen drawing; Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation; Title pages;
Document consisting of a personal dedication page and the title page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's book entitled George Bernard Shaw his Plays. Published in 1905 by John W. Luce and Co., this was Mencken's "first real book" and the first book...
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.
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...
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...
Adventure stories--Illustrations; Children's drawings; Fantasy fiction, English--Illustrations; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pen and ink drawing of an adventurer standing before the entrance to a cave, done in November 1894 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken to illustrate page 40 of H. (Henry) Rider Haggard's adventure story set in Victorian England and Africa and entitled...
Adventure stories--Illustrations; Children's drawings; Fantasy fiction, English--Illustrations; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pen and ink drawing of a gentleman standing before a cottage door, done in 1894 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken to illustrate page 17 of H. (Henry) Rider Haggard's adventure story set in Victorian England and Africa and entitled "The People of the...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Ridgway, Henry; Slave bills of sale;
Handwritten copy of a bill of sale for Negro slave Edwin sold by Edgar A. Poe, as agent for Maria Clemm, to Henry Ridgway December 10, 1829 and recorded December 29, 1829 by William Gibson, the clerk for Baltimore City. At the top of the document...
Original manuscript of the poem entitled "A Valentine" written by Edgar Allan Poe for Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood on February 13, 1846. (Editor's note: Beginning in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe conducted a literary courtship with Frances Sargent Osgood...
Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Wood-engraving, German; German--15th century; Satire, German; Folly in art;
Woodcuts known as Stroking the fallow stallion (front, recto of page) and The wise men (back, verso of page) by Albrecht Dürer from the book titled Navis Stultifera (also known as Das Narrenschiff in German and Ship of Fools in English), a book...
Citrus fruits--Pictorial works; Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655;
Copper engraving titled Aurantium stellatum et roseum (a species of citrus fruit) by Cornelis Bloemaert from the book titled Hesperides, sive, de malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri [The first book on citrus fruit] written by Giovanni Battista...
Engraving, Italian--17th century; Illustration of books--Italian--17th century; Prints, Italian--17th century; Soldiers--Pictorial works; Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 53-117;
Copper engraving of Traianus augustus legionem suis (Emperor Trajan and his legion) by Francesco Villamena from the book titled Historia utriusque belli Dacici a Traiano Caesare gesti (Illustrated history of the Dacian wars of the Emperor Trajan)...
