Official souvenir program for the Ice Vanities of 1940 appearing at the Iceland skating rink at Carlin's Park in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ice Vanities, a show produced by Bill O'Brien, the president of World-Wide Sports, displays the talents of a...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Baseball; Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); Scheduling;
Schedule of games of all American League teams for the 1956 baseball season. This 40-page booklet contains the day-by-day schedule for every team in the league. Featuring the Baltimore Orioles bird on the front cover, the booklet also includes a...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Baseball; Cleveland Indians (Baseball team); Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); Scheduling;
Schedule of games of all American League teams for the 1955 baseball season. This 40-page booklet contains the day-by-day schedule for every team in the league. Featuring the Baltimore Orioles bird on the front cover, the booklet also includes a...
United States. Navy--Job descriptions; United States. Navy--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing the portrait of a young woman in a uniform of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), i.e., the women's reserve of the United States Navy, with the words "Women 20 to 36 earn a Navy rating" positioned to her...
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Industrial mobilization--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Black and white poster featuring a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, sitting in an automobile with military officers, reviewing civilian performance records. Printed below the photograph are the words of...
Contests in art; Food conservation--France; Rationing--France; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by 15-year-old Yvonne Colas, Ecole de filles (Girls' School), 13 rue Sorbier, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows a bayonet slicing through a piece of sugar, with the words "Avec la carte--nous en aurons peu--mais nous en aurons...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief;
Invitation to "Europe's Children, Must They Starve?" meeting, held under the auspices of the Temporary Committee on Food for Europe's Children at the Alcazar Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland on April 13, 1943. The invitation includes information about...
World War, 1939-1945; Military Order of the Purple Heart. Dept. of Maryland.; Veterans;
Printed pamphlet of the official proceedings of the first annual convention of the Maryland chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, held in Hagerstown, MD on Dec. 13, 1942.
(Editor's note: The Military Order of the Purple Heart...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Maryland;
Printed booklet containing a list of the World War II casualties (Army and Army Air Force personnel) for the State of Maryland. According to the introduction, the list was published by the War Department for information purposes. It includes 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...
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...
Baltimore Herald; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait drawing; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait drawing in pencil done about 1903 by John Siegel of the young H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. Mencken worked with Siegel at the Herald and, later, at The Sun.
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
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...
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Virginia, 1822-1847; Poetry; Valentines;
In the valentine poem dated February 14, 1846, Virginia Clemm Poe tells her husband Edgar Allan Poe what his love means to her. Written in acrostic form--the first letter of each line spells out her husband's name--Virginia tells Poe she doesn't...
January, Josephine Emily Poe (January, H. C. [Harry Churchill], Mrs.); Letters; Poe, Amelia Fitzgerald; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849;
In this letter dated December 2, 1908 and written from the Shelton Hotel in New York City, Amelia Fitzgerald Poe tells her niece, Mrs. H. C. (Harry Churchill) January (Josephine Emily Poe January) about various letters and items related to Edgar...
