Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Constitutional amendments; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Parades; Politicians;
Colored lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, 687 West Baltimore Street, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19th...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
Main Street (Annapolis, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Ox driving--Maryland--Annapolis; Wagons
Photograph of Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland about 1870. In the foreground is a team of four oxen being driven over unpaved road by an African American worker. Wearing what looks like a special uniform (not the typical clothes of a farmhand),...
In this letter dated October 19, 1870 and written from Baltimore, Maryland, Maria Clemm asks Neilson Poe to send her money ($10) from her "fortune." She apologizes for all the trouble she has been to him over the years and thanks him for his help....
In this letter dated December 7, 1870 and written from Baltimore, Maryland, Maria Clemm asks Neilson Poe for more money ($10) from her "fortune." She lets him know she hopes his wife Josephine and his daughters will visit her during the Christmas...
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, that features a view of the Pimlico Race Course. The first meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico was held in October 1870, when 12,000 persons attended. It was at the Fall Meet, 1877, that...
Howard Auditorium (Baltimore, Md.); Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Kernan, James L., 1840-1912
Photograph of the facade of Kernan's Howard Auditorium, a theater located at number 508 North Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This building, originally built 1870 as the Natatorium, was bought in 1890 and remodeled into a vaudeville theater....
Birds in literature; Broadsides; Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907; White, C. A. (Charles Albert), 1832-1892;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Come, Birdie, Come" with Will. S. Hays listed as the author. In this broadside the speaker talks to a bird sitting in a nest nearby, asking the bird to come and live with him in his home. The bird flies...
View of South Potomac Street from the public square in Hagerstown. On the right, at 31 S. Potomac St., is the E. S. Brandt & Son furniture store. Behind it we can see the spire of St John's Lutheran Church (built in 1795 and modified in 1870). The...
Londonderry Manor, a Gothic revival house located on the south bank of the Tred Avon River in Easton, was designed by a prominent architect Richard Upjohn in either 1860's or 1870's. Made of granite, it was constructed for Dr. and Mrs. Ninian...
Postcards—Maryland--Chesepeake City; Chesapeake City (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Freemasons--Buildings; Back Creek (Chesapeake City, Md.); Rivers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.); Bridges--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
View of causeway, Masonic Hall, and creek in Chesapeake City. Chesapeake City is located in Cecil County. Originally founded by Czech colonist Augustine Herman under the name of the Village of Bohemia, the town's name was changed to the current...
Automobiles--Drawings; Automotive drafting; Mechanical drawing; Packard automobile; Packard Motor Car Company; Perine, Washington, 1870-1944;
Mechanical drawing done by WDT (William D. Tipton) and dated December 11, 1915 of a 1916 Packard model 6-48 limousine to be built by Carl Spoerer's Sons Company for Mr. Wash. Perrine (sic) (i.e., Washington Perine). This plan calls for the 1916...
In this undated incomplete letter, Gabriel Harrison, a New York friend of Edgar Allan Poe, writes to Maria Clemm, Poe's mother-in-law, telling her how much he wants to hear from her, especially about her "Eddy", and how committed he is to clearing...
