A view of Gwynns Falls Creek inside the Gwynns Falls Park ca. 1908. The park was envisioned in Olmsted Brothers plan for Greater Baltimore Public Grounds of 1904, and within the Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park complex is composed of 1200 acres (105.6 ha)...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Baltimore Street (Cumberland, Md.); Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Cumberland--Pictorial works
A view of Baltimore Street in downtown Cumberland, ca. 1908, a busy, commercial street at the time. Cumberland was officially established as town in 1787. Baltimore Street is part of the historic district of Cumberland.
Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Machine-tools;
Photograph taken about 1908 of the machine shop in the Carl Spoerer's Sons motor vehicle factory located at numbers 901-909 South Carey Street. Standing at various machines are workers operating tools such as lathes, grinders, and drills used in...
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...
Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland;
Photograph taken about 1908 of the final assembly room in the Carl Spoerer's Sons motor vehicle factory located at numbers 901-909 South Carey Street. In the room are several workers including Charles Spoerer (left center with mustache), with one...
Blueprint drawn by WDT (William D. Tipton) and dated November 27, 1915 of a clutch throwout collar used in Spoerer motor vehicles between 1908 and 1915. Scale: full size.
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.; Laconia (Steamship : 1893-1909); Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great Britain; Sun (Baltimore, Md. :...
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing along the rail of the Cunard Steamship Company's S. S. Lucania headed for Europe in March of 1908. Mencken had just published a book on Nietzsche entitled The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, had...
Automobiles--Maryland; Gill, Howard W. (Howard Warfield), 1883-1912; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Thirty-five years of newspaper work: a memoir;
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken riding in an automobile driven by Howard W. Gill in 1908. Mencken mentions Gill, a pioneer Maryland motorist who owned an automobile dealership, in his memoir Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir....
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; May, Charles Augustus; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" from the poem "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War. According to an account published in the "The [Baltimore]...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Trinity Chapel (Frederick, Md.); Frederick (Md.)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Freemasons--Buildings; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the YMCA building, Masonic Temple, and Old Town Clock in Frederick. The 1807 steeple to the left, built by local architect Stephen Steiner, rests atop the stone tower of the Trinity Chapel built in 1763. The town clock at the top was...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Patrick Street (Frederick, Md.); Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Frederick--Pictorial works;
A view of West Patrick Street located in historic district of Frederick. The street was a hub of the colonial town that was laid out by Patrick Dulaney in 1745. The National Pike, an early interstate road traversed through what is now Patrick...
Postcards—Maryland--Salisbury; Williams Street (Salisbury, Md.); Streets--Maryland--Salisbury--Pictorial works; Salisbury (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Residential area of Williams Street viewed from Division Street. On the right one can see the Arthur Leonard House, which later was replaced by John Downing House. On the left the steps of the Grier-Gillis House are visible. Salisbury is the county...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Rose Hill Manor (Frederick, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Frederick; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Johnson, Thomas, 1732-1819
In 1778, Thomas Johnson, a prominent politician, lawyer, landowner and the first elected governor of Maryland bought Rose Garden estate from George Hoffman near the city of Frederick. He changed its name to Rose Hill. He deeded the property to his...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Institute, Renaissance revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Baltimore; Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954; Pell, Francis Livingston, 1873-1945; Gothic revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Baltimore; College of Art;...
View of the main building of the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts and the Schools of Art and Design, as it was then known (in 1959 changed its name to Maryland Institute, College of Art). Designed by architects Pell &...
Postcards--Maryland--St. Michaels; St. Michaels (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--St. Michaels--Pictorial works;
A view of East Cherry Street in St. Michaels, Talbot County. First settlements in St. Michaels date to the second half of the 17th century. The inhabitants engaged in tobacco growing and ship building. Currently, it is a historic waterfront town,...
