Baltimore (Md.); California State Prison at San Quentin; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942; Newspapers; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Hamilton Owens dated June 1929. Hamilton Owens (1888-1967), distinguished author, editor, and journalist, was then editing the Baltimore Evening Sun, to which Mencken contributed his "Monday Articles" from 1920 to 1938....
Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; New York (N.Y.); Satire; Seventh-Day Adventists
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Louis Cheslock dated August 21, [1929]. Mencken thanks Cheslock for sending a copy of the Present Truth, a Seventh-Day Adventist periodical and writes in a bantering tone when he tells Cheslock that he's thinking of...
Photograph of a man identified as Mr. Davidson standing at a Mason-Dixon or a Maryland State Line marker. The location is unknown. On the back of the picture there is a stamp, Brilliantone print, made July 1 1929, Ludwig Photolaboratories,...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Street (Baltimore, Md.); International Trust Company Building (Baltimore, Md.); Bank buildings--Maryland; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of business section of Baltimore Street rebuilt, a few years after the 1904 fire. The International Trust Company building was built in 1902 by the firm Parker and Thomas (Douglas H. Thomas, 1872-1915, and J. Harleston Parker, 1873-1930) of...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1929 of H. L. Mencken with members of The Sun newspaper Board of Directors. Seated in the board room around the table (from left to right) are J. Edwin Murphy, James W. Dove, Stanley M. Reynolds, William F. Schmick,...
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that features a view of the Johns Hopkins Hospital looking east across Broadway at the...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church...
Photograph of the American Gas Station on the corner of North Central Avenue and East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1937, the Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center) and St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (center behind the...
African American postal service employees;Parcel post--Maryland--Baltimore;Mail-chutes--Maryland--Baltimore;Post office stations and branche--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of Christmas mail received on December 15, 1961 at the United States Parcel Post Station on St. Paul Street just north of Mt. Royal Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in 1929, it once handled all postage for the United States. In this...
Photograph of the Patterson Theater located at number 3134 Eastern Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. After the first theater was razed in 1929, the second theater (also known as the New Patterson) opened on the same location in September 1930....
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore; Churches--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Slums--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking east from North Central Avenue at numbers 1314-1318 East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. To widen Fayette Street, all of the buildings on the north side were torn down in 1936-1937. The building to the left is St....
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Athenaeum Building (Baltimore, Md.);Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the Athenaeum building located on the northwest corner of Saratoga and St. Paul Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849) in the Italianate style, the building became home to the Mercantile Library...
Construction and demolition debris--Maryland--Baltimore;Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church...
Photograph of High Alley at North Central Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center) and St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (center, behind filling station, with its front on Fayette Street) were razed in 1937...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of East Fayette Street at North Central Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1937, the Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center left) and St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (center, behind the filling station) were razed as part of...
Postcards--Maryland--Ocean City; Piers--Maryland--Ocean City; Ocean City (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The Ocean City Pier first opened in 1907. Its amusement pavilion had a long arched roof with large, round-arched windows lighting the first and second floors. It contained a dancing pavilion, a barber shop, a novelty store, a movie theater, a photo...
Riverside Hotel is located on the Chester River in Kingstown, across the Chester River from Chestertown, built ca. 1820. The first wooden Chester River Bridge was built in 1821. The bridge was replaced twice by new wooden bridges, once after a...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken sitting in an armchair in the parlor of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street, reading a book. He has his feet propped up on another armchair. In the background are a rolltop desk and a fireplace...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore; Alleys--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken posing with neighborhood children in the alley behind Hollins Street. This alley was, and still is, named Booth Street. This brazen, booming writer who terrified some opponents and infuriated...
Anne Arundel County (Md.); Dwellings; Fort George G. Meade (Md.); United States. Army;
Aerial photograph of newly constructed facilities at Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Located just 15 miles south of Baltimore and 19 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., Camp Meade, as it was originally known, was built in...
Photograph of two traffic patrolmen looking west from a traffic control booth located in front of the M. S. Kahn and Co. drugstore at the corner of Lexington and Liberty Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Note the stop-and-go sign on the roof of the...
