August Mencken and Brother; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $400 for one sorrel horse, harness and wagon purchased by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, August Mencken, signed by Herman Ellis and dated September 26, 1892. It is thought this may be the receipt for the pony...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Vienna International Exhibition (1873); Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Marguerite" cigars printed by Geo. S. Harris and Sons of Philadelphia for H. L. Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. On the right sitting on a cloak covering a rock is a...
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Radio programs; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled the Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 6, published in 1939 and featuring the grand contest held from dawn August 26 until noon August 27, 1939 at Annapolis, Maryland.
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team); August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Kilroy, Matthew Aloysius, 1866-1940; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and...
Advertisement (color poster) for the Kilroy cigar printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars, by Isaac Friedenwald of Baltimore. To H. L. and his brothers, this poster was a...
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...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of his brother August and sister Anna Gertrude sitting on the steps of their summer house in Mount Washington about 1894. August is holding a stuffed doll, and Anna Gertrude is holding a kitten.
Haardt, Sara, 1898-1935; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken on August 27, 1930 of the wedding party of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and Sara Powell Haardt at the entrance to St. Stephen the Martyr Protestant Episcopal Church at North and Warwick Avenues in Baltimore. Standing to the...
Baltimore (Md.); Bloom, Marion; Letters; Marriage; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Marion Bloom ca. August 1923. Mencken and Marion Bloom were intimate for years, but the relationship grew rocky for a variety of reasons. Mencken wrote this cursory letter when he learned of her marriage to Mr. Lou...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Daisy" cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. The woman in this advertisement is wearing a short sleeved dress with hat, long gloves,...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for Havana Rose cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In this advertisement three young women dressed in shoes, stockings, and summer...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Girls in art; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Color advertisement for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In the center of this advertisement is a young girl wearing a sun dress and looking at a butterfly perched on her...
Stipple and line engraving titled Fashions for August 1838 from the monthly publication titled The world of fashion and continental feuilletons published in 1838 by Mr. Bell of the Strand, London. This engraving demonstrates what a well-dressed...
Gassaway, Thomas; Green, Frederick, 1750-1811; Harwood, Nicholas, 1747-48-1810; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Continental period, 1775-1780; Printing. United States. History;
Maryland eight dollar note dated August 14, 1776 and signed T [Thomas] Gassaway and N [Nicholas] Harwood: serial number 9049.
Gassaway, Thomas; Green, Frederick, 1750-1811; Harwood, Nicholas, 1747-48-1810; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Continental period, 1775-1780; Printing. United States. History;
Maryland one dollar note dated August 14, 1776 and signed T [Thomas] Gassaway and N [Nicholas] Harwood: serial number 22597.
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Radio programs; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled the Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 7, published in 1940 and featuring the grand contest held on August 10-11, 1940 at a town touted as the seafood capitol of the U.S.A., Crisfield, Maryland.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Real property tax--Maryland; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Tax collection--Maryland--Baltimore;
Document showing the 1898 property tax bill paid July 27 of that year by H. L. Mencken's father, August Mencken, on their house at number 1524 Hollins Street. With the property assessed at $400.00, the total state and city property tax bill...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.); Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph probably taken in 1892 by James F. Hughes of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his parents and siblings on the porch of their summer house in Mount Washington. Standing from left to right are brother Charles Edward, H. L. M....
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by H. L. Mencken of his father August Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street on January 1, 1895.
