Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820; Catholic Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
The historic Baltimore Basilica at the time the postcard was published was still a cathedral only. It was built by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of the Capitol, during the years 1806-1821. It became the first Catholic Cathedral in the...
Church buildings; Engravings; Fountains; Jails; Baltimore (Md.);
Engravings, a collection of twenty-four, apparently proofs for the border of Poppleton's Map of Baltimore, 1822. The location, architecture, and cost of each structure are given. The structures include the following: First Presbyterian Church,...
Cumberland Dugan & Company; Dugan, Cumberland, 1830-1914; St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (Baltimore, Md.); Factories--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines; Telephone lines; Wagons; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Brick wall...
Photograph of the building housing Cumberland Dugan & Company (formerly the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church) on the northeast corner of Howard and Barre Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Established by Cumberland Dugan (1830-1914), a wealthy...
African American young men; Architecture, domestic; Bishops; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Dwellings; Gibbons, James, 1834-1921; Horse-drawn vehicles; Baltimore (Md.); Wagons;
Photograph of the official residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. Located at number 408 North Charles Street, this building is situated behind and connected by a covered walkway to the Basilica of the...
Knights of Columbus; National Catholic War Council (U.S.); United War Work Campaign, Inc.; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster sponsored by the National Catholic War Council and Knights of Columbus for the United War Work Campaign during the week of November 11, 1918. The poster features a retired uniformed officer wearing a Knights of Columbus (KC) armband...
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church architecture; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;
Engraving by the Fenner Sears & Company from a drawing by William Goodacre, Jr., of New York that features a view of the interior of the Catholic Cathedral (Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) in Baltimore. This plate was...
Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Pise, Charles Constantine, 1801-1866; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Neilson, 1809-1884; Poetry;
This document is Neilson Poe's handwritten English translation of a poem written in Latin by Charles Constantine Pise, published in the Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1827, and dedicated to Charles Carroll of Carrollton on...
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Text; Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy); Illustration of books--Italian--16th century; Jesus Christ--Art; Missals--Texts--Early works to 1800; Wood-engraving, Italian--16th century;
Page with rubrication and a woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ from a Roman missal printed in Venice in 1576. Published by heirs of Lucantonio di Giunta, the missal was issued in accordance with decrees of the Council of Trent and contained...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Born during the trying period when his father was straining his resources to maintain...
Painting of Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Benedict Leonard Calvert, second son of the third Lord Baltimore, upon the...
Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. George Calvert, the virtual founder of Maryland, was born at Kiplin, in the North Riding...
Actors; African American men; Anniversaries; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Baltimore County (Md.); Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Clothing and dress; Livery; United States History;
Photograph of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (left, portrayed by Charles White) and his African American attendant (right, portrayed by Fearless Williams), an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a...
Payne, J. Howard, 1887-1960;African American lawyers--Maryland--Baltimore;Catholics--Maryland--Baltimore
Photographic portrait of J. Howard Payne (1887-1960), a distinguished Baltimore African American politician and attorney. Educated in Baltimore public schools, he attended and was a graduate of Howard University Law School. Admitted to the bar of...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
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--New Windsor; New Windsor College (New Windsor, Md.); Universities and colleges--Maryland--New Windsor; New Windsor (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
In 1849, Andrew H. Baker, a graduate of Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg and later a teacher, built two buildings on a land he bought in New Windsor, Carroll County. The following year, he opened Calvert College there under the auspices of the...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Lexington Street (Baltimore, Md.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works; Central business districts--Maryland--Baltimore; Department stores--Maryland--Baltimore--History; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
A view of Baltimore's Lexington Street shopping district near Howard Street. Numerous downtown Baltimore department stores were located in this area. The white building on the right housed the Stewart Company's department store. Designed in 1899 by...
