Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Advertising cards--United States; Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Color advertising card. On one side (page 1) is a depiction of two angelic female figures holding a banner displaying the United States flag as they rise above a globe of the Earth on which the words North America are displayed and below which is a...
Postcards—Maryland--Cumberland; Carroll Hall (Cumberland, Md.); Clubhouses--Maryland--Cumberland--1900-1910; Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Carroll Hall was erected in 1903 and initially housed social and sports centers, such as the Carroll Club. It housed the all-boys LaSalle Institute (established in 1907) and it became LaSalle High School in 1938. It served in this capacity until...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, Canadian; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Canada;
Color poster showing three men dressed in uniforms of the army, air force, and navy talking with one another at a bar or club while behind them is a sinister character looking like Adolf Hitler who is listening to their conversation, with the word...
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...
Constitutional amendments; Figure skating; United States Figure Skating Association;
Document containing proposed amendments to the United States Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.) constitution. Proposed amendments are to Articles III, V, VII, VIII, and IX and to the By-Laws. Most notable among the proposed amendments is a...
Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, Mrs. E. A.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkard's Lone Child!" from a song written in 1866 by "Stella" (Nellie H. Bradley) with music by "Figaro" (Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst [1836-1918]) and also known as "Father's a Drunkard, and Mother Is Died."...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hark! Baby, hark!" This broadside tells the story of a slave woman who is dying from a whipping she received while trying to protect her child from the cruel blows of her master. Her husband recounts the...
Figure skating; Financial statements; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.;
Document containing the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. annual report for the 1936-1937 season, signed by Paul T. MacKie, the treasurer. Among the club receipts listed are dues and refunds. Among the club expenditures listed are rent, salaries, taxes,...
Constitutions; Figure skating; United States Figure Skating Association;
Document of an excerpt containing Sections 1-4 of Article VI of the U.S.F.S.A. (United States Figure Skating Association) constitution. This excerpt is on representation and provides guidelines on the number of delegates a club may select to send...
Figure skating; Figure skating officials; Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society; United States Figure Skating Association;
Document prepared by the Committee on Judges and Judging of the United States Figure Skating Association that lists official judges for figure skating clubs across the United States for the year 1938. Among the judges listed from the Ice Club of...
Figure skating; Financial statements; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.;
Document showing the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. balance sheet and operating statement for the 1936-1937 season, prepared by P. T. MacKie, the treasurer. Included among the club's receipts are dues collected for two seasons and refunds of monies...
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the old Lovely Lane Church in Baltimore. This church once stood on the site of the present Merchants Club on Redwood Street east...
Amusement parks Maryland; Correspondence; Sanctions, Administrative; Winter sports;
Letter from a member [Frederic C. Lee], Board of Managers, and Co-Chairman of Carnival Committee, the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., to Mr. George W. Pepper, Jr. of the United States Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.) concerning payment of a...
Letter from Bill O'Brien of World-Wide Sports, Inc., to Mr. Frederic C. Lee of the Carnival Committee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., with a handwritten reply from Mr. Lee on the front. In his letter O'Brien references Lee's letter of February...
Letter from Bill O'Brien of World-Wide Sports, Inc., to the Ice Club of Baltimore. In his letter Mr. O'Brien, a promoter of ice skating shows such as "Gay Blades" and "The Icicles," lists some of the performers involved in those successes,...
Letter from Bruce Mapes to Freddie [Frederic C. Lee]. In a letter typed on personal stationary, Mr. Mapes explains why he and his wife, the skater Evelyn Chandler, will not be available for an upcoming carnival sponsored by the Ice Club of...
Letter from Cecil [Smith] to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., discussing the routines for the upcoming [ice] carnival sponsored by the club. In her letter she details lighting arrangements and the music to be used for...
