Amusement parks Maryland; Figure skating; Ice dancing; Programs; Winter sports;
Official souvenir program of the appearance of Evelyn Chandler and Bruce Mapes at the Iceland skating rink at Carlin's Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Billed as the world's greatest professional figure skaters, Evelyn Chandler and Bruce Mapes perform...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Yacht clubs--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a view from the Maryland Yacht Club in Baltimore. The view looks out over the water, where a few small boats are anchored in the distance. On the opposite shore are mostly several factories and...
Athenaeum Club (Baltimore, Md.); Construction and demolition debris--Maryland--Baltimore; Wrecking--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Buildings--Salvaging--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the demolition of the Athenaeum Club located on the northeast corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in 1830 by the son of General John Eager Howard, a Revolutionary War hero and politician, the Club...
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...
Burlesques; Drawing; Rhodes, William Barnes, 1772-1826; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the Thomas (i.e., William) Barnes Rhodes burlesque drama, Bombastes Furioso. In this illustration, the lavishly dressed Distaffina sits in a chair next to a spinning wheel with her arm...
Byron, Henry J. (Henry James), 1835-1884; Drawing; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the British dramatist Henry J. Byron comedy, Our Boys. In the scene there are three groups of people standing in a high-ceilinged Victorian drawing room. In the center of the room is a...
Cheltnam, Charles Smith, 1823-1912; Drawing; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the Charles Smith Cheltnam three-act comedy, A Lesson in Love. In this scene, which takes place outside a country home amid trees and greenery, there are five people. Two women are...
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872; Drawing; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847; Operetta; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketches by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the operetta, Son and Stranger. Thought to be the Henry Fothergill Chorley translation of Felix Mendelssohn's operetta, Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, the story is about a rogue who...
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...
Concerts; Drawing; Musicians; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck entitled "A Quartette." In this sketch, members of the Wednesday Club have gathered for the performance of a string quartet. Frank Clark and Frank Frick are the two men standing at the far left. George B. Coale is seated in...
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...
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...
Correspondence; Cleveland Skating Club; Figure skating; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.; Skating rinks;
Letter from Howard P. Eells, Jr., president of the Cleveland Skating Club, to the president of the Ice Club of Baltimore. In this letter Mr. Eells announces the opening of the Cleveland Skating Club and ice rink, inviting representatives of the Ice...
Correspondence; Costumes; Ice dancing; United States Figure Skating Association; Winter sports;
Letter from H. L. Garren, Chairman, Carnival Production Committee, United States Figure Skating Association, to Mrs. Frederic C. Lee, the secretary of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., informing Mrs. Lee that the President of the United States...
Letter from Theresa Weld Blanchard, the editor of Skating magazine, to Mrs. [Frederic C.] Lee, the secretary of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. In her letter Mrs. Blanchard asks Mrs. Lee if she would be interested in writing an article for Skating...
Correspondence; Figure skaters; First National Bank (Baltimore, Md.); Travel costs; Western Union Telegraph Company; Winter sports;
Telegram from Cecil [Smith] to Frederick [sic] Lee concerning expenses for an upcoming trip to Baltimore, Maryland. In her telegram Miss Smith asks Mr. Lee, located at the First National Bank building in Baltimore, to send money for travel. The...
Letter from Eleanor O'Meara to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., concerning travel plans to an ice carnival sponsored by the club. In her letter Miss O'Meara acknowledges receipt of a $200.00 check from Mr. Lee to cover...
Letter from Cecil [Smith] to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., discussing travel plans to an ice carnival sponsored by the club. In her letter Cecil [Smith] (who also skated under her married name, Cecil Gooderham) informs...
Letter from Cecil [Smith] to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., telling Mr. Lee what music she and the other skaters will use in their upcoming skating program. Referring to the music as "Scotch on Ice" she lists "The...
Letter from Cecil [Smith] to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee. In her handwritten letter Cecil [Smith] is finalizing arrangements for her, the Caleys [Hazel and Dorothy], and Eleanor O'Mear[a], who will be traveling to Baltimore for an upcoming ice carnival...
