Carroll County (Md.); Legal documents; Slaves; Slaveholders;
Document headed "Tabular Statement of Ownership of Certain Slaves in Carroll County, Maryland," that lists the slaves owned by Charles W. Hood. The statement includes the names of the slaves as well as information about their age, gender, physical...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Customhouses; Post office buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper that features a view of the Baltimore Post Office under the guard of a detachment of Major Cook's Boston Battery. The Post Office was then located in the old Exchange Building on the site of...
Buildings; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Hotels; Monuments; Statues; Streets; War memorials; Baltimore (Md.);
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of July 13, 1861, that features a view of Monument Square in Baltimore. Here a section of Cook's Boston Light Infantry with artillery stands in position, by order of Major General Banks, to...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Customhouses; Post office buildings; Views;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of July 13, 1861, that features a view of the interior of the Post Office in Baltimore which then occupied part of the Exchange Building located at Gay, Water, and Lombard Streets, where the...
African American women; Addison, Annie, fl. ca. 1842-1920; Baltimore (Md.); Carroll, John Lee, 1830-1911; Domestics; Howard County (Md.); Slaves;
Photograph of Annie Addison, an African American woman born into slavery about 1842 at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. The former slave of John Lee Carroll, Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1879, she for many years thereafter worked...
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...