Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
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...
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...
Drawing; Theater programs; Theyre-Smith, S. (Spenser); Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketches by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of two Spenser Theyre-Smith comedies, Cut off with a Shilling (upper sketch) and A Happy Pair (lower sketch). Both plays are set in a Victorian parlor. In the first play, a young woman...
Dwellings--Maryland; Frederick County (Md.); Methodist preaching; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features the Old Cassell House in Frederick County, Maryland. This is one of fourteen lithographs in the collection taken from G. O. M. Roberts'...
Engraving after the drawing by T. L. Bogueta. An improvement on Moale's view by an artist of whom nothing in known. The marginal lettering tallies with that in the print published by Coale of Baltimore in 1817 (Cator Print 128) except for...
Conference rooms; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features an interior view of the conference room on Light Street in Baltimore. This is a view of the interior of the Old Methodist Parsonage (second...
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Frederick Calvert, Sixth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Named for his father's friend, Frederick, Prince of Wales, the last Lord Baltimore...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
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...
Broadsides; Liberty trees; Paine, Thomas, 1735-1809; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Liberty Tree" from a poem written by Thomas Paine in 1775. "Liberty tree" refers to a famous elm tree that grew on Boston commons, where colonists gathered in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, hanging...
Clapham, John; Eddis, William, 1738-1825; Engraving, Colonial; Green, Anne Catharine, d. 1775; Green, Frederick, 1750-1811; Green, Jonas, 1712-1767; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Colonial period,...
Maryland eight dollar note dated April 10, 1774 and signed Wm [William] Eddis and J [John] Clapham: serial number 5111.
Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown is the oldest public cemetery in Washington County. Created in 1866, just after Civil War, it became the first place where residents of Washington County could be buried regardless of race or religious orientation....
Fourth of July; Fund raising; Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792; Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775; Liberty; Minutemen (Militia)--Massachusetts--Lexington; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; United States. Continental...
Four separate color posters on one sheet by JD or J. (James Henry) Daugherty (1889-1974) that shows four historical scenes meant to inspire Americans to "buy war stamps & bonds."
Upper left: In this poster, minutemen are portrayed fighting...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Printed copy of address titled "Maryland's Contribution to the War Effort." The address was given by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord at the Maryland Historical Society on January 11, 1943. In the address, Reckord describes the state's wartime...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Richmond, Nancy Heywood, 1820-1898;
In this letter dated January 7, 1864 and written from New York City, Elizabeth Fries Ellet mentions briefly her trip to Europe to Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond. Apparently responding to a request from Mrs. Richmond for a photograph, Mrs. Ellet...
