Advertisement for the Food Stamp Plan dating from 1941. The advertisement explains that the Food Stamp Plan, operated by the United States Dept. of Agriculture in conjunction with local agencies and businesses, distributes surplus farm and food...
United States. Dept. of the Treasury; United States. Office of Education; United States. War Savings Staff; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of three youngsters who have collected items for their local Schools at War Program. The full caption for this poster reads: "We are ready : What about you? Join the Schools at War Program sponsored by the War Savings Staff of the U.S....
Flags--United States; Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; United States. Dept. of the Treasury; War posters, American; Korean War, 1950-1953--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing the American flag with the words "Buy defense bonds" featured below. Printed in small type below this message are the words "U.S. Government Printing Office : 1951 O-945938" (left), "official U.S. Treasury poster" (center), and...
World War, 1939-1945; Military Order of the Purple Heart. Dept. of Maryland.; Veterans;
Printed pamphlet of the official proceedings of the first annual convention of the Maryland chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, held in Hagerstown, MD on Dec. 13, 1942.
(Editor's note: The Military Order of the Purple Heart...
War--Relief of sick and wounded--Maryland--Hagerstown; Women--Charitable contributions--Maryland--Hagerstown; Davis, Theodore R. 1840–1894; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war
Photograph of a sketch entitled "Ladies of Hagerstown [Maryland] Administering to Our Wounded" by Theodore R. Davis that appeared on page 645 of Harper's Weekly on October 11, 1862. This illustration depicts a group of women carrying baskets or...
Photograph of the east side of Courtland Street as seen from Pleasant to Mulberry Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. A few African Americans are sitting on the front steps of a brick row house (center right) while another woman looks down on the...
Photograph taken looking east from Parkin Street at the north side of Ramsey Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The Bartlett Hayward Company, which had been producing munitions for the Russian and French governments, acquired and demolished this wooden...
Urban African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Bartlett Hayward Company
Photograph taken looking from Callender Alley at the south side of Ramsey Street in Baltimore, Maryland. When the United State entered World War I in November 1917, the Bartlett Hayward Company, which had been producing munitions for the Russian...
Photograph of the Pennsylvania House hotel located at number 513 West Franklin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Located on the south side of Franklin Street, the hotel is just one of several businesses in this block. Two horse-drawn wagons are parked...
Howard Auditorium (Baltimore, Md.); Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Kernan, James L., 1840-1912
Photograph of the facade of Kernan's Howard Auditorium, a theater located at number 508 North Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This building, originally built 1870 as the Natatorium, was bought in 1890 and remodeled into a vaudeville theater....
Photograph taken looking north from Hamilton Street at Courtland Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Parked on both sides of the street are horse-drawn wagons and carriages, several of which appear to be cabs. In the right foreground is an African...
Charles Street Bridge (Baltimore, Md.); African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Carts and carriages; Pedestrians
Photograph of the Charles Street Bridge at Union Station (not pictured) in Baltimore, Maryland. This bridge was built in 1886, eventually replaced by a new bridge in 1958, then reconstructed in 2003. Union Station was razed in 1910, rebuilt and...
Merchant ships--Maryland--Baltimore; Loading and unloading--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Banana trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Food inspectors--Maryland--Baltimore; United Fruit Company
Sepia-toned photograph of bananas being unloaded from a United Fruit Company boat docked at Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture Inspector John F. Earnshaw (taller Caucasian man dressed in a suit, white...
African American women; Architecture, domestic; Baltimore (Md.); Housing rehabilitation; Mayors; Schaefer, William Donald; United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development;
Photograph of Mayor William Donald Schaefer stenciling numbers on a home in the 2600 block Huron Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This photograph shows the Mount Winans Homes rehabilitation project, the first of its kind in the nation. Sponsored by...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Building, Fireproof; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking east from the northwest corner of Liberty and Baltimore Streets at Hopkins Place buildings in ruins. In the foreground at number 17 Hopkins Place are the ruins of the Ambach Brothers and Company Building. In the background...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast at the east side of South Liberty Street as fire fighters spray water on the Daniel Miller Company Building located at numbers 29-31 South Liberty Street (its main entrance and address were at numbers 28-32...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east from Howard Street at fire fighters spraying water on buildings at German and Liberty Streets. On the southwest corner of this intersection (right) is a one-story wooden building housing (Thomas) Burke's Saloon. East...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east on German Street at the John E. Hurst and Company Building engulfed in flame soon after the start of the fire. Located on the south side of German Street between Liberty Street and Hopkins Place, the John E. Hurst and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fireboats; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;...
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the Baltimore Fire Department fireboat Cataract spraying water on buildings along the East Pratt Street wharves as the fire moves east on Monday, February 8, 1904. The Cataract,...
