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...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Broadsides; Flags; Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863; Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Battle of Hagers' Town Road. The Rebels Are Skedadling [sic] Out of My Maryland, and leaving all their 'Stolen goods behind'," sung to the popular Confederate tune "Gay and Happy." This broadside, an...
Broadsides; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Camp Song of the Maryland Line," a song more familiarly known as "Gay and Happy." Published in Baltimore by R. M. Chambers during the Civil War, this broadside became the camp song for Confederate...
Program of attractions for the Boulevard and Waverly Theatres in Baltimore for the week of December 4, 1938. Movies showed that week include "The Great Waltz," "The Citadel," "Girls' School," "Listen Darling," "The Lady Objects," and "Come on...
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...
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $1.50 in dues paid by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, Aug[ust] Mencken, to Boumi Temple, a Baltimore center for the fraternal A.A.O.N.M.S. (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine) for North...
In this incomplete letter dated December 1, 1864 and written on the stationary of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison, a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, tries to reestablish correspondence with Poe's...
In this letter dated December 27, 1865 and written from Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison tries to calm Maria Clemm, Edgar Allan Poe's mother-in-law, who is distraught because she has not received a letter from Harrison recently. Addressing her...
In this letter dated December 8, 1864 and written from Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison answers Maria Clemm's recent letter, a response it appears to his letter to her of December 1 (see item scpc022). Having been informed of her situation,...
In this letter dated December 7, 1870 and written from Baltimore, Maryland, Maria Clemm asks Neilson Poe for more money ($10) from her "fortune." She lets him know she hopes his wife Josephine and his daughters will visit her during the Christmas...
January, Josephine Emily Poe (January, H. C. [Harry Churchill], Mrs.); Letters; Poe, Amelia Fitzgerald; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849;
In this letter dated December 2, 1908 and written from the Shelton Hotel in New York City, Amelia Fitzgerald Poe tells her niece, Mrs. H. C. (Harry Churchill) January (Josephine Emily Poe January) about various letters and items related to Edgar...
