African Americans in art; African American fishers--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing boats; Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Turtle fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 28 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of September 13, 1879, showing two African American men using bated poles to catch terrapin from a skiff on an inlet near Annapolis,...
African Americans in art; African American fishers--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Turtle fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing boats; Trees
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 28 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of September 13th, 1879, showing three African American men hauling a net filled with terrapin into a skiff near Annapolis, Maryland. Frank...
Coon hunting--Maryland; African Americans in art; Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Women hunters--Maryland
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 204 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of May 17, 1884, showing ladies on a coon hunt in Maryland. Frank Leslie (1821-1880) (real name, Henry Carter) shortened the time it took to...
African Americans in art; Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Freedmen--Maryland-- Baltimore; Migration, Internal--Maryland--History--19th century
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 25 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of September 30, 1865, depicting the arrival of a group of African American freedmen and their families at Baltimore, Maryland. According to...
Broadsides; Dumont, Frank; Songs; Stewart, James E. (James Eugene), b. 1843;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Jennie, The Flower of Kildare" from a song written by Frank Dumont (1848-1919) with music by J. E. Stewart. This broadside tells the story of a man who has left his love "Sweet Jennie" back in Kildare,...
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...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Riots; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of April 30, 1861 that features a battle involving the Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Troops. The date of this affray was April 19, 1861, when the troops passed through the city en route to...
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of May 18, 1861, that features a view of General Butler's encampment at Federal Hill. General Benjamin F. Butler was in command of Federal forces at Baltimore, May 13-15, 1861, following what...
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...
Allegany County (Md.); Annapolis (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Carroll County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.);...
Map of Maryland by Frank A. Gray, dated 1879, that shows all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore City (city limits shown by lines of demarcation), Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester,...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the west side of Bowley's Wharf and the burnt district as seen from across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) from the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway (B C and A) on Light at Camden Streets. Tied up at the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "We Never Speak as We Pass By" from the 1882 song written by Frank Egerton, as sung by Gus Williams at Ford's Theatre (originally Ford's Grand Opera House) in Baltimore, Maryland. This broadside tells the...
Broadsides; Death; Howard, Frank, 1851-1914; Love songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "When the Robins Nest Again," from an 1883 song written by Frank Howard. Born J. F. Martindale (1851-1914), he performed in minstrel shows and became one of the highest paid writers and composers of songs...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Baltimore (Md.); Books; Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Gerald Johnson dated June 1, 1936. Gerald White Johnson (1890-1980) was a North Carolinian who, at Mencken's suggestion, joined the staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun in June 1926. He remained until November 1943, when...
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...
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...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
