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...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Trinity Chapel (Frederick, Md.); Frederick (Md.)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Freemasons--Buildings; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the YMCA building, Masonic Temple, and Old Town Clock in Frederick. The 1807 steeple to the left, built by local architect Stephen Steiner, rests atop the stone tower of the Trinity Chapel built in 1763. The town clock at the top was...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Patrick Street (Frederick, Md.); Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Frederick--Pictorial works;
A view of West Patrick Street located in historic district of Frederick. The street was a hub of the colonial town that was laid out by Patrick Dulaney in 1745. The National Pike, an early interstate road traversed through what is now Patrick...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Rose Hill Manor (Frederick, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Frederick; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Johnson, Thomas, 1732-1819
In 1778, Thomas Johnson, a prominent politician, lawyer, landowner and the first elected governor of Maryland bought Rose Garden estate from George Hoffman near the city of Frederick. He changed its name to Rose Hill. He deeded the property to his...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick County; Jug Bridge (Frederick County, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Frederick County; Frederick County (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The Jug Bridge across the Monocacy River east of Frederick was built by a local mason, Leonard Harbaugh, in 1808 for the cost of $55,000. It was a 65 foot (20 meters) stone arch bridge that took its name from a stone monument in a shape of jug, or...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Washington's Headquarters (Frederick, Md.); Log cabins--Maryland--Frederick; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
According to common belief, this log cabin once located along Carroll Creek on West All Saints Street in Frederick, was George Washington's quarters on 30 April 1755 when he was a junior officer attached to the Staff of Major General Edward...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Rose Hill Manor (Frederick, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Frederick; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;Johnson, Thomas, 1732-1819 ;
In 1778, Thomas Johnson, a prominent politician, lawyer, landowner and the first elected governor of Maryland bought Rose Garden estate from George Hoffman near the city of Frederick. He changed its name to Rose Hill. He deeded the property to his...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Fritchie, Barbara, 1766-1862; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
According to popular legend, Barbara Fritchie, an elderly woman in her 90's, waved the Union flag at Confederate troops under the command of General "Stonewall" Jackson as they marched by her house on West Patrick Street in Frederick on September...
Postcards--Maryland--Braddock Heights; Braddock Heights (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
Braddock Heights is a small unincorporated town in Frederick County, Maryland. Founded at the turn of the 20th century as a resort community, it included hotels, an amusement park, a skating rink, nature trails, an observatory (four states,...
Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Md.)--Buildings; African American schools--Maryland--Baltimore; High school buildings--Design and construction--Maryland--Baltimore; Owens, Benjamin Buck, 1841-1918; Perring, Henry G., 1881-1946; Sisco,...
Photograph of an architectural sketch showing the southwest façade of the old Frederick Douglass High School at North Calhoun and Baker Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Prepared by Owens & Sisco Architects [Benjamin Buck Owens (1841-1918); Spencer...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Frederick County (Md.); Parks;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 26. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Near Frederick. Frederick County. Development of Gambrill Park. View from the park."
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Point of Rocks (Md.); Frederick County (Md.); Flood control;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 497. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Frederick, Frederick County. 2nd sub-project- 'Flood Control.' Showing the area...
Borrowing and lending; Dow, Jesse E. (Jesse Erskine), 1809-1850; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Thomas, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1806-1866;
In this letter dated March 16, 1843 and written from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edgar Allan Poe informs his friends Jesse E. Dow and Frederick W. Thomas that he has arrived in Philadelphia safely and thanks them for all they have done for him. In...
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'...
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...
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...
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Portrait photography; Private schools--Maryland;
Portrait photograph of Frederick Knapp, principal of F. Knapp's Institute, the school H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken attended as a boy. Although he readily used the rod to bring about discipline, Professor Knapp, as Mencken noted in his autobiography...
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 John Evan's House. G. O. M. Roberts, author of G. O. M. Roberts' Centenary Pictorial Album…of the early history of Methodism in the State...
Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Constitutional amendments; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Parades; Politicians;
Colored lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, 687 West Baltimore Street, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19th...
Baltimore County (Md.); Dwellings--Maryland; Frederick County (Md.); Funeral service; 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 house where Robert Strawbridge, the father of Methodism, died. This was the home of John Wheeler, near Towson in Baltimore County,...
