Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Demeter (Greek deity); Mythology, Greek;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of the Greek goddess Demeter. In the foreground, Demeter lies sleeping in a field. She is partially clothed and a lit torch is on the ground in front of her. Behind her, the figure of a small man is shown from...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Demeter (Greek deity); Mythology, Greek;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of the Greek goddess Demeter. In the foreground, Demeter lies partially clothed with a lit torch on the ground in front of her. Although she appears to be in repose, one of her eyes is open and looks back toward...
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...
Broadsides; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "To the Maryland Sons of Revolutionary Sires!" sung to the Robert Burns tune "Old Lang Syne." This broadside calls on those Maryland sons whose forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War to take up arms...
A view of the Fountain Square in Chestertown. It has a fountain with the Greek goddess of youth and beauty, Hebe, standing atop of the fountain (here hidden behind the trees). Dedicated in 1899, it was a project of the Ladies Improvement Society....
