American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the staff of the Baltimore Herald on June 17, 1906, the day the operations of the paper were suspended. Members of the staff are (from left to right): top row--an unidentified man, Robinson...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken either late 1889 or early 1890 by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his siblings. Harry, as H. L. was called by his family, is standing (right) next to his brother Charles Edward, while seated...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1892 by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his siblings. Twelve-year-old Harry, as H. L. was called by his family, is standing (right) next to his brother Charles Edward (left), while seated...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and the Baltimore Sun staff. Mencken, as this picture demonstrates, was no longer just a reporter but now a member of the staff. Standing from left to right are Robert B. Ennis,...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken November 19, 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with friends in the courtyard of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Standing from left to right are American film producer Walter Wanger (1894-1968); H. L. M.;...
Drawbell, James, 1899-1979; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Seaman, H. W.;
Portrait photograph taken on June 27, 1935 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (center) in London with writers and journalists J. W. (James Wedgwood) Drawbell (left) and H. W. Seaman (right).
Adventure stories--Illustrations; Children's drawings; Fantasy fiction, English--Illustrations; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pen and ink drawing of an adventurer standing before the entrance to a cave, done in November 1894 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken to illustrate page 40 of H. (Henry) Rider Haggard's adventure story set in Victorian England and Africa and entitled...
Adventure stories--Illustrations; Children's drawings; Fantasy fiction, English--Illustrations; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pen and ink drawing of a gentleman standing before a cottage door, done in 1894 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken to illustrate page 17 of H. (Henry) Rider Haggard's adventure story set in Victorian England and Africa and entitled "The People of the...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Document dated June 23, 1896 showing the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute high school diploma awarded H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. Mencken is just 15 years old at the time. Affixed to the bottom left of the diploma are an orange and black ribbon and...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.); Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1982 by James F. Hughes of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his parents and siblings at their summer house in Mount Washington. From left to right are brother Charles Edward, mother Anna Margareta, sister Anna Gertrude,...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great...
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, his uncle (on his mother's side) Charles H. Abhau, and a fellow Baltimorean (Louis) Kemp Hennighausen aboard a ship most likely heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the city staff of the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1900. Members of the staff are (from left to right): top row--Lawler, Jason Stockbridge, Theodore Leary, H. L. M., Arthur W. Hawks, and an...
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (center) and his brothers Charles Edward (left) and August (right) posing for pictures in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1906. H. L. is sitting on a wooden chair,...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Roman Forum (Rome, Italy);
Portrait photograph taken in 1914 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (center) and friends A. H. (Alexander Hopkins) McDannald (1877-1957) (left) and W. Edwin (William Edwin) Moffett (1871-1957) (right) at the Forum in Rome, Italy. According to Mencken,...
Anderson, William H. (William Hamilton), 1874-1959; Anti-saloon League of Maryland; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works;
Photograph taken in 1912 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken shaking hands with William H. Anderson, then superintendent of the Anti-saloon League of Maryland. Considered one of the most effective lobbyists in Maryland, Anderson could be ruthless in...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and Saturday Night Club members at Philip Green's place on the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Standing (from left to right) are Matthew Tinker, Philip Green, Theodor Hemberger,...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in November 1913 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and other Saturday Night Club members at the Rennert Hotel in Baltimore. The Saturday Night Club was an informal group of doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists,...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in April 1909 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and the Baltimore Sun staff. Standing from left to right are John Wilber Jenkins, Harold E. West, John T. Pleasants*, Emily Lantz, Wm. (William) H. Pentz, Allen S. Will, Folger...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1928 by Robert H. (Robert Hobart) Davis of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. Mencken was then at the height of his notoriety during a decade when he was called America's most powerful private citizen. The stock market...
Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; New York (N.Y.); Satire; Seventh-Day Adventists
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Louis Cheslock dated August 21, [1929]. Mencken thanks Cheslock for sending a copy of the Present Truth, a Seventh-Day Adventist periodical and writes in a bantering tone when he tells Cheslock that he's thinking of...
