Baltimore (Md.); Bills of sale; Slavery; Slaveholders;
Document containing bills of sale for Josiah M. Cleaveland and Edgar A. Poe. Cleaveland sold a number of household goods to John F. Duryee. Edgar Allan Poe sold a slave on behalf of his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm Poe, to Henry Ridgway of Baltimore...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Ridgway, Henry; Slave bills of sale;
Handwritten copy of a bill of sale for Negro slave Edwin sold by Edgar A. Poe, as agent for Maria Clemm, to Henry Ridgway December 10, 1829 and recorded December 29, 1829 by William Gibson, the clerk for Baltimore City. At the top of the document...
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...
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...
Cityscapes; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; War memorials;
Hand colored engraving by Henry Griffiths after William Henry Bartlett's painting that features a view of the Battle Monument. The engraving was taken from Willis' American Scenery, 1840, and has been colored by hand.
Buildings; Cityscapes; Monuments; Streets; War memorials;
Engraving by Henry Griffiths after the painting by William Henry Bartlett taken from Willis' book American Scenery published in 1840. This is the same as Cator Print 60 except that Griffith's engraving is uncolored. At this period Monument Square,...
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; 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 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of his mother Anna Margareta (Abhau) Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1895.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of his brother August and sister Anna Gertrude sitting on the steps of their summer house in Mount Washington about 1894. August is holding a stuffed doll, and Anna Gertrude is holding a kitten.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken as a young boy sitting on a wall. In this photograph he is thought to be 8 years old. (Editor's note: This studio photograph was probably taken by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer in October of 1888...
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; Philosophy, German--19th century; Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860; Title pages;
Document showing the title page of the book entitled The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Henry L. Mencken. Published in 1908 by Luce and Company, this was the first "complete popular [treatise] upon Nietzsche and his philosophy in...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Newman, Frances, 1883-1928; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in October 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the writer Frances Newman. Ostensibly, Mencken made the trip through the South to publicize the Sunpapers, while his editor Paul Patterson tried to get to know newspaper...
Greeting cards--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Christmas and New Year's greeting card to his parents for the 1887-1888 season. At 7 years of age, a very young and very humble "Harry", the name his family called him as a boy, shows an early ability...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute--Report cards; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Heathan days, 1890-1936; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards;
Document dated April 1896 showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Baltimore Polytechnic Institute senior class report card. This report card includes his monthly grades from October 1895 through April 1896. "Harry", as he was still known, seems to...
Wood-engraving of a green opelet and an orange-disk Anemone by the Leighton Bros. after an illustration by Philip Henry Gosse from the book titled A year at the shore written by Philip Henry Gosse and published in 1865 by Alexander Strahan, London....
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Viaducts--Maryland;
Engraving by Henry Adlard after the painting by William Henry Bartlett. A proof of the view was published in N. F. Willis' American Scenery. Built in 1834, this famous bridge at Relay is still a part of the main line of the road. It was called the...
Allegany County (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.); Delaware;...
Map of Maryland and Delaware and their canals, roads, and distances by Henry S. Tanner, dated 1844, that shows twenty Maryland counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel (spelled "Ann Arundel"), Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles,...
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887; Big Bethel, Battle of, Va., 1861; Broadsides; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889; Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; Seward,...
Document containing two broadsides: the first is entitled "Hark! The Summons," and the second is entitled "Southern Sentiments." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a...
African Americans; Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Minstrels; Slavery; Songs; ; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884
Document containing the broadside entitled "Kingdom Coming" from a song written by Henry Clay Work (music not provided) and published in 1862. This broadside, told in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, relates with wry humor...
