Broadsides; Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 1798-1865; 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 "Hicksie." The language used in this broadside is reminiscent of the caricatured dialect ascribed to slaves of the pre-Civil War South. "Hicksie" is Thomas Holliday Hicks, the Governor of Maryland at the...
Betrayal; Caricatures and cartoons; Civil War, 1861-1865; Etching; Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 1798-1865; Judas Iscariot; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865;
Etching by Adalbert Volck that portrays Thomas Holliday Hicks, Governor of Maryland from 1858 to 1862, as Judas Iscariot. Hicks had run for office as an antiabolitionist and a supporter of slave-owners, yet kept Maryland from seceding from the...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Hospitals; Landscapes; Military hospitals;
Lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of the Hicks U.S. General Hospital in Baltimore. One of the numerous Civil War institutions occupying temporary buildings...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "All Spice; or, Spice for All" and written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside derides the North and...
Fires--Maryland--Cambridge; Ruined buildings--Maryland--Cambridge; Rubble--Maryland--Cambridge; African American men--Maryland--Cambridge; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maintenance and repair--Maryland--Cambridge
Photograph of ruins from the fire of July 31, 1910 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. On the right side of these ruins is a sign that reads McCormick Harvesting Machines. Several African American men are sifting through and removing objects...
African Americans--Maryland--Cambridge; Fires--Maryland--Cambridge; Church buildings--Maryland--Cambridge; Fences; Mules; Streets--Maryland--Cambridge; Trees in cities--Maryland--Cambridge;
Photograph of ruins of the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church on Race and Muir Streets from the fire of July 31, 1910 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. An iron fence encloses part of the ruins. Numerous onlookers including many African...