World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Cumberland--Pictorial works
A view of an unidentified house in a residential area of Cumberland, ca. 1906. On the front of the postcard, the sender of has identified it as his home.
Anne Arundel County (Md.); Dwellings; Fort George G. Meade (Md.); United States. Army;
Aerial photograph of newly constructed facilities at Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Located just 15 miles south of Baltimore and 19 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., Camp Meade, as it was originally known, was built in...
Postcards--Maryland--Braddock Heights; Braddock Heights (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
Braddock Springs, situated near Braddock Heights. The inscription on the postcard claims that it was the place "where General Braddock of revolutionary fame watered his men and horses." Although it is possible that General Edward Braddock...
Chromolithography--19th century; Illustration of books--United States--19th century; Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works; Lithography, American--19th century;
Chromolithograph, untitled here but in a later edition titled Awaiting the return of Mr. Tinkham, by Julius Bien after an illustration by John Mix Stanley from the book titled Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable...
Allied Powers (1919- ); Soldiers--Soviet Union; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Maps; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Maps; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--New Guinea--Maps; World War,...
Two color posters on one sheet: the Newsmap (war fronts maps) for February 1, 1943 (for week of January 22 to January 29) is on the obverse side; and photographs and descriptions of the Soviet infantry and its weaponry are on the reverse side....
Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Color prints, English--19th century;
Color print titled Flora (or, sometimes, Flora, the Gypsy girl) identified as number 354 and printed in 1852. The print is an example of the Baxter process. Named after its inventor George Baxter (1804-1867), this process for making color prints...
Copper engraving of three species of bulb, (I) Iris Anglicana maior, violaceo flore (center), (II) Iris bulbosa angustisfolijs odorata (left), and (III) Iris bulbosa angustisfolijs caerulea (right), by Wolfgang Kilian after a design by Basilius...
Citrus fruits--Pictorial works; Ferrari, Giovanni Battista, 1584-1655;
Copper engraving titled Aurantium stellatum et roseum (a species of citrus fruit) by Cornelis Bloemaert from the book titled Hesperides, sive, de malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri [The first book on citrus fruit] written by Giovanni Battista...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Automobiles--Tires--Marketing; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing letterhead of Carl Spoerer's Sons Company located at numbers 901-909 South Carey Street after 1918. Along with automobile production the company sold tires and was a distributor of the Samson cord tire.
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals by Henri Théophile Hildibrand from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XLV (45), a...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals by Henri Théophile Hildibrand from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XXIII (23), five...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals by Noël Eugène Sotain from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XVII (17), a man with...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XVIII (18), a group of men with the heads of...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XXI (21), a gentleman with a porcupine's head...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XXX (30), a dog holding a bowl and a rat holding...
Clothing and dress--France--Paris--19th century; Engraving--19th century; Magazine illustration--France--19th century;
Engraving of three well-dressed and fashionable young ladies appearing in Supplement to the Young Ladies' Journal for February 1896. Printed in France but intended for the English or American market, this print is identified as plate 8.
Clothing and dress--France--Paris--19th century; Engraving--19th century; Magazine illustration--France--19th century;
Engraving of two well-dressed and fashionable young ladies appearing in Supplement to the Young Ladies' Journal for March 1896. Printed in France but intended for the English or American market, this print is identified as plate 3.
Engraving of view of a seaport under refulgent sunlight by Richard Earlom after an original drawing by Claude Lorrain (written as Claude le Lorrain) from a book titled Liber veritatis [Book of truth], or, a collection of prints, after the original...
Cityscapes; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Government buildings; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. & G. Neale at Illman & Pillbrow's, that features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. This print was published in 1831 as one of a...
