Postcards—Maryland--Solomons Island; Islands--Maryland; Solomons Island (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A bird's eye view, looking south on the Solomons Island and the bridge connecting it with the mainland Calvert County. It is located at the north side of the mouth of Patuxent River. Called at various early times Bourne's Island, Somervell's Island...
Postcards--Maryland--Tilghman Island; Tilghman Island (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Islands--Maryland
The community of Tilghman on Tilghman Island derives its name from the Tilghman family who owned the island from 1752 until the 1840's when James Seth bought it. He started to sell land parcels to fishermen and oystermen. The island was and is a...
Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958; Smart set (New York, N.Y.);
Photograph taken September 12, 1915 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) on Long Beach in Long Island, New York. Mencken frequently traveled to New York to work with Nathan on the Smart Set, but since September 12, 1915...
Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Calvert County; African American children--Maryland--Calvert County; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Calvert County
Photograph of a wooden-frame house located on Solomons Island Road in Calvert County, Maryland. This house has a long, rectangular base topped with a gambrel roof that has three dormer windows. On each end of the house is a brick chimney. The...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Hooper Islands (Md. : Islands); Dorchester County (Md.); Bulkheads;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 457. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Hoopers Island, Dorchester County. Constructing a timber bulkhead, shore erosion...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Fort Carroll Baltimore, Md.); Fortification--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Fort Carroll is located on an artificial island in the Baltimore Harbor outside of the Key Bridge, just south of Baltimore. Colonel Robert E. Lee, the future general-in-chief of Confederate forces in the American Civil War, was for three years in...
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--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great Britain--Pictorial works;
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken aboard a ship heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the British tramp steamer Ely, which traveled to Jamaica and then hauled a cargo, such as bananas, back to Baltimore;...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
In this incomplete letter dated December 1, 1864 and written on the stationary of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison, a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, tries to reestablish correspondence with Poe's...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Death; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter mistakenly dated Saturday evening October 28th, 1849 (Saturday occurred on October 27 in 1849) and most likely written from Providence, Rhode Island, Sarah Helen Whitman, engaged to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848, expresses her sympathy to...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Lectures and lecturing; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Spiritual healing and spiritualism; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter dated February 3 and probably written between 1852 and 1854 from Providence, Rhode Island, Sarah Helen Whitman, who once was engaged to Edgar Allan Poe, tells Maria Clemm, Poe's mother-in-law, that she, through their mutual friend...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter dated February 28, 1860 and written from Providence, Rhode Island, Sarah Helen Whitman, once engaged to Edgar Allan Poe, reveals her relationship to Maria Clemm, Poe's mother-in-law. Apologizing for not writing sooner to Mrs. Clemm,...
Mahón (Spain)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Fortification--Minorca (Spain)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Map shows plans of the city of Mahón and the fortress Castillo de San Felipe on the island of Minorca, one of the Balearic Islands near the coast of Catalonia. Inset map shows a plan of Fort St. Philippe, as it was called by the French, at the...
South Holland (Netherlands)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Based on the surveys by Floriszoon van Berckenrode, the South Holland cities of The Hague, Delft and Rotterdam are shown. This is a highly detailed map. The back side contains a text in French describing the area of South Holland: Delfland, Schiel,...
