Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
Broadsides; Clocks and watches; Songs; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884;
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Grandfather's Clock" from the 1876 song written by Henry C. Work. This broadside tells the story of a floor clock owned by the speaker's grandfather. The clock, we are told, was bought at the man's...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Love" (also known as "The Bald-Headed End of the Broom") from an 1877 song composed by Harry Bennett. This broadside warns young men that marriage isn't as wonderful as it may appear during the courtship...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Katy Avourneen." This broadside, from an Irish ballad ascribed to J. E. Johnson, relates the story of Barney and Katy Avourneen. One snowy evening, Barney stops at his sweetheart's house and asks to be...
Bible and evolution; Creationism; Dayton (Tenn.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.--Press coverage--Maryland--Baltimore;
The first carbon page of his typescript for "The Tennessee Circus", one of the columns H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken wrote for the Evening Sun about the proceedings in Dayton, Tennessee before he left to cover the Scopes trial. While some readers...
Baltimore (Md.); Books; Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Gerald Johnson dated June 1, 1936. Gerald White Johnson (1890-1980) was a North Carolinian who, at Mencken's suggestion, joined the staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun in June 1926. He remained until November 1943, when...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects; Rationing;
War Ration Book no. 3, containing unused ration stamps. The front cover includes a serial number (958025), spaces where the recipient could write in his or her personal information and signature, an area to be filled in by the local ration board,...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Down-trodden Maryland" sung to the Charles Dibdin tune "Tom Bowling." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814; Broadsides; Flags; Patriotism; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hurrah for the Flag of the Free!" These verses are about the American flag, most likely the Star-Spangled Banner with fifteen stars for the fifteen states that was unfurled over Fort McHenry in Baltimore...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Bradford, Augustus W. (Augustus Williamson), 1806-1881; Broadsides; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Flags; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and...
Document containing the broadside entitled "In Maryland, My Maryland." This broadside, the Union answer to the Confederate poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, claims Union soldiers are true soldiers just like...
Broadsides; Flags; Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843; Star-spangled banner (Song); Political ballads and songs; United States History War of 1812; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Star-Spangled Banner." This broadside contains the verses to the poem written by Francis Scott Key who was inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor after a...
Braham, David, 1838-1905; Broadsides; Downey, P. J. (Peter J.), b. 1854 or 5; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Two Orphans!" written by P. J. Downey and sung to the tune "Over the Hill to the Poor House" composed by David Braham. This broadside, it is believed, tells the tragic story of the fire that occurred on...
Postcards--Maryland--Hagerstown; Ordnance--France--History; Spanish-American War, 1898--Artillery; Hagerstown (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The cannon is located in Bloom Park at North Potomac Street and North Avenue in Hagerstown. It was captured during the battle of Santiago, Cuba in 1898 during the Spanish-American war and given to Hagerstown because Washington County had more...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick County; Jug Bridge (Frederick County, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Frederick County; Frederick County (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The Jug Bridge across the Monocacy River east of Frederick was built by a local mason, Leonard Harbaugh, in 1808 for the cost of $55,000. It was a 65 foot (20 meters) stone arch bridge that took its name from a stone monument in a shape of jug, or...
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...
The "Old Sun Building" was built in 1906 to replace the previous version, i.e. the Iron Building, that perished in the 1904 fire. It was designed by two well-known Baltimore architects Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916) and Josias Pennington...
Postcards--Maryland--Pen Mar; Parks--Maryland--Washington County; Buena Vista Spring Hotel (Waynesboro, Pa.); Pen Mar (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
In 1877, the Western Maryland Railroad created a scenic park on the Maryland and Pennsylvania border in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 1,400 feet (426.7 m). It was called Pen Mar for the location between two states. The...
