Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. George Calvert, the virtual founder of Maryland, was born at Kiplin, in the North Riding...
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...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Bland, James A. (James Allen), 1854-1911; Broadsides; Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901; Love; Minstrels; Rejection (Psychology);
Document containing the broadside entitled "Good Bye, Susan Jane." This broadside tells the story of a young man rejected by a young woman named Susan Jane, who says that she has fallen in love with another man. James A. (Jimmy) Bland, one of the...
African Americans; Bland, James A. (James Allen), 1854-1911; Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901; Minstrels; Slavery; Spirituals (songs);
Document containing the broadside entitled "In the Morning by the Bright Light." Although some regard the words to this song as a celebration of the end of slavery, that view seems short-sighted. The point of the song is spiritual in nature, with...
African Americans; Bland, James A. (James Allen), 1854-1911; Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901; Minstrels; Slavery; Spirituals (songs);
Document containing the broadside entitled "In the Morning by the Bright Light." Although some regard the words to this song as a celebration of the end of slavery, that view seems short-sighted. The point of the song is spiritual in nature, with...
World War, 1939-1945; Sabotage; Shipyards--Baltimore (Md.);
Press release dated April 15, 1943 from the U.S. Department of Justice announcing the arrest of James Buxton Dixon in Baltimore on charges of sabotage. A total of eight men, including Dixon, were apprehended for faulty welding on ships being built...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Patterson, Paul Chenery, 1878-1952; Portrait photography; Thomson, James M. (James McIlhany), 1878-1959;
Portrait photograph taken October 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (standing fifth from left) with colleagues Paul Patterson (sixth from left) of the Baltimore Sun and James M. Thomson (seventh from left) of the New Orleans States-Item (now the...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken November 19, 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with friends in the courtyard of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Standing from left to right are American film producer Walter Wanger (1894-1968); H. L. M.;...
Caricatures and cartoons; Etching; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866;
Etching by Adalbert Volck depicting General James H. Lane as Mephistopheles, the devil (or a friend of the devil). Why Volck chose to ridicule Lane, a Senator from Kansas, a state admitted to the Union during the Civil War, in this way is unclear....
Steel engraving by James Smillie after a drawing by T. K. Wharton that features a view of the Washington Monument in Baltimore. This is a hand colored print that appeared in the New York Mirror in 1835. It was apparently drawn soon after the...
Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Hospital; Monuments; Round towers; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Steel engraving by James Smillie after the drawing by T. K. Wharton, taken from the New York Mirror, 1835, that features a view of the Washington Monument. This view is from near the present intersection of Monument Street before Mount Vernon Place...
Baltimore (Md.); Canton (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Maps;
Engraving by James Poupard of Philadelphia after a drawing by A. P. Folie that features a plan of the town of Baltimore and its environs around 1792. This is said to be one of the earliest known detailed maps of Baltimore showing the three units...
Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications; Landscapes; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. This view looks southeast from the main entrance. The Fort stands on land first...
African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Boys--Maryland--Baltimore County; Carriages and carts; Horses; Parsons, James; Webb, R. Prescott--Estate--Maryland--Baltimore County
Photograph of a Victorian-style two-horse carriage characteristic of those seen in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1890s. In this Webb family carriage are seated R. Prescott Webb and the African American coachman thought to be James Parsons. The...
African American young men; Architecture, domestic; Bishops; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Dwellings; Gibbons, James, 1834-1921; Horse-drawn vehicles; Baltimore (Md.); Wagons;
Photograph of the official residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. Located at number 408 North Charles Street, this building is situated behind and connected by a covered walkway to the Basilica of the...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore Sun Building, also known as the Sun Iron Building, before the 1904 fire. Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and South Streets, this five-story building housed the Baltimore Sun newspaper...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; May, Charles Augustus; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" from the poem "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War. According to an account published in the "The [Baltimore]...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Confederate States of America; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; United...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Confederate States of America; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; United...
