Photograph of the interior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library's first bookmobile (i.e., motorized vehicle) in Baltimore, Maryland. This vehicle began making its rounds in 1949. At the far end next to the door is the circulation desk. On both sides are...
Authors, American--20th century--Portraits; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Portrait painting;
Portrait painted in 1927 by Nikol Schattenstein (1877-1954) of a young H. L. Mencken at the height of his career. He is wearing a white shirt unbuttoned at the collar with a pair of red pants and suspenders. The suspenders were a gift from Rudolph...
Dedications; Inscriptions; Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Pen drawing; Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation; Title pages;
Document consisting of a personal dedication page and the title page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's book entitled George Bernard Shaw his Plays. Published in 1905 by John W. Luce and Co., this was Mencken's "first real book" and the first book...
Church architecture; Church decoration and ornament; Baltimore County (Md.); Jesuits History 20th century; Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.);
Photograph of the interior of the chapel built in 1924 at Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart in Woodstock, Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed originally by Benedict Sestini (1816-1890), a Jesuit mathematician, teacher, and architect, the...
Dedications; Park Band (Baltimore, Md.); Parks; Preston, James H. (Harry), 1860-1938; Politicians; Special events;
Photograph of the dedication ceremonies for St. Paul Place, including Preston Terraces (now known as Preston Gardens) in Baltimore, Maryland. At 3:30 p.m. on May 15, 1919, the landscape architect Thomas Hastings (1860-1929) (seated to the left of...
Dedications; Park Band (Baltimore, Md.); Parks; Preston, James H. (Harry), 1860-1938; Politicians; Special events;
Photograph of the dedication ceremonies for St. Paul Place, including Preston Terraces (now known as Preston Gardens) in Baltimore, Maryland. In the late afternoon on May 15, 1919, Mayor James H. Preston (1860-1938) (speaker) officially accepted...
Dedications; Park Band (Baltimore, Md.); Parks; Preston, James H. (Harry), 1860-1938; Politicians; Special events;
Photograph of the dedication ceremonies for St. Paul Place, including Preston Terraces (now known as Preston Gardens) in Baltimore, Maryland, held at 3:30 p.m. on May 15, 1919. The platform and balustrades are decorated with ferns and palms and the...
Photograph of a Baltimore park policeman standing at the south entrance of the Washington Monument located at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland. On the front of his cap is an insignia with the word "Monument" and, underneath, the initials...
Photograph of a man identified as Mr. Davidson standing at a Mason-Dixon or a Maryland State Line marker. The location is unknown. On the back of the picture there is a stamp, Brilliantone print, made July 1 1929, Ludwig Photolaboratories,...
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...
Photograph of a man standing in the courtyard of a residential housing area. The man holds a bowl, perhaps with seeds and appears to be dispensing them as if to feed birds.
Baltimore County (Md.); Dwellings; Housing; Irish Americans; Quarries and quarrying; Railroads;
Photograph of the town of Texas in Baltimore County, Maryland. These three-story stone houses, built alongside Northern Central Railway tracks that carried stone and marble harvested from nearby quarries for the Washington Monument in Baltimore or...
Baltimore (Md.); D'Alesandro, Thomas L. J., III, 1929-; Schaefer, William Donald;
Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a Baltimore Inner Harbor renewal project, with Thomas D'Alesandro III, Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971 (second from left, with shovel raised), William Donald Schaefer (fourth from left, with shovel...
Baltimore (Md.); D'Alesandro, Thomas L. J., III, 1929-; Schaefer, William Donald;
Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a Baltimore Inner Harbor renewal project, with Thomas D'Alesandro III, Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971 (center foreground, with hands in overcoat pockets), Howard R. Owen, Chief Building Inspector...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Ferry Hill Plantation (Md.); Potomac River; Sharpsburg (Md.); Shepherdstown (W. Va.); United States History Civil War, 1861-1865;
Photograph taken looking across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia from Ferry Hill plantation on the Maryland side. Ferry Hill plantation, where at various times before and after the Battle of Antietam both Confederate and Union...
Photograph of two traffic patrolmen looking west from a traffic control booth located in front of the M. S. Kahn and Co. drugstore at the corner of Lexington and Liberty Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Note the stop-and-go sign on the roof of the...
