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...
United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster of a U.S. Army Cavalry soldier in dress blue uniform sitting horseback and blowing a bugle. Standing next to him is a U.S. Army Infantry first sergeant in dress blue uniform holding a rifle. Emblazoned in the sky above these men is the...
Miscellaneous sketches by Adalbert Volck. The purpose of these sketches is unknown. The topmost sketches include a number of profiles of men's heads and are subtitled with the text "smoke pictures - purely accidental (of course)." There are two...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Summer; Swimming;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of men swimming in the Jones Falls, a river which flows through Baltimore, Maryland. One of the men in the water is shirtless, another is shown with only his legs sticking out of the water. Men along the shore...
Wyman Park (Baltimore, Md.); Parks--Maintenance and repair; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Feed-water pumps
Photograph of two African American men draining water from a ditch at Wyman Park in Baltimore, Maryland. The men are operating a pump to drain water from the trench where a new bank of stone is being constructed. (Photograph taken from the Enoch...
African American young men--Maryland--Baltimore; Recreation centers--Maryland--Baltimore; Cleaning; United States. National Youth Administration--Maryland; United States. Works Progress Administration;
Photograph of three African American young men cleaning up one of the rooms in a recreation center located on Druid Hill Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Two of the young men use mops on the floor while the third uses a cloth to wipe down a small...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Housing--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore; Lawns--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the side and back of a large unidentified brick and frame building surrounded by a vast expanse of lawn and trees in Baltimore, Maryland. On both the front and back of this two-story building with dormers is a wide veranda on each...
Merchant ships--Maryland--Baltimore; Loading and unloading--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Banana trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Food inspectors--Maryland--Baltimore; United Fruit Company
Sepia-toned photograph of bananas being unloaded from a United Fruit Company boat docked at Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture Inspector John F. Earnshaw (taller Caucasian man dressed in a suit, white...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Electric lines; Streets--Maryland--Annapolis;
Photograph taken from College Avenue of the Forbes (McIlHenny) House on Church Circle in Annapolis, Maryland. Torn down between 1893 and 1900, it became the site of the Annapolis Main Post Office, which opened January 1, 1901. Standing in front of...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Sideshows;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a performance in a tent at a sideshow. In the foreground, a crowd is shown from behind facing the stage. Men, women and a few children are in the crowd. On the stage, a woman dances in a hula costume,...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Urban Parks; Waterfronts;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of Riverside Park in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, two men relax in the grass. One of the men reclines on his elbow, his hat on the ground next to him. The other man lies looking upward, his...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications; Landscapes; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., a prominent lithography company in Baltimore in the mid-1800s, that features a view of the Lafayette Barracks in Baltimore. The barracks occupied the site of Lafayette Square. The Third Regiment of Infantry,...
Airplane factories--Employees--Maryland--Baltimore;Glenn L. Martin Company;African American men
Photograph of three African American aircraft workers assembling the pilot's compartment of a bomber plane at the Glenn L. Martin Company segregated plant on Oldham Street in the Canton section of Baltimore, Maryland. These young African American...
Fires--Maryland--Cambridge; Ruined buildings--Maryland--Cambridge; Rubble--Maryland--Cambridge; African American men--Maryland--Cambridge; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maintenance and repair--Maryland--Cambridge
Photograph of ruins from the fire of July 31, 1910 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. On the right side of these ruins is a sign that reads McCormick Harvesting Machines. Several African American men are sifting through and removing objects...
African American men--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Hill, John, 1770-1850; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting,...
Black and white photograph of the J. Hill engraving of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Clear Sky, Turkey Hill on the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Two young...
Literature in art--Maryland--Baltimore; Mural painting and decoration, American--Maryland--Baltimore; United States. Works Progress Administration of Maryland
Photograph of a three-panel mural depicting the evolution of literature and the written word from the Stone Age to the present day, located in Patterson Park in Baltimore, Maryland. This mural was created through the auspices of the Division of...
Broadway (Baltimore, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Horse-drawn vehicles--Maryland--Baltimore; Central business...
Photograph taken looking south at the 500 block South Broadway Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the right in this block are three-story brick row houses with businesses on the ground floor. Several people are standing in front of the first...
African Americans in art; African American fishers--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Turtle fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing boats; Trees
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 28 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of September 13th, 1879, showing three African American men hauling a net filled with terrapin into a skiff near Annapolis, Maryland. Frank...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Wagons--Maryland--Baltimore; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking north from Edmondson Avenue at North Calverton Road in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after this picture was taken, the south entrance of Calverton Road into Edmondson Avenue was eliminated. On the left in front a wooden...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Grocery trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Spectators--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking south from Mulberry Street at a fallen tree blocking the 300 block North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the west (right) side of the street, a crowd of onlookers watches as two African American men standing on...
