Advertising cards--United States; Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Color advertising card. On one side (page 1) is a depiction of two angelic female figures holding a banner displaying the United States flag as they rise above a globe of the Earth on which the words North America are displayed and below which is a...
Broadsides; Cutter, G. W. (George Washington), 1801-1865; Patriotism; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Document containing the broadside entitled "E Pluribus Unum, an American National Song." This broadside makes reference to the motto of the United States of America, "E pluribus unum" ("Many in one" or "One from many"), and to its struggle against...
Allied Powers (1919- ); Flags--United nations (1942- ); Great Britain. Ministry of Information; War posters, British; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Great Britain;
Color poster of two groups of soldiers that stand facing each other, with the words "Freedom shall prevail!" emblazoned below. Each soldier wears the uniform of an Allied Power fighting in World War II. There are twenty soldiers and nations...
Andreas Bureus was Sweden’s ’father of cartography. King Karl IX gave him in 1603 the task of formulating a reliable map of the Nordic countries. Bureus trained Swedish surveyors and then teams of them were sent to survey various parts of the...
Broadsides; Liberty trees; Paine, Thomas, 1735-1809; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Liberty Tree" from a poem written by Thomas Paine in 1775. "Liberty tree" refers to a famous elm tree that grew on Boston commons, where colonists gathered in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, hanging...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American; Whitaker, Mary Scrimzeour Furman (Miller), 1820-1906;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland in Chains" written by Mrs. D. K. Whitaker (Mary Scrimzeour Furman [Miller] Whitaker), wife of Daniel K. Whitaker of South Carolina and published in the Richmond Examiner for May 14, 1861. This...
Clothing and dress--Germany--Pictorial works; Costume--Europe--16th century; Engraving, German--16th century; Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Prints, German--16th century;
Copper engraving displaying the attire of four German women by Abraham de Bruyn from the catalog titled Omnium Poene Gentium Imagines (Images of almost all nations) published by Abraham de Bruyn in 1577. This print, catalog number 3709, later...
Program for a celebration and tribute by the city of Baltimore in honor of the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944. The program includes a listing of the activities of the "Mayor's Committee Celebration Tribute to the Fighting French," such as an...
Allied Powers (1919- ); Flags--United nations (1942- ); Freedom; Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster featuring the flags of 26 member countries of the United Nations (Allied Powers) unified in the fight for freedom, positioned around a painting of the Statue of Liberty, with the words "the United Nations fight for freedom" emblazoned...
