Allen, William J.; Blacksmithing; Broadsides; Nostalgia; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Old Village Blacksmith Shop" from a song written by William J. Allen. This broadside tells what it felt like to be a boy in the local blacksmith's shop. The speaker recalls with nostalgia how he and...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America; Flags; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "There Is Life in Old Maryland Yet" written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside employs a refrain...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" This broadside raises the question asked by many aging couples; i.e., with aging, will their spouse lose interest in them and their marriage? Centered below the title and...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.); Merryman, John, 1824-1881; ;
Document containing the broadside entitled "John Merryman" sung to the Dan Emmett tune "Old Dan Tucker." This broadside tells the story of John Merryman, a Marylander who during the Civil War was arrested and imprisoned without trial at Fort...
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...
Broadsides; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Love songs; Political ballads and songs; Slavery;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Darling Nelly Gray" (also spelled "Nellie Grey"). A young man talks about the time he spent on a Kentucky shore, rowing in his canoe and strumming his banjo for his beloved Nelly Gray. As the song...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee" from the song written by Harry Braisted with music (not included) by Stanley Carter. This broadside tells the story of a young man returning home to Tennessee after a...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Retreat of the Grand Army From Bull Run" written by Ernest Cliftan and sung to the tune "Dear Evelina, Sweet Evelina." Published in Baltimore during the Civil War, this Confederate broadside tells...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Fox, Will H.; Holliday Street Theatre (Baltimore, Md.); Kelly, J. J.; Minstrels; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Violet From Mother's Grave" from the song written by Will H. Fox. This broadside tells of the loss a man feels for his family, who have all died, and of the flower he carries with him that provides...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Fox, Will H.; Holliday Street Theatre (Baltimore, Md.); Kelly, J. J.; Minstrels; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Violet From Mother's Grave" from the song written by Will H. Fox. This broadside tells of the loss a man feels for his family, who have all died, and of the flower he carries with him that provides...
Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Jones, Edward Franc, 1828-1913; Riots; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Baltimore Boys" sung to the tune "Limerick." This broadside particularly refers to the Baltimore riot of 1861 in which Confederate sympathizers attacked Union soldiers from the Sixth Massachusetts...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Trinity Chapel (Frederick, Md.); Frederick (Md.)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Freemasons--Buildings; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the YMCA building, Masonic Temple, and Old Town Clock in Frederick. The 1807 steeple to the left, built by local architect Stephen Steiner, rests atop the stone tower of the Trinity Chapel built in 1763. The town clock at the top was...
Carroll County (Md.); Cemeteries Maryland; Church buildings; Frederick County (Md.); Westminster (Md.);
Sepia-toned photograph (albumen print) of the Old Union Church (Old Union Meeting House) located in Westminster Cemetery in Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. Built in 1760 in what was then Frederick County, Maryland with funds raised by...
Chromolithography, English--19th century; Color prints, English--19th century; Illustration of books--Great Britain--19th century;
Chromolithograph titled Old England: a pictorial museum of national antiquities, vol. I, 1844, printed in color from wood from the book titled Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities...
Original pen drawing by Griffith B. Coale that features a view of the old Trinity Church on Trinity Street in Baltimore around 1920. Trinity Episcopal Church was consecrated in October 1811 and is still standing [as of 1933 when this description...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parsonages;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle that features a view of the old parsonage on Light Street in Baltimore taken from Roberts' book Centenary Pictorial Album. This print is the same as Cator Print 86 except that it is uncolored....
Enlarged hand colored and varnished photograph of an old print that features a view of the Fairview Inn. According to a notation pasted on the back of this print, the Fairview Inn is "located on Old Frederick Road through from Loudon Park." The...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parsonages;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the old parsonage on Light Street in Baltimore. This old house was part and parcel of Methodism nearly from its beginnings in...
Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Md.)--Buildings; African American schools--Maryland--Baltimore; High school buildings--Design and construction--Maryland--Baltimore; Owens, Benjamin Buck, 1841-1918; Perring, Henry G., 1881-1946; Sisco,...
Photograph of an architectural sketch showing the southwest façade of the old Frederick Douglass High School at North Calhoun and Baker Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Prepared by Owens & Sisco Architects [Benjamin Buck Owens (1841-1918); Spencer...
