Broadsides; Flags; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with the words "I left New Kent Court-house, all in the month of May." This broadside, written by Edwin Rosell of Company G of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (known originally as "The Luzerne...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Photograph of the Pennsylvania House hotel located at number 513 West Franklin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Located on the south side of Franklin Street, the hotel is just one of several businesses in this block. Two horse-drawn wagons are parked...
Photograph in fisheye view of the waiting room at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland. In preparation for Penn Station's 1983 rededication, window washers are clean lobby windows. One window washer is using a ladder to reach the higher...
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the east side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is an African American man walking toward the camera,...
A view of an old Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road bridge over the Potomac River and a panorama of Westernport, a port located along the Georges Creek Valley where George's Creek empties into the Potomac in Allegany County. Known since 1774 as...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Immediately after the death of the fourth Lord, the principal powers specified by the...
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Used furniture industry--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the west side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is a used furniture store operated out of a garage,...
Automobile occupants--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Ford automobile; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of early automobilists in an early-model Ford motor car in front of the Hotel Edgewood at number 1501 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The caption accompanying the photograph, published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on August...
Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805; Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781; African American boys--Maryland--Talbot County; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
Black and white photograph of a 1921 color painting entitled "The News of Yorktown" by the renowned American historical painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, depicting Tench Tilghman announcing an American victory at the Battle of Yorktown to citizens...
Braham, David, 1838-1905; Broadsides; Carncross' Minstrels; Carncross, J. L. (John L.), b. 1834?; Dougherty, Hughey, b. 1845; Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911; Irish Americans; Love; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Sandy Haired Mary." This broadside tells the story of Mr. Grogan, a young man living in Mrs. Dooley's boarding house, and of Mrs. Dooley's young sandy-haired maid Mary Daly, with whom he has fallen in...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Postcards--Maryland--Pen Mar; Parks--Maryland--Washington County; Buena Vista Spring Hotel (Waynesboro, Pa.); Pen Mar (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
In 1877, the Western Maryland Railroad created a scenic park on the Maryland and Pennsylvania border in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 1,400 feet (426.7 m). It was called Pen Mar for the location between two states. The...
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...
Guffey, Joseph F., 1870-1959; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in February 14, 1935* of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (right) with Senator Joseph F. Guffey (left) of Pennsylvania at an anti-lynching legislative hearing in Washington, D.C. On February 14, 1935, Mencken testified at a...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Wagons; Transportation;
Pen and ink and crayon drawing by Aaron Sopher of a Conestoga wagon. The wagon is pulled by horses along a road. One man sits on the side of the wagon, another on one of the horses, and a third man walks behind the wagon. A second wagon is visible...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Skyscrapers;
Lithograph by painter, etcher, and illustrator Herbert Pullinger, a native of Philadelphia and a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that features a view of the Baltimore harbor (now known as the Inner Harbor) from Federal Hill. It shows...
Lithograph by painter, etcher, and illustrator Herbert Pullinger, a native of Philadelphia and a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that features a view of Lexington Street looking west from Charles Street in Baltimore. This signed...
Lithograph by painter, etcher, and illustrator Herbert Pullinger, a native of Philadelphia and a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that features a view of the Battle Monument on Calvert Street as seen looking south from the Baltimore...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Lithograph by painter, etcher, and illustrator Herbert Pullinger, a native of Philadelphia and a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that features a view of the Washington Monument in Baltimore. It is drawn from the vantage point of the...
