Lithograph of three plants grown from bulbs by Day and Haghe, lithographers to the Queen, after illustrations by Mrs. Jane Loudon from the book titled The ladies’ flower-garden of ornamental bulbous plants illustrated and written by Mrs. Jane...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;Fishery processing plants--Employees--Maryland--Crisfield;African American women employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Canned crab meat--Maryland--Crisfield
Photograph of crab meat being weighed and packed in cans at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. Four African American women sit at a table, facing a brick wall and picking steamed hard-shelled blue crabs. Two Caucasian men weigh and...
Photograph of crabs being packed in ice at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. In the foreground is an African American man packing the crabs in ice in bushel baskets or barrels. In the background stand several men and women near a...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;Fishery processing plants--Employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Crabs--Processing--Maryland--Crisfield;African American men--Maryland--Crisfield
Photograph of the crab steaming room at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. During the operation, this African American man using a hand crank and pulley will lift the large metal basket, which will be filled with live hard-shelled...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800; Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Wood-engraving, German--16th century;
Woodcuts of herbs from the book titled Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis, de animalibus et reptilibus, de auibus et volatilibus, de piscibus et natatilibus, de lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, de urinis et earum speciebus, tabula...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); April; Markets;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a market scene. In the foreground, a woman tall, thin woman examines potted plants and flowers for sale. The plants are displayed on a wooden table. Behind the table stands the saleswoman. She is a short,...
Buildings; Church buildings; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Ships in art;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., a prominent lithography company in Baltimore in the mid-1800s, that features a view of Baltimore City from Federal Hill that was printed and published in 1859. It offers a splendid view of Baltimore two years...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;African American women employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Canned crab meat--Maryland--Crisfield;Crab meat--Preservation
Photograph of crab pickers at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. African American women sit around huge tables that contain piles of steamed hard-shelled blue crabs, picking the meat from the crabs and depositing it into small metal...
Photograph of brickmaking inside one of the Baltimore Brick Company plants near Baltimore, Maryland. Formed in 1899 by the merger of 22 local manufacturers, Baltimore Brick Company became one of the largest suppliers of bricks in the Mid-Atlantic...
Advertising; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Signs and signboards;
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views;Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore--Pictorial works;Electric power-plants--Maryland--Baltimore;Gas power plants--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of a panoramic view of South Baltimore featuring the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore (subsequently renamed the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company). In this westward-looking view South Baltimore is in the...
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
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.
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an American soldier hidden among plants and bushes, with the following words appearing below the image: "For surprise attack blend with your background." Next to this message is a logo consisting of the words "CAMOUFLAGE BLINDS...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Printed copy of address titled "Maryland's Contribution to the War Effort." The address was given by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord at the Maryland Historical Society on January 11, 1943. In the address, Reckord describes the state's wartime...
World War, 1939-1945; Award presentations; General Motors Corporation. Eastern Aircraft Division;
Program for the presentation of the Army-Navy "E" Award for Excellence in War Production to the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors Corporation in Baltimore on February 8, 1945. Included in the program is a summary of the history and...
World War, 1939-1945; Award presentations; Food industry--Maryland; S.E.W. Friel Company (Queenstown, Md.);
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of S.E.W. Friel, Queenstown and Wye Mills Plants, on March 17, 1945 at the Centreville Armory in Centreville, Maryland. The program includes images of...
