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...
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; Price Brothers Company (Frederick, Md.);
Program for the presentation of the Army-Navy "E" Award for Excellence in War Production to the workers of Price Brothers Company in Frederick, Maryland on April 28, 1944. The program includes a copy of a letter dated April 1, 1944 from U.S. Under...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Copper engraving of three species of bulb, (I) Iris Anglicana maior, violaceo flore (center), (II) Iris bulbosa angustisfolijs odorata (left), and (III) Iris bulbosa angustisfolijs caerulea (right), by Wolfgang Kilian after a design by Basilius...
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...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Lawns; Backyard gardens;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a backyard. The yard is very green, with trees, tall grasses and flowering plants. Two trees stand in the foreground. A hanging planter is attached to the branch of one of the trees, and a...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a house. The house is reddish in color, and has a chimney and gabled roof. Decorative trim extends just below the roofline. The first floor windows are flanked by red shutters. The house has a...
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,...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Tobacco;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of an old woman sitting in front of a spinning wheel. She wears a dress and bonnet, and smokes a long pipe. Next to her is a large barrel filled with tobacco plants. The drawing is marked as though it was...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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.
