Mechanical drawing done by O. R. B. (Otto R. Bieler) and dated April 25, 1910 with a revision dated March 20, 1911 of a frame for an unidentified 1911 Spoerer motor vehicle.
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
Mechanical drawing done by O. R. B. (Otto R. Bieler) and dated February 4, 1910 of a clutch spring adjustable screw for an unidentified 1910 Spoerer motor vehicle.
Mechanical drawing done by O. R. B. (Otto R. Bieler) and dated August 30, 1911 of a clutch collar for an unidentified 1911 Spoerer motor vehicle. Scale: full size.
War--Relief of sick and wounded--Maryland--Hagerstown; Women--Charitable contributions--Maryland--Hagerstown; Davis, Theodore R. 1840–1894; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war
Photograph of a sketch entitled "Ladies of Hagerstown [Maryland] Administering to Our Wounded" by Theodore R. Davis that appeared on page 645 of Harper's Weekly on October 11, 1862. This illustration depicts a group of women carrying baskets or...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America;
Estres, William C.; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Volunteers to the 'Melish'," written by William C. Estres. Printed by R. M. Chambers in Baltimore, Maryland during the Civil War, this broadside tries to raise Confederate recruits, first by teasing, then...
Broadsides; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Camp Song of the Maryland Line," a song more familiarly known as "Gay and Happy." Published in Baltimore by R. M. Chambers during the Civil War, this broadside became the camp song for Confederate...
Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobiles--Equipment and supplies; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Parts; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing an unsigned order for a 4-cylinder, 5-passenger Spoerer commercial vehicle. Typed on Carl Spoerer's Sons Co. stationery and dated July 27th, 1908, this unsigned order gives the description of and the parts to be used in this...
Mechanical drawing done by O. R. B. (Otto R. Bieler) about 1910 of a cone clutch for an unidentified Spoerer motor vehicle. This cone clutch was leather-faced and, up to 1912, mounted in the flywheel of the vehicle; by taking out five nuts, the...
Amusement parks Maryland; Correspondence; Cost; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.; James Lawrence Kernan Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Money; Winter sports;
Letter from R. E. Lee Taylor to Mr. Frederic C. Lee concerning a proposal to increase the proceeds for Kernan Hospital from the revenues to be brought in by an upcoming carnival to be sponsored by the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., and to be held at...
Amusement parks Maryland; Correspondence; Cost; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.; James Lawrence Kernan Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Money; Winter sports;
Letter from R. E. Lee Taylor to Mr. Frederic C. Lee concerning visiting amateur skaters and carnival expenses. In his letter Mr. Taylor, a member of the board of directors of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., agrees with Mr. Lee that entertainment...
Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery Office; Germany--History--Bombardment, 1940-1945; War posters, British; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Great Britain;
Color poster showing a map of Germany pinpointing major bombing attacks by Great Britain's Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) up to October 9, 1940 and entitled "Britain's Air Offensive : R.A.F. attacks on Germany." This map includes a key to symbols...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Harbors--Maryland--Baltimore;
Engraving by J. B. Neagle after the drawing by J. R. Smith. This early view from Federal Hill is of uncertain date, but judging by the large building on Calvert Street between Baltimore and Fayette, evidently Barnum's Hotel, it was drawn between...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Boys--Maryland--Baltimore County; Carriages and carts; Horses; Parsons, James; Webb, R. Prescott--Estate--Maryland--Baltimore County
Photograph of a Victorian-style two-horse carriage characteristic of those seen in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1890s. In this Webb family carriage are seated R. Prescott Webb and the African American coachman thought to be James Parsons. The...
