African American men; Agricultural machinery; Bahr, Leonard Marion, 1905-1990; Baltimore County (Md.); Mural painting and decoration; Libraries; Roads; School buildings; Slaves; Tobacco; Transportation; United States. Public Works Administration.;
Photograph of a 1934 mural entitled "Slaves Rolling Hogsheads of Tobacco Down a Road" by Leonard Marion Bahr (1905-1990) located on the wall of the Catonsville High School library in Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The mural was...
Roads--Design and construction--Maryland--Annapolis; Road construction workers--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Bricks; Building materials; Electric lines; Road rollers;Trees in cities--Maryland--Annapolis
Photograph taken looking west from Monroe Court at road construction on West Street in Annapolis, Maryland. To the left are piles of bricks both in the road and on the brick sidewalk next to wooden frame houses. In the roadway are workers, many of...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Broadsides; Flags; Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863; Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Battle of Hagers' Town Road. The Rebels Are Skedadling [sic] Out of My Maryland, and leaving all their 'Stolen goods behind'," sung to the popular Confederate tune "Gay and Happy." This broadside, an...
A view of Gwynns Falls Creek inside the Gwynns Falls Park ca. 1910. Franklin Road, currently called Franklintown Road, is located on the left side of the creek, but here it crosses the creek to the other side. The park was envisioned in the Olmsted...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Wagons--Maryland--Baltimore; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking north from Edmondson Avenue at North Calverton Road in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after this picture was taken, the south entrance of Calverton Road into Edmondson Avenue was eliminated. On the left in front a wooden...
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.
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Thurmont (Md.); Frederick County (Md.); Roads. Design and construction.;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 165. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Thurmont, Frederick County. Improve Thurmont. Foxville Road. Showing road under...
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...
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...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Ellicott City (Md.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a road in Ellicott City, Maryland. A man and a small dog walk along the edge of the road. Further ahead is a car and another figure. Part of the road is lined by a stone wall and fence. Behind the wall and...
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 large, older home. The main part of the home has two stories, a gabled roof with chimneys, windows with shutters, and porches on the first and second floor exterior. Another portion of the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a large, older home. The main part of the home has two stories, a gabled roof with chimneys, windows with shutters, and porches on the first and second floor exterior. Another portion of the house, which also...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Cemeteries;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a graveyard. Several of the headstones are off-kilter, giving the graveyard a somewhat dilapidated appearance. One of the headstones that stands askew is a tall, obelisk with a rounded, decorative top. Several...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Schuetzen Park on Bel Air Road in Baltimore. Schuetzen Park occupied the block at present bounded by Patterson...
Engraving drawn by George Beck and engraved by T. Cartwright of London, published January 1, 1802, by Atkins & Nightingale located at 143 Leadenhall Street, London, and 100 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. This is one of the colored aquatints of...
African American men--Maryland; Wagons--Maryland; Ox driving--Maryland; Oxen--Maryland; Rural roads--Maryland
Photograph of a team of four oxen pulling a load of logs on Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland. The team is being handled by one African American man in the driver's seat and a second walking alongside the road. Grassy fields flank the road, with...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Ellicott City; African American men--Maryland--Ellicott City; Service stations--Maryland--Ellicott City; Freemasonry--Buildings; Streets--Maryland--Ellicott City; Grocery trade--Maryland--Ellicott City
Photograph of the junction of Columbia Pike (Route 29) and Frederick Road (Route 40) in the heart of Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland. To the left is an Esso gas station. It sits on a corner across from two stone buildings. The three-story...
Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Calvert County; African American children--Maryland--Calvert County; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Calvert County
Photograph of a wooden-frame house located on Solomons Island Road in Calvert County, Maryland. This house has a long, rectangular base topped with a gambrel roof that has three dormer windows. On each end of the house is a brick chimney. The...
African Americans--Dwellings--Maryland--Prince George's County; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Prince George's County
Photograph of a house on Aquasco-Brandywine Road in Prince George's County, Maryland. In 1939, it was owned by Amos Davis and occupied by an African American family.
Maryland Hospital; Hospitals in art--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Lithoghraphy; Hospital architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington College Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Carriages and carts; Deroy, Laurent,...
Photograph of a lithograph entitled "Maryland Hospital" by Isodore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) of a drawing ("drawn from nature") by Augustus Köllner (1813-1906), published by Goupil, Vibert and Company in 1852. Maryland Hospital (Baltimore, Md.),...
