Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Baltimore (Md.); Harbors; Hotels; Maps; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.); Railroad stations; Streets;
Street map of Baltimore that shows streets, automobile routes, hotels, railroad stations, Pullman car cities, berths for housing boats and points of interest. This map was prepared for the convenience of visitors to the 65th Annual Imperial Council...
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $1.50 in dues paid by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, Aug[ust] Mencken, to Boumi Temple, a Baltimore center for the fraternal A.A.O.N.M.S. (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine) for North...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820; Catholic Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
The historic Baltimore Basilica at the time the postcard was published was still a cathedral only. It was built by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of the Capitol, during the years 1806-1821. It became the first Catholic Cathedral in the...
Broadsides; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Fourth of July Union Song" sung to the tune "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled." (The lyrics to the Scottish tune were written in 1793 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns about the Battle of Bannockburn in...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Flags; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Our Southern Flag" sung to the B. R. Hanby tune "[Darling] Nellie Grey" (also spelled "Nelly Gray"). Written by a "Baltimore rebel," this broadside uses the Confederate flag as a symbol of, and metaphor...
Broadsides; Flags; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Our Union Flag" sung to the B. R. Hanby tune "[Darling] Nellie Grey" (also spelled "Nelly Gray"). Written by "a lady of Baltimore," this broadside is an answer to the pro-Confederate broadside entitled...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortification--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Fort McHenry, built with brick and mortar, was designed by a French engineer Jean Foncin in 1798. He applied the most current technique for building fortifications as prescribed by the French marshal and engineer, Sébastien Vauban. The fort was...
In this incomplete letter dated December 1, 1864 and written on the stationary of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison, a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, tries to reestablish correspondence with Poe's...
