Bereavement; Broadsides; Children and death; Songs;
Document containing the 5th edition (shown top center) of the broadside entitled "Little Footsteps," a 1868 ballad composed by J. A. Barney with lyrics by M. B. Leavitt (not shown). This broadside is a lament on the loss of a small child, the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Tapping at the Garden Gate" from a song written by J. Loker with music by S. W. New. This broadside tells the story of a two people disturbed every night by a tapping on the garden gate. The one, perhaps...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals by Henri Théophile Hildibrand from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XLV (45), a...
Baltimore (Md.); Canton (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Maps;
Engraving by James Poupard of Philadelphia after a drawing by A. P. Folie that features a plan of the town of Baltimore and its environs around 1792. This is said to be one of the earliest known detailed maps of Baltimore showing the three units...
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. published by the Board of Trade. This view originally appeared in Hunt's Merchants Magazine for April 1858 and represents the city on the eve of the Civil War.
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...
Colored photograph taken shortly before the old tavern was torn down in 1871 to make way for the Carrollton Hotel. It stood on Light St. near the intersection with East Baltimore St. Here Washington and staff stopped in September 1781 when on their...
Photograph taken of West Biddle Street from Madison Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. At 900 Madison Avenue (right) is Dave's Food Market. Although cars are parked on both side of Biddle Street, there is room enough for two more lanes of traffic....
Bethlehem Steel Company; African American men--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Blue collar workers--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Rolling-mills--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Steel industry and trade--Maryland--Sparrows Point
Photograph of the cold-rolling of steel inside the Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point plant in Baltimore County, Maryland. Standing at the finishing end of three rolling-mill machines are African American workers stacking the sheet metal on...
Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company; Delivery of goods--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Furniture industry and trade--Maryland; Factories--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph of three horse-drawn furniture delivery wagons belonging to the Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company and parked in front of its furniture plant at numbers 113-123 West Conway Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The wagons consist of long...
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...
Photograph of the interior of Lexington Market in Baltimore, Maryland. This covered market has been a Baltimore tradition since 1782, when land donated by General John Eager Howard (1752-1827), a soldier in the American Revolution, brought farmers...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Grocery trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Spectators--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking south from Mulberry Street at a fallen tree blocking the 300 block North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the west (right) side of the street, a crowd of onlookers watches as two African American men standing on...
Cannon's Ferry (Sussex County, Del.); Cannon, Lucretia P., d. 1829; Slave traders--Maryland; Ferries--Delaware
Photograph of Cannon's Ferry in Woodland, Sussex County, Delaware. Spanning the Nanticoke River, originally owned and operated by members of the Cannon family since 1793, the ferry was taken over by the State of Delaware in the mid-eighteen...
Photograph taken looking south at the east side of the 200 block South Caroline Street from its intersection with East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block, which consists of two- and three-story brick row houses, including vacant stores...
Merchant ships--Maryland--Baltimore; Loading and unloading--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Banana trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Food inspectors--Maryland--Baltimore; United Fruit Company
Sepia-toned photograph of bananas being unloaded from a United Fruit Company boat docked at Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture Inspector John F. Earnshaw (taller Caucasian man dressed in a suit, white...
Photograph of the north side of the 800 block Ashland Avenue at Hillman Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story brick row houses appear to be deserted, except for the corner grocery store, with signs advertising Pepsi-Cola,...
Photograph of number 310 Courtland Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the west side of Courtland between Pleasant and Mulberry Streets, Richard Cockey maintained a store for the wholesale distribution of coal. By 1918, this building had been...
Photograph taken from Stirling Street at the north side of the 900 block East Madison Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Along this block of two- and three-story brick row houses is an African American woman and boy walking down the sidewalk away from...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore;Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore;House furnishings industry and trade--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph looking south from Eager Street at the east side of the 900 block Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. On the corner is a store advertising furniture and appliances. Standing on the sidewalk nearby are two African American woman...
