Document containing the broadside entitled "Dear Robin I'll Be True" from the song by (William) Banks Winter (1857-1936), a minstrel performer and, later, an actor. This broadside lists Otto Sutro & Co. of No. 207 W. Baltimore Street as the music...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects; Agriculture--Maryland; Farms--Maryland; Rationing;
Letter dating from 1945 from Southern Farms in Walkersville, Maryland informing their customers that they will have to close early for the summer season and discontinue shipping due to a shortage of hogs.
Monuments; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.); Streets; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that features a view of Mount Vernon Place in winter.
Aquatint by John Hill after E. Van Blon from Lucas' Baltimore Drawing Book, published here about 1827 by Fielding Lucas, Jr., that features a winter scene of a location somewhere near Baltimore. E. Van Blon is a pseudonym of John H. B. Latrobe who...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Katy Avourneen." This broadside, from an Irish ballad ascribed to J. E. Johnson, relates the story of Barney and Katy Avourneen. One snowy evening, Barney stops at his sweetheart's house and asks to be...
Document containing the broadside entitled "White Wings" from the 1884 song written by (William) Banks Winter (1857-1936) and sung by J. P. O'Keefe of Thatcher, Primrose, and West's Minstrels. This broadside lists Otto Sutro & Co. of No. 207 W....
Letter from Theresa Weld Blanchard, the editor of Skating magazine, to Mrs. [Frederic C.] Lee, the secretary of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. In her letter Mrs. Blanchard asks Mrs. Lee if she would be interested in writing an article for Skating...
Lithograph by Thomas S. Sinclair of Philadelphia, after the drawing by F. F. Schell, that features a view of the railroad track across the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace in Maryland. At this date the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad...
Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Constitutional amendments; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Parades; Politicians;
Colored lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, 687 West Baltimore Street, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19th...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Horses; Livery; Maryland; Metis; Native Americans; Ox driving; Oxen; Railroads; United States History; Wagons;
Photograph of Red River oxcarts hauling hides, an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a celebration of its one hundredth birthday held from September 24 to October 15, 1927 at outdoor fairgrounds in...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--St. Mary's County;African Americans--Dwellings;Farmhouses--Maryland--Deep Falls;Horses--Maryland
Photograph of a farmhouse (formerly slave quarters) at Deep Falls in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The farmhouse is a two-story frame building surrounded by a white picket fence and flanked on the far and rear sides by tall, leafless trees (it is...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
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...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "All Spice; or, Spice for All" and written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside derides the North and...
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.
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Druid Hill Park (Baltimore, Md.); Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Lakes--Maryland--Baltimore
View of the The Boat Lake, the second and smaller lake inside Druid Hill Park, in Baltimore. The lake was formed in 1865 when a stream was dammed. For decades, visitors could boat on the lake in summer and skate during winter. After 1959, the Boat...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Druid Hill Park (Baltimore, Md.); Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Lakes--Maryland--Baltimore
Visitors strolling along the edge of the Boat Lake in Druid Hill Park. The second and smaller lake inside Druid Hill Park, the Boat Lake was formed in 1865 when a stream was dammed. For decades, visitors could boat on the lake in summer and skate...
A view of one of the fountains at Eutaw Place, located between West Lafayette Avenue and Mosher Street in Baltimore. In 1853, Henry Tiffany donated land for development of the broad promenades in the middle of Eutaw Street's northern extension from...
