Figure skating; Financial statements; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.;
Document containing the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. annual report for the 1936-1937 season, signed by Paul T. MacKie, the treasurer. Among the club receipts listed are dues and refunds. Among the club expenditures listed are rent, salaries, taxes,...
Official souvenir program and schedule for the 15th Annual National Duck-pin Bowling Congress to be held April 10th to 26th, 1942, at the Recreation Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
Amusement parks Maryland; Figure skating; Ice dancing; Programs; Winter sports;
Official souvenir program for the Eleventh Annual Costume Ice Carnival of the Manhattan Figure Skating Club held at Iceland, 304 West 50th Street in New York City on Sunday April 24, 1938. This show was later brought to the Iceland skating rink at...
Photograph of the Seventh Annual Turtle Derby held at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Turtle Derby was first held in 1931 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It became an increasingly popular affair and fund-raising opportunity for Baltimore charities. In...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Art; Baltimore Museum of Art--Exhibitions;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a small crowd viewing artwork exhibited in the Maryland Show. An older woman wearing a hat and coat stands in the foreground of the drawing. Behind her, a bust is displayed on a pedestal. A number of...
Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. George Calvert, the virtual founder of Maryland, was born at Kiplin, in the North Riding...
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...
Phillips, Betty Jenkins, 1904-2000;Hospital administrators--Maryland--Baltimore;African American women
Photographic portrait of Mrs. Betty Jenkins Phillips, superintendent of Provident Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Talladega College in Alabama, her RN from Howard University, and her Masters of...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
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...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 21 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 7 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1907. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its sixth...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Aerial view of Barton, a town located along the Georges Creek Valley in Allegany County. It has a population of about 500 people. The discovery of coal attracted settlers to the area and in 1853 a new town was established by William Shaw Jr. He...
Correspondence; Figure skating officials; United States Figure Skating Association; Winter sports;
Letter from Sherwin C. Badger to the Honorable William C. Coleman, eliciting the Judge's opinions concerning the advisability of appointing or electing an executive secretary or assistant secretary to take on duties at the office of the United...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Printed copy of address titled "Maryland's Contribution to the War Effort." The address was given by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord at the Maryland Historical Society on January 11, 1943. In the address, Reckord describes the state's wartime...
World War, 1939-1945; Military Order of the Purple Heart. Dept. of Maryland.; Veterans;
Printed pamphlet of the official proceedings of the first annual convention of the Maryland chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, held in Hagerstown, MD on Dec. 13, 1942.
(Editor's note: The Military Order of the Purple Heart...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Patterson, Paul Chenery, 1878-1952; Portrait photography; Thomson, James M. (James McIlhany), 1878-1959;
Portrait photograph taken October 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (standing fifth from left) with colleagues Paul Patterson (sixth from left) of the Baltimore Sun and James M. Thomson (seventh from left) of the New Orleans States-Item (now the...
