Steel engraving by James Smillie after a drawing by T. K. Wharton that features a view of the Washington Monument in Baltimore. This is a hand colored print that appeared in the New York Mirror in 1835. It was apparently drawn soon after the...
Iron foundries; Jones Falls (Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Color lithograph that features a view of the foundry on Jones' Creek near Baltimore. This lithograph, drawn by Jacques Milbert after W. G. Walls and lithographed by Bechebois is number 52 of a set. The upper margin is lettered Amérique...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Landscapes--Maryland; Ross, Robert, 1766-1814;
Aquatint engraved by John Hill after the painting by John Shaw and published in 1820 by M. Carey & Sons of Philadelphia in the book Picturesque Views of American Scenery. "The original intention was to issue six numbers, each containing six views,...
Colored reproduction of a painting by Frederic Roux, dated Havre 1843. The picture apparently commemorates the loss of the ship in a storm on the above date.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Railroads; Viaducts;
Print that features two views of Baltimore: the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad viaduct and the Battle Monument. The upper view shows the Patapsco viaduct of the Baltimore and Ohio at Relay, one of the greatest engineering feats of its time (ca. 1834)....
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph that features a northwest view of Baltimore around 1848. This is considered one of the choice views of Baltimore made apparently from a point near Pennsylvania Avenue, north of Preston Street. This avenue was the main route of...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Riots; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of April 30, 1861 that features a battle involving the Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Troops. The date of this affray was April 19, 1861, when the troops passed through the city en route to...
Church buildings; Engravings; Fountains; Jails; Baltimore (Md.);
Engravings, a collection of twenty-four, apparently proofs for the border of Poppleton's Map of Baltimore, 1822. The location, architecture, and cost of each structure are given. The structures include the following: First Presbyterian Church,...
War--Relief of sick and wounded--Maryland--Hagerstown; Women--Charitable contributions--Maryland--Hagerstown; Davis, Theodore R. 1840–1894; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war
Photograph of a sketch entitled "Ladies of Hagerstown [Maryland] Administering to Our Wounded" by Theodore R. Davis that appeared on page 645 of Harper's Weekly on October 11, 1862. This illustration depicts a group of women carrying baskets or...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
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...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Broadsides; Liberty trees; Paine, Thomas, 1735-1809; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Liberty Tree" from a poem written by Thomas Paine in 1775. "Liberty tree" refers to a famous elm tree that grew on Boston commons, where colonists gathered in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, hanging...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Meet Me by Moonlight Alone" from the song written by J. Augustine (Joseph Augustine) Wade (1796-1845) and published in England about 1826. The speaker tells his love to "meet him by moonlight alone ... in...
Birds in literature; Broadsides; Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907; White, C. A. (Charles Albert), 1832-1892;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Come, Birdie, Come" with Will. S. Hays listed as the author. In this broadside the speaker talks to a bird sitting in a nest nearby, asking the bird to come and live with him in his home. The bird flies...
Autobiographies; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing first typescript page of the preface to H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Happy Days (1940), the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy. These books contain some of the most delightful prose of this American journalist.
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...
Letters; Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898; Memorial rites and ceremonies; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
In his letter dated January 12, 1876 but actually written in 1877 from Paris, France, the polite but distressed poet Stéphane Mallarmé complains to Sara Sigourney Rice about the errors in his memorial sonnet to Edgar Allan Poe. Apparently, Miss...
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Richmond, Nancy Heywood, 1820-1898;
In this letter dated January 7, 1864 and written from New York City, Elizabeth Fries Ellet mentions briefly her trip to Europe to Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond. Apparently responding to a request from Mrs. Richmond for a photograph, Mrs. Ellet...
