World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
World War, 1939-1945; Award presentations; Civil Defense--Baltimore (Md.); Revere Copper and Brass Incorporated. Baltimore Division;
Program for the presentation of the National Security Award to the workers of the Baltimore plant of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 1, 1944. Included in the program is a listing of award ceremony...
Program for a celebration and tribute by the city of Baltimore in honor of the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944. The program includes a listing of the activities of the "Mayor's Committee Celebration Tribute to the Fighting French," such as an...
World War, 1939-1945; Ships--Launching; Shipyards--Maryland--Baltimore; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd.;
Program for the launching ceremonies of the S.S. Sparrows Point (MC Hull 1257), which were held on October 17, 1942 at the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard in Baltimore. The program includes a recommendation, approved by the U.S. Maritime...
Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
White armband with "C.D. Officer" printed in red at the top. Below is a blue circle with a white triangle inside of it. In the triangle, the letters "CD" appear in red. The word "Maryland" appears below the white triangle. The armband is connected...
World War, 1939-1945; Air defenses; Civil Defense--Baltimore (Md.);
Blackout emergency placard number 4449 issued in Baltimore City. The placard would have been displayed in a vehicle during air raid warning blackouts, when only authorized permit holders were allowed to be on the roads. This particular placard...
World War, 1939-1945; Air defenses; Civil Defense--Baltimore (Md.);
Air raid warning driving permit issued on March 2, 1943 by the Baltimore Committee on Civilian Defense. The permit number (4449) is in red in the top right corner, and the permit appears to have been issued to a gas detection officer in the a...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great...
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, his uncle (on his mother's side) Charles H. Abhau, and a fellow Baltimorean (Louis) Kemp Hennighausen aboard a ship most likely heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great Britain--Pictorial works;
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken aboard a ship heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the British tramp steamer Ely, which traveled to Jamaica and then hauled a cargo, such as bananas, back to Baltimore;...
Authors, American--20th century--Portraits; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Portrait painting;
Portrait painted in 1927 by Nikol Schattenstein (1877-1954) of a young H. L. Mencken at the height of his career. He is wearing a white shirt unbuttoned at the collar with a pair of red pants and suspenders. The suspenders were a gift from Rudolph...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Roman Forum (Rome, Italy);
Portrait photograph taken in 1914 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (center) and friends A. H. (Alexander Hopkins) McDannald (1877-1957) (left) and W. Edwin (William Edwin) Moffett (1871-1957) (right) at the Forum in Rome, Italy. According to Mencken,...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in November 1913 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and other Saturday Night Club members at the Rennert Hotel in Baltimore. The Saturday Night Club was an informal group of doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists,...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken seated at the desk in his office at number 1524 Hollins Street. Located on the third floor at the back of the house, his "old office", as he would later describe it, was lined with...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Newspaper days, 1899-1906;...
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper while seated in the Baltimore Herald's temporary office on South Charles Street. The Baltimore fire, one of the major American conflagrations, began on...
Advertising cards--United States; Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Color advertising card. On one side (page 1) is a depiction of two angelic female figures holding a banner displaying the United States flag as they rise above a globe of the Earth on which the words North America are displayed and below which is a...
Photograph of a man identified as Mr. Davidson standing at a Mason-Dixon or a Maryland State Line marker. The location is unknown. On the back of the picture there is a stamp, Brilliantone print, made July 1 1929, Ludwig Photolaboratories,...
In this letter dated March 6, 1809 and written from Stockerton, George Poe, Jr. tells William Clemm about troubles from a couple of Baltimoreans, relatives of the family. This letter includes the only known copy of a note by Edgar Allan Poe's...
In this letter dated November 1, 1849 and written from Lowell, Massachusetts, Maria Clemm asks Neilson Poe to send Edgar Allan Poe's trunk by express mail to her at the Charles B. Richmond house in Lowell, where she is presently staying. She sends...
