African American young men--Maryland--Baltimore; Recreation centers--Maryland--Baltimore; Cleaning; United States. National Youth Administration--Maryland; United States. Works Progress Administration;
Photograph of three African American young men cleaning up one of the rooms in a recreation center located on Druid Hill Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Two of the young men use mops on the floor while the third uses a cloth to wipe down a small...
Photograph in fisheye view of the waiting room at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland. In preparation for Penn Station's 1983 rededication, window washers are clean lobby windows. One window washer is using a ladder to reach the higher...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Lawns;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a backyard. In the center foreground of the drawing, a clothesline is tied to a tree. Two dolls hang from clothespins on the line. In the right foreground is a small bench, surrounded by children's...
Photograph taken looking south from Orleans Street at the west side of the 300 block North Bond Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists of three-story brick row houses with a store on the ground floor of each corner house. To the right...
Advertising; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Signs and signboards;
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Braham, David, 1838-1905; Broadsides; Carncross' Minstrels; Carncross, J. L. (John L.), b. 1834?; Dougherty, Hughey, b. 1845; Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911; Irish Americans; Love; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Sandy Haired Mary." This broadside tells the story of Mr. Grogan, a young man living in Mrs. Dooley's boarding house, and of Mrs. Dooley's young sandy-haired maid Mary Daly, with whom he has fallen in...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Courthouses--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Wyatt, James Bosley Noel, 1847-1926; Nolting, William Greaner, 1866-1940
This is the third courthouse built in this location on Monument Square. Two previous buildings were razed in 1805 and 1895, respectively. A competition held for the present building design was won by the team of two prominent Baltimore architects,...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Courthouses--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Wyatt, James Bosley Noel, 1847-1926; Nolting, William Greaner, 1866-1940
This is the third courthouse built in this location on Monument Square. Two previous buildings were razed in 1805 and 1895, respectively. A competition held for the present building design was won by the team of two prominent Baltimore architects,...
Fund raising; Savings bonds--Canada; War posters, Canadian; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Canada; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Canada; World War, 1939-1945--War work--Canada;
Color poster that makes use of a black and white photograph of a machinist sitting in front of his work bench. The man has just removed some Canadian dollar bills from his pay envelope and is holding them in his hand as he considers what to do....
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Holmgren (R. John Holmgren, 1897-1963) that shows a soldier and a young woman sitting on a park bench talking while a man resembling Adolph Hitler is pretending to read a newspaper while listening in on their conversation. The text...
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;...
Cheltnam, Charles Smith, 1823-1912; Drawing; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the Charles Smith Cheltnam three-act comedy, A Lesson in Love. In this scene, which takes place outside a country home amid trees and greenery, there are five people. Two women are...
Illustration of books--Germany--15th century; Wood-engraving, German--15th century;
Pages with rubrication and a woodcut from the book titled Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens (Mirror of life) written by Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo and printed in Germany in 1479 by Johann Bamler [John Baemler]. Taken from page xxxxi (41), this...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Urban Parks; Waterfronts;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of Riverside Park in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, two men relax in the grass. One of the men reclines on his elbow, his hat on the ground next to him. The other man lies looking upward, his...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Railroad stations;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of the interior of a railroad station. Passengers sit on a long bench beneath a window. Several read newspapers, and some of the men smoke cigars. Signed and dated by the artist in the bottom left...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Railroad stations;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of the the interior of the Overlea streetcar terminal station. On the left side of the image, two women sit on a bench beneath a window. Through the window, a man is shown boarding a streetcar. In the...
