Broadsides; Cutter, G. W. (George Washington), 1801-1865; Patriotism; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Document containing the broadside entitled "E Pluribus Unum, an American National Song." This broadside makes reference to the motto of the United States of America, "E pluribus unum" ("Many in one" or "One from many"), and to its struggle against...
April Fools' Day; Broadsides; Emancipation Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "On L-N's Proclamation of April 1st, 1863" from a song written "by a Marylander." This broadside expresses how many Marylanders sympathetic to the Confederate cause viewed "L-N's [Abraham Lincoln's...
Baltimore (Md.); Political ballads and songs; Price, William, 1794?-1868;
Document containing the broadside entitled "William Price" sung to the tune "John Todd." The speaker of this Confederate broadside asks William Price why he, as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1861-1862, sponsored the "Treason Bill"...
American Red Cross; Soldiers--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Paul Lingenbrink Whitman (1897-1950) that shows a wounded soldier kneeling on the ground holding his head with one hand and his rifle with the other. His helmet, which has a bullet hole through its side, lies on the ground in front...
Painting of Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Benedict Leonard Calvert, second son of the third Lord Baltimore, upon the...
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Frederick Calvert, Sixth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Named for his father's friend, Frederick, Prince of Wales, the last Lord Baltimore...
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...
Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Jones, Edward Franc, 1828-1913; Riots; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Baltimore Boys" sung to the tune "Limerick." This broadside particularly refers to the Baltimore riot of 1861 in which Confederate sympathizers attacked Union soldiers from the Sixth Massachusetts...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Baltimore Rebel Song." This broadside calls on the boys of the South to rally around the Confederate flag referred to as the "Red and White," and compares the American Civil War to the American War...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Death; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The debt." This broadside recounts the debt that the men of Maryland who supported Southern views owe to those who betrayed them and insulted their families, threw them into prison, and fought against...
Broadsides; Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861; Hudson, A. L.; Potomac River; Political ballads and songs; Thompson, H. S. (Henry S.); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the first four stanzas of the broadside entitled "Ellsworth's Avengers" with words by H. S. Hudson, sung to the tune "Annie Lisle" by H. S. Thompson. This broadside is a tribute to the Union Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, who was...
Broadsides; Heaven; Hymns; Macarthy, Harry, 1834-1888; Weishampel, J. F. (John F.), Sr.;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Happy Journey to the Promised Land," sung to the air "Bonnie Blue Flag." This hymn compares contemporary Christian salvation to the journey of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hark! Baby, hark!" This broadside tells the story of a slave woman who is dying from a whipping she received while trying to protect her child from the cruel blows of her master. Her husband recounts the...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; May, Charles Augustus; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" from the poem "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War. According to an account published in the "The [Baltimore]...
Broadsides; Hessians; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Marylanders [sic] Good Bye" sung to the tune "The White Rose." This broadside relates the feelings of a Marylander who supported the South during the Civil War. Having watched "hundreds" of Maryland...
Broadsides; Flags; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Our Union Flag" sung to the B. R. Hanby tune "[Darling] Nellie Grey" (also spelled "Nelly Gray"). Written by "a lady of Baltimore," this broadside is an answer to the pro-Confederate broadside entitled...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Copy of Verses by a Party of Poor Operatives." This broadside appears to be a door-to-door advertisement used by tradesmen to find work from individual households or small businesses when jobs in...
Broadsides; Flags; Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843; Star-spangled banner (Song); Political ballads and songs; United States History War of 1812; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Star-Spangled Banner." This broadside contains the verses to the poem written by Francis Scott Key who was inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor after a...
Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861; Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) Siege, 1861; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" and signed by "A." This broadside, told from the view of a Confederate living under martial law in Maryland, reminds fellow citizens that truth and right are on their side and that one day they...
Broadsides; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "To the Maryland Sons of Revolutionary Sires!" sung to the Robert Burns tune "Old Lang Syne." This broadside calls on those Maryland sons whose forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War to take up arms...
