Document containing the broadside entitled "Matrimonial Sweets" from a song written and arranged by W. H. Freeman, as sung by the comic duet of Miss Woodward and Mr. Boynes. This broadside is the script of a spat between a husband and his wife....
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...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Viaducts--Maryland;
Engraving by Henry Adlard after the painting by William Henry Bartlett. A proof of the view was published in N. F. Willis' American Scenery. Built in 1834, this famous bridge at Relay is still a part of the main line of the road. It was called the...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Born during the trying period when his father was straining his resources to maintain...
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Used furniture industry--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the west side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is a used furniture store operated out of a garage,...
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the east side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is an African American man walking toward the camera,...
Photograph taken looking south from East Eager Street at North Ensor Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These buildings consist mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. Facing Eager Street are several row houses with stores on the ground floor....
African American children; African American men; African American women; Annapolis (Md.); Architecture, domestic; Cobblestones; Dwellings; Electric lines; Government buildings; Row houses; Wooden-frame houses;
Photograph of Cornhill (left) and Fleet (right) Streets from Market Space in Annapolis, Maryland. On both sides of these stone-embedded streets are Revolutionary era two-story clapboard row houses. At their intersection is a small (perhaps...
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...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire engines; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north from Pratt Street at fire fighters spraying water on buildings on both sides of Hopkins Place north of Lombard Street between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 1904. This view shows the fire moving south on...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Courthouses--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district southeast of Fayette and McClellan Streets. In the foreground is a Maryland National Guardsman on duty. In the right background are the ruins of many small businesses. In the left and center background...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "An Appeal to the South" and signed by "H.", "A Daughter of Dixie." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside calls on Southerners to take up arms and defend themselves against the tyranny...
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]...
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;...
In this letter dated August 29, 1835 and written from Richmond, Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe begs Maria Clemm to reject the offer made by Neilson Poe to have her and her daughter, Virginia, live with Neilson and his family. At the end of the letter,...
Boardinghouses; Letters; New York (N.Y.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Virginia, 1822-1847; Travel;
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Maria Clemm dated April 7, 1844. In this letter, Poe recounts his latest journey with Virginia, including details about their arrival, search for a place to stay, and the meals they ate once they'd found lodging,...
In this letter dated August 29, 1835 and written from Richmond, Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe reassures his aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia that he is saving money and that if the two agree to come live with him in Richmond he will provide...
Carroll, D. H. (David Henry), Mrs.; Clemm, W. T. D., Rev.; Death; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849;
This document contains (1) an account of Edgar Allan Poe's death and funeral as given by the Reverend Mr. Clemm, a cousin of Poe's and the methodist minister who officiated at his funeral, and (2) a statement given by Mr. J. S. Macher about the two...
Borrowing and lending; Dow, Jesse E. (Jesse Erskine), 1809-1850; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Thomas, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1806-1866;
In this letter dated March 16, 1843 and written from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edgar Allan Poe informs his friends Jesse E. Dow and Frederick W. Thomas that he has arrived in Philadelphia safely and thanks them for all they have done for him. In...
