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...
Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Calvert County; African American children--Maryland--Calvert County; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Calvert County
Photograph of a wooden-frame house located on Solomons Island Road in Calvert County, Maryland. This house has a long, rectangular base topped with a gambrel roof that has three dormer windows. On each end of the house is a brick chimney. The...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Williamsport (Md.); Washington County (Md.); Streets;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 6. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Williamsport, Washington County. Showing street. Improvements."
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Salisbury (Md.); Wicomico County (Md.); Armories;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 452. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Wicomico County. National Guard Armory at Salisbury- General repairs to the building...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Frostburg (Md.); Allegany County (Md.); Dams;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 88. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Frostburg, Allegany County. The pulling of stumps and grading of 30 acres of dam...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Ellicott City (Md.); Howard County (Md.); Jails;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 181. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Ellicott City, Howard County. Repairs to county jail."
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Bladensburg (Md.); Prince George's County (Md.); Public schools; Landscape construction;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 616. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Bladensburg, Prince Georges County. The developing grounds at the Bladensburg High...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Baltimore (Md.); Public schools; School buildings;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 15. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Baltimore City. Painting school no. 70." [Editor's note: School number 70 in...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Baltimore (Md.); Pavements;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 3045. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Baltimore City. New reinforced concrete pavement being constructed at War Memorial...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Baltimore (Md.); Armories;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 27. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Baltimore City. Preston St. entrance. Fifth Regiment Armory, constructed by WPA of...
United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by L. W. (Lester W.) Bentley (1908-1972) that shows an attractive young woman in a U.S. Coast Guard uniform with a lighthouse in the background and the words "The girl of the year is a SPAR" printed in the sky above. Printed below the...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Landscapes--Washington (D.C.); Military camps; Washington (D.C.);
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., a prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800s, and published by C. Bohn of Washington that features a panoramic view of the U.S. Camps surrounding Washington City (D.C.) in 1861. The view is...
Colored photograph taken shortly before the old tavern was torn down in 1871 to make way for the Carrollton Hotel. It stood on Light St. near the intersection with East Baltimore St. Here Washington and staff stopped in September 1781 when on their...
Streets--Maryland--Crisfield; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Crisfield; African Americans--Maryland--Crisfield; Bank buildings--Maryland--Crisfield; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Crisfield;...
Photograph of 10th Street in downtown Crisfield, Maryland. On the right is an African American couple walking along Tenth Street toward Main Street. To their right is a one-story corrugated metal building with Coca-Cola signs on its front wall and...
Photograph taken looking east from Light Street at the 100 block East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Traffic on the street includes pedestrians, a streetcar, and horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It is thought that this photograph was taken...
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; City dwellers--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pratt Street at the west side of South Bethel Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This narrow street consists of two- and three-story brick row houses, with streetlights and utility poles set at intervals along the sidewalk. In the...
Photograph taken looking east from North Gay Street at the Phoenix Shot Tower located at number 801 East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Constructed in 1828 of 1.1 million bricks without the use of scaffolding by the Phoenix Shot Tower...
Signs and sign-boards; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobile repair shops--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles; Electric lines; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking north at the east side of the 200 block North Caroline Street from its intersection with East Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street consists mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. In a one-story...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the northwest corner of Aisquith Street and Ashland Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. In the windows of this two- and one-half-story brick building on the corner are images of a dark, draped crucifix on a light circle, advertisements for...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of East Fayette Street at North Central Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1937, the Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center left) and St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (center, behind the filling station) were razed as part of...
