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...
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...
Correspondence schools and courses; Journalism--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing the first page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's "student's test" for the Associated Newspaper Bureau School of Journalism. Completed but never sent, this document provides a glimpse into the 19-year-old Mencken's aspirations for a...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken working at his typewriter in the Baltimore Sun office. A corn cob pipe hangs from his mouth. The Sun offices were then located in a building on the southwest corner of Baltimore and...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1912 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken working at his typewriter in the Sun office. A corn cob pipe hangs from his mouth. The Sun offices were then located in a building on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of a young H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken working at his typewriter in the Baltimore Sun office. He holds a corncob pipe in his hand. The Sun offices were then located in a building on the southwest corner of...
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...
Anne Arundel County (Md.); Dwellings; Fort George G. Meade (Md.); United States. Army;
Aerial photograph of newly constructed facilities at Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Located just 15 miles south of Baltimore and 19 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., Camp Meade, as it was originally known, was built in...
Baltimore County (Md.); Dwellings; Housing; Irish Americans; Quarries and quarrying; Railroads;
Photograph of the town of Texas in Baltimore County, Maryland. These three-story stone houses, built alongside Northern Central Railway tracks that carried stone and marble harvested from nearby quarries for the Washington Monument in Baltimore or...
Baltimore (Md.); D'Alesandro, Thomas L. J., III, 1929-; Schaefer, William Donald;
Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a Baltimore Inner Harbor renewal project, with Thomas D'Alesandro III, Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971 (second from left, with shovel raised), William Donald Schaefer (fourth from left, with shovel...
Baltimore (Md.); D'Alesandro, Thomas L. J., III, 1929-; Schaefer, William Donald;
Photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a Baltimore Inner Harbor renewal project, with Thomas D'Alesandro III, Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971 (center foreground, with hands in overcoat pockets), Howard R. Owen, Chief Building Inspector...
Earthwork--Baltimore (Md.); Public works--Baltimore (Md.)
Photograph of North Gay Street in Baltimore. It appears that the piping under the street started to leak and the ground collapsed. A group of workers, and/or volunteers seem to do a repair work down there. There is a small crowd of onlookers...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of High Street in Baltimore. The street bustles with people and activity. In the foreground, a car sits parked at a curb. Next to the car, a woman is seen from behind pushing a stroller down the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Ellicott City (Md.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a road in Ellicott City, Maryland. A man and a small dog walk along the edge of the road. Further ahead is a car and another figure. Part of the road is lined by a stone wall and fence. Behind the wall and...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Ellicott City (Md.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a stone house in Ellicott City, Maryland. The house has chimneys, a gabled roof, with two dormer windows facing the front. The house also has a covered front porch. A man can be seen sitting on the steps of...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a large, older home. The main part of the home has two stories, a gabled roof with chimneys, windows with shutters, and porches on the first and second floor exterior. Another portion of the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a large, older home. The main part of the home has two stories, a gabled roof with chimneys, windows with shutters, and porches on the first and second floor exterior. Another portion of the house, which also...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a large, older home. The main part of the home has two stories, a gabled roof with chimneys, windows with shutters, and porches on the first and second floor exterior. Another portion of the house,...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a street corner at night. The building on the corner houses a small store. The lit interior of the store is visible from outside. Through two large door windows, a store customer, products for sale, a...
