Photograph taken looking east of Fayette and McClellan Streets at the Union Trust Building located on the northeast corner of Charles and Fayette Streets. In this busy scene, people, a wagon and a streetcar are busy moving about a crowded Fayette...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Wharves--Maryland--Baltimore; Boat ramps--Maryland--Baltimore; Markets--Maryland--Baltimore; Oyster fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Ships;
A busy scene at the Baltimore wharves. These are the places along the harbor that were occupied by docks and piers. Small store owners used to come here on their carts and pulleys to buy fruits, produce, oysters, fish and other products supplied by...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.);
Lithograph based on a sketch from nature by Fitz Hugh Lane, lithographed and printed in colors by Sarony & Major of New York and published by A. Conant, which features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. From the eastern slope of Federal Hill...
Photograph taken looking south at the 1000 block Druid Hill Avenue from its intersection with Hoffman Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the sidewalk to the right are numerous African Americans: two children are playing at the corner; behind them,...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore;Automobiles--Maryland-- Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Shopping--Maryland--Baltimore;Fire escapes--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pennsylvania Avenue at the north side of West Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This photograph features a busy shopping street with African-American kids and men milling near the entrance of a corner...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
Lexington Market (called Western Precincts Market before it took its current name) is a historic Baltimore icon. It has been in existence since 1782 when General John Eager Howard donated land for the purpose of having a market for farmers bringing...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Baltimore Street (Cumberland, Md.); Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Cumberland--Pictorial works
A view of Baltimore Street in downtown Cumberland, ca. 1908, a busy, commercial street at the time. Cumberland was officially established as town in 1787. Baltimore Street is part of the historic district of Cumberland.
Flags--United States; Shipping; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States; World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States;
Color poster by Herbert (Herbert William) Meyer (1882-1960) that shows in its upper quadrant the scene of a busy shipyard with a United States flag and a flag of the United States Shipping Board displayed prominently in the foreground. Below this...
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...
Baltimore (Md.); Death; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849;
Letter from Dr. J. J. Moran to Maria Clemm, in which Dr. Moran relays his condolences at the passing of Edgar Allan Poe and discusses the nature of Poe's illness and the last days before his death.
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter dated November 27 (1859) and written from New York City, Sarah Helen Whitman, once engaged to Edgar Allan Poe, promises to have her publisher, Rudd and Carleton, send Poe's mother-in-law Maria Clemm a copy of her new book "Edgar Poe...
In this undated letter believed to have been written in December 1854 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Mrs. Nancy Heywood) Richmond in a playful but sympathetic tone wishes Muddie (Maria Clemm) better health, trying to raise her spirits by...
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,...
Drawing; Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908; Simpson, J. Palgrave (James Palgrave), 1807-1887; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the three-act comedy, A Scrap of Paper, J. Palgrave Simpson's adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play, Les Pattes de mouche. In this sketch, two women standing in a well-furnished...
