Broadsides; Josselyn, A. S. (Arthur S.); Love songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Where the Honeysuckles Grow" from the 1883 song written by A. S. Josselyn. The speaker of this broadside is a young man who longs for the evening hour (9 p.m.) when his blue-eyed, golden-haired love has...
Broadsides; Millard, H. (Harrison), 1830-1895; Love songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Whip-poor-will's Echo Song" written by H. Millard about 1865. The speaker of this broadside asks his love to meet him in the evening in the woodland when the first whip-poor-will calls, so he can tell...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Whist'ling Rufus or the One Man Band" from the 1899 song written by Kerry Mills (born Frederick Allen Mills). This broadside, in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, tells the story of...
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"...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Children and death; Skelly, J. P. (Joseph P.), 1853-1895;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Why Did They Dig Ma's Grave So Deep" from the 1880 song written by J. P. Skelly, one of the most prolific songwriters of the 19th century. This broadside tells the story of Nellie, a young girl left alone...
Birds in literature; Broadsides; Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907; White, C. A. (Charles Albert), 1832-1892;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Come, Birdie, Come" with Will. S. Hays listed as the author. In this broadside the speaker talks to a bird sitting in a nest nearby, asking the bird to come and live with him in his home. The bird flies...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" This broadside raises the question asked by many aging couples; i.e., with aging, will their spouse lose interest in them and their marriage? Centered below the title and...
Baltimore (Md.); Bills of sale; Slavery; Slaveholders;
Document containing bills of sale for Josiah M. Cleaveland and Edgar A. Poe. Cleaveland sold a number of household goods to John F. Duryee. Edgar Allan Poe sold a slave on behalf of his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm Poe, to Henry Ridgway of Baltimore...
Figure skating; Financial statements; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.;
Document containing the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. annual report for the 1936-1937 season, signed by Paul T. MacKie, the treasurer. Among the club receipts listed are dues and refunds. Among the club expenditures listed are rent, salaries, taxes,...
Constitutions; Figure skating; United States Figure Skating Association;
Document of an excerpt containing Sections 1-4 of Article VI of the U.S.F.S.A. (United States Figure Skating Association) constitution. This excerpt is on representation and provides guidelines on the number of delegates a club may select to send...
Constitutional amendments; Figure skating; United States Figure Skating Association;
Document containing proposed amendments to the United States Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.) constitution. Proposed amendments are to Articles III, V, VII, VIII, and IX and to the By-Laws. Most notable among the proposed amendments is a...
Letter from Pete Noble to Mr. F. C. (Frederic C.) Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., containing a handwritten response from Mr. Lee on the back. In this letter Mr. Noble reminds Mr. Lee of their conversation at the Hotel New Yorker about the...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects; Rationing;
War Ration Book no. 4, containing unused ration stamps. The front cover includes a serial number (313562) and spaces where the recipient could fill in his or her name, address, and signature. There is also a warning that violating ration rules is a...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects; Rationing;
War Ration Book no. 3, containing unused ration stamps. The front cover includes a serial number (958025), spaces where the recipient could write in his or her personal information and signature, an area to be filled in by the local ration board,...
World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Maryland;
Printed booklet containing a list of the World War II casualties (Army and Army Air Force personnel) for the State of Maryland. According to the introduction, the list was published by the War Department for information purposes. It includes the...
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;...
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...
Baltimore (Md.); California State Prison at San Quentin; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942; Newspapers; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Hamilton Owens dated June 1929. Hamilton Owens (1888-1967), distinguished author, editor, and journalist, was then editing the Baltimore Evening Sun, to which Mencken contributed his "Monday Articles" from 1920 to 1938....
Hair; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Virginia, 1822-1847; Souvenirs (Keepsakes);
Lock of hair of Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe. The lock of hair arrived in a letter to Edgar containing a Valentine poem dated February 14, 1846. For a view of the Valentine poem, see item pcpa004_003.
