Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
Program of attractions for the Boulevard and Waverly Theatres in Baltimore for the week of December 4, 1938. Movies showed that week include "The Great Waltz," "The Citadel," "Girls' School," "Listen Darling," "The Lady Objects," and "Come on...
Program for a celebration and tribute by the city of Baltimore in honor of the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944. The program includes a listing of the activities of the "Mayor's Committee Celebration Tribute to the Fighting French," such as an...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
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...
Browne, William Hand, 1828-1912; Letters; Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898; Memorial rites and ceremonies; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
William Hand Browns' English translation of Stéphane Mallarmé's letter dated April 4, 1876 and written from Paris, France to Sara Sigourney Rice concerning Rice's request for a few lines from Mallarmé to be included in a book entitled Edgar...
Aquatint of a frozen river (possibly the Arve), with people in sleighs being pulled across the ice, by J. Mérigot after a drawing by Louis Bélanger from a publication known only as Flussquellen (?) written by Louis Bélanger and published in...
Aquatint of boatmen camped in evening near a river (possibly the Arve) by J. Mérigot after a drawing by Louis Bélanger from a publication known only as Flussquellen (?) written by Louis Bélanger and published in 1802 in London by G. and W....
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
Iron foundries; Jones Falls (Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Color lithograph that features a view of the foundry on Jones' Creek near Baltimore. This lithograph, drawn by Jacques Milbert after W. G. Walls and lithographed by Bechebois is number 52 of a set. The upper margin is lettered Amérique...
Contests in art; Food conservation--France; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by 14-year-old Louisette Jaeger, Ecole Communale (Municipal School) de la rue Camou[, Paris], that shows several carrots and potatoes and a head of cabbage, with the words "Cultivons notre potager" ("Cultivate our garden[s]")...
Contests in art; Food conservation--France; Rationing--France; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by 15-year-old Yvonne Colas, Ecole de filles (Girls' School), 13 rue Sorbier, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows a bayonet slicing through a piece of sugar, with the words "Avec la carte--nous en aurons peu--mais nous en aurons...
Contests in art; Food conservation--France; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by 16-year-old Marthe Picard, Ecole Communale (Municipal School), Bd. [Boulevard] Péreire 221, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows a fish hooked on a fishing line being pulled out of the water with a fishing pole, with the...
Contests in art; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by Andrée Ménard, Ecole Comm[una]le (Municipal School), Bd. [Boulevard] Péreire 221, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows the smoke of a lighted cigar as it rises around a soldier's helmet turned upsidedown and used as a...
Contests in art; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by Béatrix Grognuz, éléve [pupil], [Ecole Communale (Municipal School)], Bd. [Boulevard] Péreire 221, [Paris,] that shows coins of various denominations spilling out of an overturned ceramic jar, with the words "Laissez circuler la...
Contests in art; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by M. Héringfeld, Ecole Comm[una]le (Municipal School), 124 rue Amelot, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows three smokestakes rising above the roof of a factory, with the words "Tout l'acier et le charbon pour nos usines" ("All...
Recruiting and enlistment; United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of a soldier holding a rifle with fixed bayonet horizontally across his chest, standing with one leg rising out of North America and one leg rising out of South America. The caption for this poster reads "Como un solo hombre," which...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Ships in art;
Colored aquatint by Louis Garneray after one of his own drawings and published by Hocquart of Paris and Bailly Ward & Co. of New York. It was taken from volume 5 of Vues des Côtes de France dan l'Ocean et dans la Mediterranéo, a large collection...
Buildings; Church buildings; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Ships in art;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., a prominent lithography company in Baltimore in the mid-1800s, that features a view of Baltimore City from Federal Hill that was printed and published in 1859. It offers a splendid view of Baltimore two years...
Clothing and dress--Early works to 1800; Illustration of books--Italian--16th century; Wood-engraving, Italian--16th century;
Colored woodcut titled Primo in Magistrato from a book titled De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due (Of ancient and modern dress of diverse parts of the world in two books) by Cesare Vecellio. Published in Venice in...
