Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Viaducts--Maryland;
Engraving by Henry Adlard after the painting by William Henry Bartlett. A proof of the view was published in N. F. Willis' American Scenery. Built in 1834, this famous bridge at Relay is still a part of the main line of the road. It was called the...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Ships in art;
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. Neale at Illman & Pilbrow's in 1831, that features a view of Baltimore taken near Whetstone Point. This is one of the celebrated Bennett...
Cannon's Warehouse (Dorchester County, Md.); Cannon, Lucretia P., ca. 1760-1829; Slave traders--Maryland
Photograph of Cannon's Warehouse in Dorchester County, Maryland. This warehouse near Patuxent Bay was used by Lucretia P. (Patty) Cannon, the infamous dealer in stolen slaves and kidnapped freedmen in the first half of the nineteenth century, to...
Cannon's Ferry (Sussex County, Del.); Cannon, Lucretia P., d. 1829; Slave traders--Maryland; Ferries--Delaware
Photograph of Cannon's Ferry in Woodland, Sussex County, Delaware. Spanning the Nanticoke River, originally owned and operated by members of the Cannon family since 1793, the ferry was taken over by the State of Delaware in the mid-eighteen...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire engines; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west from German and Hanover Streets at fire fighters spraying water on buildings on German Street early during progression of the fire. Using a steam pumper and hoses, fire fighters are attempting to extinguish firebrands...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire engines; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west from the intersection of German and Hanover Streets at fire fighters spraying water into and on buildings on fire on Hanover Street. Winds from the southwest had swept burning embers onto the rooftops of these...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire engines; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at fire fighters spraying water from a steam pumper on buildings along German Street just west of Hanover Street early during progression of the fire. On the right is S. Neuberger and Brother, a dry goods store located at...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Last Rose of Summer." This broadside is from a poem of the same name written by Irish poet Thomas Moore and set to music by Sir John Stevenson (not indicated on sheet). The speaker compares the last...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1906 by Meredith Janvier of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. On June 17, 1906, after 5 months as managing editor of the Baltimore Herald, one of the youngest managing editors ever, Mencken found himself out of a job. The...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1920 by Meredith Janvier of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. Meredith Janier was a Baltimore photographer, lawyer, book dealer, and strongman.
Invoices; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Platen presses; Printing presses--United States;
Document from J. F. W. Dorman of an invoice for the printing press and type H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken received on Christmas day, 1888, from his father August Mencken. According to the invoice, J. F. W. Dorman, a manufacturer of Baltimore printing...
