Photograph taken looking at Charles Street north of Wine Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is Oehm's Acme Hall Clothing House located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets. On the right are several small businesses,...
Bald eagle in art; Flags--United States; Fund raising; Liberty bonds; Patriotism; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster by (Joseph) Stern (1890-1971) that consists primarily of the following text: "Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. Government bonds : Third Liberty Loan." Painted above the text is a bald eagle with upswept wings that is flanked...
Bald eagle in art; Printing--United States--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Two color posters on one sheet: "The Pen and the Sword", a poster printed in patriotic red, white, and blue colors, is on the obverse side; and Crocker-McElwain's paper news poster, volume 1, number 2, May 1942, a four-page pamphlet, is on the...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America; Flags; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "There Is Life in Old Maryland Yet" written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside employs a refrain...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Confederate States of America; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; United...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. The verses of this broadside are from the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Down-trodden Maryland" sung to the Charles Dibdin tune "Tom Bowling." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Down-trodden Maryland" sung to the Charles Dibdin tune "Tom Bowling." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The American Star" sung to the tune "Humors of Glen." The American Star in this broadside most likely refers to the Confederate flag known as the "Bonnie Blue," a flag which bore a single white star on a...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the third revised edition of the broadside entitled "Down Trodden Maryland." Privately printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "N. G. R." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
Broadsides; Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861; Hudson, A. L.; Potomac River; Political ballads and songs; Thompson, H. S. (Henry S.); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the first four stanzas of the broadside entitled "Ellsworth's Avengers" with words by H. S. Hudson, sung to the tune "Annie Lisle" by H. S. Thompson. This broadside is a tribute to the Union Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, who was...
Broadsides; Flags; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Our Union Flag" sung to the B. R. Hanby tune "[Darling] Nellie Grey" (also spelled "Nelly Gray"). Written by "a lady of Baltimore," this broadside is an answer to the pro-Confederate broadside entitled...
Broadsides; Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 1798-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hicksie." The language used in this broadside is reminiscent of the caricatured dialect ascribed to slaves of the pre-Civil War South. "Hicksie" is Thomas Holliday Hicks, the Governor of Maryland at the...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Maryland Martyrs." This broadside depicts Marylanders as martyrs imprisoned for speaking out against the oppression sanctioned by the "tyrant [President] Lincoln's nod." The speaker hears the "People"...
Broadsides; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Fourth of July Union Song" sung to the tune "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled." (The lyrics to the Scottish tune were written in 1793 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns about the Battle of Bannockburn in...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; Tōjō, Hideki, 1884-1948--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by O. (Otto) Soglow (1900-1975) that makes use of three cartoon figures, a rather puzzled-looking American gentleman (center) and the large ears and partial faces of Adolph Hitler (left) and Hideki Tōjō (right) as they attentively...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Holmgren (R. John Holmgren, 1897-1963) that shows a soldier and a young woman sitting on a park bench talking while a man resembling Adolph Hitler is pretending to read a newspaper while listening in on their conversation. The text...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of two men talking as they sit at a bar with their glasses of beer, with a transparent, larger-than-life image of Adolf Hitler behind and leaning just over their shoulders. Hitler is smiling as if he is listening in on the their...
Espionage; Nazis; Soldiers; Swastikas; United States. Army; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) that shows a Nazi soldier holding a rifle and wearing a swastika armband, guarding a captured American soldier behind the barbed wire fence of a prison camp. Above the American soldier's head are the...
Espionage; Sailors--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by John Falter (John Philip Falter; 1910-1982) that shows a young American sailor in the arms of a seductive young woman, with the words "Sailor beware!" emblazoned above the image and the words "Loose talk can cost lives" displayed...
