Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
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...
Death; Letters; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
In this brief letter dated April 20, 1875 and written from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "in great haste" and without his usual cordiality, replies to Sara Sigourney Rice about a testamonial to Edgar Allan Poe. For Poe's...
Advertisement for the Food Stamp Plan dating from 1941. The advertisement explains that the Food Stamp Plan, operated by the United States Dept. of Agriculture in conjunction with local agencies and businesses, distributes surplus farm and food...
Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805; Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781; African American boys--Maryland--Talbot County; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
Black and white photograph of a 1921 color painting entitled "The News of Yorktown" by the renowned American historical painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, depicting Tench Tilghman announcing an American victory at the Battle of Yorktown to citizens...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
African American men in art; Clothing and dress in art; Newspaper vendors--Maryland--Baltimore; Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903; Sindall, Harry S., fl. 1850s
Black and white photograph of a Maryland Historical Society (MHS) lithograph of the oil-on-canvas color painting entitled "Moses, the Baltimore News Vendor." The original painting of that title was completed by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) in...
African American men--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Hill, John, 1770-1850; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting,...
Black and white photograph of the J. Hill engraving of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Clear Sky, Turkey Hill on the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Two young...
African American boys--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting, American--19th century
Black and white photograph of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Dark Foreground, View of the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Signed E. Van Blon, a pseudonym used by...
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide featuring the grand contest held September 12, 1936 "on the Gooses" (fishing locations in the mid part of the Chesapeake Bay).
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 3, published in 1937 and featuring the grand contest held from dawn September 18 until noon September 19, 1937 at what is known as the "mouth of the Potomac," Solomons, Maryland.
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Radio programs; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 8, published in 1941 and featuring the grand contest held on September 5-7, 1941 at North Beach-Chesapeake Beach, Maryland.
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Radio programs; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled the Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 6, published in 1939 and featuring the grand contest held from dawn August 26 until noon August 27, 1939 at Annapolis, Maryland.
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Radio programs; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled the Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 7, published in 1940 and featuring the grand contest held on August 10-11, 1940 at a town touted as the seafood capitol of the U.S.A., Crisfield, Maryland.
Savings bonds--Canada; War posters, Canadian; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Canada;
Color poster by G. K. (Gordon K.) Odell (active 1921-1945) that shows planes flying over a blackened, bombed landscape, with the words "nothing matters now but victory" rising at an angle in the red-black sky. Shown below the landscape is the...
Animals; War horses; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster featuring Fortunino Matania's (1881-1963) illustration entitled "Good-bye, Old Man". In the illustration, a soldier says good-bye to a horse that has received a fatal wound. The full caption for this poster reads as follows: "Help the...
Espionage; Shipping; War posters, American--Cartoons and comics; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German--Submarines; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States--Cartoons and comics;
Color poster from a cartoon story by Eric Ericson (1914-1959) entitled "the sound that kills." The cartoon story depicts how the sound of innocent words can travel from a local diner or bus, streetcar, or train to a enemy submarine and bring about...
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...
