Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, Mrs. E. A.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkard's Lone Child!" from a song written in 1866 by "Stella" (Nellie H. Bradley) with music by "Figaro" (Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst [1836-1918]) and also known as "Father's a Drunkard, and Mother Is Died."...
Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, E. A., Mrs.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkards' [sic] Lone Child" from a song written by Nellie H. Bradley (pseudonym "Stella") with music by Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst (pseudonym "Figaro") (1836-1918) and also entitled "Father's a Drunkard, and...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Over the Garden Wall" from a song composed by G. D. Fox with words by Harry Hunter. This broadside tells the story of a young man who is forced to court his young woman "over the garden wall." Her father...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Born during the trying period when his father was straining his resources to maintain...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Baby's Got A Tooth" from a song written by Charley Reed and arranged by H. Wannemacher (music not included). This broadside tells the story of an eight-month-old baby boy who has just received his first...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Carriage industry--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriage industry--Employees; Carriages and carts;...
Photograph taken between 1904 and 1907 of the building housing Carl Spoerer's Sons Company located at numbers 400-404 South Fremont Avenue. After their father's death in 1899, sons Charles and Jacob Spoerer took over and ran the company, gradually...
Northumberland (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Seventeenth century double-page map of the county of Northumberland, England, probably originating from Blaeu's atlas published in 1645. Includes a decorative cartouche, mileage scale, numerous coats-of-arms of local noble families including Robert...
Painting of Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Benedict Leonard Calvert, second son of the third Lord Baltimore, upon the...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Fox, Will H.; Holliday Street Theatre (Baltimore, Md.); Kelly, J. J.; Minstrels; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Violet From Mother's Grave" from the song written by Will H. Fox. This broadside tells of the loss a man feels for his family, who have all died, and of the flower he carries with him that provides...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Fox, Will H.; Holliday Street Theatre (Baltimore, Md.); Kelly, J. J.; Minstrels; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Violet From Mother's Grave" from the song written by Will H. Fox. This broadside tells of the loss a man feels for his family, who have all died, and of the flower he carries with him that provides...
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"...
Children; Fund raising; Savings bonds--Canada; War posters, Canadian; World War, 1914-1919--Economic aspects--Canada; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--Canada;
Color poster by Joseph Ernest Sampson (1887-1946) that shows a young girl gleefully asking her father to "Do it again Daddy Please! Buy me a Victory Bond." Printed below the border on the left is "W.P. 18."
August Mencken and Brother; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $400 for one sorrel horse, harness and wagon purchased by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, August Mencken, signed by Herman Ellis and dated September 26, 1892. It is thought this may be the receipt for the pony...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Real property tax--Maryland; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Tax collection--Maryland--Baltimore;
Document showing the 1898 property tax bill paid July 27 of that year by H. L. Mencken's father, August Mencken, on their house at number 1524 Hollins Street. With the property assessed at $400.00, the total state and city property tax bill...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team); August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Kilroy, Matthew Aloysius, 1866-1940; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and...
Advertisement (color poster) for the Kilroy cigar printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars, by Isaac Friedenwald of Baltimore. To H. L. and his brothers, this poster was a...
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by H. L. Mencken of his father August Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street on January 1, 1895.
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $1.50 in dues paid by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, Aug[ust] Mencken, to Boumi Temple, a Baltimore center for the fraternal A.A.O.N.M.S. (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine) for North...
Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Map of the Duchy of Schleswig, a Danish fief. The upper half is still in Denmark, the lower half reaching to Kiel, Rendsburg and Tonningen now in Germany. Also showing the North-Frisian islands (Sylt, etc.). Dating de Wit's atlases and city map...
Seine-et-Marne (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Brie (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Decorative map showing Paris and the area in between the rivers Marne and Seine, as they meander through the Brie region, home of the Brie cheese, including Chateau Thierry, Provins and Fontainebleau. Shows fortified towns, woods, cities, lakes,...
