Roads--Design and construction--Maryland--Annapolis; Road construction workers--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Bricks; Building materials; Electric lines; Road rollers;Trees in cities--Maryland--Annapolis
Photograph taken looking west from Monroe Court at road construction on West Street in Annapolis, Maryland. To the left are piles of bricks both in the road and on the brick sidewalk next to wooden frame houses. In the roadway are workers, many of...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Electric lines; Streets--Maryland--Annapolis;
Photograph taken from College Avenue of the Forbes (McIlHenny) House on Church Circle in Annapolis, Maryland. Torn down between 1893 and 1900, it became the site of the Annapolis Main Post Office, which opened January 1, 1901. Standing in front of...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--Howard County;African American--Dwellings; Doughoregan Manor (Md.)
Photograph of a stone cottage once used as slave quarters at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. Doughoregan Manor was the ancestral home of the Carroll family, including Charles Carroll (1737-1832), of Carrollton, one of the original...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Baltimore (Md.); Lakes; Fences; Pavements
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 13. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Baltimore City. Erection of fence and walkway at Lake Ashburton."
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Ellicott City (Md.); Architecture--Domestic;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a road in Ellicott City, Maryland. A man and a small dog walk along the edge of the road. Further ahead is a car and another figure. Part of the road is lined by a stone wall and fence. Behind the wall and...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Urban Parks;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of Riverside Park in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground is a large tree. Several people sit or lie beneath the tree, including a boy who reclines while flying a kite. In the left foreground, two people ride...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); August (Month); Summer;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a man using a scythe to trim hedges along the edge of a tall fence. The man is bald, smokes a cigarette, and wears what appear to be house slippers. A dented trash can is behind him. On top of the fence are...
African Americans--Maryland--Cambridge; Fires--Maryland--Cambridge; Church buildings--Maryland--Cambridge; Fences; Mules; Streets--Maryland--Cambridge; Trees in cities--Maryland--Cambridge;
Photograph of ruins of the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church on Race and Muir Streets from the fire of July 31, 1910 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. An iron fence encloses part of the ruins. Numerous onlookers including many African...
Chase-Lloyd House (Annapolis, Md.); African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; Buckland, William, 1734-1774; Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811; Horse-drawn vehicles; Lloyd, Edward, 1779-1834;...
Photograph of the Chase-Lloyd House at number 22 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, Maryland. Construction of this three-story Georgian townhouse was begun in 1769 by Samuel Chase (1741-1811), a revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of...
Photograph of Carroll-Barrister House built in 1722 at the corner of Main and Conduit Streets in Annapolis, Maryland by Charles Carroll, a prominent surgeon and a wealthy Irishman. His son, Charles Carroll, the Barrister (1723-1783), who was born...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--St. Mary's County;African Americans--Dwellings;Farmhouses--Maryland--Deep Falls;Horses--Maryland
Photograph of a farmhouse (formerly slave quarters) at Deep Falls in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The farmhouse is a two-story frame building surrounded by a white picket fence and flanked on the far and rear sides by tall, leafless trees (it is...
Photograph of the exterior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 on the northeast corner of Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This building and the buildings for Branch numbers 2, 3, and 4 and Central were...
Photograph of Born Court located south of Saratoga Street and west of Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. These two-and-one-half-story row houses (at the end of the alley) were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing...
African American women--Maryland--Baltimore;Slums--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the corner of East Lombard and South Bond Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. In the rear of these three-story brick row houses are dilapidated room extensions and wooden porches. Behind the corner row house with a grocery store on the...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "I Only Had 50 Cents," a version of the song known as "The Original Fifty Cents" written by Sam Devere (ca. 1842-1907) , a well-known minstrel and, later, owner of his own vaudeville company who performed...
Espionage; Soldiers--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Albert Dorne (1904-1965) that shows only the hand of a fallen soldier lying palm up as he reaches for the stock of his rifle lying under a barbed-wire fence. Emblazoned to the right of this image are the words "Somebody blabbed"...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an aerial view of two soldiers crossing a field, with one walking across the middle of the field leaving a trail and the other walking along a fence line leaving a barely discernible trail. Below this image are the words "Don't...
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...
Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
