Green, Frederick, 1750-1811; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Continental period, 1775-1780; Printing. United States. History;
Maryland four dollar note dated December 7, 1775 and signed Chas. [Charles] Irvine and Al. [Alexander] Irvine: serial number 1026.
Couden, Robert, 1708-; Engraving, Colonial; Green, Jonas, 1712-1767; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Printing. United States. History; Sparrow, Thomas, 1746-1784;
Maryland four dollar note dated January 1, 1767 and signed R [Robert] Couden and J [John] Clapham: serial number 1095 ("0" is best guess).
Baltimore (Md.); Bills of sale; Slavery; Slaveholders;
Document containing bills of sale for Josiah M. Cleaveland and Edgar A. Poe. Cleaveland sold a number of household goods to John F. Duryee. Edgar Allan Poe sold a slave on behalf of his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm Poe, to Henry Ridgway of Baltimore...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Fourth of July; Fund raising; Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792; Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775; Liberty; Minutemen (Militia)--Massachusetts--Lexington; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; United States. Continental...
Four separate color posters on one sheet by JD or J. (James Henry) Daugherty (1889-1974) that shows four historical scenes meant to inspire Americans to "buy war stamps & bonds."
Upper left: In this poster, minutemen are portrayed fighting...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense--Baltimore (Md.);
Typewritten advertisement for blackout blankets for dogs. The advertisement was from Canine Canteen, a store located on Oak Street in Baltimore. At the top of the advertisement is the store's motto, "Everything for Dogs." The advertisement includes...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features the Francis Scott Key Monument by Jean Marius Antonin Mercié located in Eutaw Place at Lanvale Street in Baltimore. This monument features Key in a rowboat...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; War memorials--Maryland--Baltimore; Battle Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a view of the Battle Monument, possibly prior to 1830. This view is identical to that of Goodacre's engraving (Cator Print no. 147). The monument was begun in 1815 to commemorate the...
Aquatint, in colors, published in 1817 by Edward Johnson Coale of Baltimore. This is a reconstruction of the rough view by John Moale made on the spot in 1752, now in the Maryland Historical Society library. The Moale sketch has been considerably...
Baltimore (Md.); Canton (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Maps;
Engraving by James Poupard of Philadelphia after a drawing by A. P. Folie that features a plan of the town of Baltimore and its environs around 1792. This is said to be one of the earliest known detailed maps of Baltimore showing the three units...
Enlarged hand colored and varnished photograph of an old print that features a view of the Fairview Inn. According to a notation pasted on the back of this print, the Fairview Inn is "located on Old Frederick Road through from Loudon Park." The...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;
Original etching by Anton Schutz. This signed artist's proof shows a view of the Baltimore Post Office as seen from the east entrance of the Equitable Building not long before the Post Office was razed to make way for the new Federal Building. This...
Baltimore (Md.); Cemeteries; Harbors; Maps; Maryland; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.);
Map of Baltimore City dated 1907 that includes street names and features such as parks, cemeteries, railroad lines and stations, and some neighborhoods. On this map the city limits stretch to the north just above 41st Street, to the south along the...
Photograph of a two-story wooden frame duplex on Low Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing on the top step leading to the door of the right house is an African American man leaning on the top rail of the steps. Located to the left of the duplex...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore County; African American agricultural laborers--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Wagons--Maryland--Baltimore County; Perine family
Photograph of a farm team with Josh Petticord, the manager, at work at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. One young African American man stands in the wagon and forks compost over the side to cultivate the...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;Fishery processing plants--Employees--Maryland--Crisfield;African American women employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Canned crab meat--Maryland--Crisfield
Photograph of crab meat being weighed and packed in cans at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. Four African American women sit at a table, facing a brick wall and picking steamed hard-shelled blue crabs. Two Caucasian men weigh and...
Main Street (Annapolis, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Ox driving--Maryland--Annapolis; Wagons
Photograph of Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland about 1870. In the foreground is a team of four oxen being driven over unpaved road by an African American worker. Wearing what looks like a special uniform (not the typical clothes of a farmhand),...
African American men--Maryland; Wagons--Maryland; Ox driving--Maryland; Oxen--Maryland; Rural roads--Maryland
Photograph of a team of four oxen pulling a load of logs on Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland. The team is being handled by one African American man in the driver's seat and a second walking alongside the road. Grassy fields flank the road, with...
Photograph of the interior of Fennell's (misspelled Fennel's on label) Greater Pharmacy located on the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to drugs, this particular store sells items such as cigars and...
