Broadsides; 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 "Southern Prisoner Gives His Thanks to the Baltimore Ladies" sung to the 1851 tune "The American Boy" written by J. H. Hewitt. This broadside, which appears to be the Confederate answer to the untitled...
Original manuscript of the poem entitled "A Valentine" written by Edgar Allan Poe for Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood on February 13, 1846. (Editor's note: Beginning in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe conducted a literary courtship with Frances Sargent Osgood...
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...
Colored lithograph copyright 1896 by H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithograph Co., New York, after Charles H. Wesgerber that features a scene of the birth of the flag of the United States. Numbered 14908 and bearing the seal of the American Flag House and...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Floor plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing of the first-floor plan of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Floor plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing of the second-floor plan of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
African American women; Ferguson, Barbara C., 1937-1994; Mayors; Pullen, Madeline L.; Schaefer, William Donald; Watson, Carmena F., 1934-;
Photograph of Mayor William Donald Schaefer meeting with community leaders (clockwise from center) Carmena F. Watson (1934-), Barbara C. Ferguson (1937-1994), and Madeline Pullen of the Lafayette Square Association at Expo '83 in Baltimore,...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district north of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. In the foreground is a man looking at the rubble of several small businesses. In the background are (from left to right) the ruins of the John E. Hurst and...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins pictured are (from left to right) the Ambach Brothers and Company Building (note tall ringed structure left of center) located on the...
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...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northwest of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins are the John E. Hurst and Company Building (multistoried structure on left) located at number 20 Hopkins Place. For a more complete view...
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...
Braham, David, 1838-1905; Broadsides; Carncross' Minstrels; Carncross, J. L. (John L.), b. 1834?; Dougherty, Hughey, b. 1845; Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911; Irish Americans; Love; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Sandy Haired Mary." This broadside tells the story of Mr. Grogan, a young man living in Mrs. Dooley's boarding house, and of Mrs. Dooley's young sandy-haired maid Mary Daly, with whom he has fallen in...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; May, Charles Augustus; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" from the poem "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War. According to an account published in the "The [Baltimore]...
Broadsides; Flags; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with the words "I left New Kent Court-house, all in the month of May." This broadside, written by Edwin Rosell of Company G of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (known originally as "The Luzerne...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American; Whitaker, Mary Scrimzeour Furman (Miller), 1820-1906;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland in Chains" written by Mrs. D. K. Whitaker (Mary Scrimzeour Furman [Miller] Whitaker), wife of Daniel K. Whitaker of South Carolina and published in the Richmond Examiner for May 14, 1861. This...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" This broadside raises the question asked by many aging couples; i.e., with aging, will their spouse lose interest in them and their marriage? Centered below the title and...
Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobiles--Equipment and supplies; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Parts; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing an unsigned order for a 4-cylinder, 5-passenger Spoerer commercial vehicle. Typed on Carl Spoerer's Sons Co. stationery and dated July 27th, 1908, this unsigned order gives the description of and the parts to be used in this...
Letter from Bill O'Brien of World-Wide Sports, Inc., to Mr. Frederic C. Lee of the Carnival Committee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., with a handwritten reply from Mr. Lee on the front. In his letter O'Brien references Lee's letter of February...
