Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Virginia Clemm's scent bottle and miniature glass. (Editor's note: Could this be a decanter and glass set used during travel to carry spirits for medicinal purposes, rather than a glass scent bottle and miniature glass?)
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...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Prohibition--United States;
Photograph taken about 12:30 a.m. April 7, 1933 of H. L. Mencken drinking "his first public glass of post-Prohibition beer" at the Rennert Hotel bar. Located on the southeast corner at Saratoga and Liberty Streets, the Rennert had been one of...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Prohibition--United States;
Photograph taken about 12:30 a.m. April 7, 1933 of H. L. Mencken being served "his first public glass of post-Prohibition beer" at the Rennert Hotel bar. Located on the southeast corner at Saratoga and Liberty Streets, the Rennert had been one of...
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...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820; Catholic Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
The historic Baltimore Basilica at the time the postcard was published was still a cathedral only. It was built by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of the Capitol, during the years 1806-1821. It became the first Catholic Cathedral in the...
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...
Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Calvert County; African American children--Maryland--Calvert County; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Calvert County
Photograph of a wooden-frame house located on Solomons Island Road in Calvert County, Maryland. This house has a long, rectangular base topped with a gambrel roof that has three dormer windows. On each end of the house is a brick chimney. The...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the northwest corner of East Fayette and Colvin Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story brick buildings were scheduled to be razed as part of the Fayette Street widening project. The second building on the left at...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Post office buildings--Maryland; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Calvert Street north of Cheapside and Lombard Streets. In the foreground beyond the cleared rubble are (from left to right) several structures that survived the fire: the Maryland Trust Company...
Photograph taken looking north from Lombard and Calvert Streets at the burnt district along Calvert Street. Beyond the rubble in the foreground are several structures that survived the fire (from left to right): the Maryland Trust Company Building...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
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 "Sweet Maggie Gordon" from an 1880 song composed by Ned Straight (credited only as the arranger here) and published by Mrs. Pauline Lieder. This broadside tells the story of a young man who wonders why his...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Institute, Renaissance revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Baltimore; Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954; Pell, Francis Livingston, 1873-1945; Gothic revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Baltimore; College of Art;...
View of the main building of the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts and the Schools of Art and Design, as it was then known (in 1959 changed its name to Maryland Institute, College of Art). Designed by architects Pell &...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
World War, 1939-1945; Sabotage; Shipyards--Baltimore (Md.);
Press release dated April 15, 1943 from the U.S. Department of Justice announcing the arrest of James Buxton Dixon in Baltimore on charges of sabotage. A total of eight men, including Dixon, were apprehended for faulty welding on ships being built...
