Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York; Buildings--New York (State)--New York; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.);
Hand colored print after the painting by Jennie Brownscombe that was published by the Klackner Galleries of New York in 1913. The picture represents a view of Wall Street, from a point a little east of Hanover Street, in the year 1790, or during...
Dwellings--Maryland; Frederick County (Md.); Methodist preaching; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features the Old Cassell House in Frederick County, Maryland. This is one of fourteen lithographs in the collection taken from G. O. M. Roberts'...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. George Calvert, the virtual founder of Maryland, was born at Kiplin, in the North Riding...
Maryland Hospital; Hospitals in art--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Lithoghraphy; Hospital architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington College Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Carriages and carts; Deroy, Laurent,...
Photograph of a lithograph entitled "Maryland Hospital" by Isodore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) of a drawing ("drawn from nature") by Augustus Köllner (1813-1906), published by Goupil, Vibert and Company in 1852. Maryland Hospital (Baltimore, Md.),...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "God will Repay." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and signed by "H. Rebel," this broadside focuses on the Civil War in Baltimore in 1861 and refers to such notable Baltimore figures as Severn...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Street (Baltimore, Md.); McLane Place (Baltimore, Md.); Hood, John Mifflin, 1943-1906--Monuments--Baltimore (Md.); Wholesale trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the corner of Baltimore and Liberty Streets. It was named McLane Place for Robert McClane, who was mayor of Baltimore at the time of great 1904 fire, and subsequently committed suicide. The name change did not last, and the location is now...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Fritchie, Barbara, 1766-1862; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
According to popular legend, Barbara Fritchie, an elderly woman in her 90's, waved the Union flag at Confederate troops under the command of General "Stonewall" Jackson as they marched by her house on West Patrick Street in Frederick on September...
Advertising; Baltimore Orioles (International League : Baseball team); Baseball; International League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Restaurants; Scheduling;
Schedule of games for the 1940 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball club of the International Baseball League (IBL). The schedule includes the dates for both home and away games, with the city of the opposing team named. On the back page is a...
World War, 1939-1945; Military Order of the Purple Heart. Dept. of Maryland.; Veterans;
Printed pamphlet of the official proceedings of the first annual convention of the Maryland chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, held in Hagerstown, MD on Dec. 13, 1942.
(Editor's note: The Military Order of the Purple Heart...
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...
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...
Buildings; Cityscapes; Monuments; Streets; War memorials;
Engraving by Archibald L. Dick from the painting by William H. Bartlett. The two-volume work, American Scenery by N.P. Willis, London, 1840, contains Griffith's engraving of this scene among others after paintings by Bartlett. As that seems to have...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Baltimore from the north. This is an imperfect register or impression, as evidenced by the silhouette effect....
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...
Buildings; Hotels; Monuments; Museums; Streets; Views; War memorials;
Colored lithograph from the cover of the sheet music for "The Very Last Polka" by Francois Bernard, lithographed by E. Weber & Co. (later A. Hoen & Co.) of Baltimore, and published by F. W. Benteen, circa 1843. This lithograph features a view of...
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. that featuring the Wildey Monument, a statue on a tall column that commemorates the founding of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows by Thomas Wildey in the City of Baltimore on April 26, 1819. This monument, 52 feet...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Riots--Baltimore (Md.);
Print that features a view in Baltimore of Captain Hare demanding of Marshal Kane the arms taken from the Massachusetts soldiers on April 19, 1861. This event occurred a few days after the attack by citizens on the troops. On June 27 the Marshal...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Camp Belger in Baltimore. This is one of the numerous cantonments in the vicinity of Baltimore. A later view...
