American National Red Cross. Nursing Service; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of a young woman wearing a nurse's uniform. She holds a candle in one hand at shoulder level and envisions her work as a Red Cross Student Reserve nurse. The candle casts shadows over the woman's shoulder, and in the shadows this woman...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of two men talking as they sit at a bar with their glasses of beer, with a transparent, larger-than-life image of Adolf Hitler behind and leaning just over their shoulders. Hitler is smiling as if he is listening in on the their...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Children and death; Songs;
Document containing the 5th edition (shown top center) of the broadside entitled "Little Footsteps," a 1868 ballad composed by J. A. Barney with lyrics by M. B. Leavitt (not shown). This broadside is a lament on the loss of a small child, the...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals by Henri Théophile Hildibrand from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XLV (45), a...
Line engraving titled Campanile di Pisa [Bell tower of Pisa, now widely known as the Leaning tower of Pisa, by Ranieri Grassi from the book titled Descrizione storica e artistica de Pisa [Historic and artistic description of Pisa] published between...
Line engraving titled Veduta generale della Piazza del Duomo (General view of the Piazza del Duomo in Pisa) by Ranieri Grassi from the book titled Descrizione storica e artistica de Pisa (Historic and artistic description of Pisa) published between...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Labor; Industries;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a man working in factory. The man is shown in profile leaning over a table or workbench. He holds a tool or piece of machinery in his hand. Behind him are the barely visible profiles of other workers. Also...
Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser Building (Baltimore, Md.);Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser (Baltimore, Md. : 1773-1794);Newspaper publishing--Maryland--Baltimore--History;Newspaper reading--Maryland--Baltimore;African...
Photograph of a J. D. Ehlers Co. engraving of the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser building in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1773, the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser was one of the earliest newspapers published in Maryland. In...
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...
Photograph of the 100 block North Carey Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Thomas Dixon and built in 1850-1851, these Waverly Terrace brick row houses feature a rear porch balcony framed by intricate cast-iron fencing (the fronts of the...
African American boys; Annapolis (Md.); Architecture, domestic; Bitters; Drugstore employees; Drugstores; Electric lines; Pedestrians; Sidewalks; Streets; Telephone lines;
Photograph of the City Drug Store at number 164 Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland. Standing in front of and to the left of the front door of the store are several sale clerks, perhaps even the owner. A sign over the door reads "Soda Water." In the...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Pickup trucks; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the north side of Baker Street between Vincent Court (right) and North Mount Street (left) in Baltimore, Maryland. Three-story row houses are situated along this sunny, tree-lined street. A few wooden half-whiskey barrel planters are...
Photograph of the west side of the 200 block North Poppleton Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These three-story brick row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance program. In the corner...
Photograph taken looking west from North Front Street at the 1000 block Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing off to the side (left) and in the doorway of the first of these two- and three-story brick row houses are several groups of...
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (center) and his brothers Charles Edward (left) and August (right) posing for pictures in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1906. H. L. is sitting on a wooden chair,...
Concerts; Drawing; Musicians; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck entitled "A Quartette." In this sketch, members of the Wednesday Club have gathered for the performance of a string quartet. Frank Clark and Frank Frick are the two men standing at the far left. George B. Coale is seated in...
Bible and evolution; Creationism; Dayton (Tenn.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.--Press coverage--Maryland--Baltimore;
The first carbon page of his typescript for "The Tennessee Circus", one of the columns H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken wrote for the Evening Sun about the proceedings in Dayton, Tennessee before he left to cover the Scopes trial. While some readers...
