Broadsides; Clocks and watches; Songs; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884;
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Grandfather's Clock" from the 1876 song written by Henry C. Work. This broadside tells the story of a floor clock owned by the speaker's grandfather. The clock, we are told, was bought at the man's...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Whist'ling Rufus or the One Man Band" from the 1899 song written by Kerry Mills (born Frederick Allen Mills). This broadside, in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, tells the story of...
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...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Hair dyes;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of man selling another man hair dye. The salesman is a heavyset man with bushy eyebrows and sideburns. He wears a long coat, and holds a bottle in one hand and a pair of glasses in the other. Behind him is a...
Coon hunting--Maryland; African Americans in art; Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Women hunters--Maryland
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 204 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of May 17, 1884, showing ladies on a coon hunt in Maryland. Frank Leslie (1821-1880) (real name, Henry Carter) shortened the time it took to...
Allen, William J.; Blacksmithing; Broadsides; Nostalgia; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Old Village Blacksmith Shop" from a song written by William J. Allen. This broadside tells what it felt like to be a boy in the local blacksmith's shop. The speaker recalls with nostalgia how he and...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the staff of the Baltimore Herald on June 17, 1906, the day the operations of the paper were suspended. Members of the staff are (from left to right): top row--an unidentified man, Robinson...
Miscellaneous sketches by Adalbert Volck. The purpose of these sketches is unknown. The topmost sketches include a number of profiles of men's heads and are subtitled with the text "smoke pictures - purely accidental (of course)." There are two...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Weather; World War II;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher. In the center of the drawing, the title "The Weather for 1941" is written in pencil. On the sides of the drawing are two columns, each with different figures and scenes related to the weather and seasons. At the...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Immediately after the death of the fourth Lord, the principal powers specified by the...
Photograph taken looking east from North Bond Street at the north side of Mullikin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. On the ground level of the corner building (left) is what was...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the corner of North Front and Gay Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. On the ground floor of these two- and three-story brick row houses on Gay Street are businesses. An African American woman is opening the door to the second house on...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works; Agricultural machinery; Horses--Maryland
Photograph of an African American man standing in a field behind a horse-drawn farm machine. The machine (perhaps an early lawn aerator) is equipped with a drum and a seat and is hitched to a large-breed draft horse. The African American man is...
Broadsides; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Love songs; Political ballads and songs; Slavery;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Darling Nelly Gray" (also spelled "Nellie Grey"). A young man talks about the time he spent on a Kentucky shore, rowing in his canoe and strumming his banjo for his beloved Nelly Gray. As the song...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Love" (also known as "The Bald-Headed End of the Broom") from an 1877 song composed by Harry Bennett. This broadside warns young men that marriage isn't as wonderful as it may appear during the courtship...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Over the Garden Wall" from a song composed by G. D. Fox with words by Harry Hunter. This broadside tells the story of a young man who is forced to court his young woman "over the garden wall." Her father...
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...
Book burning; Nazis; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by S. (Steve) Broder (1906-1992) that shows Nazis throwing books into a blazing fire, with the message meant for the people of the United States emblazoned below this image: "Books are weapons in the war of ideas." (This poster depicts...
Fund raising; Minutemen (Militia)--Massachusetts--Concord; Patriotism; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by the Wilkinsons--J. Walter Wilkinson (1892-1988) and his son, Walter G. Wilkinson (1917-1971)--that shows a man dressed up as Santa Claus pitching defense bonds and stamps as a Christmas present, with the words "this year give a...
Photograph of a man standing in the courtyard of a residential housing area. The man holds a bowl, perhaps with seeds and appears to be dispensing them as if to feed birds.
