Broadsides; Children and death; Flowers; Kennedy, Harry; Mothers;
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Flower From My Angel Mother's Grave," a song by Harry Kennedy, the ventriloquist (ca. 1854-1894) (full name believed to be William Henry Kennedy). In this broadside, the speaker cherishes the memory of...
In this incomplete letter dated December 1, 1864 and written on the stationary of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison, a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, tries to reestablish correspondence with Poe's...
Illustration of books--United States--19th century; Mezzotint engraving, American--19th century;
Mezzotint engraving titled The mountain guard by John Sartain after a painting by Henry Perlee Parker from the book titled Leaflets of memory published in 1847 in Philadelphia by E. H. Butler & Co.
Goucher College; Woman's College of Baltimore; Universities and colleges--Maryland--Baltimore;
Lithograph after a drawing by P. F. Goist of Philadelphia that features a view of the southwest quarters of the campus of the Woman's College of Baltimore. This view shows the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Goucher Hall, Bennett Hall, and the...
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...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The American Star" sung to the tune "Humors of Glen." The American Star in this broadside most likely refers to the Confederate flag known as the "Bonnie Blue," a flag which bore a single white star on a...
Broadsides; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Fourth of July Union Song" sung to the tune "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled." (The lyrics to the Scottish tune were written in 1793 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns about the Battle of Bannockburn in...
Broadsides; Front Royal, Battle of, Va., 1862; Johnson, Bradley T. (Bradley Tyler), 1829-1903; Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War...
Document containing the broadside entitled "On the Fight of the First Maryland Regiment." This Union broadside tells of the bravery of the First Maryland Infantry (U.S.A.) commanded by John R. Kenly in its fight against the First Maryland Infantry...
Document containing the broadside entitled "See That My Grave's Kept Green" from an 1876 song written by Gus Williams (1847-1915). The speaker of this broadside offers advice to his "darling" on how to remember their time together when he dies. He...
Broadsides; McComas, Henry G., 1796-1814; Monuments; Political ballads and songs; United States History War of 1812; Wells, Daniel, 1795-1814;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Wells and McComas Funeral and Monument Song, Baltimore, September 13, 1858," sung to the same tune as the "Star-spangled Banner." This broadside tells the story of Daniel Wells and Henry G. McComas, two...
Postcards--Maryland--Catonsville; Richard Gundry Home (Catonsville, Md.); Psychiatric hospitals--Maryland--Catonsville; Catonsville (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Mary M. Gundry and her son, Dr. Richard F. Gundry, opened in 1891 a home for treating nervous and mental diseases in Catonsville. They called it Richard Gundry Home in memory of Dr. Richard Gundry, Sr. The complex consisted of five buildings, one...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Woman's College of Baltimore; Women's colleges--Maryland--Baltimore; Goist, Phares F., 1841-1913; White, Stanford, 1853-1906; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The postcard is a reproduction of a lithograph (see also Cator print 119) after a drawing by Phares F. Goist of Philadelphia that features a view of the southwest quarters of the campus of the Woman's College of Baltimore. This view shows the...
At the time of the Antietam Battle on September 17, 1862, William McKinley was the Commissary Sergeant with the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served hot coffee and food to the soldiers in the regiment on the spot where the monument...
Advertising; Baltimore Orioles (International League : Baseball team); Baltimore Transit Company; Baseball; International League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948; Scheduling; Stadiums;
Schedule of home and away games for the 1949 season of the International League Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The schedule includes the dates for home and away games, with the name of the opposing team city listed. Sunday games as well as the...
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870; Patriotism; United States. Navy--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster that shows a sailor in a Summer white uniform (center foreground) carrying a rifle with fixed bayonet as he stands guard in front of a U.S. Navy warship (center background), with a large portrait of Robert E. Lee dressed in uniform...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
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...
Autobiographies; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing first typescript page of the preface to H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Happy Days (1940), the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy. These books contain some of the most delightful prose of this American journalist.
In this letter dated October 12, 1864 and written from New York City, Nathaniel Parker Willis, editor of the family magazine entitled Home Journal, tells Maria Clemm about his plan to help her raise funds for a gravestone or memorial for Edgar...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Death; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter mistakenly dated Saturday evening October 28th, 1849 (Saturday occurred on October 27 in 1849) and most likely written from Providence, Rhode Island, Sarah Helen Whitman, engaged to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848, expresses her sympathy to...
