Postcards—Maryland--Chesepeake City; Chesapeake City (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Freemasons--Buildings; Back Creek (Chesapeake City, Md.); Rivers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.); Bridges--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
View of causeway, Masonic Hall, and creek in Chesapeake City. Chesapeake City is located in Cecil County. Originally founded by Czech colonist Augustine Herman under the name of the Village of Bohemia, the town's name was changed to the current...
Advertising; Baltimore Orioles (International League : Baseball team); Baltimore Transit Company; Baseball; International League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); Scheduling;
Schedule of home and away games for the 1951 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...
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...
United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster of a U.S. Army Cavalry soldier in dress blue uniform sitting horseback and blowing a bugle. Standing next to him is a U.S. Army Infantry first sergeant in dress blue uniform holding a rifle. Emblazoned in the sky above these men is the...
Contests in art; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by Andrée Ménard, Ecole Comm[una]le (Municipal School), Bd. [Boulevard] Péreire 221, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows the smoke of a lighted cigar as it rises around a soldier's helmet turned upsidedown and used as a...
Contests in art; Food conservation--France; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by 14-year-old Louisette Jaeger, Ecole Communale (Municipal School) de la rue Camou[, Paris], that shows several carrots and potatoes and a head of cabbage, with the words "Cultivons notre potager" ("Cultivate our garden[s]")...
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--Economic aspects; Rationing;
War Ration Book no. 3, containing unused ration stamps. The front cover includes a serial number (958025), spaces where the recipient could write in his or her personal information and signature, an area to be filled in by the local ration board,...
World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Maryland;
Printed booklet containing a list of the World War II casualties (Army and Army Air Force personnel) for the State of Maryland. According to the introduction, the list was published by the War Department for information purposes. It includes the...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Vienna International Exhibition (1873); Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Marguerite" cigars printed by Geo. S. Harris and Sons of Philadelphia for H. L. Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. On the right sitting on a cloak covering a rock is a...
Baltimore County (Md.); Dwellings; Housing; Irish Americans; Quarries and quarrying; Railroads;
Photograph of the town of Texas in Baltimore County, Maryland. These three-story stone houses, built alongside Northern Central Railway tracks that carried stone and marble harvested from nearby quarries for the Washington Monument in Baltimore or...
Borrowing and lending; Dow, Jesse E. (Jesse Erskine), 1809-1850; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Thomas, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1806-1866;
In this letter dated March 16, 1843 and written from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edgar Allan Poe informs his friends Jesse E. Dow and Frederick W. Thomas that he has arrived in Philadelphia safely and thanks them for all they have done for him. In...
In his letter dated November 29, 1835 and written from Augusta, Georgia, William Poe, Jr., a cousin, relates some interesting facts about the Georgian branch of the Poe family to Maria Clemm. The letter is testament to the piety of this branch of...
Rare map of Silesia, centered on the city of Wrocław (German name: Breslau). Although, in the Middle Ages Silesia was part of the Kingdom of Poland, later on it was divided among many independent duchies ruled by various Silesian dukes of the...
Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Illustration of books--Spain--16th century; Livy; Rome--History; Soldiers--Pictorial works; Wood-engraving, German--16th century; Wood-engraving, Spanish--16th century;
Woodcut of Decada I (decade 1), Libro II (book 2), Dela Fundacion de Roma (Foundation of Rome) from the book titled Las quatorze decadas de Tito Livio, historiador de los romanos (The fourteen decades of Livy, historian of the Romans). Tito Livio...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features an unnamed camp near Fort Marshall. It was evidently drawn from the ramparts of Fort Marshall overlooking a temporary...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Jarvis U.S.A. General Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Military hospitals--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of the Jarvis U.S.A. General Hospital in Baltimore. This hospital occupied the estate of Major General George H....
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...
Color lithograph drawn from nature by August Kollner, lithographed by Deroy, printed by Cattier, and published by Goupil, Vibert, & Co., New York & Paris, 1848, that features a view of Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore. The cemetery was dedicated in...
Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications; Landscapes; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. This view looks southeast from the main entrance. The Fort stands on land first...
