United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by L. W. (Lester W.) Bentley (1908-1972) that shows an attractive young woman in a U.S. Coast Guard uniform with a lighthouse in the background and the words "The girl of the year is a SPAR" printed in the sky above. Printed below the...
Cityscapes; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Government buildings; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. & G. Neale at Illman & Pillbrow's, that features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. This print was published in 1831 as one of a...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Brick wall signs--Maryland--Baltimore; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking west from about number 1637 East Fayette between North Bond and Broadway Streets at the north side of the 1600 block East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1936-1937, these two- and three-story brick row houses were...
African American men--Maryland--Baltimore;Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore;Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east at the south side of the 200 block West Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Taken from number 255 West Biddle, this picture documents these two- and three-story brick row houses before demolition to make way for the...
African American life--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works;African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Ragpickers--Maryland--Baltimore; Scrap...
Photograph of the south side of the 1000 block Ashland Avenue between Ensor and Aisquith Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These mostly two-story brick row houses are small and in poor repair. On the nearest corner, a Caucasian man is standing in...
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...
Assau Baines Company;African American men--Maryland--Baltimore;Canned foods industry--Maryland--Baltimore;Fire engines
Photograph of the rear of the Assau Baines Company plant at numbers 1715-1717 Thames Street and Commercial Wharf in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. Specializing in the canning of fruits and vegetables, the company was located on Granby Street...
Photograph taken looking west from Cove Alley at Born Court in Baltimore, Maryland. These two-and-one-half-story row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance program. On the left in the...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
United States. Navy--Job descriptions; United States. Navy--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing the portrait of a young woman in a uniform of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), i.e., the women's reserve of the United States Navy, with the words "Women 20 to 36 earn a Navy rating" positioned to her...
United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by (John Joseph) Floherty, Jr., CPO USCGR (Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve) (1907-1977) that shows an attractive young woman in a U.S. Coast Guard uniform holding binoculars, while behind her a sailor holding a rifle...
Flags--United States; Lewis machine gun; United States. Marine Corps--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster by John A. (John Albert) Coughlin (1885-1965) that shows U.S. Marines charging over the top of the trenches, with the United States flag waving in the background and the words "go over the top with U.S. Marines" printed above and below...
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) that shows the character of Uncle Sam pointing a finger at the viewer and saying "I need your skill in a WAR JOB!" Below this are the words "If you know one of these trades and are not now in real...
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...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
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...
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...
