Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.); Merryman, John, 1824-1881; ;
Document containing the broadside entitled "John Merryman" sung to the Dan Emmett tune "Old Dan Tucker." This broadside tells the story of John Merryman, a Marylander who during the Civil War was arrested and imprisoned without trial at Fort...
Drawing; Theater programs; Theyre-Smith, S. (Spenser); Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketches by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of two Spenser Theyre-Smith comedies, Cut off with a Shilling (upper sketch) and A Happy Pair (lower sketch). Both plays are set in a Victorian parlor. In the first play, a young woman...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; Unionists (United States Civil War); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;...
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. Signed by "W", this broadside is the Unionists' answer to the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; Unionists (United States Civil War); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;...
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. Signed by "W", this broadside is the Unionists' answer to the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall...
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...
Sketches by Adalbert Volck that feature a rider and his mount. In the upper sketch, the horse gallops off with a billow of steam pluming from his nostrils. The riders feet are out of the stirrups, and his hat has blown off his head. In the lower...
Steel engraving titled Parting hawsers off Godsend Ledge by G. Ulman after a work by J. (James) Hamilton at J. M. Butler's establishment, 84 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from a sketch by Elisha Kent Kane from the book written by him and titled...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York; Buildings--New York (State)--New York; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.);
Hand colored print after the painting by Jennie Brownscombe that was published by the Klackner Galleries of New York in 1913. The picture represents a view of Wall Street, from a point a little east of Hanover Street, in the year 1790, or during...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Hospital; Monuments; Round towers; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Steel engraving by James Smillie after the drawing by T. K. Wharton, taken from the New York Mirror, 1835, that features a view of the Washington Monument. This view is from near the present intersection of Monument Street before Mount Vernon Place...
Painting of Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Benedict Leonard Calvert, second son of the third Lord Baltimore, upon the...
African Americans--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Porches--Maryland--Havre de Grace
Photograph of the "old ordinary" at number 100 St. John Street in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland. Built ca. 1814 as an ordinary, i.e., an inn or tavern that offered lodging to travelers, this brick building with a wide wooden veranda off...
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...
Bethlehem Steel Company; African American men--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Blue collar workers--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Rolling-mills--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Steel industry and trade--Maryland--Sparrows Point
Photograph of the cold-rolling of steel inside the Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point plant in Baltimore County, Maryland. Standing at the finishing end of three rolling-mill machines are African American workers stacking the sheet metal on...
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...
Photograph in fisheye view of the waiting room at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland. In preparation for Penn Station's 1983 rededication, window washers are clean lobby windows. One window washer is using a ladder to reach the higher...
Horse sports--Maryland--Baltimore County; African American young men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Horses--Maryland--Baltimore County; Automobiles--Maryland-- Baltimore County
Photograph of a horse and rider taking a jump at an equestrian event in Baltimore County, Maryland. Three men in ties, shirtsleeves, and straw hats or cap, standing off to the side, appear to be judging the event. A young African American man is...
African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Boys--Maryland--Baltimore County; Carriages and carts; Horses; Parsons, James; Webb, R. Prescott--Estate--Maryland--Baltimore County
Photograph of a Victorian-style two-horse carriage characteristic of those seen in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1890s. In this Webb family carriage are seated R. Prescott Webb and the African American coachman thought to be James Parsons. The...
African American women; Addison, Annie, fl. ca. 1842-1920; Baltimore (Md.); Carroll, John Lee, 1830-1911; Domestics; Howard County (Md.); Slaves;
Photograph of Annie Addison, an African American woman born into slavery about 1842 at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. The former slave of John Lee Carroll, Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1879, she for many years thereafter worked...
