Animals; War horses; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster featuring Fortunino Matania's (1881-1963) illustration entitled "Good-bye, Old Man". In the illustration, a soldier says good-bye to a horse that has received a fatal wound. The full caption for this poster reads as follows: "Help the...
Maryland Hospital; Hospitals in art--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Lithoghraphy; Hospital architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington College Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Carriages and carts; Deroy, Laurent,...
Photograph of a lithograph entitled "Maryland Hospital" by Isodore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) of a drawing ("drawn from nature") by Augustus Köllner (1813-1906), published by Goupil, Vibert and Company in 1852. Maryland Hospital (Baltimore, Md.),...
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...
Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862; Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858; Broadsides; Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Cadwalader, George, 1806-1879; Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Jackson, Stonewall,...
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with a Latin epigram, "Quamdiu tandem abutere patientiae nostra? Ad quem finem sese jactabit audacia?" and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist)....
United States. Marine Corps--Flags; United States. Marine Corps--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918; United States. Marine Corps--Recruiting Station (Baltimore, Md.); War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918; World War,...
Color poster that features four marines in khaki uniforms leading a column of marines across a beach. The two marines in the center are carrying United States Marine Corps flags. These marines are flanked by two other marines carrying rifles....
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...
Drawing; Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908; Simpson, J. Palgrave (James Palgrave), 1807-1887; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the three-act comedy, A Scrap of Paper, J. Palgrave Simpson's adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play, Les Pattes de mouche. In this sketch, two women standing in a well-furnished...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Agriculture;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of two workers in a field of crops. Both men hold rakes or hoes. In the background a barn and silos are visible. The drawing was created as an illustration for "Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State" (published...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Agriculture;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of two workers in a field. In the foreground of the drawing, a man is shown in profile kneeling in a bed of crops. In the background, a man carrying a basket on his shoulder is shown from behind. The drawing was...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "All Spice; or, Spice for All" and written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside derides the North and...
Bible. O.T. Kings--Illustrations; Illustration of books--Germany--15th century; Wood-engraving, German--15th century;
Pages with rubrication and a hand-colored woodcut from a chapter or section on the bible (Old Testament) titled Das ander buch der kunig (The other book of kings [?]) published between 1478 and 1479. These pages are the front (recto) and back...
At the Antietam Civil War battle on September 17, 1862 over 22,000 soldiers on both sides were killed, wounded or listed as missing, making it the bloodiest day of the war. The battle took place by the Antietam Creek, located near Sharpsburg in...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "An Appeal to the South" and signed by "H.", "A Daughter of Dixie." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside calls on Southerners to take up arms and defend themselves against the tyranny...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Art;
Pen and drawing by Aaron Sopher of a woman viewing a work of art. The woman wears a large, conical shaped hat. Only the bottom left corner of the artwork is visible, but it appears to be an abstract painting. In the background of the drawing, a...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Athenaeum Building (Baltimore, Md.);Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the Athenaeum building located on the northwest corner of Saratoga and St. Paul Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849) in the Italianate style, the building became home to the Mercantile Library...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Baby's Got A Tooth" from a song written by Charley Reed and arranged by H. Wannemacher (music not included). This broadside tells the story of an eight-month-old baby boy who has just received his first...
Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Jones, Edward Franc, 1828-1913; Riots; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Baltimore Boys" sung to the tune "Limerick." This broadside particularly refers to the Baltimore riot of 1861 in which Confederate sympathizers attacked Union soldiers from the Sixth Massachusetts...
A view of the harbor and Baltimore panorama as seen from the Federal Hill ca. 1900. The tallest building is the Continental Trust building. To the right of it one can see the tower of the old post office, then the City Hall, to the left there is...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Patterson Park (Baltimore, Md.); Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the observatory (commonly known as the Pagoda) and old fortifications in Patterson Park. A public park in the eastern part of Baltimore city, Patterson Park preserves within its grounds, on Hampstead Hill, the original earthworks thrown by...
The "Old Sun Building" was built in 1906 to replace the previous version, i.e. the Iron Building, that perished in the 1904 fire. It was designed by two well-known Baltimore architects Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916) and Josias Pennington...
