Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "True Union Ladies of Maryland," a poem sung to the tune "Maryland, My Maryland" (i.e., "Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum"). This broadside tells of the frustration that many Maryland women, especially "True Union...
Photograph taken looking east from North Gay Street at the Phoenix Shot Tower located at number 801 East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Constructed in 1828 of 1.1 million bricks without the use of scaffolding by the Phoenix Shot Tower...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the northwest corner of East Fayette and Colvin Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story brick buildings were scheduled to be razed as part of the Fayette Street widening project. The second building on the left at...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
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...
Broadsides; Pike, Marshall S. (Marshall Springs); Reunions; Travel;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Home Again" from the song composed by Marshall S. Pike. This broadside relates how good it feels to be home from a foreign shore, reunited with old friends. Centered between the two words of the title is...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Bradford, Augustus W. (Augustus Williamson), 1806-1881; Broadsides; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Flags; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and...
Document containing the broadside entitled "In Maryland, My Maryland." This broadside, the Union answer to the Confederate poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, claims Union soldiers are true soldiers just like...
Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland's Appeal" sung to the tune of Thomas Moore's poem "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls." This broadside laments Marylanders' loss of freedom under the marshal law imposed by Abraham Lincoln...
Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland's Appeal" sung to the tune of Thomas Moore's poem "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls." This broadside laments Marylanders' loss of freedom under the marshal law imposed by Abraham Lincoln...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America; Flags; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "There Is Life in Old Maryland Yet" written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside employs a refrain...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland, My Home" from an 1853 minstrel song written by C. J. F., with music by Stewart Macaulay (not shown). This broadside tells the story of a young man who, though he has sailed across the Atlantic...
Baltimore (Md.); Political ballads and songs; Price, William, 1794?-1868;
Document containing the broadside entitled "William Price" sung to the tune "John Todd." The speaker of this Confederate broadside asks William Price why he, as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1861-1862, sponsored the "Treason Bill"...
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...
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;...
In this incomplete letter dated only Sunday evening June 15 and written probably in 1856 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond complains that it has been too long since she and Muddie (Maria Clemm) have sat and talked. She...
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...
Colored lithograph drawn from nature by August Kollner, lithographed by Laurent DeRoy, and published by Goupil, Vibert & Co. of New York and Paris, 1852. This print, number 3 of the set of six local scenes published in Views of American Cities,...
Buildings; Monuments; Streets; Views; War memorials;
Colored lithograph by Deroy, after a drawing by August Kollner, that features a view of the Battle Monument in Baltimore. The building on the extreme right, occupying part of the site of the present Munsey Building, was the Mechanics Bank. Beyond...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Ships in art;
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. Neale at Illman & Pilbrow's in 1831, that features a view of Baltimore taken near Whetstone Point. This is one of the celebrated Bennett...
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the old Lovely Lane Church in Baltimore. This church once stood on the site of the present Merchants Club on Redwood Street east...
