Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Dorchester County (Md.); Kent County (Md.); Maps; Maryland; Saint Mary's County (Md.); Talbot County...
Map of Virginia and Maryland by Augustine Herrman for Lord Baltimore, dated 1673, reproduced by Edward H. Richardson Associates, Inc. North is to the right on this map which includes the following counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore (spelled...
Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Dorchester County (Md.); Kent County (Md.); Maps; Maryland; Talbot County (Md.); Virginia;
Map of Virginia and Maryland by Francis Lamb, dated 1676, that shows 8 Maryland counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert (referred to as "Calverton"), Cecil (spelled "Caecil"), Charles, Dorchester, Kent, and Talbot. Conspicuously absent from the...
Allegany County (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Carroll County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Choptank River...
Map of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) by John F. Weishampel, Jr., a Baltimore bookseller and stationer. This map is dated 1875 and features all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel,...
Baltimore (Md.); Cemeteries; Harbors; Maps; Maryland; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.);
Map of Baltimore City dated 1907 that includes street names and features such as parks, cemeteries, railroad lines and stations, and some neighborhoods. On this map the city limits stretch to the north just above 41st Street, to the south along the...
Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. George Calvert, the virtual founder of Maryland, was born at Kiplin, in the North Riding...
Photograph taken looking south at the 200 block South Caroline Street from its intersection with East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Many African Americans are walking along the sidewalks or sitting in chairs or on the front steps of the...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Born during the trying period when his father was straining his resources to maintain...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Immediately after the death of the fourth Lord, the principal powers specified by the...
Patriotism; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of Uncle Sam after he's put down his top hat and donned a work hat. Uncle Sam is wearing a white, buttoned-down-collar shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and there is a bandage covering a wound on one of his forearms.
Broadsides; Flags; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with the words "I left New Kent Court-house, all in the month of May." This broadside, written by Edwin Rosell of Company G of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (known originally as "The Luzerne...
United States. Navy--Boats; United States. Navy--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster featuring a black and white photograph of a U.S. Navy destroyer tender and part of her flotilla (center), surrounded by sketches of various other support ships, i.e., "Navy ships behind the scenes." Below the photograph is text...
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....
Bald eagle in art; Printing--United States--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Two color posters on one sheet: "The Pen and the Sword", a poster printed in patriotic red, white, and blue colors, is on the obverse side; and Crocker-McElwain's paper news poster, volume 1, number 2, May 1942, a four-page pamphlet, is on the...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
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...
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...
Advertisement for the Food Stamp Plan dating from 1941. The advertisement explains that the Food Stamp Plan, operated by the United States Dept. of Agriculture in conjunction with local agencies and businesses, distributes surplus farm and food...
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...
World War, 1939-1945; Savings bonds; Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971; Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957; Sapieha, Virgilia, 1904-1966;
Advertisement for a war bond rally held at Maryland Casualty Auditorium in Baltimore, MD on December 14, 1943. Speakers included authors Ogden Nash (as Master of Ceremonies), Christopher Morley, and Princess Paul Sapieha.
Advertising cards--United States; Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Color advertising card. On one side (page 1) is a depiction of two angelic female figures holding a banner displaying the United States flag as they rise above a globe of the Earth on which the words North America are displayed and below which is a...
