Miscellaneous sketches by Adalbert Volck. The purpose of these sketches is unknown. The topmost sketches include a number of profiles of men's heads and are subtitled with the text "smoke pictures - purely accidental (of course)." There are two...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Baltimore Museum of Art--Exhibitions; Miniature Rooms;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of museum-goers viewing an exhibit of miniature rooms. In the foreground left of the drawing, a woman is shown from behind. She wears a coat, a hat, and holds a pocketbook. She stands next to the large...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in mid-1800's, that features Fort Marshall in Baltimore. This lithograph is one in a series of Civil War scenes in and around Baltimore by Sachse. Fort...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore during the mid-1800's, that features a view of Market Street in Baltimore, and frequently called the Museum Print. One of eight known copies, it is...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Horses; Livery; Maryland; Metis; Native Americans; Ox driving; Oxen; Railroads; United States History; Wagons;
Photograph of Red River oxcarts hauling hides, an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a celebration of its one hundredth birthday held from September 24 to October 15, 1927 at outdoor fairgrounds in...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--St. Mary's County;African Americans--Dwellings;Farmhouses--Maryland--Deep Falls;Horses--Maryland
Photograph of a farmhouse (formerly slave quarters) at Deep Falls in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The farmhouse is a two-story frame building surrounded by a white picket fence and flanked on the far and rear sides by tall, leafless trees (it is...
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...
Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, Mrs. E. A.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkard's Lone Child!" from a song written in 1866 by "Stella" (Nellie H. Bradley) with music by "Figaro" (Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst [1836-1918]) and also known as "Father's a Drunkard, and Mother Is Died."...
Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, E. A., Mrs.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkards' [sic] Lone Child" from a song written by Nellie H. Bradley (pseudonym "Stella") with music by Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst (pseudonym "Figaro") (1836-1918) and also entitled "Father's a Drunkard, and...
Bereavement; Broadsides; Love; Milburn, Richard James; Songs; Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Listen to the Oriole Bird" sung to an 1855 song entitled "Listen to the Mocking Bird" composed and published by Septimus Winner, with credit for the tune given to African American Richard Milburn (born...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Listen to the Oriole Bird" sung to the 1855 song "Listen to the Mocking Bird" composed by Septimus Winner (1827-1902) from a tune by the African American Richard James Milburn (born ca. 1814). In this...
Document containing the broadside entitled "See That My Grave's Kept Green" from an 1876 song written by Gus Williams (1847-1915). The speaker of this broadside offers advice to his "darling" on how to remember their time together when he dies. He...
Broadsides; Family; Irish Americans; Kerrigan, J. F.; McCarthy, Dan; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Give an Honest Irish Lad a Chance" from a song written by Dan McCarthy with music by J. F. Kerrigan. This broadside tells in story how difficult it was for many Irish immigrants arriving in New York in...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an aerial view of trucks moving across a field, with one truck leaving tire tracks in the grass (the "wrong" way) and one showing no tire tracks (the "right" way). Below this image are the words "Hide those tracks! They guide...
Recruiting and enlistment; United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of a soldier holding a rifle with fixed bayonet horizontally across his chest, standing with one leg rising out of North America and one leg rising out of South America. The caption for this poster reads "Como un solo hombre," which...
August Mencken and Brother; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $400 for one sorrel horse, harness and wagon purchased by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, August Mencken, signed by Herman Ellis and dated September 26, 1892. It is thought this may be the receipt for the pony...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Weather; World War II;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher. In the center of the drawing, the title "The Weather for 1941" is written in pencil. On the sides of the drawing are two columns, each with different figures and scenes related to the weather and seasons. At the...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features the William Wallace Monument in Druid Hill Park. This statue was given to the city by William Wallace Spence and unveiled on St. Andrew's Day in 1893. It is...
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...
Iron foundries; Jones Falls (Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Color lithograph that features a view of the foundry on Jones' Creek near Baltimore. This lithograph, drawn by Jacques Milbert after W. G. Walls and lithographed by Bechebois is number 52 of a set. The upper margin is lettered Amérique...
