African American men in art; Clothing and dress in art; Newspaper vendors--Maryland--Baltimore; Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903; Sindall, Harry S., fl. 1850s
Black and white photograph of a Maryland Historical Society (MHS) lithograph of the oil-on-canvas color painting entitled "Moses, the Baltimore News Vendor." The original painting of that title was completed by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) in...
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...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Painting; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Refugees;
Oil on canvas board painting by Aaron Sopher of a family of refugees. The painting depicts a man and woman walking side by side. They are shown in profile. The woman carries a large sack over her shoulder. Next to the woman and in the foreground of...
African American boys--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting, American--19th century
Black and white photograph of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Dark Foreground, View of the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Signed E. Van Blon, a pseudonym used by...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
Baltimore, Cecil Calvert, Baron, ca. 1605-1675; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Cecil (or Cecilius), second Lord Baltimore, to whom King Charles issued the charter of...
African American men--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Hill, John, 1770-1850; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting,...
Black and white photograph of the J. Hill engraving of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Clear Sky, Turkey Hill on the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Two young...
Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805; Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781; African American boys--Maryland--Talbot County; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
Black and white photograph of a 1921 color painting entitled "The News of Yorktown" by the renowned American historical painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, depicting Tench Tilghman announcing an American victory at the Battle of Yorktown to citizens...
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...
Authors, American--20th century--Portraits; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Portrait painting;
Portrait painted in 1927 by Nikol Schattenstein (1877-1954) of a young H. L. Mencken at the height of his career. He is wearing a white shirt unbuttoned at the collar with a pair of red pants and suspenders. The suspenders were a gift from Rudolph...
Authors, American--20th century--Portraits; Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait painting; Reid, O. Richard (Oliver Richard), 1898-1961;
Photograph of the H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken portrait painted by O. Richard (Oliver Richard) Reid on November 7, 1930. Reid was an African American artist working in the Harlem section of New York City when Mencken met and sat for him in the...
Authors, American--20th century--Portraits; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Portrait painting;
Portrait painted in 1972 by Larry Wheeler of an older, wizened H. L. Mencken. Mencken is seated in a chair and holds a cigar in his right hand. He is wearing a white shirt and blue striped pants with a tie and suspenders. (Editor's note: Mencken...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XXX (30), a dog holding a bowl and a rat holding...
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...
Buildings; Cityscapes; Monuments; Streets; War memorials;
Engraving by Archibald L. Dick from the painting by William H. Bartlett. The two-volume work, American Scenery by N.P. Willis, London, 1840, contains Griffith's engraving of this scene among others after paintings by Bartlett. As that seems to have...
Cityscapes; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; War memorials;
Hand colored engraving by Henry Griffiths after William Henry Bartlett's painting that features a view of the Battle Monument. The engraving was taken from Willis' American Scenery, 1840, and has been colored by hand.
Jones Falls (Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Aquatint by John Hill after the painting by John Shaw, 1820, that features a view of the Jones' Falls in Baltimore. One of the best-known works of Hill is the Landscape Album, first issued by M. Carey & Son of Philadelphia, 1820 (reissued in 1835),...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Landscapes--Maryland; Ross, Robert, 1766-1814;
Aquatint engraved by John Hill after the painting by John Shaw and published in 1820 by M. Carey & Sons of Philadelphia in the book Picturesque Views of American Scenery. "The original intention was to issue six numbers, each containing six views,...
Colored reproduction of a painting by Frederic Roux, dated Havre 1843. The picture apparently commemorates the loss of the ship in a storm on the above date.
Buildings; Cityscapes; Monuments; Streets; War memorials;
Engraving by Henry Griffiths after the painting by William Henry Bartlett taken from Willis' book American Scenery published in 1840. This is the same as Cator Print 60 except that Griffith's engraving is uncolored. At this period Monument Square,...
