Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;African American children--Recreation--Maryland--Baltimore;Checkers; United States. Works Progress Administration of Maryland;
Photograph of two African American boys playing a game of checkers on a sidewalk in Baltimore, Maryland, under the auspices of the Operations Division of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) of Maryland. The checker board sits on top of an...
World War, 1939-1945; Shipyards--Maryland--Baltimore; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd.; Award presentations;
Program for the presentation of the Maritime Merit Eagle Pennant to Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. from the U.S. Maritime Commission on June 13, 1943. Included in the program is an image of a Western Union telegram notifying the President of...
World War, 1939-1945; Award presentations; Food industry--Maryland; S.E.W. Friel Company (Queenstown, Md.);
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of S.E.W. Friel, Queenstown and Wye Mills Plants, on March 17, 1945 at the Centreville Armory in Centreville, Maryland. The program includes images of...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Parks; Bands (Music);
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a band performing outdoors in a park. In the right foreground, a heavyset woman walks by wearing a hat, coat, and high heels. Next to her, a small child is shown from behind. In the center and...
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Used furniture industry--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the west side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is a used furniture store operated out of a garage,...
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; City dwellers--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pratt Street at the west side of South Bethel Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This narrow street consists of two- and three-story brick row houses, with streetlights and utility poles set at intervals along the sidewalk. In the...
Photograph taken looking south at the 1000 block Druid Hill Avenue from its intersection with Hoffman Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the sidewalk to the right are numerous African Americans: two children are playing at the corner; behind them,...
Photograph taken looking south from East Eager Street at North Ensor Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These buildings consist mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. Facing Eager Street are several row houses with stores on the ground floor....
Beaches--Maryland--Ocean City; Shore protection--Maryland--Ocean City; African Americans--Maryland--Ocean City
Photograph of the beach at Ocean City, Maryland. An African American woman is watching over a group of children playing on the sand. Jutting out to their right is a barrier constructed to prevent erosion of the beach.
African American children; African American men; African American women; Annapolis (Md.); Architecture, domestic; Cobblestones; Dwellings; Electric lines; Government buildings; Row houses; Wooden-frame houses;
Photograph of Cornhill (left) and Fleet (right) Streets from Market Space in Annapolis, Maryland. On both sides of these stone-embedded streets are Revolutionary era two-story clapboard row houses. At their intersection is a small (perhaps...
Photograph taken looking south from East Baltimore Street at the west side of the unit block South Bond Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street consists of three-story brick row houses between four-story brick apartment buildings at the corners....
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...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Whist'ling Rufus or the One Man Band" from the 1899 song written by Kerry Mills (born Frederick Allen Mills). This broadside, in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, tells the story of...
Flyer advertising feature films playing at the Towson Theatre in Towson, Maryland between November 25 and December 16, 1939. Included among the films are "Five came back," "Bachelor mother," "Of human bondage," "Hollywood cavalcade," "Babes in...
Flyer advertising the films "The real glory" and "Honeymoon in Bali" to be shown at the Century and the Parkway, respectively, two Loew's Theatres in Baltimore, Maryland. According to the flyer, "The real glory" starring Gary Cooper is now playing...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Cumberland (Md.); Allegany County (Md.); Athletic fields;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 60. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Cumberland, Allegany County. Completion of grading of North Cumberland recreation...
Advertising; Baltimore Orioles (International League : Baseball team); Baltimore Transit Company; Baseball; International League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Physical fitness; Scheduling; Stadiums;
Schedule of home and away games for the 1948 season of the International League Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The schedule includes the dates for home and away games, with the name of the opposing team city listed. Sunday games as well as the...
Advertising; Baltimore Orioles (International League : Baseball team); Baseball; International League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Physical fitness; Scheduling; Stadiums;
Schedule of home and away games for the 1947 season of the International League Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The schedule includes the dates for home and away games, with the name of the opposing team city listed. Saturday and Sunday games as...
Children; Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of three children playing together on an expanse of green grass. They pause in their recreation as the looming shadow of a swastika hovers over and around them. The poster encourages citizens to buy war bonds.
