Document containing the broadside entitled "Ma's Gone Out to Pray." This broadside tells the story of a young boy whose mother has gone out to pray at saloons to stop men, especially husbands, from drinking alcohol. The "Dio Lewis" mentioned in the...
April Fools' Day; Broadsides; Emancipation Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "On L-N's Proclamation of April 1st, 1863" from a song written "by a Marylander." This broadside expresses how many Marylanders sympathetic to the Confederate cause viewed "L-N's [Abraham Lincoln's...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hark! Baby, hark!" This broadside tells the story of a slave woman who is dying from a whipping she received while trying to protect her child from the cruel blows of her master. Her husband recounts the...
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"...
In this undated letter believed to have been written in December 1854 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Mrs. Nancy Heywood) Richmond in a playful but sympathetic tone wishes Muddie (Maria Clemm) better health, trying to raise her spirits by...
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."...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dear Robin I'll Be True" from the song by (William) Banks Winter (1857-1936), a minstrel performer and, later, an actor. This broadside lists Otto Sutro & Co. of No. 207 W. Baltimore Street as the music...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Do Not Turn Me From Your Door." An only child is begging for money or food for herself and her widowed, sick mother. The title and all of the verses are displayed within a decorative border. Above the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Matrimonial Sweets" from a song written and arranged by W. H. Freeman, as sung by the comic duet of Miss Woodward and Mr. Boynes. This broadside is the script of a spat between a husband and his wife....
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...
Birds in literature; Broadsides; Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907; White, C. A. (Charles Albert), 1832-1892;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Come, Birdie, Come" with Will. S. Hays listed as the author. In this broadside the speaker talks to a bird sitting in a nest nearby, asking the bird to come and live with him in his home. The bird flies...
Greeting cards--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Christmas and New Year's greeting card to his parents for the 1887-1888 season. At 7 years of age, a very young and very humble "Harry", the name his family called him as a boy, shows an early ability...
In this undated letter believed to be written October 10, 1849 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond pores out her grief and sympathy at the death of Edgar Allan Poe and invites Maria Clemm to come live with her for as long as...
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Richmond, Nancy Heywood, 1820-1898;
In this letter dated January 7, 1864 and written from New York City, Elizabeth Fries Ellet mentions briefly her trip to Europe to Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond. Apparently responding to a request from Mrs. Richmond for a photograph, Mrs. Ellet...
