Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Down-trodden Maryland" sung to the Charles Dibdin tune "Tom Bowling." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Constitutional amendments; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Parades; Politicians;
Colored lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, 687 West Baltimore Street, 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 Celebration on May 19th...
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.); Potomac River;...
Map of Virginia and Maryland by Emanuel Bowen, dated 1747, 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...
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...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
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...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Down-trodden Maryland" sung to the Charles Dibdin tune "Tom Bowling." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Institute, Renaissance revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Baltimore; Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954; Pell, Francis Livingston, 1873-1945; Gothic revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Baltimore; College of Art;...
View of the main building of the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts and the Schools of Art and Design, as it was then known (in 1959 changed its name to Maryland Institute, College of Art). Designed by architects Pell &...
The "Old Sun Building" was built in 1906 to replace the previous version, i.e. the Iron Building, that perished in the 1904 fire. It was designed by two well-known Baltimore architects Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916) and Josias Pennington...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Courthouses--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Wyatt, James Bosley Noel, 1847-1926; Nolting, William Greaner, 1866-1940
This is the third courthouse built in this location on Monument Square. Two previous buildings were razed in 1805 and 1895, respectively. A competition held for the present building design was won by the team of two prominent Baltimore architects,...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Courthouses--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Wyatt, James Bosley Noel, 1847-1926; Nolting, William Greaner, 1866-1940
This is the third courthouse built in this location on Monument Square. Two previous buildings were razed in 1805 and 1895, respectively. A competition held for the present building design was won by the team of two prominent Baltimore architects,...
Amusement parks Maryland; Correspondence; Cost; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.; James Lawrence Kernan Hospital (Baltimore, Md.); Money; Winter sports;
Letter from R. E. Lee Taylor to Mr. Frederic C. Lee concerning visiting amateur skaters and carnival expenses. In his letter Mr. Taylor, a member of the board of directors of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., agrees with Mr. Lee that entertainment...
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...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Portrait photograph taken in 1928 by Edgar T. Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing in the backyard of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street. Mencken had lived at this address since 1883. He stands near the west wall, which he had built...
Lancaster (Pa.); Letters; Marriage; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Virginia Mencken Morrison, June 27, 1941. Virginia Mencken (1915-1980) was the only child of Mencken's brother, Charles. She had married David Morrison the previous month, and this union would generate two sons. Note...
