World War, 1939-1945; Victory gardens; Agriculture--Competitions;
Pamphlet for the 1944 Statewide Big Vegetable Contest, organized by the Maryland Victory Garden Committee. The pamphlet includes the rules for the contest, information about contest judges, prize winnings, and an entry blank. According to the...
Broadsides; Children and death; Flowers; Kennedy, Harry; Mothers;
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Flower From My Angel Mother's Grave," a song by Harry Kennedy, the ventriloquist (ca. 1854-1894) (full name believed to be William Henry Kennedy). In this broadside, the speaker cherishes the memory of...
Document containing the broadside entitled "I Only Had 50 Cents," a version of the song known as "The Original Fifty Cents" written by Sam Devere (ca. 1842-1907) , a well-known minstrel and, later, owner of his own vaudeville company who performed...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Meet Me by Moonlight Alone" from the song written by J. Augustine (Joseph Augustine) Wade (1796-1845) and published in England about 1826. The speaker tells his love to "meet him by moonlight alone ... in...
Advertising; Ameche, Alan (Lino Dante "Alan"), 1933-1988; Baltimore Colts (Football team); Baltimore (Md.); Beer; Breweries; Football; National Football League; Pro Football Hall of Fame (U.S.); Radio programs; Prize contests in advertising;...
Schedule of radio and television programs for the 1957 season of the Baltimore Colts football team. The schedule includes the dates and air times for radio and television broadcasts of exhibition and league games. During that season, the Colts...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Baseball; Beer; Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); Prize contests in advertising; Scheduling;
Schedule of home and away games for the 1954 season of the American League Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The schedule includes the dates for home and away games, with the name of the opposing team city listed and with night games and...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team); August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Kilroy, Matthew Aloysius, 1866-1940; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and...
Advertisement (color poster) for the Kilroy cigar printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars, by Isaac Friedenwald of Baltimore. To H. L. and his brothers, this poster was a...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Patterson, Paul Chenery, 1878-1952; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken October 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with Baltimore Sun editor Paul Patterson in Atlanta, Georgia. Ostensibly, Mencken made the trip to publicize the Sunpapers, while Patterson tried to get to know newspaper editors...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Newman, Frances, 1883-1928; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in October 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the writer Frances Newman. Ostensibly, Mencken made the trip through the South to publicize the Sunpapers, while his editor Paul Patterson tried to get to know newspaper...
