Postcards--Maryland--Dan's Rock; Dan's Rock (Md.)--Pictorial works; Allegheny Mountains--Pictorial works
Dan's Rock, or Dan's Mountain, is the highest mountain in Allegany County near Frostburg. It is 2835 feet (864 meters) high. According to a legend it was named after Daniel Cresap, son of a pioneer and early Maryland settler Thomas Cresap. One day,...
African Americans; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Baltimore (Md.); Refuse; Street lighting;
Photograph of the narrow entrance to "Little Rock Street", reportedly the smallest street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street, which is east of Poppleton between the 800 block West Saratoga and West Lexington Streets, is a block long and, because...
Photograph of Rock Street from its intersection with the 800 block West Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance...
Photograph taken looking at the north side of the 800 block West Lexington Street near Rock Street (left) in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story brick row houses were scheduled to be demolished in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing...
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886; Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891; Beane, Fannie; Behman, Louis C., 1855-1902; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923; Broadsides; Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932; Gilday, Charles; Ingersoll, Robert...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Jumbo!" a parody sung by Fanny [sic] Beane and Charles Gilday. Fannie Beane and Charles Gilday were traveling comedy performers who, after marriage, continued to perform as a team. "Jumbo" was one of the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Landscapes; Parks--Maryland; Forests and Fields; Rocks; Watercolor painting;
Watercolor by Aaron Sopher of an outcropping of rocks and boulders in the woods. Signed by the artist in the bottom right. The setting of this watercolor is Double Rock Park, located in Parkville, Maryland.
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Landscapes; Parks--Maryland; Forests and Fields; Rocks; Trees; Rivers
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a group of women on rocks in the middle of a stream. All of the women are crouched or kneeling, and appear to be washing or dipping their hands in the water. The stream is surrounded by trees....
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
African American life--Maryland--Baltimore;Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;Slums--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking east from Rock Street at the south side of Born Court in Baltimore, Maryland. These two-and-one-half-story brick row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance...
Anderson, William, 1820-1892; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Freedmen--Maryland--Baltimore County; Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Slavery--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Perine family
Photograph of William Anderson (1820-1892), also known as "Uncle Bill", sitting on a rock in a field at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. A former slave, he served the Perine family first as the coachman...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Street lighting--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Advertising--Beverages;
Photograph taken from Mullikin Street (note sign on lamp post) of the west side of North Bethel Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Most of the buildings on Bethel are two-story brick row houses, although in the left foreground is a three-story brick...
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....
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African American women--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore; Housing Authority of Baltimore City; Slums--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking west toward Rock Street from Cove Alley at the north side of Cloney Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These three-story brick row houses with wooden stairs in front were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Baltimore Rebel Song." This broadside calls on the boys of the South to rally around the Confederate flag referred to as the "Red and White," and compares the American Civil War to the American War...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
Ambuhl, Edward; Broadsides; Hackelton, M. W. (Maria Williams), b. 1833; Love; Sadness;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Katie's Secret" from an 1863 song written by M. W. Hackelton with music by Edward Ambuhl. In this broadside a young woman named Katie recounts how her perspective of the world has changed now that her...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Victory at Last," containing the words of a Christian hymn. The hymn portrays Christians as soldiers in Christ's army ("our Saviour is our Captain"). With the world as their battlefield, the Bible as...
Keedysville, fomerly called Centerville, is a small town in Washington County. The area is known for a high concentration of caves, as it lies on Tomstown Dolomite, a carbonic rock formation. The only show-cave in Maryland, Crystal Grottoes,...
Postcards--Maryland--Havre de Grace; Methodist church buildings--Maryland--Havre de Grace; Havre de Grace (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Plack, William L., 1854-1944
Located at 101 South Union Avenue, the former Methodist Episcopal Church (currently called United Methodist Church) in Havre de Grace was built of rock, granite and limestone in 1901-1902 by a Philadelphia architect William Plack. It was a gift to...
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...
