Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Jones, Edward Franc, 1828-1913; Riots; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Baltimore Boys' Own" sung to the tune "Charley Cole." This broadside is a call to the sons of the South to take arms against their Northern foes. It particularly refers to the Baltimore riot of 1861 in...
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...
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...
African Americans; Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Minstrels; Slavery; Songs; ; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884
Document containing the broadside entitled "Kingdom Coming" from a song written by Henry Clay Work (music not provided) and published in 1862. This broadside, told in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, relates with wry humor...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) Siege, 1861; Political ballads and songs; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883; United...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Southern Wagon." This broadside is an advertisement to join the Confederacy, the "Southern wagon" of the verses. It mentions Jeff. Davis and Alexander Stephens, president and vice president of the...
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...
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...
Church buildings; Monuments; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Round towers;
Hand colored print that features a view of Baltimore around 1850 and is said to be the only known copy. Conspicuous objects in this view from Federal Hill are the tall spire of the German Reformed Church, situated near Gay and Water Streets, and...
Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Hospital; Monuments; Round towers; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Steel engraving by James Smillie after the drawing by T. K. Wharton, taken from the New York Mirror, 1835, that features a view of the Washington Monument. This view is from near the present intersection of Monument Street before Mount Vernon Place...
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Hotels; Jones Falls (Md.); Round towers;
Lithograph by Philip Haas after Swett, published by N. Hickman of Baltimore in 1837, that features a view of Baltimore circa 1837. This rare print shows the city from the north near the Jones Falls, and affords fine glimpses of the old Jail, the...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.);
Lithograph based on a sketch from nature by Fitz Hugh Lane, lithographed and printed in colors by Sarony & Major of New York and published by A. Conant, which features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. From the eastern slope of Federal Hill...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Ships in art;
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. Neale at Illman & Pilbrow's in 1831, that features a view of Baltimore taken near Whetstone Point. This is one of the celebrated Bennett...
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that shows the Phoenix Shot Tower at the end of the street in the distance. Built by the...
Photograph of the interior of Fennell's (misspelled Fennel's on label) Greater Pharmacy located on the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to drugs, this particular store sells items such as cigars and...
Photograph of the interior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 on the northeast corner of Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The interior features an arched, high ceiling with bookshelves lining the walls and...
Bridges; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Jones Falls (Md.); Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west across the Lombard Street Bridge over the Jones Falls at the burnt district. Designed and built by Wendel Bollman in 1877, this is a truss-type cast-iron bridge and carries both traffic (people and vehicles) and water...
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; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The American Star" sung to the tune "Humors of Glen." The American Star in this broadside most likely refers to the Confederate flag known as the "Bonnie Blue," a flag which bore a single white star on a...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee" from the song written by Harry Braisted with music (not included) by Stanley Carter. This broadside tells the story of a young man returning home to Tennessee after a...
