African American Agricultural laborers--Maryland--St. Mary's County; Ox driving; Oxen; Saws
Photograph of a team of oxen pulling a saw rig on Tudor Hall Lane in Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland. An African American man is driving this two-ox rig, a type of farm motive power used in St. Mary's County for three centuries.
In his letter dated November 29, 1835 and written from Augusta, Georgia, William Poe, Jr., a cousin, relates some interesting facts about the Georgian branch of the Poe family to Maria Clemm. The letter is testament to the piety of this branch of...
Baltimore (Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph that features a view of Baltimore circa 1839 published in Paris by August Bry. This is substantially the view painted by William Henry Bartlett, but with numerous and often fantastic alterations (see Cator Prints 46, 101, and...
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, that features a view of the Pimlico Race Course. The first meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico was held in October 1870, when 12,000 persons attended. It was at the Fall Meet, 1877, that...
Enoch Pratt Free Library;Branch libraries--Maryland--Baltimore;Library users--Maryland--Baltimore;Library employees--Maryland--Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the interior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 11 at number 6 South Central Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Funded by the Maccabeans, a Jewish philanthropic group concerned about the numerous immigrants living in this area...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the northwest corner of the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or Great Mechanics' Hall) located on Baltimore Street and Centre Market Space (opposite Harrison Street)....
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Wetherald...
Photograph of an etching of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located on Baltimore Street and Centre Market Space (opposite Harrison Street) before the 1904 fire. Designed by Reasin...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking south from Harrison and Fayette Streets at the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located at Baltimore Street and Market Space. Designed by Reasin...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Power-plants; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867;...
Photograph taken looking south at a Maryland National Guardsman on duty before the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located at Baltimore Street opposite Harrison Street....
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking south from Harrison and Fayette Streets at the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located at Baltimore Street and Market Space. Designed by Reasin...
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...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Der Deutchman's Philosophy, or John Schmidt." The verses are written phonetically in imitation of a German accent. The title and all of the verses are displayed within a decorative border. Above the...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891; Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881; Political...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hurrah for Jeff. Davis" from a song sung to the Scottish tune "Bonnets o' Blue." Written by a "Lady Rebel," these celebratory verses praise Jeff. (Jefferson) Davis, President of the Confederate States of...
Broadsides; Love; Songs; United States History War of 1812; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Edwin and Mary." This broadside tells the story of two young lovers, Edwin and Mary, who were torn apart by war. That war was probably the War of 1812, when American merchant ships were being stopped on...
Broadsides; Flags; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with the words "I left New Kent Court-house, all in the month of May." This broadside, written by Edwin Rosell of Company G of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (known originally as "The Luzerne...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Richmond Taken" sung to the tune "The Days When We Went Gipsying" composed by N. J. Sporle (1812-1853). The title of this broadside is used ironically, in that the broadside purports to tell the story of...
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 "Southern Prisoner Gives His Thanks to the Baltimore Ladies" sung to the 1851 tune "The American Boy" written by J. H. Hewitt. This broadside, which appears to be the Confederate answer to the untitled...
Broadsides; Death; Howard, Frank, 1851-1914; Love songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "When the Robins Nest Again," from an 1883 song written by Frank Howard. Born J. F. Martindale (1851-1914), he performed in minstrel shows and became one of the highest paid writers and composers of songs...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
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...
