Animals; War horses; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster featuring Fortunino Matania's (1881-1963) illustration entitled "Good-bye, Old Man". In the illustration, a soldier says good-bye to a horse that has received a fatal wound. The full caption for this poster reads as follows: "Help the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Baby's Got A Tooth" from a song written by Charley Reed and arranged by H. Wannemacher (music not included). This broadside tells the story of an eight-month-old baby boy who has just received his first...
Cannon's Ferry (Sussex County, Del.); Cannon, Lucretia P., d. 1829; Slave traders--Maryland; Ferries--Delaware
Photograph of Cannon's Ferry in Woodland, Sussex County, Delaware. Spanning the Nanticoke River, originally owned and operated by members of the Cannon family since 1793, the ferry was taken over by the State of Delaware in the mid-eighteen...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in mid-1800's, that features Fort Marshall in Baltimore. This lithograph is one in a series of Civil War scenes in and around Baltimore by Sachse. Fort...
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a dwelling dubbed the oldest house in Baltimore, the home of Kaminskey's Tavern. This building has also been referred to as "Washington's Headquarters" because tradition says that he...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Viaducts--Maryland;
Engraving by Henry Adlard after the painting by William Henry Bartlett. A proof of the view was published in N. F. Willis' American Scenery. Built in 1834, this famous bridge at Relay is still a part of the main line of the road. It was called the...
Dwellings--Maryland; Frederick County (Md.); Methodist preaching; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features John Evan's House. G. O. M. Roberts, author of G. O. M. Roberts' Centenary Pictorial Album…of the early history of Methodism in the State...
Iron foundries; Jones Falls (Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Color lithograph that features a view of the foundry on Jones' Creek near Baltimore. This lithograph, drawn by Jacques Milbert after W. G. Walls and lithographed by Bechebois is number 52 of a set. The upper margin is lettered Amérique...
Aquatint, in colors, published in 1817 by Edward Johnson Coale of Baltimore. This is a reconstruction of the rough view by John Moale made on the spot in 1752, now in the Maryland Historical Society library. The Moale sketch has been considerably...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parsonages;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle that features a view of the old parsonage on Light Street in Baltimore taken from Roberts' book Centenary Pictorial Album. This print is the same as Cator Print 86 except that it is uncolored....
Baltimore (Md.); Canton (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Maps;
Engraving by James Poupard of Philadelphia after a drawing by A. P. Folie that features a plan of the town of Baltimore and its environs around 1792. This is said to be one of the earliest known detailed maps of Baltimore showing the three units...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore during the mid-1800's, that features a view of Market Street in Baltimore, and frequently called the Museum Print. One of eight known copies, it is...
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., the cover of sheet music published by Henry McCaffrey, Baltimore, and J. F. Ellis, Washington, D.C., that features a view of the Sun Iron Building erected in 1851 at the southeast corner of Baltimore and South...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Christmas trees;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a man selling Christmas trees. The man wears a winter hat and coat, and has a pipe in his mouth. A woman stands next to him, and she appears to be a potential customer. The man gestures at the...
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...
World War, 1939-1945--Protest movements; Boycotts; Munich Four-Power Agreement (1938)
Flyer advertising a peace rally held at City Hall Plaza in Baltimore, Maryland on October 8, 1938. The flyer says "Stop Hitler Now" at the top. It advocates the boycotting of Nazi goods and protests the annexation of part of Czechcloslovakia by...
Bland, James A. (James Allen), 1854-1911; Broadsides; Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901; Love; Minstrels; Rejection (Psychology);
Document containing the broadside entitled "Good Bye, Susan Jane." This broadside tells the story of a young man rejected by a young woman named Susan Jane, who says that she has fallen in love with another man. James A. (Jimmy) Bland, one of the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Holiday's Dream, After Too Much Egg Nog." This broadside is a light-hearted advertisement for "Marble Hall," a clothing store owned by Smith, Bros. & Co. in the 1860s and located at 40 West Baltimore...
Anthropomorphism in art; Engraving, French--19th century; French wit and humor, Pictorial; Illustration of books--France--19th century;
Engraving of people depicted as animals from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XXX (30), a dog holding a bowl and a rat holding...
Letters; Memorials; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Correspondence;
In this letter dated February 18, 1876 and written from his home at Farrisford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Alfred Lord Tennyson replies curtly to Sara Sigourney Rice's request for a contribution to her Edgar Allan Poe memorial. Written on the...
