Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the house at number 811 West Lexington Street where H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken was born. On September 12, 1880, when Mencken was born, this house was numbered 380 West Lexington Street; by 1940, when Mencken commented on this picture...
Horse-drawn vehicles; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.); Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1892 by James F. Hughes of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (right) and siblings at their summer house in Mount Washington. Standing to the left is Mencken's brother Charles Edward with his youngest brother August (left...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Caricatures and cartoons; Smart set (New York, N.Y.); Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Pen and ink drawing made in November of 1915 by W. F. Pensel of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. In this caricature, Mencken is dressed as a knight seated on a well-ridden work horse or nag. Projecting out of the brim of Mencken's hat is a plume or...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Newspapers; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 by a Baltimore Post staff photographer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken wearing "a brown derby a la Al Smith" with the word "Boss" printed in big white letters across the front. In his scrapbook below this...
Guffey, Joseph F., 1870-1959; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in February 14, 1935* of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (right) with Senator Joseph F. Guffey (left) of Pennsylvania at an anti-lynching legislative hearing in Washington, D.C. On February 14, 1935, Mencken testified at a...
Marriage records--Maryland; Maryland--Genealogy; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Registers of births, etc.--Maryland;
Document showing the marriage certificate of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's parents, August Mencken and Anna Margareta Abhau, dated November 11, 1879. This four-page document includes a page to record their own births and the births of their...
Buddenbohn, C. L. (Charles L.), 1851-1909; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document signed by C. L. (Charles L.) Buddenbohn, M.D., and dated October 2nd, 1880 in receipt of $10.00 paid by Mr. A. (August) Mencken for the delivery (birth, confinement) of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. In his autobiography Happy Days,...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Document showing the first typescript page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's commencement address delivered at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute on June 23, 1896, when he was just 15 years old. This first page of Mencken's speech clearly shows his...
African American men--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Hill, John, 1770-1850; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting,...
Black and white photograph of the J. Hill engraving of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Clear Sky, Turkey Hill on the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Two young...
African American boys--Maryland; Fishing in art; Landscape painting, American--19th century; Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891; Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854; Susquehanna River; Watercolor painting, American--19th century
Black and white photograph of the John H. B. Latrobe watercolor entitled "Dark Foreground, View of the Susquehannah" and published by Fielding Lucas, Jr. in his 1827 book entitled Progressive Drawing Book. Signed E. Van Blon, a pseudonym used by...
Correspondence schools and courses; Journalism--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing the first page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's "student's test" for the Associated Newspaper Bureau School of Journalism. Completed but never sent, this document provides a glimpse into the 19-year-old Mencken's aspirations for a...
Children's drawings; Gunboats; Illustrated London news; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pencil drawing of a Portuguese gunboat on the Zambesi (also spelled Zambezi) river in Africa done by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1890. For a model, Mencken may have used the picture of a Portuguese "gun-boat" on the Zambesi river appearing in...
August Mencken and Brother; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $400 for one sorrel horse, harness and wagon purchased by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, August Mencken, signed by Herman Ellis and dated September 26, 1892. It is thought this may be the receipt for the pony...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Real property tax--Maryland; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Tax collection--Maryland--Baltimore;
Document showing the 1898 property tax bill paid July 27 of that year by H. L. Mencken's father, August Mencken, on their house at number 1524 Hollins Street. With the property assessed at $400.00, the total state and city property tax bill...
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...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.); Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph probably taken in 1892 by James F. Hughes of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his parents and siblings on the porch of their summer house in Mount Washington. Standing from left to right are brother Charles Edward, H. L. M....
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of his mother Anna Margareta (Abhau) Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street about 1895.
Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by H. L. Mencken of his father August Mencken standing in the backyard of their home at number 1524 Hollins Street on January 1, 1895.
