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...
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards; Private schools--Maryland;
Document dated July 1, 1892 showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's final report card from F. Knapp's Institute. The location of the school had changed from Holliday Street (see mcms038) to Hollins Street, site of the old Winans' mansion.
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards; Private schools--Maryland;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's final report card for his first year of education at F. Knapp's Institute, dated June 30, 1887. According to the report card, "Master Harry Mencken" was considered to be "a good boy and scholar!" From...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute--Report cards; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Heathan days, 1890-1936; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards;
Document dated April 1896 showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Baltimore Polytechnic Institute senior class report card. This report card includes his monthly grades from October 1895 through April 1896. "Harry", as he was still known, seems to...
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...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Document dated June 23, 1896 showing the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute high school diploma awarded H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. Mencken is just 15 years old at the time. Affixed to the bottom left of the diploma are an orange and black ribbon and...
Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Map of the Duchy of Schleswig, a Danish fief. The upper half is still in Denmark, the lower half reaching to Kiel, Rendsburg and Tonningen now in Germany. Also showing the North-Frisian islands (Sylt, etc.). Dating de Wit's atlases and city map...
Balkan Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800;Italy--Maps--Early works to 1800; Europe, Central--Maps--Early works to 1800;Europe, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Hand-colored engraved map, elaborate figural cartouche, showing the course of the river Danube from Ingolstadt to the Black Sea and the adjacent Balkan countries, plus Italy, Hungary and Poland. Included are contiguous parts of the Adriatic and...
Map of Kent in southern England showing towns, villages and roads with relief shown pictorially. First appeared in the 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia, revised and translated from the original Latin by Edmund Gibson that included fifty maps,...
Map of Cornwall in south-western England showing towns, villages and roads with relief shown pictorially. First appeared in the 1695 edition of William Camden's Britannia, revised and translated from the original Latin by Edmund Gibson. Britannia...
Seine-et-Marne (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Brie (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Decorative map showing Paris and the area in between the rivers Marne and Seine, as they meander through the Brie region, home of the Brie cheese, including Chateau Thierry, Provins and Fontainebleau. Shows fortified towns, woods, cities, lakes,...
Pas-de-Calais (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800.;Nord (France : Dept.)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Engraved map of northeast France and part of French Flanders, or former province of Artois, with relief and forests shown pictorially. Has a decorative title cartouche with the royal coat of arms of the County of Artois and four cherubs. Scale and...
Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Baltimore Museum of Art--Exhibitions; Miniature Rooms;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of museum-goers viewing an exhibit of miniature rooms. In the foreground left of the drawing, a woman is shown from behind. She wears a coat, a hat, and holds a pocketbook. She stands next to the large...
