Photograph taken looking southeast from the roof of the Fidelity Building at the Baltimore business district before the 1904 fire. The Fidelity Building, which is located on the northwest corner of Charles and Lexington Streets, affords an elevated...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Fire engines; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of firemen filling Baltimore City Fire Department steam pumpers with water from a fire plug at the corner of Calvert and Lombard Streets. To their left are a few spectators--all in shirt sleeves and straw hats. In the background is 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...
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...
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...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Death; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter mistakenly dated Saturday evening October 28th, 1849 (Saturday occurred on October 27 in 1849) and most likely written from Providence, Rhode Island, Sarah Helen Whitman, engaged to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848, expresses her sympathy to...
Browne, William Hand, 1828-1912; Letters; Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898; Memorial rites and ceremonies; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
William Hand Browns' English translation of Stéphane Mallarmé's letter dated April 4, 1876 and written from Paris, France to Sara Sigourney Rice concerning Rice's request for a few lines from Mallarmé to be included in a book entitled Edgar...
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Richmond, Nancy Heywood, 1820-1898;
In this letter dated January 7, 1864 and written from New York City, Elizabeth Fries Ellet mentions briefly her trip to Europe to Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond. Apparently responding to a request from Mrs. Richmond for a photograph, Mrs. Ellet...
In this letter dated August 29, 1835 and written from Richmond, Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe reassures his aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia that he is saving money and that if the two agree to come live with him in Richmond he will provide...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Ships in art;
Colored aquatint by Louis Garneray after one of his own drawings and published by Hocquart of Paris and Bailly Ward & Co. of New York. It was taken from volume 5 of Vues des Côtes de France dan l'Ocean et dans la Mediterranéo, a large collection...
Original etching by Sears Gallagher that features a view of Lexington Market in Baltimore. This covered market has been a Baltimore tradition since 1782, when land donated by General John Eager Howard (1752-1827), a soldier in the American...
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889; Political posters;
Colored lithograph by Currier & Ives, the Grand National Democratic Banner, 1864. A campaign poster urges the election of General George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton as president and vice president respectively, over Lincoln and Johnson....
Original pen drawing by Griffith B. Coale that features a view of the old Trinity Church on Trinity Street in Baltimore around 1920. Trinity Episcopal Church was consecrated in October 1811 and is still standing [as of 1933 when this description...
Engraving after the drawing by T. L. Bogueta. An improvement on Moale's view by an artist of whom nothing in known. The marginal lettering tallies with that in the print published by Coale of Baltimore in 1817 (Cator Print 128) except for...
Buildings; Church buildings; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Monuments; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.); Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Baltimore City from the North. A bird's eye view from North Washington Place, affording an excellent glimpse...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Monasteries; Tower clocks;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. that features a view of the St. Joseph's Passionist Monastery and Church near Baltimore, Maryland. It is located on Old Frederick Road and Monastery Avenue in the Irvington section of Baltimore. This, the second building...
Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications; Landscapes;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. This is a companion to Cator Print 166 carrying the names of the 21st New York...
Painting of Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Benedict Leonard Calvert, second son of the third Lord Baltimore, upon the...
Allegany County (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Carroll County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Dorchester County...
Map of Maryland by George W. Boynton, dated 1838, that shows twenty Maryland counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel (spelled "Ann Arundel"), Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Kent, Montgomery, Prince...
