Photograph taken looking north at the west side of the 100 block North Caroline Street from its intersection with East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street consists mostly of three-story brick row houses, some of which have stores on...
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Maps; Potomac River; Virginia;
Map of Virginia by Willem Janszoon Bleau. This map, with the date of 1650 hand-written in the lower right-hand page, shows the area surrounding the Chesapeake (spelled Chesapeack) Bay that became Maryland on June 20, 1632, when Charles I granted...
Allegany County (Md.); Annapolis (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.);...
Map of Maryland and Delaware by J. L. Hazzard published by Charles Desilver of Philadelphia. Dated 1856, five years after the creation of Baltimore City and Howard County, this map shows twenty-two Maryland counties: Allegany (spelled "Alleghany"),...
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.); Choptank River...
Map of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) by John F. Weishampel, Jr., a Baltimore bookseller and stationer. This map is dated 1875 and features all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel,...
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.); Choptank River...
Map of Maryland and Delaware by the Rand McNally Company that appeared in their Indexed Atlas of the World. Dated 1882 this map shows all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore City (city limits shown by grid and...
Baltimore (Md.); Cemeteries; Harbors; Maps; Maryland; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.);
Map of Baltimore City dated 1907 that includes street names and features such as parks, cemeteries, railroad lines and stations, and some neighborhoods. On this map the city limits stretch to the north just above 41st Street, to the south along the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Indians of North America;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a Native American man who has just stepped on a clam or some other type of bivalve. The man grimaces in pain and grasps his foot in his hand. He wears a single feather in his hair. The drawing is marked as...
Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862; Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858; Broadsides; Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Cadwalader, George, 1806-1879; Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Jackson, Stonewall,...
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with a Latin epigram, "Quamdiu tandem abutere patientiae nostra? Ad quem finem sese jactabit audacia?" and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist)....
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Vienna International Exhibition (1873); Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Marguerite" cigars printed by Geo. S. Harris and Sons of Philadelphia for H. L. Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. On the right sitting on a cloak covering a rock is a...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "All Spice; or, Spice for All" and written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside derides the North and...
Postcards—Maryland--Annapolis; Post office buildings--Maryland--Annapolis; Annapolis (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The Annapolis post office opened January 1, 1902. Located at 1 Church Circle, the building was designed by James Knox Taylor, a renowned architect, who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, and oversaw construction of other post...
Contests in art; Food conservation--France; Rationing--France; School children--France--Art; War posters, French; World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--France; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--France;
Color poster by 15-year-old Yvonne Colas, Ecole de filles (Girls' School), 13 rue Sorbier, Ville de Paris (City of Paris), that shows a bayonet slicing through a piece of sugar, with the words "Avec la carte--nous en aurons peu--mais nous en aurons...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
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.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Power-plants; United railways and electric company of Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore business district between the Jones Falls on the east (left) and South Street on the west (right) and Exchange Place on the north (foreground) and the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) on the south...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Baseball; Hutzler's (Firm); Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Scheduling; Stadiums;
Schedule of games for the 1954 American League (AL) baseball season. This schedule includes not only the dates of all games but also the names of all of the coaches and teams in the AL: the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland...
The "Old Sun Building" was built in 1906 to replace the previous version, i.e. the Iron Building, that perished in the 1904 fire. It was designed by two well-known Baltimore architects Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916) and Josias Pennington...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Druid Hill Park (Baltimore, Md.); Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Lakes--Maryland--Baltimore
View of the The Boat Lake, the second and smaller lake inside Druid Hill Park, in Baltimore. The lake was formed in 1865 when a stream was dammed. For decades, visitors could boat on the lake in summer and skate during winter. After 1959, the Boat...
Postcards--Maryland--Bloomington; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--History; Railroads--Maryland; Bloomington (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Seventeen Mile Grade is a 17 mile (27.3 km) steep section of railroad tracks between the small town of Piedmont, West Virginia and the summit of Altamont, Maryland. It is so steep that in some places it reaches 116 feet (35.4 m) per mile. The track...
