Broadsides; Clocks and watches; Songs; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884;
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Grandfather's Clock" from the 1876 song written by Henry C. Work. This broadside tells the story of a floor clock owned by the speaker's grandfather. The clock, we are told, was bought at the man's...
Colored photograph taken shortly before the old tavern was torn down in 1871 to make way for the Carrollton Hotel. It stood on Light St. near the intersection with East Baltimore St. Here Washington and staff stopped in September 1781 when on their...
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...
Cityscapes; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Government buildings; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. & G. Neale at Illman & Pillbrow's, that features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. This print was published in 1831 as one of a...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parsonages;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the old parsonage on Light Street in Baltimore. This old house was part and parcel of Methodism nearly from its beginnings in...
Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805; Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781; African American boys--Maryland--Talbot County; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930
Black and white photograph of a 1921 color painting entitled "The News of Yorktown" by the renowned American historical painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, depicting Tench Tilghman announcing an American victory at the Battle of Yorktown to citizens...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Horses; Livery; Maryland; Metis; Native Americans; Ox driving; Oxen; Railroads; United States History; Wagons;
Photograph of Red River oxcarts hauling hides, an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a celebration of its one hundredth birthday held from September 24 to October 15, 1927 at outdoor fairgrounds in...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Circus--Maryland--Baltimore;Parades--Maryland--Baltimore;Circus animals--Maryland--Baltimore; Children--Maryland--Baltimore;Horse-drawn vehicles--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of a circus parade on a May afternoon in Victorian era Baltimore, Maryland. A crowd of spectators, including many Caucasian and African American children, watch from the street or from covered coaches (the one on the left is from the...
African American women--Maryland--Baltimore;Slums--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the corner of East Lombard and South Bond Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. In the rear of these three-story brick row houses are dilapidated room extensions and wooden porches. Behind the corner row house with a grocery store on the...
Photograph of a float, most likely carrying bells of the McShane Bell Foundry, in a parade on Baltimore Street just east of Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Four pairs of horses are pulling a float on which one large bell and several smaller...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet 34 pages long containing photographs of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. Includes a few striking facts about the Baltimore fire and a list of some of the greatest fires in the United States that occurred between 1820 and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Steamboats;...
Photograph taken looking northeast across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near the 200 block East Pratt Street between Cheapside and Gay Street. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses including wholesale...
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...
Broadsides; Cutter, G. W. (George Washington), 1801-1865; Patriotism; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Document containing the broadside entitled "E Pluribus Unum, an American National Song." This broadside makes reference to the motto of the United States of America, "E pluribus unum" ("Many in one" or "One from many"), and to its struggle against...
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...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Richmond Taken" sung to the tune "The Days When We Went Gipsying" composed by N. J. Sporle (1812-1853). The title of this broadside is used ironically, in that the broadside purports to tell the story of...
World War, 1939-1945; Air defenses; Civil Defense--Baltimore (Md.);
Air raid warning driving permit issued on March 2, 1943 by the Baltimore Committee on Civilian Defense. The permit number (4449) is in red in the top right corner, and the permit appears to have been issued to a gas detection officer in the a...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Roman Forum (Rome, Italy);
Portrait photograph taken in 1914 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (center) and friends A. H. (Alexander Hopkins) McDannald (1877-1957) (left) and W. Edwin (William Edwin) Moffett (1871-1957) (right) at the Forum in Rome, Italy. According to Mencken,...
