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)....
Postcards--Maryland--Sharpsburg; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Antietam National Battlefield (Md.)--Pictorial works; Farms--Maryland--Washington County
During the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, Union troops under generals French and Richardson crossed William Roulette's farm, heading toward a group of Confederate soldiers posted near a sunken road just beyond the property. The farm...
Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; United States. Army--Parachute troops; United States. War Finance Division; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster made from a painting by Georges Schreiber (1904-1977) that shows a U.S. Army paratrooper standing in full battle gear while holding his weapon at ready as fellow paratroopers drop from the sky behind him. Appearing above his head are...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Broadsides; Flags; Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863; Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Battle of Hagers' Town Road. The Rebels Are Skedadling [sic] Out of My Maryland, and leaving all their 'Stolen goods behind'," sung to the popular Confederate tune "Gay and Happy." This broadside, an...
Patriotism; Savings bonds--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by H. Macke that shows the portrait of an attractive young woman (background) holding a quarter in one hand and a savings stamp in the other hand while appearing behind the darkened image of a soldier (middle ground) running with his...
Flags--United States; Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster with Uncle Sam wrapped in an American flag appearing in a cloud above advancing ground troops with planes flying overhead and the message "Buy war bonds" printed below the image. Printed below this message is "U.S. Government Printing...
Espionage; Sabotage; United States. Army--Parachute troops; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Herb (Herbert Morton) Stoops (1888-1948) that shows a paratrooper, in full combat gear and still hanging from his parachute, shot dead, as his boots scrape the ground. In the background are the parachutes of other soldiers coming...
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; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. The fort occupies the site of the "water battery" erected in 1776. In 1794 the old works were repaired and the present star-shaped fort was built under the direction of...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Cavalry; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features Camp Carroll in Baltimore. This camp was thought to have most likely occupied a portion of the Mt. Clare estate near the...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;Patterson Park (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features Patterson Park, the nucleus for which were "two squares of ground on Hampstead Hill" given to the city by William...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph probably by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features Fort Federal Hill in Baltimore. In May 1861 Federal Hill was seized and fortified by General Benjamin F. Butler...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Riots; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of April 30, 1861 that features a battle involving the Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Troops. The date of this affray was April 19, 1861, when the troops passed through the city en route to...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Riots--Baltimore (Md.);
Print that features a view in Baltimore of Captain Hare demanding of Marshal Kane the arms taken from the Massachusetts soldiers on April 19, 1861. This event occurred a few days after the attack by citizens on the troops. On June 27 the Marshal...
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...
Broadsides; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Love songs; Political ballads and songs; Slavery;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Darling Nelly Gray" (also spelled "Nellie Grey"). A young man talks about the time he spent on a Kentucky shore, rowing in his canoe and strumming his banjo for his beloved Nelly Gray. As the song...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
Courthouses--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States Customhouse (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph of two detectives standing at the gates and of some "regulars", probably troops of the Maryland National Guard, standing on the steps of the temporary United States Customhouse located at Fayette and North Streets. Between 1900, when...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the third revised edition of the broadside entitled "Down Trodden Maryland." Privately printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "N. G. R." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Down-trodden Maryland" sung to the Charles Dibdin tune "Tom Bowling." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist),...
