Bereavement; Broadsides; Love; Milburn, Richard James; Songs; Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Listen to the Oriole Bird" sung to an 1855 song entitled "Listen to the Mocking Bird" composed and published by Septimus Winner, with credit for the tune given to African American Richard Milburn (born...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Listen to the Oriole Bird" sung to the 1855 song "Listen to the Mocking Bird" composed by Septimus Winner (1827-1902) from a tune by the African American Richard James Milburn (born ca. 1814). In this...
Photograph of the Pearce family house in Long Green Valley near Glen Arm in Baltimore County, Maryland. For two generations this house was occupied by the family of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas G. Pearce, who lived there in 1938. The stone portions at each...
Fortification--Rhine River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800; Cities and towns--Rhine River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800
Twenty plans of fortified cities along the Rhine, Moselle, Saar and Neckar rivers: Rijnsburg, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz, Mainz, Frankenthal, Landau, Philippsburg, Mannheim, Fort-Louis, Strasbourg, Breisach, Freiburg im Breisgau, Huningue, Basel,...
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...
Photograph of brickmaking inside one of the Baltimore Brick Company plants near Baltimore, Maryland. Formed in 1899 by the merger of 22 local manufacturers, Baltimore Brick Company became one of the largest suppliers of bricks in the Mid-Atlantic...
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; Children and death; Ford's Theatre (Baltimore, Md.); Kennedy, Harry; Minstrels; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Cradle's Empty Baby's Gone," a song by Harry Kennedy, the ventriloquist (ca. 1854-1894) (full name believed to be William Henry Kennedy), as sung at Ford's Theatre (originally Ford's Grand Opera House) in...
Broadsides; Flags; Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Our Union Flag" sung to the B. R. Hanby tune "[Darling] Nellie Grey" (also spelled "Nelly Gray"). Written by "a lady of Baltimore," this broadside is an answer to the pro-Confederate broadside entitled...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" This broadside raises the question asked by many aging couples; i.e., with aging, will their spouse lose interest in them and their marriage? Centered below the title and...
Lonaconing is a small town in Allegany County. Before arrival of pioneers in late 18th century, the place was probably settled by Shawnee Indians. The town's name is most likely derived from Indian words meaning the meeting place of many streams....
A view of an old Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road bridge over the Potomac River and a panorama of Westernport, a port located along the Georges Creek Valley where George's Creek empties into the Potomac in Allegany County. Known since 1774 as...
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...
Postcards—Maryland--Cumberland; Queen City Hotel (Cumberland, Md.); Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Cumberland--Pictorial works; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--History
The Queen City Hotel and Station was for 100 years a landmark of Cumberland's railroad history. Constructed in 1871 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, it served both as a railroad station and a luxurious hotel for vacationers. Located in a...
Aerial view of Barton, a town located along the Georges Creek Valley in Allegany County. It has a population of about 500 people. The discovery of coal attracted settlers to the area and in 1853 a new town was established by William Shaw Jr. He...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Cedar Avenue Bridge (Baltimore, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Baltimore; Jones Falls (Md.); Rivers--Maryland; Gristmills--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
The Cedar Avenue Bridge, crossing the Northern Central Railroad, the Jones Falls valley, and Falls Road lead east out of Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. Built in 1889-1890, it was a three-hinged metal arch bridge designed by Charles Latrobe. The...
Church architecture; Church decoration and ornament; Baltimore County (Md.); Jesuits History 20th century; Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.);
Photograph of the interior of the chapel built in 1924 at Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart in Woodstock, Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed originally by Benedict Sestini (1816-1890), a Jesuit mathematician, teacher, and architect, the...
