Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
Document containing the broadside entitled "[As Pretty as a] Picture!" from a song composed by Thomas Brigham Bishop (1835-1905) with words written by George Cooper (1840-1927). This broadside tells the story of a young man who meets and falls in...
Baltimore (Md.); Political ballads and songs; Price, William, 1794?-1868;
Document containing the broadside entitled "William Price" sung to the tune "John Todd." The speaker of this Confederate broadside asks William Price why he, as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1861-1862, sponsored the "Treason Bill"...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Aparicio, Luis (Aparicio Montiel, Luis Ernesto), 1934-; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Bank of America; Baseball; Most Valuable Player Award (Baseball); National Baseball Hall of Fame...
Schedule of home and away games and televised games for the 1964 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. On the front page is an advertisement for Maryland National Bank (later, Nationsbank; now, Bank of America). The schedule shows the...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Bank of America; Baseball; Blefary, Curt (Curtis Le Roy), 1943-2001; National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Nationsbank; Rawlings Gold Glove Award;...
Schedule of home and away games and televised games for the 1965 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. On the front page is an advertisement for Maryland National Bank (later, Nationsbank; now, Bank of America). The schedule shows the...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Bank of America; Baseball; Blair, Paul (Paul L D), 1944-; National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Nationsbank; Rawlings Gold Glove Award; Robinson,...
Schedule of home and away games and televised games for the 1967 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. On the front page is an advertisement for Maryland National Bank (later, Nationsbank; now, Bank of America). The schedule shows the...
United States Employment Service; United States. War Manpower Commission; V-mail; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by Lawrence Nelson Wiibur (1897-1988) that shows an attractive young woman clutching V-mail messages to her chest and looking longingly in the distance, with the words "Longing won't bring him back sooner... get a war job!" positioned...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
Program for a celebration and tribute by the city of Baltimore in honor of the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944. The program includes a listing of the activities of the "Mayor's Committee Celebration Tribute to the Fighting French," such as an...
Dwellings--Maryland; Frederick County (Md.); Methodist preaching; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features the Old Cassell House in Frederick County, Maryland. This is one of fourteen lithographs in the collection taken from G. O. M. Roberts'...
Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. George Calvert, the virtual founder of Maryland, was born at Kiplin, in the North Riding...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
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...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "An Appeal to the South" and signed by "H.", "A Daughter of Dixie." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside calls on Southerners to take up arms and defend themselves against the tyranny...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Do Not Turn Me From Your Door." An only child is begging for money or food for herself and her widowed, sick mother. The title and all of the verses are displayed within a decorative border. Above the...
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; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Fourth of July Union Song" sung to the tune "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled." (The lyrics to the Scottish tune were written in 1793 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns about the Battle of Bannockburn in...
Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "God will Repay." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War and signed by "H. Rebel," this broadside focuses on the Civil War in Baltimore in 1861 and refers to such notable Baltimore figures as Severn...
Broadsides; Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 1798-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Hicksie." The language used in this broadside is reminiscent of the caricatured dialect ascribed to slaves of the pre-Civil War South. "Hicksie" is Thomas Holliday Hicks, the Governor of Maryland at the...
