Correspondence schools and courses; Journalism--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing the first page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's "student's test" for the Associated Newspaper Bureau School of Journalism. Completed but never sent, this document provides a glimpse into the 19-year-old Mencken's aspirations for a...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Copy of Verses by a Party of Poor Operatives." This broadside appears to be a door-to-door advertisement used by tradesmen to find work from individual households or small businesses when jobs in...
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...
Broadsides; Family; Irish Americans; Kerrigan, J. F.; McCarthy, Dan; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Give an Honest Irish Lad a Chance" from a song written by Dan McCarthy with music by J. F. Kerrigan. This broadside tells in story how difficult it was for many Irish immigrants arriving in New York in...
United States Employment Service; War posters, American; Women; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster created from a 1942 color photograph taken by Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993) showing an attractive young married woman (note prominently displayed wedding ring) working on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F U.S. Navy bomber at the...
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...
Knights of Columbus; National Catholic War Council (U.S.); United War Work Campaign, Inc.; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster sponsored by the National Catholic War Council and Knights of Columbus for the United War Work Campaign during the week of November 11, 1918. The poster features a retired uniformed officer wearing a Knights of Columbus (KC) armband...
Agriculture--United States; United States Employment Service; United States. Extension Service; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War...
Color poster by Morgan Douglas that shows a man holding a pitch fork and standing behind a woman carrying a basket full of fresh vegetables, both of whom are dressed in bib-and-brace overalls and straw hats. In the sky above their heads are the...
War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by John [Philip] Falter (1910-1982) of two soldiers at battle in the trenches. Both are reaching toward a rifle that is being extended by a work-gloved forearm. The full caption reads: "'Give 'em the stuff to fight with...' Work for...
War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States; World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States; Young Women's Christian Association;
Black and white poster made from the charcoal portrait of a young woman by W. T. (Wladyslaw Teodor) Benda (1873-1948), with the caption beneath the portrait reading "Stand behind the country's girlhood! National War Work of the Y.W.C.A. :...
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...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Art;
Pen and drawing by Aaron Sopher of a woman viewing a work of art. The woman wears a large, conical shaped hat. Only the bottom left corner of the artwork is visible, but it appears to be an abstract painting. In the background of the drawing, a...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore County; African American agricultural laborers--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Wagons--Maryland--Baltimore County; Perine family
Photograph of a farm team with Josh Petticord, the manager, at work at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. One young African American man stands in the wagon and forks compost over the side to cultivate the...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Skipjacks--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Steamboats;...
Photograph taken looking west across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the Light Street wharves on Monday, February 8, 1904. In the center foreground are the blackened remains of a wharf along East Pratt between South Calvert Street and the Jones...
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...
Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, Mrs. E. A.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkard's Lone Child!" from a song written in 1866 by "Stella" (Nellie H. Bradley) with music by "Figaro" (Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst [1836-1918]) and also known as "Father's a Drunkard, and Mother Is Died."...
Alcoholism; Bradley, Nellie H.; Broadsides; Children and death; Parkhurst, E. A., Mrs.; Starvation; Temperance;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Drunkards' [sic] Lone Child" from a song written by Nellie H. Bradley (pseudonym "Stella") with music by Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst (pseudonym "Figaro") (1836-1918) and also entitled "Father's a Drunkard, and...
African Americans; Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Minstrels; Slavery; Songs; ; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884
Document containing the broadside entitled "Kingdom Coming" from a song written by Henry Clay Work (music not provided) and published in 1862. This broadside, told in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, relates with wry humor...
Allen, William J.; Blacksmithing; Broadsides; Nostalgia; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Old Village Blacksmith Shop" from a song written by William J. Allen. This broadside tells what it felt like to be a boy in the local blacksmith's shop. The speaker recalls with nostalgia how he and...
