Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken November 19, 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with friends in the courtyard of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Standing from left to right are American film producer Walter Wanger (1894-1968); H. L. M.;...
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...
Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Constitutional amendments; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Parades; Politicians;
Colored lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, 687 West Baltimore Street, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19th...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
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; Heaven; Hymns; Macarthy, Harry, 1834-1888; Weishampel, J. F. (John F.), Sr.;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Happy Journey to the Promised Land," sung to the air "Bonnie Blue Flag." This hymn compares contemporary Christian salvation to the journey of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Holiday's Dream, After Too Much Egg Nog." This broadside is a light-hearted advertisement for "Marble Hall," a clothing store owned by Smith, Bros. & Co. in the 1860s and located at 40 West Baltimore...
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886; Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891; Beane, Fannie; Behman, Louis C., 1855-1902; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923; Broadsides; Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932; Gilday, Charles; Ingersoll, Robert...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Jumbo!" a parody sung by Fanny [sic] Beane and Charles Gilday. Fannie Beane and Charles Gilday were traveling comedy performers who, after marriage, continued to perform as a team. "Jumbo" was one of the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Victory at Last," containing the words of a Christian hymn. The hymn portrays Christians as soldiers in Christ's army ("our Saviour is our Captain"). With the world as their battlefield, the Bible as...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.; Laconia (Steamship : 1893-1909); Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great Britain; Sun (Baltimore, Md. :...
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing along the rail of the Cunard Steamship Company's S. S. Lucania headed for Europe in March of 1908. Mencken had just published a book on Nietzsche entitled The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, had...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Newman, Frances, 1883-1928; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in October 1926 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the writer Frances Newman. Ostensibly, Mencken made the trip through the South to publicize the Sunpapers, while his editor Paul Patterson tried to get to know newspaper...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore; Alleys--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken posing with neighborhood children in the alley behind Hollins Street. This alley was, and still is, named Booth Street. This brazen, booming writer who terrified some opponents and infuriated...
Baltimore (Md.); Books; Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Gerald Johnson dated June 1, 1936. Gerald White Johnson (1890-1980) was a North Carolinian who, at Mencken's suggestion, joined the staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun in June 1926. He remained until November 1943, when...
Invoices; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Platen presses; Printing presses--United States;
Document from J. F. W. Dorman of an invoice for the printing press and type H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken received on Christmas day, 1888, from his father August Mencken. According to the invoice, J. F. W. Dorman, a manufacturer of Baltimore printing...
In his letter dated November 30, 1845 and probably written from New York, Edgar Allan Poe asks his cousin George Poe, Jr. for a loan. In July 1845 Poe became the sole editor of The Broadway Journal, and in October of the same year he purchased the...
In this incomplete letter dated December 1, 1864 and written on the stationary of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison, a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, tries to reestablish correspondence with Poe's...
In this undated letter believed to have been written in December 1854 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Mrs. Nancy Heywood) Richmond in a playful but sympathetic tone wishes Muddie (Maria Clemm) better health, trying to raise her spirits by...
Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Pise, Charles Constantine, 1801-1866; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Neilson, 1809-1884; Poetry;
This document is Neilson Poe's handwritten English translation of a poem written in Latin by Charles Constantine Pise, published in the Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1827, and dedicated to Charles Carroll of Carrollton on...
Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
