Engraving by S. Fisher after a painting by William H. Bartlett that features a view of Baltimore. Published in Willis' book American Scenery, London, 1840. Among the oddities in this view are the Cathedral belfries in the wrong position, Washington...
Photograph taken looking southwest from the intersection of Fayette and North Streets at the ruins of the Baltimore American Building located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and South Streets. (Note that North Street becomes South Street at...
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...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Katy Avourneen." This broadside, from an Irish ballad ascribed to J. E. Johnson, relates the story of Barney and Katy Avourneen. One snowy evening, Barney stops at his sweetheart's house and asks to be...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Ma's Gone Out to Pray." This broadside tells the story of a young boy whose mother has gone out to pray at saloons to stop men, especially husbands, from drinking alcohol. The "Dio Lewis" mentioned in the...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; May, Charles Augustus; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" from the poem "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War. According to an account published in the "The [Baltimore]...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Confederate States of America; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; United...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. The verses of this broadside are from the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Confederate States of America; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; United...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. The verses of this broadside are from the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living...
Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland's Appeal" sung to the tune of Thomas Moore's poem "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls." This broadside laments Marylanders' loss of freedom under the marshal law imposed by Abraham Lincoln...
Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland's Appeal" sung to the tune of Thomas Moore's poem "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls." This broadside laments Marylanders' loss of freedom under the marshal law imposed by Abraham Lincoln...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; Unionists (United States Civil War); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;...
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. Signed by "W", this broadside is the Unionists' answer to the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908; Riots; Unionists (United States Civil War); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;...
Document containing the broadside entitled "My Maryland" sung to the tune "My Normandy" written by Frédéric Bérat. Signed by "W", this broadside is the Unionists' answer to the poem entitled "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Retreat of the Grand Army From Bull Run" written by Ernest Cliftan and sung to the tune "Dear Evelina, Sweet Evelina." Published in Baltimore during the Civil War, this Confederate broadside tells...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Patriotism; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Southern battle song" and signed by "C." This broadside asks all Southerners to answer the patriotic call and fight the invaders, not for monetary gain but for love of country, for "God and Right" are on...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America;
Estres, William C.; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Volunteers to the 'Melish'," written by William C. Estres. Printed by R. M. Chambers in Baltimore, Maryland during the Civil War, this broadside tries to raise Confederate recruits, first by teasing, then...
Postcards—Maryland--Hagerstown; Potomac River; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Hagerstown (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
A view of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Williamsport. The houses on the right are part of the Cushwa Warehouse, used mostly for coal transport, but also for other commodities like fertilizers, cement, grain, etc. The...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing two American soldiers crawling along the ground, with one soldier not camouflaged (wrong) and the other camouflaged (right), with the following words appearing below the image: "Tone down hands, face and equipment : reflections...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an aerial view of trucks moving across a field, with one truck leaving tire tracks in the grass (the "wrong" way) and one showing no tire tracks (the "right" way). Below this image are the words "Hide those tracks! They guide...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an aerial view of bivouac, with bivouac set out in the open (the "wrong" way) and other hidden in the shadow underneath trees (the "right" way). Below this image are the words "Hide your bivouac" and, in smaller type, "If they...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an aerial view of trucks moving across a field, with some trucks exposed (the "wrong" way) and other trucks hidden in the shadow of trees (the "right" way). Below this image are the words "Use shadow as an aid for concealment"...
