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...
World War, 1939-1945; Victory gardens; Agriculture--Competitions;
Pamphlet for the 1944 Statewide Big Vegetable Contest, organized by the Maryland Victory Garden Committee. The pamphlet includes the rules for the contest, information about contest judges, prize winnings, and an entry blank. According to the...
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; 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...
Canada. Wartime Information Board; King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950; Swastikas; War posters, Canadian; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Canada;
Color poster by Harry Mayerovitch (1910-2004) that shows the year "1944" in numbers and the words "year of decision" positioned in front of a map of Europe, with red arrows pointing toward a red swastika in the upper center of the map. Printed...
World War, 1939-1945; Award presentations; Food industry--Maryland; S.E.W. Friel Company (Queenstown, Md.);
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of S.E.W. Friel, Queenstown and Wye Mills Plants, on March 17, 1945 at the Centreville Armory in Centreville, Maryland. The program includes images of...
Greeting cards--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Christmas and New Year's greeting card to his parents for the 1887-1888 season. At 7 years of age, a very young and very humble "Harry", the name his family called him as a boy, shows an early ability...
Painting of Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Benedict Leonard Calvert, second son of the third Lord Baltimore, upon the...
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...
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...
Broadsides; Love; Songs; United States History War of 1812; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Edwin and Mary." This broadside tells the story of two young lovers, Edwin and Mary, who were torn apart by war. That war was probably the War of 1812, when American merchant ships were being stopped on...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Cy Young Award; Murray, Eddie (Eddie Clarence), 1956-; National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Scheduling; Stone, Steve (Steve Michael), 1947-;...
Schedule of home and away games and televised games for the 1980 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The schedule shows the dates and locations of the games and included season ticket prices and an advertisement entitled "Orioles...
Fund raising; Minutemen (Militia)--Massachusetts--Concord; Patriotism; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by the Wilkinsons--J. Walter Wilkinson (1892-1988) and his son, Walter G. Wilkinson (1917-1971)--that shows a man dressed up as Santa Claus pitching defense bonds and stamps as a Christmas present, with the words "this year give a...
American Red Cross; War posters, American; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster revealing the accomplishments of American Red Cross workers around the world during World War I, recognized by President Woodrow Wilson with the sentence that begins this mostly textual poster, "It is a remarkable story." Printed to...
United States. Coast Guard. Women's Reserve; 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 L. W. (Lester W.) Bentley (1908-1972) that shows an attractive young woman in a U.S. Coast Guard uniform with a lighthouse in the background and the words "The girl of the year is a SPAR" printed in the sky above. Printed below the...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Printed copy of address titled "Maryland's Contribution to the War Effort." The address was given by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord at the Maryland Historical Society on January 11, 1943. In the address, Reckord describes the state's wartime...
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards; Private schools--Maryland;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's final report card for his first year of education at F. Knapp's Institute, dated June 30, 1887. According to the report card, "Master Harry Mencken" was considered to be "a good boy and scholar!" From...
Wood-engraving of a green opelet and an orange-disk Anemone by the Leighton Bros. after an illustration by Philip Henry Gosse from the book titled A year at the shore written by Philip Henry Gosse and published in 1865 by Alexander Strahan, London....
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); New Year;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher featuring a heavyset woman in evening attire. She wears an evening gown, coat, gloves, and jewels. She holds a string attached to a balloon in her hands. Beside her, another woman in similar attire...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); New Year;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of an elderly woman seated in a highback chair. She is dressed in an evening gown, and wears what appear to be a fur coat and jewels. In the background, a couple dressed in evening attire walks past. On...
