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...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
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...
Carroll County (Md.); Legal documents; Slaves; Slaveholders;
Document headed "Tabular Statement of Ownership of Certain Slaves in Carroll County, Maryland," that lists the slaves owned by Ignatius Gore. The statement includes the names of the slaves as well as information about their age, gender, physical...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken as a young boy sitting on a wall. In this photograph he is thought to be 8 years old. (Editor's note: This studio photograph was probably taken by J. H. (John Henry) Schaefer in October of 1888...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Debt; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Neilson, 1809-1884; Travel; United States. History. War of 1812;
In this letter dated April 5, 1860 and written from Alexandria, Virginia, Maria Clemm thanks Neilson Poe for his help in selling the land warrant she inherited from her late husband, payment for his service in the War of 1812. She also tells...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Viaducts--Maryland;
Engraving by Henry Adlard after the painting by William Henry Bartlett. A proof of the view was published in N. F. Willis' American Scenery. Built in 1834, this famous bridge at Relay is still a part of the main line of the road. It was called the...
Baltimore, Cecil Calvert, Baron, ca. 1605-1675; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Cecil (or Cecilius), second Lord Baltimore, to whom King Charles issued the charter of...
Anderson, William, 1820-1892; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Freedmen--Maryland--Baltimore County; Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Slavery--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Perine family
Photograph of William Anderson (1820-1892), also known as "Uncle Bill", sitting on a rock in a field at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. A former slave, he served the Perine family first as the coachman...
Anderson, William, 1820-1892; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Freedmen--Maryland--Baltimore County; Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Slavery--Maryland--Baltimore County--History; Perine family
Photograph of William Anderson (1820-1892), also known as "Uncle Bill", standing by a tree at Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. A former slave, he served the Perine family first as the coachman and, then,...
Baltimore National Cemetery; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; War casualties; United States. Air Force--African Americans; Memorial Day--Maryland--Baltimore; Grief
Photograph of Harold Moore and his family visiting his son's grave on Memorial Day in 1983 at Baltimore National Cemetery located at number 5501 Frederick Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Moore's son was killed while with the United States Air Force....
African American men; Baltimore (Md.); City councils; Maryland;
Photograph of members of the Baltimore City Council, January 21, 1957. In the front row (left to right) are Thomas P. Fallon (1891-1969), Michael J. McHale (1913-1988), Henry R. Hergenroeder (1920-1990), Jacob J. Edelman (1894-1984), Leon A....
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820; Catholic Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
The historic Baltimore Basilica at the time the postcard was published was still a cathedral only. It was built by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of the Capitol, during the years 1806-1821. It became the first Catholic Cathedral in the...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Fort Carroll Baltimore, Md.); Fortification--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Fort Carroll is located on an artificial island in the Baltimore Harbor outside of the Key Bridge, just south of Baltimore. Colonel Robert E. Lee, the future general-in-chief of Confederate forces in the American Civil War, was for three years in...
Baltimore (Md.); Bills of sale; Slavery; Slaveholders;
Document containing bills of sale for Josiah M. Cleaveland and Edgar A. Poe. Cleaveland sold a number of household goods to John F. Duryee. Edgar Allan Poe sold a slave on behalf of his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm Poe, to Henry Ridgway of Baltimore...
Carroll County (Md.); Legal documents; Slaves; Slaveholders;
Document headed "Tabular Statement of Ownership of Certain Slaves in Carroll County, Maryland," that lists the slaves owned by Joshua Baseman. The statement includes the names of the slaves as well as information about their age, gender, physical...
Official souvenir program for the Ice Follies of 1940 appearing at the Iceland skating rink at Carlin's Park in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ice Follies, an ice show produced and managed by Oscar F. Johnson, Edwin H. Shipstad, and Roy L. Shipstad,...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken by Richard Walzl of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken as a young boy. In this picture Mencken is about 3 years old. According to Mencken, the photographer was Richard Walzl of 205 West Baltimore Street.
