Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
South Holland (Netherlands)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Based on the surveys by Floriszoon van Berckenrode, the South Holland cities of The Hague, Delft and Rotterdam are shown. This is a highly detailed map. The back side contains a text in French describing the area of South Holland: Delfland, Schiel,...
Baltimore (Md.); Buildings; Hotels; Monuments; War memorials; Views;
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., the cover of sheet music that features a view of the Gilmor House and Battle Monument, Monument Square, Baltimore. The Gilmor House was opened in 1856 and flourished until 1871 when it changed hands and for a...
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,...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore; African American women--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission; Charity--Maryland--Baltimore; Poverty--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of two African American women and eleven African American children in the kitchen of their home in Baltimore, Maryland. This family is receiving aid from the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission. In the picture, the older woman on the...
Haardt, Sara, 1898-1935; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken on August 27, 1930 of the wedding party of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and Sara Powell Haardt at the entrance to St. Stephen the Martyr Protestant Episcopal Church at North and Warwick Avenues in Baltimore. Standing to the...
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553--Portraits; Engraving, English--18th century; Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543. Edward VI as a child; Illustration of books--England--18th century;
Stipple and line engraving titled Edward Prince by Francesco Bartolozzi from a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger of Prince Edward (later King Edward VI) as a child from a book titled Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein in the...
Hungary--Maps--Early works to 1800;Balkan Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800; Poland--Maps--Early works to 1800
The map shows the borders of the Kingdom of Hungary and other countries, non-existing independently and mostly under Ottoman Turkey's occupation, on the Balkan Peninsula in the first half of the 18th century. It lacks explanatory notes, so only...
