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H. L. Mencken Collection - Enoch Pratt Free Library

results 1-20 of 25 item(s)  page 1 of 2 : ( <<  1  2  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. Belvedere Avenue east of Falls Road Scrapbooks; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore County; Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) of Belvedere Avenue (now Northern Parkway) east of Falls Road in Baltimore County, Maryland. This picture is from page 75 of the H. L. Mencken... 2. Bollman bridge on Belvedere Avenue over the Jones Falls Bollman, W. (Wendel), 1814-1884; Bridges--Maryland--Jones Falls; Scrapbooks; Truss bridges--Maryland--Baltimore County; Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) of Bollman bridge on West Belvedere Avenue (now a section of Northern Parkway) over the Jones Falls waterway in Baltimore County, Maryland. This... 3. Bridge over bowl of Jones Falls waterway behind Cylburn Station, at Belvedere Avenue Bollman, W. (Wendel), 1814-1884; Bridges--Maryland--Jones Falls; Scrapbooks; Truss bridges--Maryland--Baltimore County; Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) of a foot bridge over a bowl of the Jones Falls waterway behind Cylburn Station, at West Belvedere Avenue (now Northern Parkway) in Baltimore... 4. Corona Typewriter Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Typewriters Typewriter used by H. L. Mencken. On this tiny Corona typewriter, H. L. Mencken wrote some of the finest prose ever produced in America. He used this typewriter for all of his books and many of his articles... 5. First carbon page of typescript for The Tennessee Circus Bible and evolution; Creationism; Dayton (Tenn.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Scopes, John Thomas Carbon typescript by H. L. Mencken. The first carbon page of his typescript for "The Tennessee Circus," one of the columns he wrote for the Evening Sun about the proceedings in Dayton, Tennessee, before... 6. First page of preface to Happy Days Autobiographies; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Typescript by H. L. Mencken. The first page of the typescript for the Preface to Happy Days (1940), the first volume of Mencken's autobiographical trilogy. These books contain some of the most delightful... 7. Four-master in dock at Locust Point Barks (Sailing ships); Piers--Maryland--Baltimore; Scrapbooks; Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) of a four-masted iron bark named the May Flint docked at Locust Point in Baltimore, Maryland. The May Flint, which had been converted from an... 8. H. L. Mencken Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Photographs Photograph of H. L. Mencken by Robert H. Davis. Mencken was then at the height of his notoriety during a decade when he was called America’s most powerful private citizen. The stock market crashed the... 9. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Edgar Kemler; June 11, 1946 Baltimore (Md.); Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Writing; Letter from H. L. Mencken to Edgar Kemler dated June 11, 1946. Mr. Kemler was then working on his book that would be published in 1950 as The Irreverent Mr. Mencken. Mencken's comment about being "on the... 10. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Gerald Johnson; June 1, 1936 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... 11. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Hamilton Owens; June 30, 1929 Baltimore (Md.); California State Prison at San Quentin; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942; Newspapers; The Sun, Baltimore Letter from H. L. Mencken to Hamilton Owens dated June 1929. Hamilton Owens (1888-1967), distinguished author, editor, and journalist, was then editing the Baltimore Evening Sun, to which Mencken contributed... 12. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Louis Cheslock; August 21, [1929] Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; New York (N.Y.); Satire; Seventh-Day Adventists Letter from H. L. Mencken to Louis Cheslock dated August 21, [1929]. Mencken thanks Cheslock for sending a copy of the Present Truth, a Seventh-Day Adventist periodical and writes in a bantering tone when... 13. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Marion Bloom; August 1923 Baltimore (Md.); Bloom, Marion; Letters; Marriage; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Letter from H. L. Mencken to Marion Bloom ca. August 1923. Mencken and Marion Bloom were intimate for years, but the relationship grew rocky for a variety of reasons. Mencken wrote this cursory letter... 14. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Marion Bloom; February 24, [1914] Bloom, Marion; Baltimore (Md.); Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945; Letters; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Writing; Letter from H. L. Mencken to Marion Bloom dated February 24, [1914]. Mencken and Marion Bloom (1891-1975) met in February 1914 when she visited the office of the Baltimore Sun. She may well have been his... 15. Letter: H. L. Mencken to Virginia Mencken Morrison; June 27, 1941 Lancaster (Pa.); Letters; Marriage; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Letter from H. L. Mencken to Virginia Mencken Morrison, June 27, 1941. Virginia Mencken (1915-1980) was the only child of Mencken's brother, Charles. She had married David Morrison the previous month,... 16. Mencken and a group of children African American children; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Photograph of H. L. Mencken standing with the neighborhood children in the alley behind Hollins Street. This alley was, and still is, named Booth Street. This brazen, booming writer, who terrified some... 17. Mencken and the Baltimore Fire Baltimore Herald; Baltimore (Md.); Fires; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Photograph of H. L. Mencken smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper while seated. The Baltimore fire, one of the major American conflagrations, began on February 7, 1904. The Baltimore Herald building... 18. Mencken at 1524 Hollins Street Backyard gardens; Baltimore (Md.); Bricklaying; Masonry; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Photograph of H. L. Mencken taken by Edgar T. Schaefer. Mencken stands in the backyard at 1524 Hollins Street, where he had lived since 1883. He stands near the west wall, which he had built himself the... 19. Mencken at the Rennert Hotel Baltimore (Md.); Liquor laws; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Prohibition Photograph of H. L. Mencken and others at a bar in the Rennert Hotel. This photograph was taken just after Prohibition was repealed. The Rennert, located on the southeast corner of Liberty and Saratoga... 20. Mencken seated at his typewriter Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Photographs; Typewriters Photograph of a young H. L. Mencken seated at a typewriter in the office of the Baltimore Sun. The newspaper was then located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets, where the Morris... select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-20 of 25 item(s)  page 1 of 2 : ( <<  1  2  >> ) :: previous : next

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