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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. Union Square from number 1524 Hollins Street Scrapbooks; Urban parks--Baltimore (Md.); Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) of Union Square from the front of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This picture is from page 76 of the H. L. Mencken... 2. Portrait of H. L. Mencken, 1972 Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Portrait painting Portrait painting of an older, wizened H. L. Mencken, ca. 1972. Mencken is seated in a chair and holds a cigar in his right hand. He is wearing a white shirt and blue striped pants with a tie and suspenders.... 3. Portrait of H. L. Mencken Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Portrait painting Portrait painting of a young H. L. Mencken. This portrait was painted in 1927 when Mencken was at the height of his career. He is wearing a white shirt unbuttoned at the collar with a pair of red pants... 4. Old county schoolhouse on northeast corner of Belvedere Avenue and Falls Road Historic buildings--Maryland--Baltimore County; Scrapbooks; School buildings--Maryland--Baltimore County; Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) of an old schoolhouse [sic] on the northeast corner of West Belvedere Avenue (now Northern Parkway) and Falls Road in Baltimore County, Maryland.... 5. Mencken's Sun Press Badge Badges; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Press; The Sun, Baltimore; Press badge, framed, used by H. L. Mencken during his years on staff with the Baltimore Sun. 6. 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... 7. 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 This photograph was taken just after Prohibition was repealed.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... 8. 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... 9. 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... 10. 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... 11. 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,... 12. 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... 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 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... 15. 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... 16. 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... 17. 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... 18. 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... 19. 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... 20. 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... 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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