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Items associated with name 'Baltimore (Md.)'

1853 Lutheran Almanac

by General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1853)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This collection contains a Lutheran Almanac for the year 1853, provided by Sherwood and Company printing based in Baltimore. The almanac contains Lutheran history, religious anecdotes, moon phases and weather predictions. Lists of Lutheran institutions and clergy are included as well.

Associated Subjects: None
Identifier: 2009.356
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Baltimore Steamboat photograph collection

by Lewis, Robert J. (1910 – 2014)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

Photographic copies of passenger steamboats from Baltimore, Maryland, 1910-1965.Noted ships include, QUEEN ANNE, DREAMLAND, LOVE POINT, TOLCHESTER, PORT WELCOME, and EMMA GILES. Copies were created in 2014.

Associated Subjects: Transportation
Identifier: 2014.154
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Black & White Minstrels Photo and Programs

by Black & White MinstrelsSt. Matthew's Evangelical Church (1933 – 1935)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

This collection contains three programs for the 7th through the 9th Annual Minstrel Show and Entertainment of the Black & White Minstrels in Baltimore Maryland from 1933 to 1935. One group photo, including eighteen men in black face makeup, are also included.

Associated Subjects: Clubs • Photography • Programs • Racism
Identifier: SC2017.010
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Blackwell Library Collection

by Burnett, Mary K.Dashiell, Cassius M. (1765 – 1965)

4 folders (0.04 linear feet)

This collection contains: Placecards and articles regarding airships, Pictures and clippings of airships, William Preston Lane Memorial bridge brochure, Picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his nurse, China clippings and pictures and articles and letters, Letter (march 24, 1934) The News Publishing Co. , Nov. 1873 Commission - John W. Laws, History of Stepney Parish (copy), To the glory of God in Wicomico, Tall ships in Baltimore .

Associated Subjects: Personal Correspondence • Maritime
Identifier: 2007.085
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Charles C. Gelder Papers

by Simms, William (1938)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This collection contains an inventory and the corresponding paper work from the estate of Charles C. Gelder.

Associated Subjects: Gelder Family
Identifier: 2014.989
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Diary of Margaret Devilbiss

by Devilbiss, Margaret (1931)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

The Diary of Margaret Devilbiss was written in 1931 by a nurse at the Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. During the time of this diary, Devilbiss took two trips: Florida and Denver by way of Chicago. She also wrote about different cases that she worked on at the hospital.

Identifier: SC2016.035
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Educational Society of Baltimore Pamphlet

by The Educational Society of Baltimore (1936)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This collection contains a pamphlet dated Friday, May 8, 1936 from the Educational Society of Baltimore. The pamphlet contains information on a program involving dances from the High School Dance Clubs, an address from the president of the society, Report of the Nominating Committee, and Elections of Officers followed by a multi-course dinner.

Associated Subjects: Education
Identifier: 2010.035
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Father Andrew White Collection

by Evans, Bailey V.White, Andrew (1865 – 1899)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This collection contains a copy of the relation of the colony of the Lord Baron of Baltimore in Maryland, Near Virginia by Father Andrew White, as well as various receipts from New York and Pennsylvania.

Associated Subjects: Receipts
Identifier: 2009.153
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - A Multi-Generation Baltimore Family

by Salisbury University Students (2001)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In 2001, former Salisbury University student Bethany Rausch collected folk material. Her collection explores her family's experience in Baltimore over a span of several generations. Included is her essay, two interview cassette tapes (with logs), and two floppy disks with pictures.

Associated Subjects: Folklife - History
Identifier: FK01.021
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - Baltimore City Policemen

by Salisbury University Students (1992)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1992, Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. For this project, student Joel Carrier chose to interview a Baltimore City Policeman he met in the army. The paper tells the story of Officer Jim Holford, who served during the Vietnam, war, and describes a typical day in the life of a policeman in Baltimore City while explaining some common jargon terms.

Associated Subjects: Folklife - Police Force • Folklife - Army
Identifier: FK92.006
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - Bartending:

by Salisbury University Students (1999)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In 1999, former Salisbury University student Natalie Twele collected folk material. Her collection explores the job of bartenders, including their duties, superstitions, and traditions. Included is her essay, several floor plans, a series of menus, a cassette tape interview, and color photographs.

Associated Subjects: Folklife - Drinking
Identifier: FK99.016
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - Forest Park High School Folklore

by Salisbury University Students (1972 – 1972s)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In a series of interviews of Eastern Shore residents in 1972, former students at Forest Park Senior High collected folk life material. For this collection, these interviews focus on folk customs and stories of mysterious deaths, death signs, or unaccountable experiences. This booklet includes personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant.

Identifier: FK72.010
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - Little Italy

by Salisbury University Students (1974 – 1974s)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In a series of interviews of local Baltimore residents in 1974, former Salisbury University student Sallie Hunter collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of Little Italy in Baltimore, Maryland. This collection includes an introduction to the topic, description of the informants, as well as multiple pictures and newspaper clippings.

Associated Subjects: Folklife - Customs and Traditions
Identifier: FK74.006
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - Narrative and Traditions of Friends Group

by Salisbury University Students (2003)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In 2003, former Salisbury University student Tehnisha Smith collected folk material. Her collection explores her friend group "The Family" as a folkgroup, includings its members and activities. Included is her essay and a series of interviews.

Associated Subjects: Folklife - Friendship
Identifier: FK03.016
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Folklife Collection - The "Visionary's" Visions

by Salisbury University Students (1997)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

In 1997, former Salisbury University student Rob Merritt collected folk material. His collection explores the art at the Visionary Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD and examines the folkgroup of visual artists. Included is Merritt's essay and a series of photo negatives.

Associated Subjects: Folklife - Art
Identifier: FK97.022
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Glances at Maryland Collection

by Scott, Marshall (1957)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This folder contains a school assignment by Marsha Scott entitled "Glances at Maryland" discussing her trip around the state of Maryland with her foreign exchange host parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cherry, in 1957. Counties discussed are Somerset, Wicomico, Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline, Queen Anne's, Kent, Cecil, Harford, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Washington, Allegany, Garrett, Howard, Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's.

Associated Subjects: None
Identifier: 2009.003
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Harold M. Sinnott papers

by Sinnott, Harold M.Stevens-Davis Company (1942 – 1948)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

Correspondence from Harold M. Sinnott to his mother, Addie M. Sinnott of Balitmore, Maryland, while he was stationed in California during World War II, 1942-1943. Also included is a publication, "People and How to Deal with Them" from 1948.

Associated Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 • Personal Correspondence
Identifier: 2014.019
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Harper Postcard Collection

by Curt Teich & CompanyThe Mayrose Co. (1930s)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This collection contains five vintage postcards of steamships that harbored in the Maryland and Virginia Chesapeake area and include the S.S. VIRGINIA LEE, the S.S. PRINCESS ANNE, the S.S. POCAHONTAS, the S.S. CITY OF NORFOLK (Old Bay Line), and the S.S. DIXIE (Wilson Line Steamer).

Associated Subjects: Transportation
Identifier: 2008.046
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Journal of Isadore Soiecki

by Soiecki, Isadore (1859 – 1872)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

This journal was written by Isadore Soiecki of Baltimore, Maryland between 1859 and 1872 and contains both original and copied poetry, biographical entries, and genealogical notes. Soiecki was admitted into the Baltimore Bar in 1872. In July 1862 at Harrisonburg, Virginia, he penned the poem "Oh Maryland, Enslaved, Oppressed" about bloody battles in the American Civil War, though it is unclear if it was original or copied.

Identifier: SC2016.090
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Ledger of Ella N. Mackenzie

by Mackenzie, Ella (1868 – 1874)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

The ledger of Ella N. Mackenzie contains all the purchases that Ella N. Mackenzie made from 1868 to 1874 in the Baltimore, Maryland region. The purchases were listed by subject, such as personal, washing, sundries, Christmas presents, casual, charities, and others.

Associated Subjects: Charity • Accounting Records • City and Town Life
Identifier: SC2015.006
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Maritime and Railroad photograph collection

by Lewis, Robert J. (1920 – 1970)

6 folders (0.06 linear feet)

Series of black and white photographic prints documenting transportation pathways of maritime steamships, tugboats and ferries as well as railroad transportation in Baltimore as well as varying locations throughout the Eastern Shore including Vienna, Pocomoke, Salisbury and Whitehaven, Maryland and Chincoteague, Virginia.

Associated Subjects: Photography • Transportation • Maritime • Railways
Identifier: 2013.087
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Maritime photographic print collection

by Unknown (1990)

2 folders (0.02 linear feet)

Series of maritme photographic prints and post cards documenting the boats, ships, and ferries on the Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, lighthouses, the Bay Bridge, ship yards, Baltimore, Cape Henlopen, the US Life Saving Station, and Port Mahon.

Associated Subjects: Photography • Maritime
Identifier: 2014.017
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Maryland Journal Facsimile

by Maryland Journal (1773)

1 oversize folder (2.5 linear feet)

This is a facsimile of the first issue of the Maryland Journal, later known as The Baltimore American, on Friday, August 20, 1773.

Associated Subjects: Newspapers
Identifier: 2007.116
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Minutes of the May Day Conference (Baltimore, Maryland)

by May Day Conference (1919)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

This journal contains the minutes of the May Day Conference that held meetings in Baltimore, Maryland in 1919. The meetings consisted of delegates from various workers groups in Baltimore, including the Russian, Jewish, Italian and other branches of the Socialist Party, The Karl Marx Club, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Ladies Garment Workers, Socialist Labor Party, and the Lituanian and Polish branches of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The delegates gathered to plan a picnic for May Day, with a march and mass meeting preceding the evening, with profits being donated to the Workers Defense Union in New York City. One of the contested issues in the meeting was whether the Conference should obtain the requisite permit from city authorities. Two of the recording secretaries, E.V. Wallis and T.S. Wetter, were prominent in local radical politics.

Associated Subjects: City and Town Life • Clubs • Minutes (Records) • Labor History
Identifier: SC2014.071
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Nicholas Hatter Ledger

by Hatter, Nicholas (1861 – 1863)

2 folders (0.2 linear feet)

The ledger of Nicholas Hatter was written from 1861 to 1863 in Owings Mills, Maryland. The ledger includes monetary transactions of various people. The first several pages were covered with newspaper clippings that seem to be poems. These newspaper clippings cover previous entries made by Hatter. Included with the ledger are other excerpts from newspapers, music sheets, and parts of the ledger that had fallen out. There is also a photograph of a man that was taken in Baltimore, Maryland.

Associated Subjects: Business • Minutes (Records) • Music • Newspapers • Photography • Scrapbooks
Identifier: SC2013.100
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Pernia Brothers Photography Collection

by Pernia Brothers (circa 1950 – 1970)

6 boxes (3 linear feet)

This collection consists of glass photo slides from the Pernia Brothers. Photographs are from trips to different National Parks, amusement parks, beaches, and gardens in the United States, as well as travels to other countries including Canada and Mexico.

Associated Subjects: 1968 Summer Olympics • Olympics • Photography • Voyages and travel
Identifier: SC2019.015
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Postcard of Hannah Dodd

by Thompson, Edward (1910)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

Postcard written to Miss Hannah M. Dodd of Lewes, Delaware, August 1910. The Boat Lake in Druid Park, Baltimore is depicted on the front of the card. A note written on the verso discussing travel from Ed, Miss Dodd's future spouse.

Associated Subjects: Postcards
Identifier: 2018.061b
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Religious Tract Society of Baltimore Broadsides

by Religious Tract Society (1810s)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

These three Christian broadsides were published by the Religious Tract Society of Baltimore (Maryland) in the 1810s.

Associated Subjects: City and Town Life • Religious History
Identifier: SC2014.107
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Rev. James Ward photograph collection

by Cummins Photography Studio (1880s)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

Photographs of Rev. James T. Ward and wife Catherine Ann (nee Light) taken at Cummins Photography Studio, Baltimore, Maryland.

Associated Subjects: Photography
Identifier: 2014.996
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Robert E. Dewlin papers

by Dewlin, Robert E. (1943 – 1945)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

The papers of Robert E. Dewlin include a series of notices sent to him in Baltimore and Cambridge, Maryland including his selective service notice and classification as well as ration books for food and gasoline.

Associated Subjects: Ration Books
Identifier: 2012.022
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

The Memorial of the Merchants and Traders of the City of Baltimore

by Merchants and Traders of the City of Baltimore (1806)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

This petition from the Merchants and Traders of the City of Baltimore lobbied to the President and Congress of the United States to defend American commerce with Europe following British violations of neutral rights during the Napoleonic Wars in the lead up to the War of 1812.

Associated Subjects: Economics • International Relations • Labor History
Identifier: SC2016.108
Repository: Special Collections
Attachment: No attachment

Theodore Dize Papers

by Dize, TheodoreDize, Westley (1894 – 1995)

1 box (0.25 linear feet)

The Theodore Dize Papers document the shipping business of the bugeye James G. Blaine, captained by Theodore and Westley Dize, between 1894 and 1923. An additional account from 1995 records the names of watermen who shipped out of Baltimore at the turn of the century to dredge oysters. Dize shipped out of Crisfield, Smith Island, and Baltimore, dredging oysters and transporting merchandise. The shipping business is documented through agreements, worker records, and extensive receipts. Also included are printed ephemera including book advertisements.

Associated Subjects: Business • Maritime • Receipts • Oysters • Labor History
Identifier: 1995.032
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Vane Brothers Company Collection

by Hughes, Charles F. (1998)

1 folder (0.01 linear feet)

This collection contains various materials related to the Vane Brothers Shipping Company. The focus of the collection is on the 1998 centennial celebration of the founding of the company. Included is a letter from the executives thanking buyers for their continual patronage, and also included is a business calendar.

Associated Subjects: Advertising • Calendar
Identifier: 2009.321
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Whitehaven Heritage Association collection

by Methodist Protestant Board of PublicationNorman Remington CompanySalisbury National BankSavings Bank of NanticokeThe Board of EducationThe Wicomico News (1855 – 2000)

2 folders (0.02 linear feet)

Assorted materials from Whitehaven Heritage Association storage includes 1901 set of "The Courier" newspaper; misc. Collection includes materials donated by the Whitehaven Heritage Association, such as The Saving Bank of Nanticoke, Maryland's Bank Almanac 1920, 1923-1924, 1926, 1928 as well as several other news and church ephemera from Salisbury and Baltimore, MD from the 1920s. There are two correspondences from March 1904 to a unknown recipient from D.W. Dolbey, Jr. of the White Haven Council No. 24. Also included is correspondence from Robert L. Jeffers to Conor Ralph Bennig in 1976 related to Christian faith and one from John W. Davis to his wife in 1855. An audio cassette tape from Emily Griffon's funeral service in 2000. There is an epic poem written in 1992. Additionally, there is a series of land plats for S. W. Dolby's land created by P.S. Shockley from 1903 and 1918 and a patenet for "Hayward's Delight", 1910. Finally there is a map of Delaware with an arrow to Bethel Church.

Associated Subjects: Personal Correspondence
Identifier: 2009.573
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

William Smith Wilson Jr. Collection

by Susan WestThe Wilson FamilyWilliam Smith Wilson Jr. (1773 – 1991)

2 cartons,  4 oversize folders (7 linear feet)

The William Smith Wilson Jr. Collection is a genealogical collection relating to the Wilson Family with the bulk of items dating from the 1880s to the 1970s with outliers from 1773 to 1991. The majority of the collection consists of genealogical information on the direct line of the Wilson Family as well as some extended family. This collection also includes family journals, checks, and legal and property documents for the Family Farm at Maple Grove Easton.

Identifier: 2022.011
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment