baltimore

DCM 0698: Eisenbrandt Double English Flageolet

All left pipe keys appear to be original; of the right pipe keys, only the 1st finger key is possibly original although abused on the finger spatula when a spring and rivet were replaced. The F key is obviously... More

Baltimore, Dec. 31, 1776. This morning Congress received the following...

Cm. Imperfect. Lower part of page wanting.; Wroth 385.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Co... More

Baltimore, April 18. The following resolves, with his Excellency the G...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 28, Folder 11.

[Ville, port, et rade de Baltimore dans le Maryland.

Scale ca. 1:26,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted. Relief shown by shading. Shows fortifications, troop encampments, and roads from "White Ma... More

Peace, liberty, and independence. Philadelphia, March 24, 1783. His Mo...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 28, Folder 17.

View from Bushongo Tavern 5 miles from York Town on the Baltimore Road

To the public. Friends and fellow-citizens In times of election the be...

Campaign.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 28, Folder 27.

Agreed that the principles and designs of men are to be tried by their...

Smith, William.; Campaign.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 28, Folder 28.

Queries, to the voters of Baltimore County. [Signed] Antismithites, Ja...

Printed into columns.; A series of queries designed to cause the voters of Baltimore to vote against William Smith as a member of Congress.; Evans 22087. Available also through the Library of Congress web site... More

Communications interesting to the public. [consists of letters from Ad...

To the voters of Maryland. On Monday next, you are to elect six repres...

Campaign.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 28, Folder 29.

Map of the middle states of North America with part of Canada shewing ...

Item 32 in exhibit, "City of magnificent distances, the nation's capital," that was presented in 1991 at Library of Congress. Map incorrectly locates "Columbia" (Washington, D.C.) on Shenandoah River Available ... More

Plan of the town of Baltimore and it's [sic] environs.

Scale ca. 1:9,000. Relief shown by hachures. Pictorial map. Indexed to points of interest. LC copy annotated in pencil. Inscribed "Presented by Robt Bruce Fowler, December 14, 1841" Wheat & Brun. Maps and Chart... More

Thomas Sim Lee to Port of Baltimore Collector of Customs, June 20, 179...

Thomas Sim Lee to Port of Baltimore Customs Collector, June 22, 1793

[Maryland casualty building, Baltimore, Maryland]

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Doyle.

The subscriber, by the liberality of his creditors, being in a situati...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 31, Folder 36.

Baltimore County, to wit: the subscriber [blank] justices of the peace...

Dated in mss 7 Jan. 1809. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 9a.

Schedule of the whole number of persons in the District of Maryland. [...

Census.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 4.

From the Office of the Mercantile Advertiser. Friday, November 27, 180...

Imprint 2.; Preliminaries of peace.; On verso: 1541. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfo... More

Baltimore House, Dependency, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park, Prin...

2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: This is the only surviving outbuilding of Riversdale, an 1801 plantation house in Prince George's County, Maryland. Dendochronology of its timbers suggests t... More

[Surrey chapel (St. Georges Fields, England) and Independent Church (B...

Inscribed: "Surrey Chapel, St. Georges Fields, circular building, 78 ft. clear" and "Independent Church - Baltimore, 78 ft. square". In: The Bulfinch sketchbook. Drawing has not been definitively attributed to ... More

Improved plan of the city of Baltimore.

Scale ca. 1:11,314. Relief shown by hachures. Pictorial map. From James Robinson's Baltimore directory. 1804. Indexed for points of interest. Accompanied by letter from Maryland Historical Society, 2 l. and typ... More

You [blank] jointly and severally confess judgment to [blank] for the ...

Dated in mss. Jan 7, 1809. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 9b.

Thomas Jefferson to Baltimore Tammany Society, May 25, 1809

Title page of Robert Smith, Address to the people of the United States...

Illus. in: Robert Smith, Address to the people of the United States (Baltimore, 1811). Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring 1980. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

National Intelligencer, March, 1812. Criticism, clip of an article fro...

General Hull and the defence of Fort M'Henry. A new song, called the s...

Negative Photostat.; Star Spangled Banner.; The surrender of General Hull.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printe... More

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Maryland

Bird's-eye view of Fort McHenry as during the bombardment of 1814. "*GPO: 1994--301-085/80111. Reprint 1990." Some issues have: *GPO: 1994--301-085/00085. Reprint 1990. Alternate title at lower left: The defens... More

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Maryland

Bird's-eye view of Fort McHenry as during the bombardment of 1814. "*GPO: 1998--432-903/60237. Reprint 1998." Oriented with north to the left. Includes text, location map [inset], fort plan with index of instal... More

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Maryland

Bird's-eye view of Fort McHenry as during the bombardment of 1814. "*GPO: 1992--312-248/60010. Reprint 1990." Alternate title at lower left: The defense of Fort McHenry. Oriented with north to the left. Include... More

Capture of Washington [Cut] On Wednesday, August 24, there was a sever...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; War of 1812- Ballads. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Co... More

[ Facsimile of first newspaper printing of The star spangled banner]

Published in the" Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser." Part of an assortment of uncatalogued clippings and photostats relating to the Star Spangled Banner, housed in the Music Division.

Defence of Fort M'Henry

This is the first printing of Key's poem. B24 in Star spangled books.

The death of General Ross, near Baltimore, as soon as he perceived tha...

Print shows Robert Ross, full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left, mortally wounded, being assisted by another soldier. Title from item.

The death of General Ross, near Baltimore, as soon as he perceived tha...

Print shows Robert Ross, full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left, mortally wounded, being assisted by another soldier. Title from item. Briggs Coll. 41499.

A view of Fort McHenry, and the entrance of the harbour of Baltimore /...

Print shows a pastoral scene at the entrance to the harbor at Baltimore with Fort McHenry on the left and some people enjoying the scenery on the right.

A view of Fort McHenry, and the entrance of the harbour of Baltimore d...

Print shows a pastoral scene at the entrance to the harbor at Baltimore with Fort McHenry on the left and some people enjoying the scenery on the right. Title from item. Printed below title: Engraved for the An... More

This survey of the River Patapsco and part of Chesapeake Bay,

Scale ca. 1:40,960. Hand colored. Depths shown by shading and soundings. Includes notes, "Description of ranges," and insets of "Annapolis Harbour & roads" and "Survey of the harbour of Baltimore and the waters... More

This survey of the River Patapsco and part of Chesapeake Bay,

Scale ca. 1:40,960. Depths shown by shading and soundings. LC copy annotated in pencil. LC copy incomplete: Additional sheet showing the southern section of Patapsco River, the Chesapeake Bay, and the inset of ... More

This survey of the River Patapsco and part of Chesapeake Bay,

Scale ca. 1:40,960. Depths shown by shading and soundings. LC copy annotated in blue pencil and red ink. LC copy imperfect: Torn along fold lines, sections of upper and lower edges missing. Includes notes, "De... More

This survey of the River Patapsco and part of Chesapeake Bay,

Scale ca. 1:40,960. Depths shown by shading and soundings. LC copy annotated in blue pencil and red ink. LC copy imperfect: Torn along center fold, section of upper right margin missing. Includes notes, "Descri... More

This plan of the city of Baltimore

Scale ca. 1:7,300. Hand colored. Pictorial map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to points of interest, pictorial index, notes, "Plan of Baltimore Town i... More

Plan of the city of Baltimore

Shows wards. Shows index. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

To the voters of Baltimore County. Fellow Citizens. Having been announ...

Jackson, Andrew.; Campaign.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 19.

Title page of a pamphlet: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...

Illus. in: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (Baltimore: Benj. Lundy, 1825), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring... More

To the public. The undersigned having entered into a correspondence w...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 30.

Belvidere Bridge over Jones's Falls, Baltimore, Aug. 1828

(DLC/PP-1995:140.427) Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 427. Title from item. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

All hail old hickory! Headquarters, Baltimore. November 8th, 1828 ... ...

Campaign.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 33.

Battle monument Max Godefroy, Esqr. P.A. &c. invenit & delint. 1815 ; ...

Print shows "Battle Monument", shaped like a fasces on a tall pedestal and topped with a female figure holding a wreath, on Calvert Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Title from item.

[Washington Monument looking north on Washington Place in Baltimore, M...

Drawing shows view of monument beyond First Unitarian Church, originally First Independent Church of Baltimore, designed by Maximilian Godefroy, completed in 1818. Title devised by Library staff. Inscribed lowe... More

A short history of a moral & political scoundrel. To my fellow-citizen...

Copy 2 formerly numbered as Portfolio 29, Folder 28. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 29, Folder 28. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images an... More

Jackson ticket. Honor and gratitude to the man who has filled the meas...

Prints number 1828-5 through 1828-10 make up a series of election tickets for John Van Laer Mcm.ahon and George H. Steuart, Democratic candidates for Baltimore delegates to the Maryland General Assembly in 1828... More

Battle Monument as seen from the west door of City Hotel, Baltimore

Title from item. Inscription upper right possibly inscription on monument. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 430. (DLC/PP-1995:140.430) Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

Headquarters, Baltimore. 1st December 1828. Great official news. [Sign...

Campaign.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 34.

Letter from Mrs. Barney to Gen. Jackson. Baltimore. June 13th, 1829. S...

(Printed on silk).; Imprint 2.; Jackson, Andrew.; Printed on satin.; On verso: 2-90-244.19. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SG... More

Washington monument [Baltimore] Printed by James Young, 114 West Balti...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 29, Folder 41.

To the freemen of Baltimore City and County ... Peter Little [183-].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 30, Folder 15.

Map of the country embracing the various routes surveyed for the Balt....

Map of Baltimore, Ann Arundel, Montgomery, Frederick, and Washington counties, Md, showing drainage, roads, and important place names. [From published bibliography]

Constitution of the United States. It is an admitted principle among a...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 30, Folder 6.

Map of the railroads and canals, finished, unfinished, and in contempl...

Important early map of the United States. Includes drainage, canals, and cities and towns. Contains route profiles for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Columbia Railroad, Pa., and the Massachusetts railroad... More

[Blank certificate for donors to the Washington National Monument Soci...

Certificate includes vignettes of the proposed Washington Monument with a pantheon and as an obelisk; medallion portrait of George Washington; and Washington's grave at Mount Vernon. The signatures are for Z. T... More

A map exhibiting the position of two lines located with a view to the ...

Partial cadastral map showing block numbers. Facsimile. Original version: Washington : Surveyors Office, 1835. Includes text, attestors' names, and illegible seal. LC copy 1 fold-lined. LC copy 2 halved and mou... More

A map, of the principal canal and rail road improvments [sic], which w...

Outline map covering New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio; shows drainage, canals, important cities, and railroad connections, chartered in 1828, opened to York in 1838.

Plan of the city of Baltimore

Shows wards. Includes index to points of interest. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Our country's flag! A new national song

Cover illustration for a patriotic song composed by George F. Cole, copyrighted in 1836. A young American seaman, holding an American flag with his right hand and raising his hat aloft with his left, stands on... More

Notice. Bank of Washington, May 12, 1837. Notwithstanding the informat...

On verso: 42 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 196, Folder 14.

Baltimore / Swett ; P. Haas sc.

Print showing a man leaning on a fence, looking in the direction of Baltimore, Maryland. Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress by N. Hickman, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Maryla... More

Notice. Bank of the Metroplis, May 12, 1837. Nothwithstanding the info...

On verso: 12 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 196, Folder 13.

Baltimore Patent Flour Cloth to Andrew Jackson, April 26, 1838

Battle monument, Baltimore / W.H. Bartlett ; H. Griffiths.

Print shows "Battle Monument", shaped like a fasces on a tall pedestal and topped with a female figure holding a wreath, on Calvert Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Title from item. Published in: American scenery... More

Map of the practicable routes of a canal from Baltimore to the Potomak...

Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Virginia cotillion

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Cremona waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

La Norma waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Our country's hope. Harrison & reform. 4th may 1840. Published by J. S...

Badge printed on white satin ribbon.; Printed on satin.; Harrison and reform. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Eph... More

The Baltimoreans going the whole ass tail and all

Caricature of Fanny Elssler, in carriage being drawn by men with ears of jackasses, going to Baltimore. Signed in stone: HB. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print fil... More

Map shewing the connection of the Baltimore and Ohio-Rail-Road with ot...

Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography] Scale ca. 1:4,900,000. LC Railroad maps, 334 Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ras... More

Rates of charges between New-York, New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 120, Folder 25.

Fanny Elssler and the Baltimoreans

A scornful look at the reception of German ballerina Fanny Elssler in Baltimore. The New York artist ridicules the adulation given the touring performer by the Baltimore public. During her July 1840 visit there... More

The poor man's friend

A Whig campaign ribbon, "Dedicated to the Young Men's National Convention," probably issued for the Baltimore ratifying convention of May 4, 1840. (Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison was actuall... More

Felix Jenkins, saddler harness and trunk maker, 10 South Street Baltim...

Print shows an advertisement for Felix Jenkins, saddler harness and trunk maker, showing two horses above motto "Nostra Fides [...]" in oval frame decorated with plant leaves, with another horse wearing a saddl... More

Whig principles. "A sound national currency, regulated by the will and...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 30, Folder ... More

Our country's hope. Harrison & reform 4th May 1840

A Whig campaign ribbon, produced for the Young Men's National Convention held in Baltimore in May. At the top in a corona of stars is a fasces. Below it an eagle holds a streamer with the words "Union for the S... More

Baltimore Convention, Old Tippecanoe, a patriotic song

An illustrated sheet music cover for a "Patriotic Song. Written, to be sung at Baltimore during the Young Men's Whig Convention" of May 1840. The composer is identified as "a Pennsylvanian." The illustration, l... More

Map shewing [sic] the several routes, examined with a view to the exte...

Map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, relief by hachures, important cities, the existing railroads, turnpike roads, canals, and the projected railroads; a statement below the title explains th... More

List of members of the Howard Fire Company for 1841. Bull & Tuttle, Jo...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 30, Folder 22.

Tippecanoe March 4, 1841. Inauguration ball, the managers request the ...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 30, Folder 22a.

Eleanora waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Map of the county west of Cumberland towards the Ohio river, showing t...

Lightly colored map on tracing linen showing western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, parts of Virginia and West Virginia and most of Ohio. Scale 1:316,800. LC Railroad maps, 335 Description derived from publish... More

Map, exhibiting the railway route between Baltimore & St. Louis, toget...

Map covers area from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Va., and west to the Mississippi River. Scale 1:2,471,040. LC Railroad maps, 74 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Libr... More

Enclosure with Robert Howard to Andrew Jackson March 26, 1844. Record ...

The honest statesman, his country's steadfast friend. Harry of the Wes...

Campaign badge produced for the Whig National Convention held at Baltimore in May 1844. A bust-length portrait of Whig candidate Henry Clay appears in an oval, against a backdrop of American flags. The oval is... More

Young men's whig national convention held in Baltimore May 2d 1844. [C...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 232, Folder 26.

Clay gallopade

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

The emerald gallopade

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

The Francis waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Aeolus gallop

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Tarand polka

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Present Presidential position. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

Once again Polk's handling of the Oregon territorial dispute between the United States and Great Britain is criticized. (See "Polk's Dream" and "War! or No War!" nos. 1846-2 and 1846-4). Here the artist seems t... More