Wilmer, L. Allison. History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861–65, published 1898–1899, compiles the official service record of Maryland soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Union war effort during the American Civil War, preserving one of the most detailed documentary records of the state’s military participation.....
Brackett, Jeffrey R. Notes on the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland Since the War, 1890, studies African American life in a former slave state whose border position made emancipation, Reconstruction, and postwar racial adjustment especially complex. Brackett begins, “In some respects, Maryland is a most interesting and instructive.....
Photographic archive of steam locomotives, freight cars, cabooses, shop interiors, and depot architecture in Colorado and Oakland, Maryland, many dated September 1974, as older railroad equipment was kept, repaired, displayed, and recorded after regular service. The Colorado images center on Denver and Rio Grande equipment, including D&RGW No. 346, built.....
Women: A Journal of Liberation, 1970 to 1975, documenting feminist cultural expression and ideological debate within the Women’s Liberation Movement during the early second wave period. The material reflects feminist print culture, illustrating themes of gender roles, domestic life, labor, sexuality, and global political struggle, and offering insight into how.....
[African American] [Civil Rights] Jack, Robert History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Boston: The Meador Press, 1943. First edition. 110 pages. Original hardcover cloth binding, no dust jacket as issued. 5 1/2" x 8". This book is a thorough and detailed historical study of the.....
Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company fire disaster photograph group documenting the destruction of a volunteer fire station and firefighting apparatus in Baltimore County, Maryland, on August 7, 1963. The photographs show an active structural fire involving a firehouse complex and fire equipment, captured by Baltimore freelance photographer J. K. Stevenson at.....
[Richard Wright] Official Quarterly Publication of the College Language Association. Volume XII, No. 4. Baltimore, June 1969. 6" x 9." Glossy pictorial wrappers bearing photo portrait of Richard Wright sitting at a writing desk. 103 pages, Single issue of scholarly journal devoted to teaching litreature at historically Black universities. This.....
Baltimore News Post, August 24, 1945, reports Japanese claims that radiation from the atomic bombings continued to kill thousands, preserving an early American newspaper presentation of effects that remained poorly understood and publicly contested immediately after the war. Published eighteen days after Hiroshima, fifteen days after Nagasaki, and ten days.....
"The Marylander" 1919 yearbook from the Maryland College for Women. Contains 123 pages, 11" x 8." Maryland, 1919. In this profusely illustrated yearbook, women students excel in their studies while pursuing active social lives. They engage in sports, theatre productions, and sororities. There are many full-page photographs of various campus.....
