"…that the “Star-Spangled Banner,” composed by Francis Scott Key during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, did not become our national anthem until 1931?"
Welcome to the Maryland Historical Society’s Collections Online Database. Browse through both Museum Department collections and the Special Collections Department of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library by subject or by medium. Here you will see paintings, photographs, manuscripts, decorative arts pieces, lithographs, and more.
With well over one million items housed at MdHS, this database contains merely a fraction of what can be found in the combined collections. Information contained in the records of the Collections Online Database is subject to change as a result of ongoing research.
Street scenes, Business and Industry, Automobiles, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Architecture, Buildings, structures
Unidentified photographer
Street scene. Industrial Building. 501 East Preston Street, Baltimore. Shows automobiles and truck. Unidentified photographer, ca. 1920-1930. Julius Anderson Photograph Collection. Gelatin silver print.
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Banks and banking, St. Paul Street, Business, Business and industry, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Baltimore (Md.), Julius Anderson Photograph Collection, Architecture, Buildings, structures
Unidentified photographer
Chesapeake Bank Building. 7 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. Unidentified photographer, ca. 1920-1930. Julius Anderson Photograph Collection. Gelatin silver print.
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United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), Drawing, Competitions, Architectural, Works on paper, Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.)
Hart, Philip, fl. 1790-1798
Front view of the Capitol "B" elevation. Signed lower left edge: "Philip Hart." Three joined pieces of creme paper with pricked guide points, pen and iron gall ink, scored guide lines, pencil shading and pencil graffiti. Not dated. United States Capitol drawing competition, 1792. Donor: John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe.
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West view of the Capitol. Elevation. Not signed or dated. Single sheet of creme paper with pricked guide points, pen, and iron gall ink washes and pen and black ink. Stephen Hallet (Étienne Sulpice Hallet). United States Capitol drawing competition, 1792.
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East view of the Capitol. Elevation. Not signed or dated. Single sheet of creme paper with pricked guide points, pen, and black ink, black ink washes and pencil under drawing. Stephen Hallet (Hallet, Étienne Sulpice). United States Capitol drawing competition, 1792.
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Mount Vernon, Baltimore (Md.), Aerial views, Washington Monument, Landscape, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Photographs, Cased object
Clark, Henry H., 1815-?
View of Baltimore. View north westerly from Shot Tower. Full plate daguerreotype attributed to Henry H. Clark, ca. 1845-1850.
Restricted to copy print only in the Special Collections Department. For more information, please contact special_collections@mdhs.org
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Baltimore (Md.), Markets, Street scene, Washington Monument, Landscape, Photographs, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Photographs, Cased object
Clark, Henry H., 1815-?
Marsh Market fountain on Baltimore Street. Shows Marsh Market fountain and McDonald's Lottery building in foreground. Full plate daguerreotype by Henry H. Clark, ca. 1845-1850.
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Business and industry, Baltimore (Md.)--Business and Industries, Maritime, Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor, Baltimore (Md.). Federal Hill, Landscape, Landscape--Water, Photographs--Cased object, Baltimore (Md.),
Clark, Henry H., 1815-?
Baltimore Harbor view. Gay Street dock from Federal Hill, Baltimore. Attributed to Henry H. Clark. Full plate daguerreotype. Shows ships Herald and Juniata, Merchant's Exchange building (demolished ca. 1901-1902), and Second Reformed Church.
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Women's history, Broadsides., United States. Congress., Hancock, John, 1671-1752, Goddard, Mary Katherine, 1738-1816, Declaration of Independence
Goddard, Mary Katherine, 1738-1816
In Congress, July 7, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen States of America. Signed by John Hancock, President. Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard.
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Portrait group, Street scene, Street scene--Urban Landscape, Prohibition., Photographs, Liquor industry., Baltimore (Md.), Baltimore (Md.)--Business and Industries
Unknown
Prohibition [Jefferson Liquor Company storefront with customers], [1918]. [Probably] 15 North Liberty Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Subject Vertical File, Prohibition. (Previously labeled as Z24.47.VF)
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Baltimore (Md.), Street scene, Street scene--Urban Landscape, Photographs, Alley houses, Rowhouses
Unknown
Biddle Alley, ca. 1911. Baltimore, Maryland. Subject Vertical File, Baltimore City, Streets. Featured in Housing Conditions in Baltimore: Report of a Special Committee of the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and the Charity Organization Society, Submitting Results of an Investigation by Janet E. Kemp (PAM 11206).
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