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Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
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Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-685-3750
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Maryland History In Prints: 1752-1900
by Laura Rice

Masquerade Ball of Harmony Circle Lithograph by H[enry] Schroeder Printed by E. Bross Baltimore, 1866 Lithograph, printed in colors

On March 1, 1866, the Harmony Circle gathered in the New Assembly Rooms for a masked ball. Setting aside fashionable dress, ball-goers appeared in elaborate and imaginative costume, displaying a delight in puns and topical allusions. Here, "Andy Johnson's Tailor" sits on the table at center, "patching up the Union" by sewing the names of northern and southern states on a cloth. To the right, the Freidman family arrives as the Freedmen's Bureau, labeled "No North, No South, or any other Man for President."  Two men dressed as a horse pull a mock trolley car of the newly established Druid Hill Park line; Noah seems about to disappear below his ark. Musicians play on and above the bunting-draped stage joined by dancing revelers and what appears to be a minstrel band.
 

Back Continue Room 1: Immigrants in Maryland Room 2: Evangelical Religion and Reform Room 3: Rowdies and Riots Room 4: Changes in the Land Exhibit Home Page CONTENTS for Room 1 1. Baltimore Schuetzen-Park 2. The Great Fight, between Tom Hyer & Yankee Sullivan, for $10,000 3. Asking if I would ever dare to be 'sassy' to the Sisters again 4. Isaac McKim's Free School 5. [Little Joker Smoking Tobacco] 6. The Oddfellow's March 7. Masquerade Ball of Harmony Circle 8. Church of St. John the Evangelist