"On the evening of May 13, 1861, General Benjamin Butler and 1,000 Union soldiers arrived at Baltimore's Camden Street Station by train. Under the cover of a thunderstorm, they fortified Federal Hill to ensure the city of Baltimore remained under Union control, after the Pratt Street Riot less than a month earlier."
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Special Collections: Ephemera
Baseball card, American League 1966 Home Run Leaders, Ephemera Collection, Sports O – Z, Baltimore Orioles, 13 cards 1958-82, MdHS.
The ephemera collection consists of over one million items containing obsolete money and lottery tickets, playbills, invitations, billheads, menus, tobacco labels, match books, bottle caps, and countless other types of materials. The collection is broken down into Series and arranged chronologically or alphabetically within each series. Request items from the ephemera collection in special collections.
Click on the boxes above to see more detailed inventories (In progress)
PRINTED EPHEMERA SERIES
Box/Contents
Series B: Businesses and Manufactureres
Includes business cards, advertisements, price lists, billheads, business stationery
B18 Baltimore Hotel Collection
Includes calendars published by business companies
Includes confirmation certificates, lecture announcements, mass tickets
Series E: Baltimore City Government
E1-E2 Baltimore City, 1873-2009
E3 Baltimore Chamber of Commerce/Maps and Guides, 1835-1987
E4-E5 Baltimore City Events, 1880-1995
E6-E8 Maryland Counties, 1803-2004
Series F: Concerts and Entertainment
Announcements and programs, etc.
F7-F14 Academy of Music, 1874 - 1909
F15-F24 Baltimore Symphony, 1897–1991
F26 Oratorio Society of Baltimore, 1882–1917
F27-F29 Paint and Powder Club, 1894–1967
F31-F32 Baltimore Opera Co., 1971–1984
Invitations and programs for exhibits, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place and more
All greeting cards except for valentines
I11-I22 Christmas, Birthday, Easter, Religious and Music, New Years, Thangsgiving, Halloween
Material pertaining to ships and shipping lines
Series K: Maryland State Government
Maryland Day, Maryland anniversaries (tercentary, etc.), Maryland State Archives, Maryland State Fair, Maryland Department of Economic Development (tourism), Maryland Homecoming Week (excluding Maryland)
Menus and winelists of dinners given for famous persons and/or dinners given by organizations
Programs, invitations, membership lists
Calling cards, invitations, marriage certificates
Election tickets, campaign literature
Series T: Schools and Colleges
Diplomas, brochures, commencement programs
T7 College of Notre Dame Alumnae Association, 1897–1923
T8 College of Notre Dame Alumnae Association, 1924-1993
T9 Peabody Institute, before 1862-1929
T10 Peabody Institute, 1929-1983
Clippings, monogram albums
U1 Cocheco Extra Fine Saltines(trade cards) 64961 Fannie Boyer (trade cards and stickers) 64184
U1a Anne Gordon Thom - Monogram Album Lithographers proofs 62307
U2.1a+b Faust
U2.2 Abercrombie
U2.3 Bragonier
U3 Theatre ephemera 65357
U4 Political Ephemera 74591
U5 Baldwin 74583
U6 Adele A. Smith(Mrs. Baldwin) w/PP69 76219
U7 Blanche Hungerford with PP58 76488
U8 Teacher’s rollbook, advertising p.e., valentines, business cards 76695
U9 Carroll A. Hill (Was MD 970) 55000
U10 Freeburger (Was MD 970) 55322
U11 Fusco 001440
U12 Marbury/Fendall 001476
U13 [Annabel George] MSS transfer 75361
U14 Rosa Rand 001662
U15 John F. Hancock & Son 69932
U16 Elizabeth Taylor Goodwin (Mrs. Charles E. Rieman) embossed designs scrapbook 003240
U17 Tradecards (Mr.& Mrs. William Merrick) 003088
U18 Samuel T. Morgan 003510
U19 J. Winfield Henry Postcard Album 003776
U20.1-.5 Entre Nous Dance Club 003884
U21 Harry Scott 004108
U22 Birkhead Civil War, Nov. 1916
U23 Baltimore Tradecards (Frances A. Baldner) 1883
U24 a-c Symington
Tickets, programs, baseball and football cards
V6 University of Maryland football
Programs, playbills
W1 Albaugh’s Lyceum, 1889–1924
W6-W32 Ford’s Theatre and Grand Opera House, 1871–1919
W36-W41 Lyric Theatre, 1903–1990
W43-W45 Morris Mechanic Theatre, 1968-1990
W47-W70 Scrapbooks for various theatres, 1809–1951
W71-W76 Durkee Theatre Collection, 1922-1965
W77-W83 Gist Theatre Collection, 1946-2005 (Maryland and Non-Maryland Theatres)
Tickets, schedules and advertisements
X1 #-Ma (Except Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
X4 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, #-R
X5 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, S-Z
Items made especially for children
Series DD: Non-Maryland Business & Manufacturers
Series FF: Lottery Tickets and Advertisements
Trade cards, advertisements
Series II: Financial Documents
Series KK: Trade and Business Cards
Trade and Business cards of Maryland businesses and manufacturers. Items arranged alphabetically.
Series LL: A. Hoen & Co. Imprints
