Smith, Samuel, 1752-1839 [Portrait]
Half-length standing portrait shows Samuel Smith with gray hair, seen in three-quarter view, facing right with eyes forward. He wears blue and yellow War of 1812 uniform with double-breasted jacket. Oil on canvas by Rembrandt Peale, 1817-1818.
Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
City Hall, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
1817-1818
Maryland Historical Society
CA681
Edward Johnson (1767-1829) [Portrait]
Edward Johnson (1767-1829). Oil on canvas by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
Peale, Rembrandt
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
1817-1818
Maryland Historical Society
CA685
Assembly of Troops Before the Battle of Baltimore
Assembly of Troops before the Battle of Baltimore. Oil on canvas by Thomas Ruckle, Sr.
Ruckle, Sr., Thomas
c. 1814
Maryland Historical Society
1879.2.1
<a href="http://www.mdhs.org/digitalimage/assembly-troops-battle-baltimore">http://www.mdhs.org/digitalimage/assembly-troops-battle-baltimore</a>
Baltimore, August 22, 1814. [Newspaper Advertisement]
<p>An advertisement from Baltimore Mayor Edward Johnson and James A. Buchanan calling for Baltimore to form a Committee of Vigilance and Safety. The advertisement reads:</p>
<blockquote>"At a meeting of a number of persons convened at the City Council Chamber by the invitation of the Mayor, it was <em>Resolved</em>, That it be recommended to the Inhabitants of the City and Precincts, to meet at their several Wards, and in the Precincts, TOMORROW MORNING, at 10 o'clock, to choose <em>three persons</em> from each ward and each of the Precincts, who, together with the Mayor, shall constitute a <em>Committee of Vigilance and Safety</em>, during the present time of alarm, and that the committee thus chosen, meet at the Mayor's Office, at 5 o'clock, P.M. on WEDNESDAY, the 24th inst."</blockquote>
Johnson, Edward, 1767–1829
Buchanan, James A.
American Commercial and Daily Advertiser
1814 August 23
Maryland State Archives
SC3392
Baltimore
Lithograph colored by hand, by Edward Weber & Co.
Edward Weber, American
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Yale University Art Gallery
<a href="http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/48123">1946.9.1736</a>
President’s Message and Declaration of War
President’s Message and Declaration of War ([Boston?, 1812]). Book Division, Broadsides.
1812
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
[Francis Scott Key], The Star Spangled Banner
[Francis Scott Key], The Star Spangled Banner (Baltimore, [1814]). Book Division, F 1814 St. Sung to the tune of “Anacreon in Heaven,” this copy is identifiable as a first edition by the typographical error in the subtitle.
1814
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
Sketch of the Entrenched Position of the American Forces Near Baltimore on the 13th Septr. 1814
Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1768-1838) recorded the attack on Fort McHenry in his logbook/journal of September 13-14. “The Bombs [bomb vessels] continued Bombarding the Fort during the Night,” he wrote. His map of the defenses of Baltimore shows the “apparent strength” of the position, which convinced the attackers to retire.
Sir Pulteney Malcolm
Journal of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, 1814-1817, with “Sketch of the Entrenched Position of the American Forces Near Baltimore on the 13th Septr. 1814.” Manuscripts Division, Pulteney Malcolm Papers.
1814
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
Baltimore
Lithographer: Unknown
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Yale University Art Gallery
<a href="http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/43908">1946.9.15</a>
Armistead, George, 1780-1818 [Portrait]
Half-length standing portrait shows George Armistead with short curly dark hair, resting left arm on wheel of cannon. He wears War of 1812 uniform: dark blue military jacket with bold buttons and epaulettes, wide red sash, white pants and shirt, and dark stock. Oil on canvas by Rembrandt Peale.
Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
City Hall Paintings, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection; Museum Department
1817
Maryland Historical Society
CA684
[Ville, port, et rade de Baltimore dans le Maryland.
Notes
- 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 Marsh," "Frederick Town," and "Spuriens."
- LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1419
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Vault
- AACR2: 100; 440; 651/1; 650/2
Berthier, Louis-Alexandre, 1753-1815.
c. 1781
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
<a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3844b.ar141900">g3844b ar141900</a>
Warner & Hanna’s Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore
This is a digital image of the original map held by the George Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.
Varle, Charles
1801
George Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
<a href="http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36429">1774.2/36429</a>
Sketch of the Military Topography [of] Baltimore and its Vicinity, and of Patapsco Neck to North Point
Kearney, James
National Archives
1814
<a href="http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/33622">1774.2/33622</a>
City of Baltimore Maryland
This map is Plate No. 25 from a J.H. Colton atlas that we believed was published in 1857. This is a digital image of the original map held by the George Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Scale: 1:23,500.
Colton, J.H.
1857
George Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
<a href="http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36225">1774.2/36225</a>
View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill
Francis Guy’s prospect of Baltimore meticulously records the city’s distinctive topographical features, from the cliffs of Jones Falls Valley and “Howard’s Elm” in the foreground to the dense cluster of buildings that stretches to the harbor front. The contrast between built structures and natural forms speaks to a landscape transformed by urban development. Many of the buildings are readily identifiable, including the octagonal Pantheon (left foreground), where Guy planned to exhibit panoramic paintings. His talent for rendering architecture also earned him commissions for “portraits” of the country estates of Baltimore’s gentry.
Francis Guy, American, 1760-1820
1802-1803
Brooklyn Museum
<a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/634/">41.624</a>
Plan of the town of Baltimore and it's [sic] environs.
Plan of the town of Baltimore and it's [sic] environs.
Notes
- 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 Charts (1978 ed.) 522
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- AACR2
Folie, A. P.
Poupard, James.
1792
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
<a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3844b.ct000792">g3844b ct000792</a>
William Patterson, 1752-1835 [Portrait]
Half-length portrait shows William Patterson; man with gray hair, facing right, wearing black coat with gold buttons, and white waistcoat with white stock, shown against brown-gray background. Oil on canvas by Thomas Sully.
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
1821
Maryland Historical Society
Copy of original owned by the Maryland Historical Society.
Oil on canvas
1883.1.1
Volunteers screening for artifacts, Patterson Park
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2014-05-10 12:52:36
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Students looking out at the park from the Patterson Park Pagoda
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2014-05-09 14:23:12
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Artifact display, Patterson Park
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2014-05-09 14:08:00
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Project signage and flag, Patterson Park
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2014-05-09 13:24:18
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Greg Katz taking levels, Patterson Park
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2014-05-08 12:51:28
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Volunteers screening artifacts, Patterson Park
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2014-05-02 12:53:32
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Project team screening for artifacts, Patterson Park
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2014-05-02 12:53:22
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Students analyzing artifacts, Patterson Park
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2014-05-02 12:19:25
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