18 10 274 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/6d3f950d255e45e67db6f8f1d6989909.jpg f7b9fcc9c412d1c074c40eb0f6fe8533 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/">Library & Museum, Maryland Historical Society</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1154/#geolocation">201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21201</a> <a>+1 (410) 685-3750 (ext. 359)</a> <a href="mailto:reference@mdhs.org">reference@mdhs.org</a> <a href="mailto:specialcollections@mdhs.org">specialcollections@mdhs.org</a> Description Founded in 1844, the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) is the state’s oldest continuously operating cultural institution. In keeping with the founders’ commitment to preserve the remnants of Maryland’s past, MdHS remains the premier institution for state history. With over 350,000 objects and seven million books and documents, ranging from pre-settlement to the present day and representing virtually every aspect of Maryland history and life, this institution now serves upward of 100,000 people through its museum, library, press, and educational programs. Resource <a href="%E2%80%9Chttp%3A//www.mdhs.org/library/library-overview%E2%80%9D">H. Furlong Baldwin Library:</a> The Maryland Historical Society’s H. Furlong Baldwin Library enables researchers, students, teachers, and others to have access to the records of Maryland’s past while preserving irreplaceable historical materials for future generations. The sizeable collection of books, journals, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, prints, obsolete currency, posters, broadsides, sheet music, oral histories, ephemera, and microfilm which the library makes available to the public via the Reference Department and Special Collections is one of the nation’s most extensive and important historical resources. Among the more than 7 million items at the H. Furlong Baldwin Library are Francis Scott Key’s original manuscript of "The Star-Spangled Banner," papers of Maryland’s colonial governors and signers of the Declaration of Independence, including the Carroll Papers, over 900,000 photographs, and considerable genealogical resources. <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/museum/collections">Museum Collection:</a> The MdHS museum features an incredible collection that celebrates Maryland’s rich and diverse history, from 18th- and 19th-century paintings and silver to 20th-century objects of everyday life. Among its more than 350,000 objects, the most significant collection of Maryland cultural artifacts in the world, are over 2,000 paintings including the largest collection of works of art by members of the Peale family, a significant collection of maritime-related artifacts, and important collections of 19th-century Maryland painted and inlaid furniture, silver, quilts, costumes, ceramics, dolls and toys. <ul><li>2,200 paintings and miniatures, including portraits of Maryland heroes from the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, the world’s largest collection of paintings by members of the Peale family, 7 portrait paintings by Joshua Johnson, the first professional African American portrait painter in the United States, and 10 Maryland landscapes by Francis Guy, considered one of the most important English artists to come to America in the late 18th century</li> <li>4,134 pieces of silver holloware and flatware, including over 400 objects made by Samuel Kirk and his descendants and a significant collection of English silver with colonial Maryland history</li> <li>900 pieces of furniture: including 400 pieces of veneered and painted furniture from the early 19th century, the “Golden Age” of Baltimore furniture production</li> <li>10,750 textiles, including the world’s largest collection of Baltimore Album quilts, 124 samplers and embroideries, women's, men's and children's clothing and accessories ranging from c. 1730 to the present, bed and table linens, one of only three surviving Revolutionary War officer's uniforms in America, an extensive collection of Confederate and Union uniforms, and a collection of important flags, including one of the only surviving examples of a Civil War flag carried by an African-American regiment</li> <li>1,500 examples of porcelain and pottery, including a notable French dinner service associated with Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Chinese Export porcelains made for and used by Marylanders, and a fine collection of Maryland-made redware and stoneware</li> <li>400 examples of decorative and utilitarian glass made and used in Maryland, including rare examples created by John Frederick Amelung, founder of one of America’s earliest glassworks and a remarkable collection of early 19th century Anglo-Irish glass</li> <li>8,250 works on paper: including 19th century drawing and sketch books that cover a wide range of Maryland topics among them, the largest national collection of B. Henry Latrobe sketchbooks featuring 343 pages of sketches from 14 books</li> <li>10,000 miscellaneous household objects, office, and agricultural equipment, including gentlemen's and women's accoutrements (snuff boxes, card cases, canes, and sewing cases), lamps, washing machines, typewriters, and farming implements</li> <li>8,021 fabrication drawings primarily from 19th and 20th centuries: including 2,165 architectural drawings for domestic and business architecture from the Baltimore region, 56 plans and drawings from 17 architects for the design competition for the United States Capitol, 3,800 drawings for silver made by Samuel Kirk and Son, and 500 furniture drawings from the Potthast Brothers and 1,500 from the Jenkins Furniture Company</li> <li>2,500 toys, dolls, and games: played with by Maryland children</li> <li>2,200 Native American prehistoric archaeological objects: including projectile points, pottery, and stone tools</li> <li>1,000 maritime objects: in many media including half hulls, ship models, maritime-related navigation tools, and trailboards</li> <li>866 pieces of jewelry for women and men: including a King Charles I commemorative ring of 1649 worn by a Maryland Catholic in the 17th century, and a ruby tiara owned by Betsy Patterson Bonaparte in the 1820s</li> <li>600 glass bottles, drinking glasses, glass tablesware and eight stained glass windows from Baltimore buildings</li> <li>350 sculptural and architectural objects: including portrait busts, portrait medallions, and architectural components from Maryland buildings</li> <li>294 woodworking and silversmith tools and scientific instruments</li> <li>231 weapons: including; muskets, rifles, bayonets, swords, sabers and handguns from the 18th - 20th centuries, associated with the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, and World Wars I and II, and other weapons used for hunting and ceremonial purposes</li> </ul> <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/library/special-collections-maps-and-atlases">Maps & Atlases:</a> The Special Collections’ finding aid and guide for both individual maps and atlases (bound, published collections of maps). <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/library/special-collections-prints-and-broadsides">Prints & Broadsides:</a> The Special Collections’ finding aid and guide for prints, broadsides, and other works on paper. Collections include: <ul><li>Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum Works</li> <li>Hambleton</li> <li>James Doyle</li> <li>Joseph St. Lawrence</li> <li>Saint-Memin</li> </ul> <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/library/special-collections-photographs">Photographic Collection:</a> Subject Vertical File (SVF): Items are arranged by subject in a hierarchy that is alphabetical, geographical, and chronological. The index contains subjects as well as counties or major cities in Maryland, highlighted in bold. Containing over 17,000 items, this is one of MdHS’s most popular photograph resource tools. Peale/Baltimore City Life Museum (BCLM) Photograph Collection: Date range is late 1840s through 1980s with particular strength in the first half of the twentieth century. The collection is particularly strong in documentation of Baltimore’s history including architecture, residents, neighborhoods, businesses, politics, etc. There are over 60,000 items in this collection. BCLM inventory lists are currently being edited and uploaded as each inventory list becomes available. Browse through BCLM images of all kind in Collections Online (click and scroll down). Hughes Company PP8 and Hughes Studio Collection PP30: Both collections are by commercial photography company, the Hughes Company. PP8 ranges from ca. 1910-1946 and PP30 ranges from ca. 1940-1956. Both collections combined are a staggering visual depiction of Baltimore City and Maryland history. The collection contains roughly 40,000 photographs of street scenes, architecture, construction, portraits, buildings, shipping, industry, businesses, sport facilities, residences, churches, transportation and much more. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Library & Museum, Maryland Historical Society 19th century architecture Baldwin, H. Furlong Baltimore books Carroll Papers churches colonial america community ephemera Historical society journals Key, Francis Scott library manuscripts maps Maryland microfilm museum neighborhoods newspapers oral history photographs portraits prints vertical files https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/45b14a0b9523d23eba965393c2778a4c.gif 1dca92c1e388b17590b106fb1570fbd4 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/">Library of Virginia Collections</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1180/#geolocation">800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219</a> <a>+1 (804) 692-3500</a> <a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/about/contact.asp">http://www.lva.virginia.gov/about/contact.asp</a> Description The Library is one of the oldest agencies of Virginia government, founded in 1823 to preserve and provide access to the state's incomparable printed and manuscript holdings. The collection, which has grown steadily through the years, is the most comprehensive resource in the world for the study of Virginia history, culture, and government. Resource <a href="https://archive-it.org/collections/">Capitol Square Renovation Collection:</a> This collection preserves the web sites that document the 2004-2007 renovation of the Capitol building designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785, and the associated Capitol Square complex in Richmond, Virginia. <a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/virginia_newspapers">Virginia Digital Newspaper Project:</a> The Library of Virginia offers access to a wide array of resources for researching newspapers, from its broad collection of over 2,500 titles, in original ink press copy, on microfilm, and in digital format through the Library's web based repository, Virginia Chronicle. There are also a suite of subscription-based newspaper resources that the Library offers for free, providing gateways to a significant range of historical newspapers. The Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP), established in 1993, has worked to locate, describe, inventory, preserve, and provide public access to United States imprint newspapers housed throughout the commonwealth. To search specific titles and holdings here at the Library, visit the Newspapers in Virginia Bibliography. <a href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas15&local_base=CLAS15">Virginia Historical Inventory:</a> This collection includes photographs, maps, and detailed reports documenting the architectural, cultural, and family histories of thousands of 18th– and 19th–century buildings in communities across Virginia. It was originally assembled by the Virginia Writers' Project, part of the depression-era Works Progress Administration. <a href="http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/CBTBMJC4INA5BGAXIXMC8YJUTRCV4YDV4PCUTUJUATF8LBEF48-04997?func=collections-result&collection_id=2362&_ga=1.241259842.1133953252.1419011104&pds_handle=GUEST">WPA Historical Houses Drawings Digital Collections:</a> The WPA Historic Houses Drawings Collection includes 140 drawings in pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor of houses, courthouses, churches, mill houses, and taverns, representing 39 Virginia counties. From 1932 to 1937, the Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development's Division of History and Archaeology received funds from the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Art Project to commission five artists, including Rex M. Allyn, Edward A. Darby, Dorothea A. Farrington, E. Neville Harnsberger, and Elsie J. Mistie, to create drawings for a publication on historic Virginia shrines. Although the drawings were never published, likely due to diminishing funds, the collection presents an important record of Virginia architecture, both traditional and vernacular, and includes images of structures that are no longer standing today. The photographs from which the drawings were based are part of the WPA Photograph and Negative Collection at the Library of Virginia. <a href="http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/HJRXMVXJYXLBAKTEKRF9SIGRDYPPRJ44BY5RI6H8CPBK51FKTM-05150?func=collections-result&collection_id=1682&_ga=1.204060240.1133953252.1419011104&pds_handle=GUEST">Charles F. Gillette Virginia Photograph Collection:</a> This collection of photographs highlights Virginia houses, estates, gardens, and other landscape design projects created by the famed landscape architect Charles Gillette. <a href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=CLAS35">Mutual Assurance Society (Richmond/Henrico County, Virginia, Policies):</a> Indexes insurance policies issued by the Mutual Assurance Society between 1796 and 1867 for buildings in Richmond and Henrico County. Document images available. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Library of Virginia Collections 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century Allyn, Rex M. architecture capitol churches community courthouses Darby, Edward A. drawings Farrington, Dorothea A. garden Gillete, Charles Harnsberger, E. Neville historic site Jefferson, Thomas landscape library maps mill houses Mistie, Elsie J. newspapers photographs restoration Richmond taverns Virginia https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/4ef17b354bf6feb22822fcc3e5395c0c.jpg 1f5e777c4dd390171aeb0d01ae0c3bad Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/library.html">Library, National Gallery of Art, East Building</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1205/#geolocation">4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20565</a> Library: <a>+1 (202) 842-6511</a> Image Collections: <a>+1 (202) 842-6026</a> Description The National Gallery of Art Library is a major national art research center serving the Gallery's staff, members of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, visiting scholars, and the scholarly community at large. The library contains a wide-ranging collection of more than 400,000 books and periodicals on the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture. The emphasis is on Western art from the Middle Ages to the present—particularly Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish schools—and American art from the colonial era to the present. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Library, National Gallery of Art, East Building 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century American art architecture art books colonial america District of Columbia Dutch English Flemish French German Italian library Middle Ages periodicals Spanish Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/ad54c0e528faf4760c4f27224b80b814.jpg 3fd268609b84a7de3d0b597abbd81c5d Person An individual. Name Pope, Loren Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88183374.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88183374.html</a> Birth Date 1910 Death Date 2008 Birthplace Minneapolis, MN Occupation writer Biographical Text In 1965, Pope, a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times, founded the College Placement Bureau, one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States. Pope was also known for commissioning the Pope-Leighey House in 1939, designed and constructed originally in Falls Church, Virginia, by Frank Lloyd Wright. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Pope" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Pope</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Loren Pope writer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/03b3ab614fe08c0506a9cc9092bda008.jpg 1db4d57e004dd3d2495054a9976989d3 Person An individual. Name Tiffany, Louis Comfort Authority Sources <a title="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79056759.html" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79056759.html">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79056759.html</a> Birth Date 1848 Death Date 1933 Birthplace New York, NY Deathplace New York, NY Occupation artist; jeweler Biographical Text Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Louis Comfort Tiffany artist jeweler https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/70a78d44dcf88ba84d2400f615a65420.jpg fcc30645eeee719f32943c0626a2764e Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/">Main Reading Room, Library of Congress</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1198/#geolocation">101 Independence Avenue, SE Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ 100 Washington, DC 20540</a> <a>+1 (202) 707-3399</a> Description The Main Reading Room houses a large general reference collection emphasizing humanities, social sciences, and bibliography. The mission of the Main Reading Room Reference Collection is to provide comprehensive reference and research materials in the humanities, especially religion, philosophy, language, literature, art, and history, as well as in biography, bibliography, and library science. The collection also covers the social sciences, especially psychology, sociology, political science, and education. This collection contains almost 20,000 titles in about 70,000 volumes. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/bibguide.html">Bibliographies & Guides</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Main Reading Room, Library of Congress art books District of Columbia library religious records sciences Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/0b4ddeb2fe87fd60fb7dbf26833d3b37.jpg 258a5156875f960c3fb73afb2bd7be6a Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/">Manuscripts Reading Room, Library of Congress</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1199/#geolocation">101 Independence Avenue, SE James Madison Building, LM 101 Washington DC 20540</a> <a>+1 (202) 707-5387</a> Description The collections include presidential papers, papers of government officials, organizational records, a number of special collections formed by individual or institutional collectors, and foreign sources relating to American history that are located in foreign repositories. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html#">Finding Aids</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Manuscripts Reading Room, Library of Congress District of Columbia governmental records international library Washington Person An individual. Name Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Authority Sources <a title=""http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80038471.html "" href="">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80038471.html</a> Birth Date 1757 Death Date 1834 Birthplace Chavaniac, France Deathplace Paris, France Occupation military officer; dignitary; aristocrat Biographical Text In the U.S. often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. A close friend of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette aristocrat dignitary military officer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/90fbafa74530cd4106843041d4776f2b.jpg fd10a256e4e5d95bbe39d8634964665c Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Marietta_House_Museum.htm">Marietta House Museum</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1187/#geolocation">5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769</a> <a>+1 (301) 464-5654</a> Description Marietta, the Federal-style brick home of U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Gabriel Duvall, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built ca. 1813, Marietta remained under the ownership of the Duvall family until 1902. The home is situated on 25 acres of lawn and wooded areas and the grounds boast two County Champion trees, a lovely old boxwood and a bamboo grove. The Marietta Museum focuses on exhibits relevant to Prince George’s County history and on special events and programs such as period re-enactments, afternoon teas and children’s storytelling hours. The Society of Mareen Duvall Descendants has relocated the family graveyard from its original location to the serene surroundings at Marietta. Justice Duvall's law office and root cellar also are open to the public. Marietta is a 2 1⁄2-story brick Federal house, begun c. 1813, in a traditional I-house plan and is an important example of a late Federal style brick house. The main block is five bays by two, and entrance is through the central bay of the south facade. Attached to the north of the main block at right angles is a two-story rear wing, built c. 1832, and attached to the west gable end is an L-shaped wing added in 1968. Marietta stands on terraced, landscaped grounds with two contemporary outbuildings: a brick law office and a stone and brick root cellar/harness storage room. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marietta House Museum 19th century 20th century Duvall, Gabriel Federal garden Glenn Dale historic site Jefferson, Thomas landscape Madison, James Maryland museum Prince George U.S. Supreme Court https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/e2915e5ee3edaecdf3ab21c95a59eb19.jpg c0f82b073ee6eb932cd320f4159d9f62 Person An individual. Name Leighey, Marjorie Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96002126.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96002126.html</a> Death Date 1983 Deathplace Alexandria, VA Occupation landowner; women Biographical Text One-time owner of Pope-Leighey House. The Popes sold the home to Robert and Marjorie Leighey in 1946. In 1961, the state of Virginia informed the Leigheys the house would be condemned to make way for Interstate 66. Robert died in 1963, and Marjorie Leighey donated the home to the National Trust for Historic. Preservation in 1964 Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.woodlawnpopeleighey.org/aboutpope-leighey/" target="_blank">http://www.woodlawnpopeleighey.org/aboutpope-leighey/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marjorie Leighey landowner women