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1. MDHS_051203_013.JPG: The Mason-Dixon stone marked the border between the estates of William Penn (Pennsylvania) and the Calvert family (Maryland) as determined by English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. The north-facing side is carved with the crest of the Penn family. The south-facing Calvert crest is surmounted by a crown. The crown marked the land as the dominion of the English kind and English law. The idea of scientifically determining boundaries for the sake of claiming ownership came to Maryland with the European settlers.
2. MDHS_051203_020.JPG: The imagery of these Indian petroglyphs derives from natural forms: the fish and serpent were elements of the river and the presence of the spirit world in nature. The carvings show how the Indians saw the land as their connection to the spirit world.
3. MDHS_051203_033.JPG: Revolutionary War Officer's uniform worn by Tench Tilghman. Reproduction waistcoat made and donated by Ross Kimmel.
4. MDHS_051203_038.JPG: Washington and His Generals at Yorktown, c. 1784, by Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827).
5. MDHS_051203_083.JPG: H.L. Mencken's typewriter: In 1925, Henry L. Mencken wrote, "So far as I can make out, I believe in only one thing: liberty." Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), nationally known for nearly half a century as "The Sage of Baltimore," used his wit and gift for language to skewer American politics and society in his essays, books and newspaper columns for the Baltimore Sun. The modern American's "booboisie's" corruption of the ideal of liberty stood high among Mencken's favorite targets. In 1921, he wrote: "All we got to say on this proposition is this: first, me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; second, nobody ain't got no right to take away none of our rights; third, every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time whichever way he likes, so long as he don't interfere with nobody else." Mencken's outspoken tirades against U.S. intervention in both world wars cost him his job -- twice. Although he made grossly anti-Semitic and racist comments, he also, surprisingly, was a fierce advocate for civil rights. Mencken's last column for the Sun, in 1948, decried the enforced segregation of the tennis courts at Baltimore's Druid Hill Park.
6. MDHS_051203_102.JPG: Horatio Gates at Saratoga (1728/29-1806), c. 1800, by James Peale (1749-1831). James Peale painted one of the most significant battles of the Revolution. American Maj. Gen. Horatio Greene's victory seen here at Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1777, initiated the momentum that ultimately resulted in winning the war at Yorktown. Gates, a British expatriate, married Mary Vallance, a Washington County Marylander, in 1786. Another Marylander, Maj. Gen. James Wilkinson, delivered Sir John Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga to Congress.
7. MDHS_051203_107.JPG: General Nathaniel Greene (1742-1786), c 1795-96, by Rembrandt (1775-1860) or Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825). Rembrandt Peale and his brother Raphaelle followed the lead of their father, Charles Wilson Peale, and their uncle, James, in painting historical figures. From 1795-96, they copied sixty of their father's portraits of great men (this of General Greene among them) for a traveling exhibition organized for Charleston and Savannah. Baltimore was the third stop on the tour, and here the brothers' ambitions enlarged. Seeing Baltimore as a prosperous and artistically inclined city, they initiated a museum similar to the one their father had opened in Philadelphia. This painting, with others, formed the nucleus of the display. Though unsuccessful with their museum venture in Baltimore this time, Rembrandt would return for a second attempt in 1814 with this portrait again on view. After the museum closed, the Maryland Historical Society bought this and seven other historical portraits in 1857. Rembrandt and Raphaelle fittingly chose to paint and present General Greene on their southern tour, for Greene's greatest contributions in the Revolution were his victories over the British in Charleston, Camden, and Eutaw Springs, South Carolina.
8. MDHS_051203_114.JPG: Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead (1780-1818), c 1817-18, by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). With General Smith in charge of the land defense during the War of 1812, Lieutenant Colonel Armistead's duty was to repulse the British attack by water. His successful defense of Fort McHenry won him the citizens' immense gratitude. Armistead died soon after the war's end. As the victorious officer, Armistead took possession of the large American flag that has come to be called the Star-Spangled Banner, now housed at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History.
9. MDHS_051203_117.JPG: John Stricker (1759-1825), c. 1817-18, by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). Frederick native and veteran of the Revolution, Stricker once again served his country during the War of 1812. As brigadier general of the Third Brigade under General Smith, he waged a defensive battle against the British at North Point.
10. MDHS_051203_133.JPG: Colonel Nathan Towson (1784-1854), c. 1815, by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). This Baltimore County farmer became a career army officer defending the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812. Rembrandt Peale likely painted Towson for the Peale's Baltimore Museum Gallery of Heroes. After the war, Towson served as United States paymaster general from 1819 to 1854. The United States Army used Towson's expertly developed paymaster system into the 20th century.
11. MDHS_051203_159.JPG: Tom Miller (1945-2000), 1994, by Raoul Middleman (1935-). In 1994, Raoul Middleman painted his former Maryland Institute College of Art student, capturing the "imploring kind of energy" that Tom exuded. Middleman noted that Miller's spirit helped him paint this portrait of Baltimore's renowned artist.
12. MDHS_051203_166.JPG: Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), c. 1840-50, attributed to Harriett Cany Peale after Rembrandt Peal (c. 1800-1869). In 1814, Rembrandt Peale, second-oldest son of Charles Willson Peale, established Peale's Baltimore Museum. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Sr., it still stands today on Holliday Street as the first building constructed specifically as a museum in America. Unlike previous museum operators, Rembrandt and his brother Rubens publicly showcased artwork owned by local collectors, booked traveling exhibitions and entertainers, and held scientific demonstrations. They described their museum as "an elegant rendezvous for taste, curiosity and leisure." Rembrandt's primary career as a painter resulted in nearly eight hundred works of art.
13. MDHS_051203_172.JPG: David Bachrach (1845-1921), c. 1900, by Ephraim Keyser (1850-1937). In 1863, when he was eighteen years old David Bachrach photographed Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg address, the only known photograph of Lincoln at his historic event. Bachrach chose to be a photographer after being apprenticed to ambrotypist Robert Vinton Lansdale. According to Bachrach, this historic moment at Gettysburg determined his life's work as a portrait photographer. In 1877, he opened his own studio in Baltimore. Here he experimented with many techniques, including the application of photographs on canvas with Woodward's solar camera. His brother-in-law, well-known artist Ephraim Keyser, completed this sculptural image of Bachrach.
14. MDHS_051203_178.JPG: Enoch Pratt (1806-1896), 1893, by Paul Hallwig (1865-1925). Enoch Pratt, a Massachusetts natives like George Peabody, settled in Baltimore in 1831. Both saw the business potential in this booming city. As a hardware merchant and later as the president of banks and transportation companies, Pratt was a major benefactor to a variety of institutions. He founded the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the first free public library system in the United States, and contributed significantly to what became the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. His home on Monument Street forms an integral part of the Maryland Historical Society campus.
15. MDHS_051203_183.JPG: George Peabody (1795-1869), 1857, by James R. Lambdin (1807-1889). George Peabody made his money as a Baltimore businessman and international banker, but spent his money providing opportunities for many Marylanders and Americans. During his lifetime Peabody gave more than eight million dollars to establish the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, the Peabody Education Fund (providing support for destitute children), and endowments for five other national organizations. The Maryland Historical Society commissioned James Lambdin to paint Mr. Peabody in 1857 to honor him for his many contributions to the Society, the state, and the nation.
16. MDHS_051203_206.JPG: Daniel Carroll II of Rock Creek (1730-1796), c. 1753-1754, by John Wollaston (active 1736-1767). Daniel Carroll served as one of the Maryland representatives to the first United States Congress. In a critical 1790 congressional decision, Carroll sided with George Washington on the location of the new United States capital. In gratitude Washington named Carroll one of the three commissioners to establish the new capital on the Potomac River. Carroll stood to gain from this location for he owned a 4,000-acre plantation northeast of Georgetown. As one of the commissioners Carroll hired Marylander Andrew Ellicott who, with free African American Benjamin Banneker, surveyed the boundary lines of the new federal district.
17. MDHS_051203_213.JPG: B. Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), c. 1815, by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). Latrobe's uncompromising passion as a talented and professional engineer and architect often put him at odds with those he sought to assist in building the new republic. Latrobe's vision of an America with well-designed public structures and well-built bridges and infrastructure persisted against great odds. His determination resulted in designed for some of America's most acclaimed buildings; the Baltimore Basilica (Roman Catholic Cathedral), the Baltimore Exchange, the United States Capitol, and the National Bank, Philadelphia.
18. MDHS_051203_215.JPG: Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), 1826, by John Henri Isaac Browere (1790-1834). Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived through the upheavals of the Revolution like his archrival, Daniel Dulany, Jr. Like Dulany, Carroll trained in England as a lawyer and inherited vast Maryland estates from his father, Charles County of Annapolis. Unlike Dulany, as a Catholic Carroll was unable to hold public office. In a battle of wits published in the Maryland Gazette Dulany and Carroll argued the constitutionality of the Maryland charter: Dulany for the proprietary government, Carroll against. This confrontation put Carroll in the network of patriots, thus eventually securing him a seat in the Continental Congress. This life mask, molded directly from Carroll's face by John Henri Browere in July 1826, is the most accurate image of the signer, Carroll commented at the time: "At his request, I set to him to take my bust; he has taken it. The resemblance in my opinion and of that of my family & all who have seen it is most striking; the operation from its commencement to its completion was performed in two hours with very little inconvenience and no pain to myself." Browere exhibited this bust at the Baltimore Exchange in 1826 -- the last time it was seen in Maryland.
19. MDHS_051203_229.JPG: McCormick Family, c. 1805, by Joshua Johnson (c. 1762/3, working 1796-1824). When James McCormick came to Baltimore from County Tyrone, Ireland in 1786, the city was booming and his services as a cabinetmaker and carpenter were in demand. This portrait of his family represents McCormick's business success, for group portraits were expensive and fairly rare. The choice of African American artist Joshua Johnson in an interesting one. By this date, Johnson, then a free man, had painted several portraits of successful middle-class white men and women living in McCormick's Hanover Street neighborhood.
20. MDHS_051203_238.JPG: Ann Bond Fell (1740-1786), c. 1764, attributed to John Hesselius (1728/29-1778). Recognizing he importance of a deep-water port to the shipping trades, Ann's husband, Edward, obtained land east of Baltimore's present inner harbor in the 1760s. With her husband's death the task of developing the land fell to Ann. She so adeptly marketed the land with no-down-payment financing that the settlement known as Fells Point quickly rivaled the population of nearby Baltimore Town. Such an accomplishment was unusual for a woman of this period. The Maryland Historical Society recently opened a museum in Fells Point to recognize the Fells' role in the maritime history of the Point.
21. MDHS_051203_283.JPG: Silver connection
22. MDHS_051203_287.JPG: Furniture collection
23. MDHS_051203_335.JPG: Eubie Blake (1883-1983), 1981, by Robert Walker (dates unknown). Baltimorean James Hubert Blake was born in 1883, the son of former slaves. When he was six his mother bought him a $75 parlor organ for $1.00 down and 25 cents a week. A neighbor gave him piano lessons, and soon he was playing ragtime music that combined a syncopated African rhythm with a strong beat. At fourteen Eubie played in bars and sporting houses and later he and his partner, lyricist Noble Sissle joined the vaudeville circuit. in 1921, Blakes and Sissle wrote "Shuffle Along," a show combining ragtime music and jazz dancing performed by an all-black cast. "I'm Just Wild Harry," a popular song from the show became President Harry Truman's 1948 campaign song. Though Eubie was one of America's foremost composers of ragtime and stage music, his career declined with vaudeville. The 1973 movie "The Sting" renewed the public's interest in ragtime and rejuvenated Eubie's career. He began playing again and made appearances into his ninety-seventh year.
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