American Memory: Chesapeake Bay Library of Congress American Memory Collection: books on the Chesapeake Bay and Washington, D.C., ca. 1600-1925 (More about this collection...) Parts of this collection: Texts (142 displayed) Word counts by language (click any bar to limit display): Places and dates in this collection:

A.D. 1862 or how they act in Baltimore. (English)

Henry Addison. Argument of Henry Addison in behalf of the corporate authorities and almost the entire population of Georgetown, D.C.,. (English)

Henry Addison. Letter of Henry Addison, esq., on behalf of the corporation of Georgetown, to the Hon. A.G. Brown, chairman of the Senate committee on the District of Columbia, touching the memorial of Capt. B.S. Roberts. (English)

Addresses at the dinner to the President of the United States by the citizens of Washington under the auspices of the Board of trade and Chamber of commerce,. (English)

Ann Tuke Alexander. Remarks on the theatre, and on the late fire at Richmond, in Virginia. (English)

Archibald Alexander. A discourse occasioned by the burning of the theatre in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on the twenty-sixth of December, 1811. (English)

Charles Henry Ambler. The life and diary of John Floyd governor of Virginia, an apostle of secession and the father of the Oregon country Oregon Country. (English)

Isabel Anderson. Presidents and pies; life in Wasington 1897–1919, by Isabel Anderson. (English)

George Dodd Armstrong. The summer of pestilence. A history of ravages of the yellow fever in Norfolk, Virginia, A.D. 1855. (English)

Robert Arnold. The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond. Early recollections. (English)

Robert Bailey. The life and adventures of Robert Bailey, from his infancy up to December 1821. Interspersed with anecdotes, and religious and moral admonitions. Written by himself. (English)

T. B. Balch. Reminiscences of Georgetown, D. C.: second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, Georgetown, D.C., March 9, 1859/by T.B. Balch. (English)

T. B. Balch. Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C.: a lecture delivered in the Methodist Protestant Church, Georgetown, D.C., January 20, 1859. Georgetown, D.C., January 20, 1859/by T.B. Balch. (English)

Baltimore illustrated in albertype. (English)

Thomas Henry Bayly. Speech of Mr. Bayly of Accomack, on the bill to prevent citizens of New York from carrying slaves out this commonwealth, and to prevent the escape of persons charged with the commission of any crime, and in reply to Mr. Scott of Fauquier, delivered in. (English)

John W. Bell. Memoirs of governor William Smith, of Virginia. His political, military, and personal history. By John W. Bell. (English)

Robert Beverley. The history of Virginia, in four parts. I. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706. II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country. (English)

Montgomery Blair. Proscription in Maryland. Speeches of the Hon. Montgomery Blair, as president of the Anit-Registry Convention and to the legislature of Maryland, delivered 24th & 25th of January, 1866. (English)

Edward Bland. The discovery of New Brittaine. (English)

Edwin Gilliam Booth. In war time. two years in the confederacy and two years north. With many reminiscences of the days long before the war. (English)

A brief outline of the rise, progress, and failure of the revolutionary scheme of the nineteen Van Buren electors of the Senate of Maryland, in the months of September, October and November 1836. (English)

A brief statement of the facts, shewing the importance of a bridge over the river Subquehanna, at Connowingo Creek. (English)

Emily Edson Briggs. The Olivia letters; being some history of Washington city for forty years as told by the letters of a newspaper correspondent. (English)

George William Brown. Baltimore and the nineteenth of April 1861;. (English)

Glenn Brown. The development of Washington with special reference to the Lincoln memorial. Address by Glenn Brown, secretary American institute of architects, before the Washington Chamber of commerce, December 13, 1910. (English)

William Byrd. Description of the Dismal Swamp and a proposal to drain the swamp. (English)

William Byrd. A journey to the land of Eden: and other papers, by William Byrd. (English)

Calamity at Richmond, being a narrative of the affecting circumstances attending the awful conflagration of the theatre in the city of Richmond, on the night of Thursday, the 26th of December, 1811. By which, more than seventy of its valuable citizens. (English)

Robert C. Caldwell. Washington in 1834: letter of Robert C. Caldwell. (English)

The Calvert papers, Vol I. (English)

The Calvert parers, Vol. III. (English)

Camilla, Or, Twenty-Four Hours on the Potomac. (English)

A candid appeal to the freemen of Maryland on the projected removal of their seat of government. (English)

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925: Collection Overview. (English)

Mathew Carey. Exhibit of the shocking oppression and injustice suffered for sixteen months by John Randel, Jun., Esq., Philadelphia, 1825. (English)

Elizabeth (Moore) Chapin. American court gossip;. (English)

The Chesapeake illustrated. (English)

John Herbert Claiborne. Seventy-five years in old Virginia with some account of the life of the author and some history of the people amongst whom his lot was cast,—their character, their conduct before the war, during the war and after the war,. (English)

John Clayton. A letter from Mr. John Clayton, rector of Crofton at Wakefield in Yorkshire, to the Royal Society, May 12, 1688. Giving an account of several observables in Virginia, and in his voyage thither, more particularly concerning the air. (English)

Mary Clemmer. Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them. (English)

Stephen Collins. The autobiography of Stephen Collins, M.D. (English)

Solomon L. M. Conser. Virginia after the war. An account of three year's experience in reorganizing the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia at the close of the Civil War. By S.L. M. Cponser. (English)

Ebenezer Cook. The sot-weed factor: or, a voyage to Maryland. (English)

Correspondence of the governor of Virginia with the governor of Maryland and the authorities of Accomac County, Va.;. (English)

Christopher C. Cox. Address of Hon. Christopher C. Cox, lieutenant governor, delivered in the Senate chamber, Annapolis, January 10, 1866. (English)

Caleb Cushing. Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the right of petition, as connected with petitions for the abolution of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia: in the House of Representatives, January 25, 1836. (English)

Madeleine (Vinton) Dahlgren. Etiquette of social life in Washington. (English)

Noah Davis. A narrative of the life of Rev. Noah Davis, a colored man, written by himself, at the age of fifty-four. (English)

Thomas Dixon. The life worth living, a personal experience, by Thomas Dixon, jr...illustrated with photographs by the author. (English)

Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass: a lecture on our national capital. (English)

Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. (English)

An exact and authentic narrative, of the events which took place in Baltimore, on the 27th and 28th of July last. Carefully collected from some of the sufferers and eyewitnesses. To whic is added a narrative of Mr. John Thomson, one of the unfortunate. (English)

Herbert Tobias Ezekiel. The recollections of a Virginia newspaper man, by Herbert T. Ezekiel. (English)

Joseph Pearson Farley. Three rivers, the James, the Potomac, the Hudson, a retrospect of peace and war, by Joseph Pearson Farley. (English)

Charles James Faulkner. The speech of Charles Jas Faulkner, (of Berkeley) in the House of delegates of Virginia, on the policy of the state with respect to her slave population. Delivered January 20, 1832. (English)

John Van Lear Findlay. Address delivered at Philadelphia on the 19th of October, 1876,. (English)

Peter Force. Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol 1. (English)

Peter Force. Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 2. (English)

Peter Force. Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 3. (English)

Peter Force. Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 4. (English)

A Frenchman in Virginia. (English)

Jacob Frey. Reminiscences of Baltimore,. (English)

John Gilbert. The Curious Adventures,. (English)

Joshua Gilpin. A memoir on the rise, progress, and present state of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. (English)

Thomas Glover. An account of Virginia, its scituation, temperature, productions, inhabitants and their manner of planting and ordering tobacco &c.; Communicated by Mr. Thomas Glover an ingenious chirurgion that hath lived some years in that country. (English)

Lawrence Augustus Gobright. Recollection of men and things at Washington, during the third of a century. (English)

John Goode. Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia. (English)

Mrs. Marian Campbell Gouverneur. As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century, by Marian Gouverneur. (English)

Thomas Grantham. An historical account of some memorable actions, particularly in Virginia. (English)

William Green. Narrative of events in the life of William Green, (formerly a slave.) Written by himself. (English)

Ralph Hamor. A trve discovrse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe, of the affaires there till the 18 of Iune. 1614. Together. With a relation of the seuerall English townes and fortes, the assured hopes. (English)

S. A. Harrison. Memoir of Lieut. Col. Tench Tilghman : secretary and aid to Washington : together with an appendix, containing Revolutionary journals and letters, hitherto unpublished. (English)

John von Sonntag de Havilland. A metrical description of a fancy ball given at Washington, 9th April 1858. Dedicated to Mrs. Senator Gwin. (English)

Daniel N. Henderson. Baltimore; the book of the fire. (English)

William Hill. A sermon, delivered in the Presbyterian meeting-house in Winchester, on Thursday the 23d Jan. 1812; being a day of fasting and humiliation, appointed by the citizens of Winchester on account of the late calamitous fire at the Richmond theatre. (English)

James Taylor Holmes. Richmond revisited by a federal, 1865-1905, Columbus, Ohio. (English)

Louis Hughes. Thirty years a slave. From bondage to freedom. The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter. Autobiography of Louis Hughes. (English)

Frank Hutchins. Virginia: the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history. (English)

Inaugural address of Thomas H. Hicks, governor of. (English)

Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the state of Virginia. By Thomas Jefferson. (English)

Reverdy Johnson. Speech delivered by Hon. Reverdy Johnson, as peresident of the Democratic Conservative mass meeting, held in Baltimore, Sept. 15th, 1875. (English)

George Johnston. The Poets & poetry of Cecil county, Maryland. Collected and ed. By George Johnston. (English)

Joseph Jones. Letters of Joseph Jones of Virginia. 1777–1787. (English)

Lucy Kenney. Description of a visit to Washington, treating of the public, patriotic feelings which pervade the citizens-the public buildings.with a stricture on Miss Fanny Kemble's Journal concluded with a general view of the present course of the administration. (English)

Frances Parkinson Keyes. Letters from a senator's wife, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. (English)

Rees Lloyd. The Richmond alarm; a plain and familiar discourse in the form of a dialogue between a father and his son; in three parts,. (English)

Daniel Mallory. Short stories and reminiscences of the last fifty. By an old traveller. Vol 2. (English)

Daniel Mallory. Short stories and reminiscences of the last fifty years. By an old traveller. (English)

John Edward Massey. Autobiography of John E. Massey. (English)

William E. Matthews. John F. W. Ware and his work for the freedmen. An address in the African Methodist church, Charles street, Boston, April 11, 1881. (English)

Robert May. A voice from Richmond, and other addresses to children and youth. By the late Rev. Robert May. With a brief account of the author. (English)

James McDowell. Speech of the James M'Dowell, jr. (of Rockbridge), in the House of delegates of Virginia, on the slave question: delivered Saturday January 21, 1832. (English)

Richard McIlwaine. Memories of three score years and ten. (English)

John Van Lear McMahon. Remarks of John McMahon, in the House of delegates of Maryland, on 28th january, 1824, on the bill to confirm an act, entitled An [!] act to extend to all the citizens of Maryland the same civil rights. (English)

Memorial of the inhabitants of the District of Columbia, praying for the gradual abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. (English)

Ely Moore. Remarks of Mr. Ely Moore, of New York: in the House of Representatives, February 4, 1839, on presenting a remonstrance from citizens of the District of Columbia against the reception of abolition petitions, &c;. (English)

Samuel Mordecai. Virginia, especially Richmond in by-gone days; with a glance at the present: being reminiscences and last words of an old citizen. (English)

Alfred J. Morrison. Travels in Virginia in revolutionary times. (English)

Alfred James Morrison. The District in the XVIIIth Century;. (English)

James Muir. Repentance or Richmond in tears. (English)

Elizabeth Hesselius Murray. One hundred years ago;. (English)

Theodore W. Noyes. The national capital. Newspaper articles and speeches concerning the city of Washington,. (English)

The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710–1722, now first printed from the manuscript in the collections of the Virginia historical society, with an introduction and notes by R.A. Brock. Richmond, Va. (English)

Lucinda (Lee) Orr. Journal of a young lady of virginia. (English)

Thomas Franses Pendel. Thirty-six years in the White House, by Thomas F. Pendel, door-keeper; Lincoln-Roosevelt. (English)

Personal recollections of early Washington and a sketch of the life of Captain William Easby. (English)

Photographic views and description of the great Baltimore 175,000,000 fire. (English)

Sally (McCarty) Pleasants. Old Virginia days and ways; reminiscences of Mrs. Sally Pleasants, ed. by her daughter Lucy Lee Pleasants. (English)

Henry Robinson Pollard. Memoirs and sketches of the life of Henry Robinson Pollard; an autobiography. (English)

John W. H. Porter. A Record of events in Norfolk County, Virginia form April 19th, 1861, to May 10th, 1862, with a history of the soldirs and sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and Portsmouth, who served in the Confederate States army or navy. (English)

A portrait of the evils of democracy submitted to the consideration of the people of Maryland. (English)

Robert Purviance. Narrative of events which occured in Baltimore town during the revolutionary war. (English)

Ulmo S. Randle. Reminiscences. (English)

Relatio itineris in Marylandiam; declearatio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro. Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum, ab anno 1635, a.d. annum 1638. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland, by Father Andrew White, S.J. An account of the colony of the. (English)

A relation of Maryland A relation of Maryland. (English)

Relation of the successful beginnings of the Lord Baltemore's plantation in Mary-land; being an extract of certaine letters written from thence, by some of the adventures to their friends in England. (English)

Report of the Citizens' relief committee' appointed after the great Baltimore fire,. (English)

N. G. Ridgely. A.D. 1862, or the volunteer zouave in Baltimore. (English)

Sally Nelson Robins. Gloucester. One of the first chapters of the Commonwealth of Virginia. (English)

E. Schaefer. Souvenir of Annapolis, Md. (English)

J. Thomas Scharf. The chronicles of Baltimore : being a complete history of “Baltimore town” and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time / by J. Thomas Scharf. (English)

Joseph E. Segar. Address of Joseph Segar, to the voters of Norfolk district. (English)

Joseph B. Seth. Recollections of a long life on the Eastern Shore. (English)

A short account of the establishent of the new see of Baltimore in Maryland, ... to which are added extracts from the different bills of right and constitution of the United States. (English)

James Lindsay Smith. Autobiography, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (English)

John Smith. The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar - Volume 1. (English)

John Smith. The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar-Volume 2. (English)

Margaret (Bayard) Smith. The first forty years of Washington society, potrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith. (English)

Charles Soran. The Patapsco and other poems. (English)

Souvenir views: Negro enterprise & residences, Richmond, Va. (English)

Charles Frederick Stansbury. Lake of the Great Dismal. (English)

Austin Steward. Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. (English)

Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart. Narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the northern and southern states, and of the subsequent efforts of the Committee of Nine in 1869 to secure. (English)

George Alfred Townsend. Washington, outside and inside. A picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellencies, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city. By Geo. Alfred Townsend. (English)

Sarah E. Vedder. Reminiscences of the District of Columbia;. (English)

Robert Bruce Warden. At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an American who is no longer young. (English)

James H. N. Waring. Work of the Colored law and order league, Baltimore, Md. (English)

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. Social life in the early republic. (English)

Edward Maria Wingfield. A Discourse of Virginia. (English)

William Wirt. The letters of the British spy. By William wirt. (English)

Thomas Turner Wysong. The rocks of Deer Creek. Harford County, Maryland. Their legends and history. (English)

William H. Young. Journal of an excursion, from Troy, N.Y., to Gen. Carr' head quarters at Wilson' landing. (English)