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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

Baltimore illustrated in albertype. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

Edward Bland. The discovery of New Brittaine. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

The Calvert papers, Vol I. (English) (search this work)

The Calvert parers, Vol. III. (English) (search this work)

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth (Moore) Chapin. American court gossip;. (English) (search this work)

The Chesapeake illustrated. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

A Frenchman in Virginia. (English) (search this work)

Jacob Frey. Reminiscences of Baltimore,. (English) (search this work)

John Gilbert. The Curious Adventures,. (English) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

John Edward Massey. Autobiography of John E. Massey. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

James Muir. Repentance or Richmond in tears. (English) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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

Ulmo S. Randle. Reminiscences. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

A relation of Maryland A relation of Maryland. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

E. Schaefer. Souvenir of Annapolis, Md. (English) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

Charles Soran. The Patapsco and other poems. (English) (search this work)

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

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

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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) (search this work)

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

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

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

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

Edward Maria Wingfield. A Discourse of Virginia. (English) (search this work)

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

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

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