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Date Created: c. 1942
Description: Herbert R. O’Conor (1896-1960) was the fifty-first governor of Maryland. He served from 1939-1947.
Date Created: 1874
Description: This painting by Maryland artist Arthur Quartley depicts the harvesting of oysters in Worcester County, Maryland. The oysters were harvested and then placed in barrels and transported by wagon for distribution in cities between Baltimore and Pittsburgh.
Date Created: 1823
Description: This portrait depicts William Paca (1740-1799) governor of Maryland 1782-1785 and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Date Created: 1772
Description: This full-length portrait depicts William Pace (1740-1799) governor of Maryland 1782-1785 and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Date Created: 1836
Description: This full-length portrait depicts William Paca (1740-1799) governor of Maryland 1782-1785 and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Date Created: c. 1804
Description: This rural scene depicts important aspects of early Maryland commerce, and is one of a pair by Francis Guy. Both paintings show the properties of Baltimore merchant, Josias Pennington, and his partner, John Taggart, along the Jones Falls Valley.
Date Created: 1768
Description: This allegorical painting depicts William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, originally begun by Charles Willson Peale in 1768 and completed in 1774
Date Created: 1893
Description: The painting, The Planting of the Colony of Maryland depicts the formal founding of the colony of Maryland at St Clements Island in 1634. Prominently featured in the painting is Leonard Calvert, first colonial governor of Maryland.
Date Created: 1825
Description: This portrait depicts George Plater (1735-1792) governor of Maryland 1791-1792
Date Created: c. 1904
Description: Thomas G. Pratt (1804-1869) was the twenty-seventh governor of Maryland. He served from 1845-1848.
Date Created: 1909
Description: James Ryder Randall (1839-1908) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He authored the state song, Maryland, My Maryland.
Date Created: 1929
Description: Albert C. Ritchie (1876-1936) was the forth-ninth governor of Maryland. He served from 1920-1935. In 1932, Ritchie ran for President of the United States and declined an offer from President Franklin Roosevelt to serve as vice president.
Date Created: 1993
Description: William Donald Schaefer (born 1921) was the fifty-eighth governor of Maryland. He served from 1987-1995.
Date Created: 1904
Description: Winfield Scott Schley, was born near Frederick, Maryland, graduated from the Untied States Navy Academy in 1860 and was the hero of the Battle of Santiago Bay during the Spanish-American War. On April 14 ,1899 he obtained the rank of Rear Admiral.
Date Created: 1797
Description: Chair made in the shop of John Shaw for use by the president of the Maryland Senate. This chair was used in the Senate Chamber from 1797-c. 1838.
Date Created: 1797
Description: Desk made in the shop of John Shaw for use by the president of the Maryland Senate. The initials of journeyman cabinetmaker, William Tuck, are written on the Shaw label pasted on the interior. This desk was used in the Senate Chamber from 1797-c. 1838.
Date Created: 1823
Description: This portrait depicts William Smallwood (1732-1792) governor of Maryland 1785-1788
Date Created: 1904
Description: John Walter Smith (1845-1925) was the forty-fourth governor of Maryland. He served from 1900-1904, and oversaw the start of the construction of the 1902-1905 “annex” to the Maryland State House.
Date Created: 1824
Description: This portrait depicts Samuel Sprigg (1783-1855) governor of Maryland 1819-1822
Date Created: 1789
Description: This engraving, attributed to Charles Willson Peale, was published in the February 1789 issue of the Columbian Magazine. In addition to the new State House with its recently completed dome, on the far left is the home of John Shaw. To the right of the State House are the Old Council Chamber and...
Date Created: 1824
Description: This portrait depicts John Hoskins Stone (1750-1804) governor of Maryland 1794-1797
Date Created: 1836
Description: This portrait depicts Thomas Stone (1743-1787) Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Date Created: 19th Century
Description: This landscape shows an unidentified portion of the Susquehanna River, the longest river on the American east coast. The river, which also travels through New York and Pennsylvania, runs through northeastern Maryland and empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
Date Created: 1906
Description: Thomas Swann (1809-1883) was the mayor of Baltimore, he served from 1856-1860. Swann was also the thirty-third governor of Maryland. He served from 1866-1869.
Date Created: 1973
Description: C. Ferdinand Sybert (1900-1982) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1947-1950.
Date Created: 1872
Description: Roger Brooke Taney of Calvert County, Maryland served in both the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate. He also served the nation as acting secretary of war, attorney general, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Date Created: 1970
Description: J. Millard Tawes (1894-1979) was the fifty-fourth governor of Maryland. He served from 1959-1967.
Date Created: 2004
Description: Casper R Taylor, Jr (born 1934) was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1994-2002.
Date Created: 1896
Description: The painting, The Burning of the Peggy Stewart depicts the scene when local merchant Anthony Stewart was forced to set ablaze his ship and its cargo of tea, because he violated the non-importation resolution by the colonists in protest to the tea tax.
Date Created: 1921
Description: Francis Thomas (1799-1876) was the twenty-sixth governor of Maryland. Her served from 1842-1845.
Date Created: 1996
Description: Thurgood Marshall was one of the 20th century’s foremost leaders in the struggle for equal rights under the law. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall became the first African-American to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Date Created: 1874
Description: This landscape by Maryland artist Hugh Bolton Jones depicts Bear Creek, a tributary to the Patapsco River that begins in Garrett County, Maryland. Jones drew upon his training in the Hudson River School to depict scenes in his native state.
Date Created: 1907
Description: Edwin Warfield (1848-1920) was the forth-fifty governor of Maryland, serving from 1904-1908. He oversaw the completion of the 1902-1905 “annex” to the Maryland State House and the restoration of the Old Senate Chamber in 1906.
Date Created: 1859
Description: This painting depicts the scene in the Old Senate Chamber in the Maryland State House on December 23, 1783, when General George Washington resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. It has hung in the State House since 1858.
Date Created: c. 1790s
Description: This portrait depicts George Washington (1732-1799) along with additional portraits in the margins of the canvas
Date Created: 19th Century
Description: This portrait depicts George Washington (1732-1799)
Date Created: 1784
Description: This painting depicts George Washington, Tench Tilghman and the marquis de Lafayette at the Battle of Yorktown
Date Created: 19th Century
Description: William Pinkney Whyte (1824-1908) served as comptroller of Maryland from 1854-1856, U. S. Senate from 1868-1869, 1875-1881, 1906-1908 and was the thirty-fifth governor of Maryland.
Date Created: 1961
Description: Perry O. Wilkinson was the Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates from 1959-1962.
Date Created: n. d.
Description: Levin Winder (1757-1819) was the fourteenth governor of Maryland, He severed from 1812-1816. Winder was governor during the War of 1812 and is the only governor to be in office during the military invasion and occupation of the State by a foreign power
Date Created: 2004
Description: This legacy desk was commissioned after Maryland historic Wye Oak tree fell in 2002. Built in 2004 by Maryland artisans, the desk was created for use by all Maryland governors and designed in classic pedestal style using traditional joinery techniques.
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