The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Maryland resources available for free on the Library's Web site.
The tools at the end of the page can help teachers use these in the classroom. Teachers can find even more primary sources, along with the tools to help use them in the classroom, at www.loc.gov/teachers. They can also search the Library's American Memory or Prints and Photographs collections.

Bird's eye view of Cumberland, Maryland 1906
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Maryland State House, State Circle, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD, c1933
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Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illustrations showing the progress of the great conflagration and its disastrous results, 1904
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Complete circle view of Baltimore from the Emerson Tower, c1913 |

Down the old Potomac / Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1917
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Annapolis and the Naval Academy from the State House dome, c1911 |

Dr. Merle T. Adkins, 1911
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Battle of Antietam, Md, 1862-5 |

View of Ellicotts Mills, MD. / lith. and print by E. Sachse & Co, c1854 |

Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord 1792 |

Maryland, My Maryland |

Fountain Hughes, 1949 |
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