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H. L. Mencken at his typewriter in Baltimore Sun office, 1913

Title

H. L. Mencken at his typewriter in Baltimore Sun office, 1913

Subject

American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore
Journalists--United States
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works
Portrait photography
Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)

Description

Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of a young H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken working at his typewriter in the Baltimore Sun office. He holds a corncob pipe in his hand. The Sun offices were then located in a building on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets.

Creator

Unknown

Source

H. L. Mencken Room, Enoch Pratt Free Library

Publisher

Digital Maryland

Date

1913 (digitized 2003-02-12)

Relation

Is Part Of the H. L. Mencken Collection
Is Part Of Digital Maryland
Is Part Of Prominent Marylanders

Format

Digital reproduction of 1 black-and-white photograph, dimensions unknown

Type

Identifier

Coverage

Files

Mencken at typewriter.jpg

Collection

Early Life in Buffalo, NY (1916-1936)

Tags

American intellectual history; cultural criticism; H.L. Mencken

Citation

Unknown, “H. L. Mencken at his typewriter in Baltimore Sun office, 1913,” Richard Hofstadter at 100, accessed March 25, 2019, https://richardhofstadter100.omeka.net/items/show/63.

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