• Black Maria, a slang term for a police van
  Police van
  A police van is a type of vehicle operated by police forces. Police vans are usually employed for the transportation of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell in the vehicle, or for the rapid transportation of a number of officers to an incident.- History :Early police vans were in the form of...
  
   used to transport prisoners
• Edison's Black Maria
  Edison's Black Maria
  The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It is widely referred to as America's First Movie Studio.- History :...
  
  , a film studio created by Thomas Edison

Music

• The Black Maria
  The Black Maria
  The Black Maria was a rock band from Toronto, Canada. After touring and recording actively between 2003–2007, the band has gone into a permanent hiatus.-History:The Black Maria was formed in 2003, based out of the Greater Toronto Area in Canada....
  
  , a Canadian rock band
• "Black Maria", a song by Todd Rundgren from the 1972 album Something/Anything?
  Something/Anything?
  Something/Anything?, released in 1972, is Todd Rundgren's third solo album. It peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold three years after its release, and remains the singer-songwriter's best-selling album...
  
  
• "Big Black Mariah", a song by Tom Waits from the 1985 album Rain Dogs
  Rain Dogs
  Rain Dogs is the 9th album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in August 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, Rain Dogs is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild...
  
  
• Black Mariah
  Black Mariah
  Black Mariah is an English electro-rock band. Formed in late 2004, the band was made up of two groups of musicians who had descended on London: vocalist Mark Slade and bassist George Young, previously of the Leeds based band Circa, and brothers Kelton and Kris Turvey, both of who had played in...
  
  , an English electro-rock band

Art and literature

• Black Maria, an anthology of drawings by Charles Addams
  Charles Addams
  Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters...
  
  
• Black Maria, a 1991 novel by Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
  
• Black Maria, a book of poetry by Kevin Young
  Kevin Young (poet)
  Kevin Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University , and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective...
  
  

Transportation

• ALCO DL-202-2 and DL-203-2, experimental diesel-electric locomotives known informally as the Black Maria

Other

• Black Maria (horse)
  Black Maria (horse)
  Black Maria was an American Thoroughbred racing filly who earned national Champion honors three times. Bred in Kentucky by William R. Coe, she was sired by Black Toney, the great foundation stallion of Idle Hour Stock Farm...
  
  , an American racehorse
• Black Maria (IFF), a fighter aircraft IFF (identification friend or foe) interrogator
• Hearts (card game), a card game also known as Black Maria
• Black Maria, the airplane flown by Canadian World War I ace Raymond Collishaw
  Raymond Collishaw
  Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, DSC, DFC, RAF was a distinguished Canadian fighter pilot, squadron leader, and commanding officer who served in the Royal Naval Air Service and later the Royal Air Force. He was the highest scoring RNAS flying ace and the second highest...