Advertising--Tobacco; Bars (Drinking establishments); Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of Habliston's drugstore located on the northeast corner of Baltimore and Gay Streets. Located at number 500 East Baltimore Street, this was the only structure on the east side of the unit block of North Gay...
Boards of trade; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northwest of Exchange Place and Frederick Street. In the foreground are several horse-drawn wagons, used to clean up the debris left by the fire, and the rubble of many small businesses. In the...
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken in 1912 looking northeast from Liberty Street at the site where the John E. Hurst and Company Building once stood on the corner of German Street and Hopkins Place. Eight years after the fire, the site is being readied for a...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland. National Guard; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast at the ruins of the Maltby House hotel located at numbers 18-28 East Pratt Street being guarded by a Maryland National Guardsman. Established in 1854 by C. S. Maltby, this five-story residential hotel for...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the Maltby House hotel located at numbers 18-28 East Pratt Street before the 1904 fire. Established in 1854 by C. S. Maltby, this five-story residential hotel for businessmen did not survive the fire.
Photograph taken looking northeast at the entrance to The Herald Building before the 1904 Baltimore fire. Located on the northwest corner of St. Paul and Fayette Streets, the seven-story structure housed a newspaper publishing company. At the time...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of the John E. Hurst and Company Building before 1904. Located on the southwest corner of Hopkins Place and German Street at number 20 Hopkins Place, the John E. Hurst and Company Building housed a wholesale dry goods store that...
Photograph taken looking at the business district on South Street north of Lombard Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank Building. Located on the northwest corner at numbers 42-46 South Street and...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Photograph taken looking southeast past the Battle of North Point Monument (or Battle Monument) located on North Calvert Street (north of Fayette) at ruins in the burnt district. In the foreground is the Battle Monument, with the United States Post...
Photograph taken looking at Charles Street north of Wine Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is Oehm's Acme Hall Clothing House located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets. On the right are several small businesses,...
Photograph taken looking north at the south face of the Maryland Trust Company Building located on the northwest corner of German and Calvert Streets. Built in 1900, this ten-story building survived the fire because of the fireproof materials used...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking southwest at a Maryland National Guardsman patrolling the burnt district in the 600 block of East Baltimore Street between Frederick and Harrison Streets. Taken from Baltimore and Harrison Streets, this picture shows the...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the Law Building located on the southwest corner of St. Paul and Lexington Streets before the 1904 fire. Designed by Charles E. Cassell and built in 1893, the seven-story Law Building was destroyed by the fire.
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast from Liberty and Baltimore Streets at two Maryland National Guardsmen standing before the ruins opposite the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building. Among the ruins on the west side of Hopkins Place (foreground) are...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Police; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of Maryland National Guardsmen and a Baltimore City policeman standing before a temporary shelter made from the fire debris. The man on the left is an officer (note saber) of the Maryland National Guard.
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hornblower and Marshall; Maryland. National Guard; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States Customhouse (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph taken looking north on Gay Street at Maryland National Guardsmen on duty near the United States Customhouse still under construction on the northwest corner of Gay Street and Exchange Place. Designed by Hornblower and Marshall with...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Maryland. National Guard;...
Photograph taken looking west at a Maryland National Guardsman patrolling the burnt district along East Baltimore Street from just west of the Baltimore Street Bridge over the Jones Falls. In the left foreground are the ruins of the Maryland...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of a Maryland National Guardsman on duty at Lombard and Liberty Streets. Maryland National Guardsmen were charged with patrolling the burnt district. On the right are several other National Guardsmen sitting or standing around a...
African American police; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of Maryland National Guardsmen (left) and an African American policeman (right) guarding businesses in the burnt district. Rubble is piled up on the sidewalk and in the street in front of these businesses.
Photograph taken looking west from the upper story of a building near Hanover Street at the burnt district near Liberty and German Streets, revealing the western edge of the fire line. In the right foreground at the corner of Hopkins Place, German...
