Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
Health; Letters; New York (N.Y.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Virginia, 1822-1847;
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Neilson Poe dated August 8, 1845. In this letter, Edgar Allan Poe apologizes for waiting so long to write to Neilson Poe but explains that he has been unable to procure some papers that will allow him to make a reply...
In his letter dated November 29, 1835 and written from Augusta, Georgia, William Poe, Jr., a cousin, relates some interesting facts about the Georgian branch of the Poe family to Maria Clemm. The letter is testament to the piety of this branch of...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Carriage industry--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriage industry--Employees; Carriages and carts; Signs and signboards;
Photograph taken probably before 1900 of the Carl Spoerer carriage, wagon and truck works located at numbers 400-402 South Fremont Avenue in southwest Baltimore City (SW Balto). Carl Spoerer ran a carriage-making business from 1890 to 1899, when he...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for Havana Rose cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In this advertisement three young women dressed in shoes, stockings, and summer...
Advertising; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Signs and signboards;
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Aerial photograph of the Johns Hopkins Hospital buildings. Probably taken in 1924 before the erection of the School of Hygiene and Public Health Building, Welch Medical Library, and Wilmer Opthalmological Clinic.
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--St. Mary's County;African Americans--Dwellings;Farmhouses--Maryland--Deep Falls;Horses--Maryland
Photograph of a farmhouse (formerly slave quarters) at Deep Falls in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The farmhouse is a two-story frame building surrounded by a white picket fence and flanked on the far and rear sides by tall, leafless trees (it is...
African American sailors--Maryland--Baltimore; African American soldiers--Maryland--Baltimore; United States. Army--Service clubs--Maryland--Baltimore; World War, 1914-1918--African Americans;
Photograph of a large group of African American soldiers and sailors posing for a picture in front of a War Camp Community Service club building probably in Baltimore, Maryland. The men standing or sitting in rows in front of this large brick...
African American young men; Architecture, domestic; Bishops; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Dwellings; Gibbons, James, 1834-1921; Horse-drawn vehicles; Baltimore (Md.); Wagons;
Photograph of the official residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. Located at number 408 North Charles Street, this building is situated behind and connected by a covered walkway to the Basilica of the...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore Sun Building, also known as the Sun Iron Building, before the 1904 fire. Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and South Streets, this five-story building housed the Baltimore Sun newspaper...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Building, Fireproof; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Sperry,...
Photograph taken of damage to the upper floors of the Equitable Building. Located on the southwest corner of Fayette and Calvert Streets, this ten-story building, designed by Carson and Sperry and built in 1891, was once considered Baltimore's...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 by Edgar T. Schafer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing in the backyard of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street. All of the plants appear to be in bloom, thus this picture was probably taken in summer, as...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Backyard gardens--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 by Edgar T. Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken sitting beneath a pavilion in the backyard of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street. All the plants appear to be in bloom, thus this picture was probably...
