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 12 pages long containing the seventh and final semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission, ending September 11, 1907. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 21 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its...
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...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1932 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken typing copy at the press table at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Held from June 27 to July 2, 1932, this was the first convention to nominate Franklin Delano...
Hand colored engraving published by Fielding Lucas, Jr., of Baltimore in 1819. A series of maps of city and state were issued by Fielding Lucas for directories and atlases. This is one of the earliest. The shaded portion of the small map shows the...
Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800; Illustration of books--Germany--15th century; Prints, German--15th century; Wood-engraving, German--15th century;
Pages with rubication and woodcuts of scenes from the legend of Saint Sebald, patron saint of Nuremberg, from a book titled Das Passional, oder der Heiligen Leben (Passional, or the lives of the saints), written by Jacobus, de Voragine, and...
Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster that shows the amount of money ("our quota is") to be raised through the sale of war bonds for the "5th War Loan." On the left is a male worker holding a stack of boxes indicating 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the quota, while on the...
Haardt, Sara, 1898-1935; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken December 29, 1933 by Christhilf Studio for use in the passports of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and his wife Sara Haardt Mencken. In early 1934, the Menckens took a cruise of the Mediterranean, stopping at places such as...
