Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Automobiles--Tires--Marketing; Signs and signboards;
Photograph taken about 1910 of Jacob (left) and Charles (right) Spoerer, owners of Carl Spoerer's Sons Company, standing at the counter in the tire department of their motor vehicle factory located at numbers 901-909 South Carey Street. In 1907...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Carriage industry--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriage industry--Employees; Carriages and carts;...
Photograph taken between 1904 and 1907 of the building housing Carl Spoerer's Sons Company located at numbers 400-404 South Fremont Avenue. After their father's death in 1899, sons Charles and Jacob Spoerer took over and ran the company, gradually...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobiles--Drawings; Automobiles--Parts; Automotive drafting; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Mechanical drawing; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Mechanical drawing of an unidentified Spoerer motor vehicle part shown on Carl Spoerer's Sons Company stationery. By 1910, the company considered itself "manufacturers of the 'Spoerer', a car for reliability, endurance and economy". As indicated on...
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...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Liberty Street northeast of Lombard Street. Buildings on the left went undamaged by the fire, while buildings on the right burned and were destroyed, indicating the western fire line. The turreted...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works; Agricultural machinery; Horses--Maryland
Photograph of an African American man standing in a field behind a horse-drawn farm machine. The machine (perhaps an early lawn aerator) is equipped with a drum and a seat and is hitched to a large-breed draft horse. The African American man is...
African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Boys--Maryland--Baltimore County; Carriages and carts; Horses; Parsons, James; Webb, R. Prescott--Estate--Maryland--Baltimore County
Photograph of a Victorian-style two-horse carriage characteristic of those seen in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1890s. In this Webb family carriage are seated R. Prescott Webb and the African American coachman thought to be James Parsons. The...
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.
African American women; Addison, Annie, fl. ca. 1842-1920; Baltimore (Md.); Carroll, John Lee, 1830-1911; Domestics; Howard County (Md.); Slaves;
Photograph of Annie Addison, an African American woman born into slavery about 1842 at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. The former slave of John Lee Carroll, Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1879, she for many years thereafter worked...
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...
African Americans--Education--Maryland--Harford County--History;Segregation in education--Maryland--Harford County--History;Schools--Maryland--Harford County--History; African American children--Maryland--Harford County;School...
Photograph of a group of African American children and their teachers standing before a one-room schoolhouse in Harford County, Maryland. Possibly built by the Freedman's Bureau, this one-story rectangular wooden building with three chimneys and...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Athenaeum Building (Baltimore, Md.);Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the Athenaeum building located on the northwest corner of Saratoga and St. Paul Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849) in the Italianate style, the building became home to the Mercantile Library...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore;Bridges--Maryland--Baltimore;Patapsco River (Md.);Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of Long Bridge near the Ferry Bar resort on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland. Located at the end of Light Street and once the departure point for ferry boats, this wooden bridge carried streetcars as well as...
Photograph of a float, most likely carrying bells of the McShane Bell Foundry, in a parade on Baltimore Street just east of Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Four pairs of horses are pulling a float on which one large bell and several smaller...
African Americans--Maryland--Cambridge; Fires--Maryland--Cambridge; Church buildings--Maryland--Cambridge; Fences; Mules; Streets--Maryland--Cambridge; Trees in cities--Maryland--Cambridge;
Photograph of ruins of the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church on Race and Muir Streets from the fire of July 31, 1910 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. An iron fence encloses part of the ruins. Numerous onlookers including many African...
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of the Clendenin Brothers (William J., Joseph, and James Clendenin) metals and plumbers' supply store located below Smith Alley at number 111 South Gay Street. Several African-American workers appear to be...
Photograph taken of African-American workers clearing rubble from the ruins of the Baltimore American Building on the southwest corner of Baltimore and South Streets. Located at number 225 East Baltimore Street, this building housed newspaper...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Carter, Robert I. (Robert Inglee), 1868-; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial...
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing with colleagues behind the cast iron gates of the Baltimore Country Club about 1902. Standing from left to right are James Forbes, Robert Edison, Robert I. Carter, Harry Henkel, H. L. M.,...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Newspaper days, 1899-1906;...
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper while seated in the Baltimore Herald's temporary office on South Charles Street. The Baltimore fire, one of the major American conflagrations, began on...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Hawks, Wells, 1871-1941; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken sitting at his desk at the Baltimore Herald office about 1901, talking with Wells Hawks who is standing next to him. This picture was a ruse: As Mencken explains, Wells Hawks, press agent for the...
