Photograph of number 310 Courtland Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the west side of Courtland between Pleasant and Mulberry Streets, Richard Cockey maintained a store for the wholesale distribution of coal. By 1918, this building had been...
Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Cassell, John F. S., 1872-1909; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Food conservation; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the rebuilt Hotel Junker after the 1904 fire. Located between Charles and St. Paul Streets at numbers 20-22 East Fayette Street, the original Hotel Junker, which was designed by architect J. S. Cassell (1872-1909) and...
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...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee" from the song written by Harry Braisted with music (not included) by Stanley Carter. This broadside tells the story of a young man returning home to Tennessee after a...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Whist'ling Rufus or the One Man Band" from the 1899 song written by Kerry Mills (born Frederick Allen Mills). This broadside, in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, tells the story of...
Document containing the broadside entitled "White Wings" from the 1884 song written by (William) Banks Winter (1857-1936) and sung by J. P. O'Keefe of Thatcher, Primrose, and West's Minstrels. This broadside lists Otto Sutro & Co. of No. 207 W....
Postcards--Maryland--Gwynn Oak; Gwynn Oak Park (Gwynn Oak, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Gwynn Oak; Gwynn Oak (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of a bridge over Gwynn Falls Creek in Gwynn Oak, Baltimore County. Gwynn Oak Park was originally a privately owned amusement park, with a carousel, a rollercoaster, a lake for boating and Dixie Ballroom, among other features, serviced by...
The Children's Hospital School was dedicated in 1912. It was located at 3825 Greenspring Avenue, in the building pictured in this postcard, which was donated by Mrs. William Painter who wanted to create a memorial to her late husband. Its original...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick County; Jug Bridge (Frederick County, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Frederick County; Frederick County (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The Jug Bridge across the Monocacy River east of Frederick was built by a local mason, Leonard Harbaugh, in 1808 for the cost of $55,000. It was a 65 foot (20 meters) stone arch bridge that took its name from a stone monument in a shape of jug, or...
Lexington Market (called Western Precincts Market before it took its current name) is a historic Baltimore icon. It has been in existence since 1782 when General John Eager Howard donated land for the purpose of having a market for farmers bringing...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.); Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.); Mills, Robert, 1781-1855; Causici, Enrico, 1790-1835; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland. Mount Vernon Place is located in downtown Baltimore. In addition to the monument at its center, Mount Vernon Place includes four small parks, designed by Frederick Law...
Postcards--Maryland--Annapolis; St. John’s College (Annapolis, Md.)--Buildings; Duff, Simon, d. 1759; Universities and colleges--Maryland--Annapolis; Annapolis (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Originally designed in 1742 as the colonial governor's mansion, McDowell Hall (named for St. John's first president, Dr. John McDowell) was only completed in 1784 when St. John's College acquired it. For years, the building housed the entire...
Postcards--Maryland--Catonsville; St. Timothy's Lane (Catonsville, Md.); Alleys--Maryland--Catonsville; Catonsville (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of St. Timothy's Lane, north of Frederick Road, near St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Catonsville. The lane is located in a park area. The lane and the church still exist now, although the appearance of the park has changed and a number of...
Postcards--Maryland--Bloomington; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--History; Railroads--Maryland; Bloomington (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Seventeen Mile Grade is a 17 mile (27.3 km) steep section of railroad tracks between the small town of Piedmont, West Virginia and the summit of Altamont, Maryland. It is so steep that in some places it reaches 116 feet (35.4 m) per mile. The track...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Railroad bridges--Maryland--Cumberland; Western Maryland Railroad Company--History; Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of Western Maryland Railroad steel truss bridge over the National Road in the Narrows near Cumberland. The bridge, constructed around 1910, consists of two spans, each 150 feet (45.7 m) in length. It now serves the Great Allegheny Passage...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Washington Street (Cumberland, Md.); Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Cumberland--Pictorial works
A pictorial view of Washington Street in Cumberland, ca. 1910, with large trees on both sides. Washington Street is part of the historic district of Cumberland, a residential area of 19th and 20th century houses in a variety of styles. Cumberland,...
This Funkstown Bridge, now located on North Westside Avenue/Old National Road (Alternate U.S. 40), designed by James Lloyd of Pennsylvania, was built in 1823 by Irish workers over Antietam Creek. The bridge was used for the Confederate retreat from...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Courthouses--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Wyatt, James Bosley Noel, 1847-1926; Nolting, William Greaner, 1866-1940
This is the third courthouse built in this location on Monument Square. Two previous buildings were razed in 1805 and 1895, respectively. A competition held for the present building design was won by the team of two prominent Baltimore architects,...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Office buildings--Baltimore (Md.)--1900-1910; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Frederick, George Aloysius, 1842-1924
As Baltimore grew rapidly in the second half of the 19th century, a need arose for a new city hall building as the Peale building proved to be too small for this function. After voters approved to build it, its construction started in 1867 and was...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Wharves--Maryland--Baltimore; Boat ramps--Maryland--Baltimore; Markets--Maryland--Baltimore; Oyster fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Ships;
A scene at the Baltimore docks showing goods being loaded and unloaded from onto horse-drawn carts. In the distance, factories and steamboats are visible.
