Photograph taken looking northwest from German and Calvert Streets at the (T. Edward and Frank S.) Hambleton and Co. Building (center) located on the west side of Calvert Street at numbers 8-10 South Calvert. This building, which houses a...
Wood-engraving of a green opelet and an orange-disk Anemone by the Leighton Bros. after an illustration by Philip Henry Gosse from the book titled A year at the shore written by Philip Henry Gosse and published in 1865 by Alexander Strahan, London....
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York; Buildings--New York (State)--New York; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.);
Hand colored print after the painting by Jennie Brownscombe that was published by the Klackner Galleries of New York in 1913. The picture represents a view of Wall Street, from a point a little east of Hanover Street, in the year 1790, or during...
Cityscapes---Maryland--Baltimore; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.);
Engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie for W. Alvin Lloyd's Steamboat and Railroad Guide, New York, 1859, that features a bird's-eye view of Baltimore City. Conspicuous in the foreground are unimproved areas near Federal Hill. To the left are the...
Dwellings--Maryland; Methodist preaching; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features Mr. Alexander Warfields' old house. Here public Methodist services were held in the early part of the 19th century, and bishop Asbury often...
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...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Parker, J. Harleston, 1873-1930; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Thomas, Douglas H., Jr., 1872-1915;
Photograph taken of the Alexander Brown and Sons Building located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets. Built in 1901 by Parker and Thomas, this one-story building with mezzanine at number 135 East Baltimore Street survived the...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) Siege, 1861; Political ballads and songs; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883; United...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Southern Wagon." This broadside is an advertisement to join the Confederacy, the "Southern wagon" of the verses. It mentions Jeff. Davis and Alexander Stephens, president and vice president of the...
Green, Frederick, 1750-1811; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Continental period, 1775-1780; Printing. United States. History;
Maryland four dollar note dated December 7, 1775 and signed Chas. [Charles] Irvine and Al. [Alexander] Irvine: serial number 1026.
Authors, American--20th century--Portraits; Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait painting; Reid, O. Richard (Oliver Richard), 1898-1961;
Photograph of the H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken portrait painted by O. Richard (Oliver Richard) Reid on November 7, 1930. Reid was an African American artist working in the Harlem section of New York City when Mencken met and sat for him in the...
Clothing and dress--Russia--Pictorial works; Engraving, English--19th century; Illustration of books--Great Britain--19th century;
Stipple and line engraving titled A Kurilian by J. Dadley from a book titled The costume of the Russian Empire written by William Alexander and published in 1804 by William Miller of Old Bond Street, London. This print is believed to be plate 59.
Clothing and dress--Russia--Pictorial works; Engraving, English--19th century; Illustration of books--Great Britain--19th century;
Stipple and line engraving titled A female Mordvine, shewing [sic] the back part of her dress by J. Dadley from a book titled The costume of the Russian Empire written by William Alexander and published in 1804 by William Miller of Old Bond Street,...
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 1818-1881--Pictorial works; Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Color prints, English--19th century; Russian--Kings and rulers--Pictorial works;
Color print titled The czar drawn by H. (Henry) Warren and printed in color by William Dickes and Company from a book titled Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia written by Captain Edmund Spencer, printed by R. Clay, and published in 1855...
Alex. Brown & Sons; Bank buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;
Original etching by Anton Schutz, a signed artist proof, that features the banking house of Alexander Brown and Sons, a mercantile business founded in 1800 that grew into an international banking house. This view looks south at Baltimore and...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Building, Fireproof; Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking from the upper story of a building near Fayette and Calvert Streets at the northeastern façade of the Continental Trust Building (center, tallest structure). Located on the southeastern corner of Calvert and Baltimore...
Photograph taken looking southeast from the roof of the Calvert Building at buildings located on Calvert Street between Baltimore and German Streets that survived the fire. Among these structures are (from left to right) the Baltimore and Ohio...
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...
