Buildings; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Hotels; Monuments; Statues; Streets; War memorials; Baltimore (Md.);
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of July 13, 1861, that features a view of Monument Square in Baltimore. Here a section of Cook's Boston Light Infantry with artillery stands in position, by order of Major General Banks, to...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Postcards—West Virginia--Ridgeley; Potomac Club (Ridgeley, W. Va); Cumberland (Md.)--Social life and customs; Country clubs--Maryland--Cumberland; Country clubs--West Virginia--Ridgeley
View of the Potomac Club in Cumberland. In 1904, a group of mostly Cumberland enthusiasts organized the Potomac Club. They leased the old Perry Mansion (earlier called Calmes Mansion), located on Carpenter's Hill in Ridgeley, West Virginia, just...
Postcards—Maryland--Chesepeake City; Chesapeake City (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Freemasons--Buildings; Back Creek (Chesapeake City, Md.); Rivers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.); Bridges--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
View of causeway, Masonic Hall, and creek in Chesapeake City. Chesapeake City is located in Cecil County. Originally founded by Czech colonist Augustine Herman under the name of the Village of Bohemia, the town's name was changed to the current...
Fund raising; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Santa Fe Region; Patriotism; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; United States Indian School (Santa Fe, N.M.); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United...
Three separate color posters on one sheet that were created by Native American students during World War II. Printed above the posters is a caption that provides background on the efforts of student artists across the country and, in particular, of...
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...
Sketches by Adalbert Volck that feature a rider and his mount. In the upper sketch, the horse gallops off with a billow of steam pluming from his nostrils. The riders feet are out of the stirrups, and his hat has blown off his head. In the lower...
Riverside Hotel is located on the Chester River in Kingstown, across the Chester River from Chestertown, built ca. 1820. The first wooden Chester River Bridge was built in 1821. The bridge was replaced twice by new wooden bridges, once after a...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Newspapers; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 by a Baltimore Post staff photographer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken wearing "a brown derby a la Al Smith" with the word "Boss" printed in big white letters across the front. In his scrapbook below this...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of ice-encrusted ruins on West Falls Avenue west of Fleet Street. West Falls Avenue, which represents the eastern edge of the fire line, lies immediately west of the Jones Falls waterway. Using water from the Jones Falls, fire...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Signs and signboards--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Slums--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking west from North Bond Street at the north side of Mullikin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists of two- and three-story brick row houses. In the ground level building on the near corner is the "Poor Boy Lunch...
Photograph taken looking west at the Old Carpet Loom (left) and Friedrich Beier's Saloon (right) on the southwest corner of Liberty and German Streets in 1880. By 1904, Beier's Saloon, located at number 14 South Liberty Street, had become Thomas...
Bridges; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Jones Falls (Md.); Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west across the Lombard Street Bridge over the Jones Falls at the burnt district. Designed and built by Wendel Bollman in 1877, this is a truss-type cast-iron bridge and carries both traffic (people and vehicles) and water...
Commercial buildings--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Jones Falls (Md.); Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west across the Jones Falls from President Street at the ruins of businesses on West Falls Avenue. This shows the southeastern edge of the fire line.
(Editor's note: Whether this view looks west from the vicinity of...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Skipjacks--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Steamboats;...
Photograph taken looking west across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the Light Street wharves on Monday, February 8, 1904. In the center foreground are the blackened remains of a wharf along East Pratt between South Calvert Street and the Jones...
Photograph taken looking southwest, probably from Dugan's Wharf, at the ruins at the foot of O'Donnell's Wharf and at the south side of the Baltimore Basin (Harbor). Among the ruins in the foreground would be the State Tobacco Warehouse (left, west...
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 southwest from the upper story of a building near Fayette and Calvert Streets at the northeastern façade of the Continental Trust Building (right, tallest structure). Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore,...
Photograph taken looking northwest from an upper story of the Maryland Trust Building (not shown) at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters Building on the northwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets. Designed by E. F. Baldwin...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Photograph taken looking northwest across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district. In the foreground are the ruined buildings on Smith's Wharf at the foot of Gay and Pratt Streets and the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, which...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the west side of Bowley's Wharf and the burnt district as seen from across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) from the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway (B C and A) on Light at Camden Streets. Tied up at the...