Broadsides; Flags; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with the words "I left New Kent Court-house, all in the month of May." This broadside, written by Edwin Rosell of Company G of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (known originally as "The Luzerne...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Southern Prisoner Gives His Thanks to the Baltimore Ladies" sung to the 1851 tune "The American Boy" written by J. H. Hewitt. This broadside, which appears to be the Confederate answer to the untitled...
Photograph taken looking northeast from the unit block of East Baltimore Street at the shells of buildings still standing. Among the structures that survived the fire are the Calvert Building (tall structure to left), the Chesapeake and Potomac...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Power-plants;...
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) from Federal Hill at a panoramic view of the Baltimore City skyline after the 1904 fire. Smoke can still be seen rising from the rubble. Directly across the harbor are the East...
Photograph taken looking southwest from the upper story of a building on Gay Street at the burnt district along East Baltimore Street. In the right center background are the ruins of several structures, including buildings that housed the Baltimore...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district east on Baltimore Street from atop the Darby Building. Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and Liberty Streets at number 131 West Baltimore Street, the six-story Darby Building is just outside...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Cast-iron fronts (Architecture); Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Dixon, Thomas, 1819-1886; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire,...
Photograph taken looking southwest at the Baltimore American Building in 1880. In this view the Baltimore American Building is decorated for celebration of the Baltimore Sesquicentennial, i.e., the 150th Anniversary of Baltimore's founding, which...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Street (Baltimore, Md.); McLane Place (Baltimore, Md.); Hood, John Mifflin, 1943-1906--Monuments--Baltimore (Md.); Wholesale trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the corner of Baltimore and Liberty Streets. It was named McLane Place for Robert McClane, who was mayor of Baltimore at the time of great 1904 fire, and subsequently committed suicide. The name change did not last, and the location is now...
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...
Hotel restaurants--Maryland--Baltimore;Dinners and dining--Maryland--Baltimore;Mural painting and decoration--20th century--Maryland--Baltimore;Hotel Belvedere (Baltimore, Md.);Rogers, Olive Verna, 1903-1989;African American men--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the John Eager Howard Room at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Named in honor of John Eager Howard (1752-1827), the Revolutionary War hero and politician who originally owned the land on which the hotel is located, this...
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...
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east on Pratt Street at the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company Building located on the southeast corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Fire hoses are stretched across the street as a crowd of people standing to the...
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 of a group of detectives (wearing hats) posing for the camera in front of the entrance to the Baltimore Herald Building on the northwest corner of Fayette and St. Paul Streets. Coming from Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C.,...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Steamboats; United railways and electric...
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) from Federal Hill at a panoramic view of the Baltimore City skyline before the 1904 fire.
(Editor's note: The date given on the back of the original photograph, i.e., 1890,...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Power-plants; United railways and electric company of Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore business district between the Jones Falls on the east (left) and South Street on the west (right) and Exchange Place on the north (foreground) and the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) on the south...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Night photography--Maryland--Baltimore; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;
Hand-colored photograph taken looking north from Federal Hill across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the Baltimore skyline ablaze at 3:30 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 1904. Situated south of Baltimore City across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor),...
Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Building, Fireproof; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Clocks and watches, Electric; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;...
Photograph taken looking northeast from the unit block of East Baltimore Street at three office buildings that survived the fire: the Calvert (left), Equitable (left center), and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters (right center)...
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...
