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...
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.,...
Photograph of a group of detectives (holding hats in hand) 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,...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the staff of the Baltimore Herald on June 17, 1906, the day the operations of the paper were suspended. Members of the staff are (from left to right): top row--an unidentified man, Robinson...
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...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; 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 in the city room of the Baltimore Herald newspaper in November of 1901.
Photograph taken looking northeast at the entrance to The Herald Building before the 1904 Baltimore fire. Located on the northwest corner of St. Paul and Fayette Streets, the seven-story structure housed a newspaper publishing company. At the time...
Photograph taken looking east at the burnt district on Fayette Street from the upper stories of a building near Fayette and Hanover Streets. Among the buildings still standing are (from left to right) the Union Trust Building, the Herald Building...
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...
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; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great...
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, his uncle (on his mother's side) Charles H. Abhau, and a fellow Baltimorean (Louis) Kemp Hennighausen aboard a ship most likely heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Merchant ships--Great Britain--Pictorial works;
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken aboard a ship heading for Jamaica about 1901. (Editor's note: This ship may have been the British tramp steamer Ely, which traveled to Jamaica and then hauled a cargo, such as bananas, back to Baltimore;...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken with the city staff of the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1900. Members of the staff are (from left to right): top row--Lawler, Jason Stockbridge, Theodore Leary, H. L. M., Arthur W. Hawks, and an...
Photograph taken looking north from Baltimore and St. Paul Streets at ruins of Durham's Hotel located at 6-8 St. Paul Street. Surrounding the ruins are buildings that survived the fire: the Herald (left center), the Courthouse (low structure, right...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Hawks, Arthur W. (Arthur Worthington), Jr., 1878-1949; Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis),...
Portrait photograph taken in the spring of 1920 of 20-year-old H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing next to Arthur W. Hawks, Jr. (seated), friend and fellow reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald. Mencken knew Hawks from school. Arthur and his...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and German Streets. In this elevated view, several buildings that survived the fire can be seen (from left to right): the eleven-story Union Trust Building located on the northeast...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Liberty and German Streets. In the left foreground beyond the rubble of many small businesses are the ruins of the Hopkins Place Savings Bank. Designed by Baldwin and Pennington and built...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and Lombard Streets. In the center background of this elevated view is the Union Trust Building located on the northeast corner of Charles and Fayette Streets. Built in 1899, the...
