Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Photograph taken of ruins of unidentified buildings in Baltimore's burnt district. In this elevated view, the walls of many buildings appear to be standing, but they were so weakened by the fire they posed a threat to passersby and those working...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Lexington Street (Baltimore, Md.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works; Central business districts--Maryland--Baltimore; Department stores--Maryland--Baltimore--History; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial...
A view of Baltimore's Lexington Street shopping district near Howard Street. Numerous downtown Baltimore department stores were located in this area. The white building on the right housed the Stewart Company's department store. Designed in 1899 by...
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...
Photograph of the interior of Fennell's (misspelled Fennel's on label) Greater Pharmacy located on the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to drugs, this particular store sells items such as cigars and...
Photograph taken looking northwest from South Street at rubble between Water and German Streets. In the foreground are the ruins (from left to right) of the William J. Hooper Manufacturing Company and the W. A. Simpson Company. Located on the west...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins pictured are (from left to right) the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building (note three-windowed structure on far left) located on the east...
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east from Light Street at the burnt district on the north side of the 100 block of East Pratt Street between Light and Ellicott Streets. Included among these ruins are structures that once housed workshops, warehouses, and...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Baltimore (Md.); Church architecture; Catholic Church Buildings;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of St. Leo's Church in Baltimore. In the foreground, a man smoking a pipe walks down the street. On the corner next to him is a lamp post and telephone pole. Further up, on the left side of the street,...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore during the mid-1800's, that features a view of Market Street in Baltimore, and frequently called the Museum Print. One of eight known copies, it is...
Allegany County (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Carroll County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Choptank River...
Map of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) by John F. Weishampel, Jr., a Baltimore bookseller and stationer. This map is dated 1875 and features all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel,...
War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States; World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States; Young Women's Christian Association;
Black and white poster made from the charcoal portrait of a young woman by W. T. (Wladyslaw Teodor) Benda (1873-1948), with the caption beneath the portrait reading "Stand behind the country's girlhood! National War Work of the Y.W.C.A. :...
Photograph of two traffic patrolmen looking west from a traffic control booth located in front of the M. S. Kahn and Co. drugstore at the corner of Lexington and Liberty Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Note the stop-and-go sign on the roof of the...
Photograph taken looking at a panoramic view of the burnt district southwest of Baltimore and St. Paul Streets. In the left foreground are the ruins of the Adams Express Company Building located at number 21 East Baltimore Street. Printed in the...
African Americans in art; Peddlers--Maryland--Baltimore; Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931; Oysters; Harper's Weekly (New York, N.Y.)--Illustrations
Photograph of an illustration entitled "A Southern Oyster Peddler" by B. West Clinedinst that appeared on page 173 of Harper's Weekly of March 2, 1889. This illustration depicts an African American oyster peddler in Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking south from Baltimore and Harrison Streets at two Maryland National Guardsmen patrolling the burnt district on the west side of Centre Market Space. In the left foreground are the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Power-plants; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867;...
Photograph taken looking south at a Maryland National Guardsman on duty before the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located at Baltimore Street opposite Harrison Street....
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...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Charles Street (Baltimore, Md.); Washington Monument Place (Baltimore, Md.); Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of the northern part of Washington Monument Place on Charles Street. The shape of the park was originally set up by John Eager Howard's heirs, the landowners at the time. The city later had the park improved by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. in...
