Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
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 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...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of the roof of the Darby Building. In the foreground is the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building located at number 7 Hopkins Place, the only building within the western fire line to survive...
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.)--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 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...
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...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the burnt district from the upper story of a building in the unit block of West German Street. Rising from the rubble are several buildings that survived the fire (from left to right): the Calvert Building...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the burnt district from the unit block of West German Street. Standing amid the rubble are several buildings that survived the fire: the Union Trust Building (tall building, left center) located on the...
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...
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...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office buildings--Maryland; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Calvert Street south of the United States Post Office Building located on the northeast corner of Calvert and Fayette Streets. In the center foreground are ruins of several small businesses...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Post office buildings--Maryland; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Calvert Street north of Cheapside and Lombard Streets. In the foreground beyond the cleared rubble are (from left to right) several structures that survived the fire: the Maryland Trust Company...
Boards of trade; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Insurance companies; Niernsee, John Rudolph, 1814-1885; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking west at the east and south sides of the Savings Bank of Baltimore Building on the northwest corner of Water and Gay Streets. This building was damaged extensively, so the bank eventually moved its operations to a new...
Photograph taken looking west at the burnt district along East Baltimore Street west of Gay Street. In the foreground is a man looking at a piece of fire hose left in the street. Farther along the street are wagons parked in the middle while...
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...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Athenaeum Building (Baltimore, Md.);Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the Athenaeum building located on the northwest corner of Saratoga and St. Paul Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849) in the Italianate style, the building became home to the Mercantile Library...
Photograph taken looking southwest from an upper story of the United States Post Office Building on Fayette Street at the remains of the Baltimore and Ohio Central Headquarters Building located on the northwest corner of Calvert and Baltimore...
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...
