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...
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 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...
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...
Commercial buildings--Maryland; Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Machinery; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of the Consolidated Gas Company of Baltimore located on the south side of the street at numbers 5-7 West Baltimore Street. In the rubble is a piece of machinery on which hangs a sign that reads
Building, Fireproof; Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912; Clocks and watches, Electric; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Nolting, William...
Photograph taken looking east from the unit block of Baltimore Street at the International Trust Company of Maryland Building (foreground) and the Continental Trust Building (background). The one-story International Trust Company of Maryland...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Street (Baltimore, Md.); International Trust Company Building (Baltimore, Md.); Bank buildings--Maryland; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of business section of Baltimore Street rebuilt, a few years after the 1904 fire. The International Trust Company building was built in 1902 by the firm Parker and Thomas (Douglas H. Thomas, 1872-1915, and J. Harleston Parker, 1873-1930) of...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Carriage industry--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriage industry--Employees; Carriages and carts;...
Photograph taken between 1904 and 1907 of the building housing Carl Spoerer's Sons Company located at numbers 400-404 South Fremont Avenue. After their father's death in 1899, sons Charles and Jacob Spoerer took over and ran the company, gradually...
Photograph of brickmaking inside one of the Baltimore Brick Company plants near Baltimore, Maryland. Formed in 1899 by the merger of 22 local manufacturers, Baltimore Brick Company became one of the largest suppliers of bricks in the Mid-Atlantic...
Assau Baines Company;African American men--Maryland--Baltimore;Canned foods industry--Maryland--Baltimore;Fire engines
Photograph of the rear of the Assau Baines Company plant at numbers 1715-1717 Thames Street and Commercial Wharf in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. Specializing in the canning of fruits and vegetables, the company was located on Granby Street...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the ruins of the Guggenheimer, Weil and Company Building (façade is to the right) located on the east side of Liberty Street south of German Street. Guggenheimer, Weil and Company were engravers,...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the ruins of the Guggenheimer, Weil and Company Building (façade is to the right) located on the east side of Liberty Street south of German Street. Guggenheimer, Weil and Company were engravers,...
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...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast at the east side of South Liberty Street as fire fighters spray water on the Daniel Miller Company Building located at numbers 29-31 South Liberty Street (its main entrance and address were at numbers 28-32...
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...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Automobiles--Tires--Marketing; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing letterhead of Carl Spoerer's Sons Company located at numbers 901-909 South Carey Street after 1918. Along with automobile production the company sold tires and was a distributor of the Samson cord tire.
Bethlehem Steel Company; African American men--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Blue collar workers--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Rolling-mills--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Steel industry and trade--Maryland--Sparrows Point
Photograph of the cold-rolling of steel inside the Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point plant in Baltimore County, Maryland. Standing at the finishing end of three rolling-mill machines are African American workers stacking the sheet metal on...
Bethlehem Steel Company; Steel works--Maryland--Sparrows Point; African American Iron and steel workers--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Rolling-mill machinery
Photograph of the discharge end of tin plate from the cold mill at Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland. Two African American men wearing aprons and gloves are pulling the processed tin plates. They are working at cold mills numbered 8...
Bethlehem Steel Company; Steel pipe industry; Steel works--Maryland--Sparrows Point; Iron and steel workers--Maryland--Sparrows Point;
Photograph of pipe being loaded for shipment at the Pipe Mill at Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland. Two African American men are handling a large bundle of pipe, using a block and tackle. A Caucasian man standing on a bed of pipe is...
Merchant ships--Maryland--Baltimore; Loading and unloading--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Banana trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Food inspectors--Maryland--Baltimore; United Fruit Company
Sepia-toned photograph of bananas being unloaded from a United Fruit Company boat docked at Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture Inspector John F. Earnshaw (taller Caucasian man dressed in a suit, white...
