Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a view of the building in Baltimore known as Exchange Place. The Exchange building, erected in 1815 after designs by Benjamin H. Latrobe, was said to be the finest building in the...
Photograph taken looking northwest at the ruins of the National Exchange Bank Building located on the northwest corner of Hopkins Place and German Street.
(Editor's note: Although the note on the back of the photograph places the ruins of...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Customhouses; Post office buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper that features a view of the Baltimore Post Office under the guard of a detachment of Major Cook's Boston Battery. The Post Office was then located in the old Exchange Building on the site of...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
Boards of trade; Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Niernsee, John Rudolph, 1814-1885; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking north of Exchange Place and Holliday Street at the ruins of the Chamber of Commerce Building on Water Street between Holliday Street and Post Office Avenue. Built by John Niernsee in 1881, this four-story building sustained...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Pennington, Josias,...
Photograph taken looking west at the unit block of East Lexington Street including the ruins of the Law Building (left foreground) from an upper story of the Courthouse. Located on the southwest corner of St. Paul and Lexington Streets, the...
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...
Boards of trade; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northwest of Exchange Place and Frederick Street. In the foreground are several horse-drawn wagons, used to clean up the debris left by the fire, and the rubble of many small businesses. In the...
Correspondence; Costumes; Ice dancing; United States Figure Skating Association; Winter sports;
Letter from H. L. Garren, Chairman, Carnival Production Committee, United States Figure Skating Association, to Mrs. Frederic C. Lee, the secretary of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., informing Mrs. Lee that the President of the United States...
Colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier published in 1848. This scene was copied from William Henry Bartlett's view of Baltimore published in 1839 (Cator Print 194). Most of the prominent landmarks of the City can be recognized: the Washington...
Buildings; Church buildings; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Monuments; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Ships in art;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features various views of Baltimore prior to 1853. The center view is from Federal Hill but differs somewhat from others in the...
Baltimore (Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph that features a view of Baltimore circa 1839 published in Paris by August Bry. This is substantially the view painted by William Henry Bartlett, but with numerous and often fantastic alterations (see Cator Prints 46, 101, and...
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...
Engraving by S. Fisher after a painting by William H. Bartlett that features a view of Baltimore. Published in Willis' book American Scenery, London, 1840. Among the oddities in this view are the Cathedral belfries in the wrong position, Washington...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Customhouses; Post office buildings; Views;
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of July 13, 1861, that features a view of the interior of the Post Office in Baltimore which then occupied part of the Exchange Building located at Gay, Water, and Lombard Streets, where the...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Ships in art;
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. Neale at Illman & Pilbrow's in 1831, that features a view of Baltimore taken near Whetstone Point. This is one of the celebrated Bennett...
Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Dorchester County (Md.); Kent County (Md.); Maps; Maryland; Saint Mary's County (Md.); Talbot County...
Map of Virginia and Maryland by Augustine Herrman for Lord Baltimore, dated 1673, reproduced by Edward H. Richardson Associates, Inc. North is to the right on this map which includes the following counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore (spelled...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 68 pages long containing the fifth semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its fifth...
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...
