Hotel restaurants--Maryland--Baltimore;Dinners and dining--Maryland--Baltimore;Mural painting and decoration--20th century--Maryland--Baltimore;Hotel Belvedere (Baltimore, Md.);Rogers, Olive Verna, 1903-1989;African American men--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the John Eager Howard Room at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Named in honor of John Eager Howard (1752-1827), the Revolutionary War hero and politician who originally owned the land on which the hotel is located, this...
Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Cassell, John F. S., 1872-1909; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Food conservation; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the rebuilt Hotel Junker after the 1904 fire. Located between Charles and St. Paul Streets at numbers 20-22 East Fayette Street, the original Hotel Junker, which was designed by architect J. S. Cassell (1872-1909) and...
Oakley Beach Hotel opened its doors at the dawn of the 20th century in Cambridge. It was a luxury three-story resort with 54 rooms located at Oakley Street. A 750-foot pier extended from the hotel into the Choptank River. Visitors from Baltimore...
Automobile occupants--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Ford automobile; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of early automobilists in an early-model Ford motor car in front of the Hotel Edgewood at number 1501 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The caption accompanying the photograph, published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on August...
Postcards—Maryland--Cumberland; Queen City Hotel (Cumberland, Md.); Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Cumberland--Pictorial works; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--History
The Queen City Hotel and Station was for 100 years a landmark of Cumberland's railroad history. Constructed in 1871 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, it served both as a railroad station and a luxurious hotel for vacationers. Located in a...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Prohibition--United States;
Photograph taken about 12:30 a.m. April 7, 1933 of H. L. Mencken drinking "his first public glass of post-Prohibition beer" at the Rennert Hotel bar. Located on the southeast corner at Saratoga and Liberty Streets, the Rennert had been one of...
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Prohibition--United States;
Photograph taken about 12:30 a.m. April 7, 1933 of H. L. Mencken being served "his first public glass of post-Prohibition beer" at the Rennert Hotel bar. Located on the southeast corner at Saratoga and Liberty Streets, the Rennert had been one of...
Buildings; Hotels; Monuments; Museums; Streets; Views; War memorials;
Colored lithograph from the cover of the sheet music for "The Very Last Polka" by Francois Bernard, lithographed by E. Weber & Co. (later A. Hoen & Co.) of Baltimore, and published by F. W. Benteen, circa 1843. This lithograph features a view of...
Dinners and dining--Maryland--Baltimore;Classified Municipal Employees Association (Baltimore, Md.);D'Alesandro, Thomas, Jr., 1903-1987;Lord Baltimore Hotel (Baltimore, Md.)
Photograph of attendees at a banquet held by the Classified Municipal Employees Association (C.M.E.A.) at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Among the notables at the head table (in front of mural) are Thomas D'Alessandro, Jr....
Photograph of the Pennsylvania House hotel located at number 513 West Franklin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Located on the south side of Franklin Street, the hotel is just one of several businesses in this block. Two horse-drawn wagons are parked...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at onlookers walking past ruins of the Church of the Messiah (right) and the Mansion House hotel (left). Located on the southwest corner of Gay and Fayette Streets, the church was on the northeastern edge of the...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland. National Guard; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast at the ruins of the Maltby House hotel located at numbers 18-28 East Pratt Street being guarded by a Maryland National Guardsman. Established in 1854 by C. S. Maltby, this five-story residential hotel for...
Photograph taken looking west at the ruins of the Hotel Rigbie located at 211 East Fayette Street. In the distance (right) is the Equitable Building located on the southwest corner of Fayette and Calvert Streets. Looming behind the Hotel Rigbie...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the Maltby House hotel located at numbers 18-28 East Pratt Street before the 1904 fire. Established in 1854 by C. S. Maltby, this five-story residential hotel for businessmen did not survive the fire.
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Neilson, James Crawford, 1816-1900; Niernsee, John Rudolph, 1814-1885; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north at the ruins of the Carrollton Hotel, also known as the New Carrollton Hotel (right), located on the northeast corner of Light and German Streets. Built by Niernsee and Neilson in 1873, the six-story building was...
Building, Fireproof; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Sperry, Joseph...
Photograph taken looking west at the ruins of the Hotel Rigbie (left foreground) and at the Equitable Building (right background) as a crowd walks along East Fayette Street. Located at 211 East Fayette Street, the Hotel Rigbie was situated in the...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland Hotel (Baltimore, Md.); Allen, John d.; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Located at 320 West Franklin Street in Baltimore, the Maryland Theatre was part of so-called Kernan's Corner, the group of theaters at Franklin Street and Howard Street, which also included Auditorium (now Mayfair Theatre), Academy of Music, and...
Postcards--Maryland--Pen Mar; Parks--Maryland--Washington County; Buena Vista Spring Hotel (Waynesboro, Pa.); Pen Mar (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
In 1877, the Western Maryland Railroad created a scenic park on the Maryland and Pennsylvania border in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 1,400 feet (426.7 m). It was called Pen Mar for the location between two states. The...
Riverside Hotel is located on the Chester River in Kingstown, across the Chester River from Chestertown, built ca. 1820. The first wooden Chester River Bridge was built in 1821. The bridge was replaced twice by new wooden bridges, once after a...
Postcards--Maryland--Cambridge; Dorchester Hotel (Cambridge, Md.); Hotels--Maryland--Cambridge--Pictorial works; Cambridge (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of Dorchester Hotel in Cambridge. Cambridge is the seat of Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore and has a population of approximately 12,000. It is one of the oldest colonial settlements in Maryland, dating to 1684.
