Wood-engraving of a green opelet and an orange-disk Anemone by the Leighton Bros. after an illustration by Philip Henry Gosse from the book titled A year at the shore written by Philip Henry Gosse and published in 1865 by Alexander Strahan, London....
Postcards—Maryland--Chesepeake City; Chesapeake City (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Freemasons--Buildings; Back Creek (Chesapeake City, Md.); Rivers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.); Bridges--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
View of causeway, Masonic Hall, and creek in Chesapeake City. Chesapeake City is located in Cecil County. Originally founded by Czech colonist Augustine Herman under the name of the Village of Bohemia, the town's name was changed to the current...
Carroll County (Md.); Cemeteries Maryland; Church buildings; Frederick County (Md.); Westminster (Md.);
Sepia-toned photograph (albumen print) of the Old Union Church (Old Union Meeting House) located in Westminster Cemetery in Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. Built in 1760 in what was then Frederick County, Maryland with funds raised by...
Journalists--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Germany;
Portrait photograph taken January 28, 1917 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at a dinner in the German Officers' Casino at Novo-Alexandrovsk (Zarasa), Lithuania. Mencken doesn't appear to be enjoying himself. Standing from left to right are...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of ice-encrusted ruins on West Falls Avenue west of Fleet Street. West Falls Avenue, which represents the eastern edge of the fire line, lies immediately west of the Jones Falls waterway. Using water from the Jones Falls, fire...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Night photography--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office...
Photograph taken looking southwest at the Baltimore skyline ablaze near Calvert and Baltimore Streets at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 1904. In the center of the picture is the Continental Trust Building, with only the glow of the fire in the...
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...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Ferry Hill Plantation (Md.); Potomac River; Sharpsburg (Md.); Shepherdstown (W. Va.); United States History Civil War, 1861-1865;
Photograph taken looking across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia from Ferry Hill plantation on the Maryland side. Ferry Hill plantation, where at various times before and after the Battle of Antietam both Confederate and Union...
Baltimore County (Md.); Cotton manufacture; Dams Maryland; Rivers Maryland;
Photograph of Union Dam on the Patapsco River in Baltimore County, Maryland. Two dams of the same name were constructed in this area; the first was built in 1808 farther north of the present dam. Pictured is the Union Dam built in 1912 by the...
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...
Courthouses--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States Customhouse (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph of two detectives standing at the gates and of some "regulars", probably troops of the Maryland National Guard, standing on the steps of the temporary United States Customhouse located at Fayette and North Streets. Between 1900, when...
Baltimore County (Md.); Dwellings; Housing; Irish Americans; Quarries and quarrying; Railroads;
Photograph of the town of Texas in Baltimore County, Maryland. These three-story stone houses, built alongside Northern Central Railway tracks that carried stone and marble harvested from nearby quarries for the Washington Monument in Baltimore or...
Photograph of the Seventh Annual Turtle Derby held at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Turtle Derby was first held in 1931 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It became an increasingly popular affair and fund-raising opportunity for Baltimore charities. In...
Church architecture; Church decoration and ornament; Baltimore County (Md.); Jesuits History 20th century; Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.);
Photograph of the interior of the chapel built in 1924 at Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart in Woodstock, Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed originally by Benedict Sestini (1816-1890), a Jesuit mathematician, teacher, and architect, the...
Dedications; Park Band (Baltimore, Md.); Parks; Preston, James H. (Harry), 1860-1938; Politicians; Special events;
Photograph of the dedication ceremonies for St. Paul Place, including Preston Terraces (now known as Preston Gardens) in Baltimore, Maryland. In the late afternoon on May 15, 1919, Mayor James H. Preston (1860-1938) (speaker) officially accepted...
Dedications; Park Band (Baltimore, Md.); Parks; Preston, James H. (Harry), 1860-1938; Politicians; Special events;
Photograph of the dedication ceremonies for St. Paul Place, including Preston Terraces (now known as Preston Gardens) in Baltimore, Maryland. At 3:30 p.m. on May 15, 1919, the landscape architect Thomas Hastings (1860-1929) (seated to the left of...
Dedications; Park Band (Baltimore, Md.); Parks; Preston, James H. (Harry), 1860-1938; Politicians; Special events;
Photograph of the dedication ceremonies for St. Paul Place, including Preston Terraces (now known as Preston Gardens) in Baltimore, Maryland, held at 3:30 p.m. on May 15, 1919. The platform and balustrades are decorated with ferns and palms and the...
Photograph of people viewing tornado damage to the building at number 1001 North Broadway at Eager Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The tornado touched down on the afternoon of July 12, 1903 and destroyed an area 12 blocks long and 6 blocks wide,...
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.
