Advertising--Tobacco; Bars (Drinking establishments); Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of Habliston's drugstore located on the northeast corner of Baltimore and Gay Streets. Located at number 500 East Baltimore Street, this was the only structure on the east side of the unit block of North Gay...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Liberty Street northeast of Lombard Street. Buildings on the left went undamaged by the fire, while buildings on the right burned and were destroyed, indicating the western fire line. The turreted...
African American police; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of Maryland National Guardsmen (left) and an African American policeman (right) guarding businesses in the burnt district. Rubble is piled up on the sidewalk and in the street in front of these businesses.
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of the Clendenin Brothers (William J., Joseph, and James Clendenin) metals and plumbers' supply store located below Smith Alley at number 111 South Gay Street. Several African-American workers appear to be...
Photograph taken of African-American workers clearing rubble from the ruins of the Baltimore American Building on the southwest corner of Baltimore and South Streets. Located at number 225 East Baltimore Street, this building housed newspaper...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore Sun Building, also known as the Sun Iron Building, before the 1904 fire. Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and South Streets, this five-story building housed the Baltimore Sun newspaper...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Building, Fireproof; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Sperry,...
Photograph taken of damage to the upper floors of the Equitable Building. Located on the southwest corner of Fayette and Calvert Streets, this ten-story building, designed by Carson and Sperry and built in 1891, was once considered Baltimore's...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Cast-iron fronts (Architecture); Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Dixon, Thomas, 1819-1886; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire,...
Photograph taken looking southwest at the Baltimore American Building in 1880. In this view the Baltimore American Building is decorated for celebration of the Baltimore Sesquicentennial, i.e., the 150th Anniversary of Baltimore's founding, which...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the entrance to The Herald Building before the 1904 Baltimore fire. Located on the northwest corner of St. Paul and Fayette Streets, the seven-story structure housed a newspaper publishing company. At the time...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Photograph taken looking southeast past the Battle of North Point Monument (or Battle Monument) located on North Calvert Street (north of Fayette) at ruins in the burnt district. In the foreground is the Battle Monument, with the United States Post...
Photograph taken looking northwest from the intersection of Calvert and Fayette Streets at the Battle of North Point Monument (or Battle Monument) (front center) and the Courthouse (background) on North Calvert Street. Designed by Maximilian...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the Law Building located on the southwest corner of St. Paul and Lexington Streets before the 1904 fire. Designed by Charles E. Cassell and built in 1893, the seven-story Law Building was destroyed by the fire.
Photograph taken looking at Charles Street north of Wine Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is Oehm's Acme Hall Clothing House located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets. On the right are several small businesses,...
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.
Photograph taken looking at the business district on South Street north of Lombard Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank Building. Located on the northwest corner at numbers 42-46 South Street and...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of the John E. Hurst and Company Building before 1904. Located on the southwest corner of Hopkins Place and German Street at number 20 Hopkins Place, the John E. Hurst and Company Building housed a wholesale dry goods store that...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Wetherald...
Photograph of an etching of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located on Baltimore Street and Centre Market Space (opposite Harrison Street) before the 1904 fire. Designed by Reasin...
Photograph taken looking southwest from the upper story of a building near Fayette and Calvert Streets at fire fighters spraying water on embers in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters Building (left center) on North Calvert Street....
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building amid ruins. Located on the east side of Hopkins Place at number 7, the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building, which was designed by Baldwin and Pennington and built of...
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...
