Photograph of a two-story wooden frame duplex on Low Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing on the top step leading to the door of the right house is an African American man leaning on the top rail of the steps. Located to the left of the duplex...
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...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Document containing the 9th edition (shown top center) of the broadside entitled "Little Sweetheart Come and Kiss Me!" This broadside is from a song written by Arthur W. French with music by W. H. Brockway (1835-1888). The speaker tells his "little...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--Howard County;African American--Dwellings; Doughoregan Manor (Md.)
Photograph of the front of a stone cottage once used as slave quarters at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. Doughoregan Manor was the ancestral home of the Carroll family, including Charles Carroll (1737-1832), of Carrollton, one of the...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--St. Mary's County;African Americans--Dwellings;Farmhouses--Maryland--Deep Falls;Horses--Maryland
Photograph of a farmhouse (formerly slave quarters) at Deep Falls in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The farmhouse is a two-story frame building surrounded by a white picket fence and flanked on the far and rear sides by tall, leafless trees (it is...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland stocked dynamite, turpentine, and...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland...
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...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet 34 pages long containing photographs of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. Includes a few striking facts about the Baltimore fire and a list of some of the greatest fires in the United States that occurred between 1820 and...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Parker, J. Harleston, 1873-1930; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Thomas, Douglas H., Jr., 1872-1915;
Photograph taken of the Alexander Brown and Sons Building located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets. Built in 1901 by Parker and Thomas, this one-story building with mezzanine at number 135 East Baltimore Street survived the...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland stocked dynamite, turpentine, and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore,...
Photograph taken looking northwest from an upper story of the Maryland Trust Building (not shown) at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters Building on the northwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets. Designed by E. F. Baldwin...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland stocked dynamite, turpentine, and...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at fire fighters spraying water on the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at fire fighters spraying water on the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at fire fighters spraying water on the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at a crowd staring at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland stocked dynamite,...
Photograph taken looking north from Baltimore and St. Paul Streets at ruins of Durham's Hotel located at 6-8 St. Paul Street. Surrounding the ruins are buildings that survived the fire: the Herald (left center), the Courthouse (low structure, right...
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...
