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...
Photograph taken looking northwest from South Street at rubble between Water and German Streets. In the foreground are the ruins (from left to right) of the William J. Hooper Manufacturing Company and the W. A. Simpson Company. Located on the west...
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; Tōjō, Hideki, 1884-1948--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War,...
Black and white poster showing a United States war worker's large black boot with the words "your production" on the sole about to crush caricatures of Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tōjō, and Adolf Hitler, respectively, trying to flee, with the...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views;Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore--Pictorial works;Electric power-plants--Maryland--Baltimore;Gas power plants--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of a panoramic view of South Baltimore featuring the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore (subsequently renamed the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company). In this westward-looking view South Baltimore is in the...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Photograph taken looking northwest across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district. In the foreground are the ruined buildings on Smith's Wharf at the foot of Gay and Pratt Streets and the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, which...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Public buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Tugboats; Wharves--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at wharves along East Pratt Street at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 1904. On the left are the ruins of the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, which operated a flour mill at this...
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...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
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...
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.
Postcards--Maryland--Hagerstown; Washington Street (Hagerstown, Md.); Historic districts--Maryland--Hagerstown; Streets--Maryland--Hagerstown--Pictorial works; Hagerstown (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of West Washington Street from the public square in Hagerstown. The building on the left was the Hagerstown Railway Company's Waiting Room. On the right, the building with a clock seen in the distance is the Baldwin House, a four story hotel...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Cedar Avenue Bridge (Baltimore, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Baltimore; Jones Falls (Md.); Rivers--Maryland; Gristmills--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
The Cedar Avenue Bridge, crossing the Northern Central Railroad, the Jones Falls valley, and Falls Road lead east out of Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. Built in 1889-1890, it was a three-hinged metal arch bridge designed by Charles Latrobe. The...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture, Industrial; Shot Tower (Baltimore, MD);
Pen and ink drawing of by Aaron Sopher of the Baltimore Shot Tower. The drawing was created as an illustration for "Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State" (published in 1940 by the Writers' Program of the Works' Project Administration in the...
