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.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 21 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its...
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...
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...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
Andreas Bureus was Sweden’s ’father of cartography. King Karl IX gave him in 1603 the task of formulating a reliable map of the Nordic countries. Bureus trained Swedish surveyors and then teams of them were sent to survey various parts of the...
South Holland (Netherlands)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Based on the surveys by Floriszoon van Berckenrode, the South Holland cities of The Hague, Delft and Rotterdam are shown. This is a highly detailed map. The back side contains a text in French describing the area of South Holland: Delfland, Schiel,...
Canada. Wartime Information Board; King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950; Swastikas; War posters, Canadian; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Canada;
Color poster by Harry Mayerovitch (1910-2004) that shows the year "1944" in numbers and the words "year of decision" positioned in front of a map of Europe, with red arrows pointing toward a red swastika in the upper center of the map. Printed...
Allied Powers (1919- ); Soldiers--Soviet Union; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Maps; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Maps; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--New Guinea--Maps; World War,...
Two color posters on one sheet: the Newsmap (war fronts maps) for February 1, 1943 (for week of January 22 to January 29) is on the obverse side; and photographs and descriptions of the Soviet infantry and its weaponry are on the reverse side....
Shipping; War posters, British; World War, 1939-1945--English Channel--Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945--North Sea--Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Great Britain;
Color poster from Great Britain of a map that shows the quantity of Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan) shipping lost, damaged, or captured in the North Sea and English Channel circa 1943, with the words "Over 1,000,000 tons of Axis shipping sunk in...
Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery Office; Germany--History--Bombardment, 1940-1945; War posters, British; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Great Britain;
Color poster showing a map of Germany pinpointing major bombing attacks by Great Britain's Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) up to October 9, 1940 and entitled "Britain's Air Offensive : R.A.F. attacks on Germany." This map includes a key to symbols...
City halls; Government buildings; Maps--Maryland--Baltimore; Monuments;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., a prominent lithography company in Baltimore in the mid-1800s, and published by John F. Weishampel, Jr., in 1872 that features a map of Baltimore City based on Surveys by William H. Shipley. Insets around the...
Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800;Israel--History--Maps--Early works to 1800;Bible--History of Biblical events--Maps--Early works to 1800;Twelve tribes of Israel
Decorative map of the Holy Land, with title cartouche showing a lady holding Tablets of the Law, and Joshua holding a flag with names of the Tribes, and a small elaborate allegorical cartouche map of the Exodus at the bottom right. The map shows...
Seine-et-Marne (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Brie (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Decorative map showing Paris and the area in between the rivers Marne and Seine, as they meander through the Brie region, home of the Brie cheese, including Chateau Thierry, Provins and Fontainebleau. Shows fortified towns, woods, cities, lakes,...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Pas-de-Calais (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800.;Nord (France : Dept.)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Engraved map of northeast France and part of French Flanders, or former province of Artois, with relief and forests shown pictorially. Has a decorative title cartouche with the royal coat of arms of the County of Artois and four cherubs. Scale and...
Church buildings; Engravings; Fountains; Jails; Baltimore (Md.);
Engravings, a collection of twenty-four, apparently proofs for the border of Poppleton's Map of Baltimore, 1822. The location, architecture, and cost of each structure are given. The structures include the following: First Presbyterian Church,...
Hand colored engraving published by Fielding Lucas, Jr., of Baltimore in 1819. A series of maps of city and state were issued by Fielding Lucas for directories and atlases. This is one of the earliest. The shaded portion of the small map shows the...
Balkan Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800;Italy--Maps--Early works to 1800; Europe, Central--Maps--Early works to 1800;Europe, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Hand-colored engraved map, elaborate figural cartouche, showing the course of the river Danube from Ingolstadt to the Black Sea and the adjacent Balkan countries, plus Italy, Hungary and Poland. Included are contiguous parts of the Adriatic and...
