Allegany County (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Carroll County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Choptank River...
Map of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) by John F. Weishampel, Jr., a Baltimore bookseller and stationer. This map is dated 1875 and features all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel,...
Allegany County (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Dorchester County (Md.); Frederick...
Map of Maryland by Anthony Finley, dated 1829, that shows 19 Maryland counties: Allegany (spelled "Allegheny"), Anne Arundel (spelled "Ann Arundel"), Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Kent, Montgomery,...
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Maps; Potomac River; Virginia;
Map of Virginia by Willem Janszoon Bleau. This map, with the date of 1650 hand-written in the lower right-hand page, shows the area surrounding the Chesapeake (spelled Chesapeack) Bay that became Maryland on June 20, 1632, when Charles I granted...
Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Dorchester County (Md.); Kent County (Md.); Maps; Maryland; Talbot County (Md.); Virginia;
Map of Virginia and Maryland by Francis Lamb, dated 1676, that shows 8 Maryland counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert (referred to as "Calverton"), Cecil (spelled "Caecil"), Charles, Dorchester, Kent, and Talbot. Conspicuously absent from 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...
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...
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...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Baseball; First National Bank (Baltimore, Md.); Gentile, Jim (James Edward), 1934-; Scheduling;
Schedule of home and away games for the 1961 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. On the front page is an advertisement featuring a drawing of the First National Bank building and its main offices in Baltimore, Maryland. On page 3 is a...
Advertising; Baltimore Orioles (International League : Baseball team); Baseball; International League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Restaurants; Scheduling;
Schedule of games for the 1940 season of the Baltimore Orioles baseball club of the International Baseball League (IBL). The schedule includes the dates for both home and away games, with the city of the opposing team named. On the back page is a...
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...
Fortification--Rhine River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800; Cities and towns--Rhine River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800
Twenty plans of fortified cities along the Rhine, Moselle, Saar and Neckar rivers: Rijnsburg, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz, Mainz, Frankenthal, Landau, Philippsburg, Mannheim, Fort-Louis, Strasbourg, Breisach, Freiburg im Breisgau, Huningue, Basel,...
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,...
Northumberland (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Seventeenth century double-page map of the county of Northumberland, England, probably originating from Blaeu's atlas published in 1645. Includes a decorative cartouche, mileage scale, numerous coats-of-arms of local noble families including Robert...
