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 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...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
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...
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...
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...
In this incomplete letter dated December 1, 1864 and written on the stationary of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York, Gabriel Harrison, a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, tries to reestablish correspondence with Poe's...
A view of an old Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road bridge over the Potomac River and a panorama of Westernport, a port located along the Georges Creek Valley where George's Creek empties into the Potomac in Allegany County. Known since 1774 as...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Street (Baltimore, Md.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of Baltimore Street, downtown Baltimore ca. 1907. It had to be a day of celebration, perhaps a national holiday as the street and buildings are decorated with U.S. flags. The tallest building on the right side is the Baltimore and Ohio...
A view of the Oakland Train Station in Oakland. Designed by Baldwin and Pennington in Queen Anne style, the station was built in 1884 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to support the development of the Garrett County and Oakland as a resort area....
Postcards—Maryland--Williamsport; Potomac River; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Williamsport (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from the Doubleday's Hill (named for the monument to General Doubleday) in Williamsport. The Potomac is the 21st biggest river in the United States. It flows mostly through Maryland and...
Postcards—Maryland--Hagerstown; Potomac River; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Hagerstown (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
A view of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Williamsport. The houses on the right are part of the Cushwa Warehouse, used mostly for coal transport, but also for other commodities like fertilizers, cement, grain, etc. The...
Postcards--Maryland--Cumberland; Railroad bridges--Maryland--Cumberland; Western Maryland Railroad Company--History; Cumberland (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of Western Maryland Railroad steel truss bridge over the National Road in the Narrows near Cumberland. The bridge, constructed around 1910, consists of two spans, each 150 feet (45.7 m) in length. It now serves the Great Allegheny Passage...
Aquatint by John Hill after E. Van Blon from Lucas' Baltimore Drawing Book, published here about 1827 by Fielding Lucas, Jr., that features a winter scene of a location somewhere near Baltimore. E. Van Blon is a pseudonym of John H. B. Latrobe who...
At the time of the Antietam Battle on September 17, 1862, William McKinley was the Commissary Sergeant with the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served hot coffee and food to the soldiers in the regiment on the spot where the monument...
Baltimore panorama, a view of the rebuilt city after the 1904 fire, as seen from the Harbor. Several buildings can be seen dotting the skyline, including: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Building (designed by Parker and Thomas, built in 1906) at...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore during the mid-1800's, that features a view of Market Street in Baltimore, and frequently called the Museum Print. One of eight known copies, it is...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Cavalry; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features Camp Carroll in Baltimore. This camp was thought to have most likely occupied a portion of the Mt. Clare estate near the...
Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862; Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858; Broadsides; Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Cadwalader, George, 1806-1879; Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Jackson, Stonewall,...
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with a Latin epigram, "Quamdiu tandem abutere patientiae nostra? Ad quem finem sese jactabit audacia?" and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist)....
