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...
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...
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...
Actors; African American men; Anniversaries; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Baltimore County (Md.); Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Clothing and dress; Livery; United States History;
Photograph of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (left, portrayed by Charles White) and his African American attendant (right, portrayed by Fearless Williams), an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a...
Advertising; American League of Professional Baseball Clubs; Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team); Baseball; Hutzler's (Firm); Memorial Stadium (Baltimore, Md.); National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Scheduling; Stadiums;
Schedule of games for the 1954 American League (AL) baseball season. This schedule includes not only the dates of all games but also the names of all of the coaches and teams in the AL: the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland...
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.
Document containing the broadside entitled "Ma's Gone Out to Pray." This broadside tells the story of a young boy whose mother has gone out to pray at saloons to stop men, especially husbands, from drinking alcohol. The "Dio Lewis" mentioned in the...
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.); Delaware;...
Map of Maryland and Delaware that shows twenty Maryland counties: Allegany (spelled "Alleghany"), Anne Arundel (spelled "Ann Arundel"), Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Kent, Montgomery, Prince...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter reporting on the Republican National Convention. Held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12, the convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter at the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12. The convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for president on the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter at the Republican National Convention. Held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12, the convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for president on...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter at the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12. The convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for president on the...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter at the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12. The convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for president on the...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Ferry Hill Plantation (Md.); Potomac River; Sharpsburg (Md.); Shepherdstown (W. Va.); United States History Civil War, 1861-1865;
Photograph taken looking across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia from Ferry Hill plantation on the Maryland side. Ferry Hill plantation, where at various times before and after the Battle of Antietam both Confederate and Union...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Railroads; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of workers loading and unloading items from railroad cars. One car has "B&O" written on the back. The artist's initials are written in the bottom right corner. (Editor's note: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
