Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.); Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.); Mills, Robert, 1781-1855; Causici, Enrico, 1790-1835; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland. Mount Vernon Place is located in downtown Baltimore. In addition to the monument at its center, Mount Vernon Place includes four small parks, designed by Frederick Law...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district north of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. In the foreground is a man looking at the rubble of several small businesses. In the background are (from left to right) the ruins of the John E. Hurst and...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins pictured are (from left to right) the Ambach Brothers and Company Building (note tall ringed structure left of center) located on the...
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken in 1912 looking northeast from Liberty Street at the site where the John E. Hurst and Company Building once stood on the corner of German Street and Hopkins Place. Eight years after the fire, the site is being readied for a...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast from Liberty and Baltimore Streets at two Maryland National Guardsmen standing before the ruins opposite the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building. Among the ruins on the west side of Hopkins Place (foreground) are...
Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Building, Fireproof; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking east from the northwest corner of Liberty and Baltimore Streets at Hopkins Place buildings in ruins. In the foreground at number 17 Hopkins Place are the ruins of the Ambach Brothers and Company Building. In the background...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins pictured are (from left to right) the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building (note three-windowed structure on far left) located on the east...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building amid ruins. Located on the east side of Hopkins Place at number 7, the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building, which was designed by Baldwin and Pennington and built of...
Photograph taken looking southeast toward the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building located on the east side of the street at number 7 Hopkins Place. Designed by Baldwin and Pennington and built in 1893, this building survived the fire because of the...
Buildings; Church buildings; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Monuments; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.); Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features a view of Baltimore City from the North. A bird's eye view from North Washington Place, affording an excellent glimpse...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northwest of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins are the John E. Hurst and Company Building (multistoried structure on left) located at number 20 Hopkins Place. For a more complete view...
In this letter dated March 6, 1809 and written from Stockerton, George Poe, Jr. tells William Clemm about troubles from a couple of Baltimoreans, relatives of the family. This letter includes the only known copy of a note by Edgar Allan Poe's...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features a view looking east of the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church. The etching is signed and is one of twelve Baltimore etchings by Dolice, a European artist...
Monuments; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.); Streets; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that features a view of Mount Vernon Place in winter.
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.); Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that features Washington Place Park just south of the base of the Washington Monument in...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Parks; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.); Mount Vernon Place (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Anton Schutz. This signed artist's proof is one of an edition limited to 75 impressions. It features the Mount Vernon Place park and surrounding buildings just west of the Washington Monument in Baltimore. The two sculptures in...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire engines; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north from Pratt Street at fire fighters spraying water on buildings on both sides of Hopkins Place north of Lombard Street between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 1904. This view shows the fire moving south on...
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...
