Photograph of the exterior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 on the northeast corner of Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This building and the buildings for Branch numbers 2, 3, and 4 and Central were...
Photograph of the interior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 12 in Baltimore, Maryland. In the picture a large group of school children including many African Americans are visiting the branch. A librarian is helping the children as...
Photograph of the interior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 on the northeast corner of Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The interior features an arched, high ceiling with bookshelves lining the walls and...
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near East Pratt and Hollingsworth Streets. Docked at Pratt Street (left foreground) is a steamboat named the "City of Philadelphia" out of Philadelphia. Behind...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Oyster fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Pratt Street (Baltimore, Md.); Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Piers & wharves--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Oyster fleet at the piers on Pratt Street. Two tall buildings are identifiable: the Continental Trust Company building (at One Calvert Plaza) to the left and the Baltimore American building (corner of Baltimore and South Streets) to the right. The...
Enoch Pratt Free Library;Branch libraries--Maryland--Baltimore;Librarians--Maryland--Baltimore;Library employees--Maryland--Baltimore;Library fittings and supplies--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the staff in the information and circulation room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 26 at number 5427 Belair Road in the Gardenville section of Baltimore, Maryland. Seated at the information desk (left) are Raymond B....
Photograph of the staff in the main room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 26 at number 5427 Belair Road in the Gardenville section of Baltimore, Maryland. Standing by the recent fiction display (right) are Raymond B. Agler,...
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east on Pratt Street at the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company Building located on the southeast corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Fire hoses are stretched across the street as a crowd of people standing to the...
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district along East Pratt Street between Light and Calvert Streets. Anchored on the left are the Anthony Groves, Jr., a steamboat out of Philadelphia, and the Cannan,...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at fire fighters spraying water on the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores...
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east from Light Street at the burnt district on the north side of the 100 block of East Pratt Street between Light and Ellicott Streets. Included among these ruins are structures that once housed workshops, warehouses, and...
African American boys--Maryland--Baltimore; Bookmobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Enoch Pratt Free Library; Horses
Photograph of the Enoch Pratt Free Library book wagon during a visit to the 1000 block Dallas Street in Baltimore, Maryland. An African American boy, standing at the head of the horse attached to the book wagon, reads a book held in his one hand...
Photograph taken looking south at the 200 block South Caroline Street from its intersection with East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Many African Americans are walking along the sidewalks or sitting in chairs or on the front steps of the...
Photograph taken looking east from Light Street at the 100 block East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Traffic on the street includes pedestrians, a streetcar, and horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It is thought that this photograph was taken...
Photograph of the Enoch Pratt Free Library book wagon during a visit to the 1000 block Dallas Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Gathered around this horse-drawn wagon and looking over the books before making a selection are numerous African American...
Photograph taken looking south at the east side of the 200 block South Caroline Street from its intersection with East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block, which consists of two- and three-story brick row houses, including vacant stores...
Merchant ships--Maryland--Baltimore; Loading and unloading--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Banana trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Food inspectors--Maryland--Baltimore; United Fruit Company
Sepia-toned photograph of bananas being unloaded from a United Fruit Company boat docked at Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture Inspector John F. Earnshaw (taller Caucasian man dressed in a suit, white...
Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Slaves; Trees;
Photograph of a slave block on the lawn of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. This property, originally a market place along the roadway, still retains the stone block that was long used an auction...
Advertising; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Signs and signboards;
Photograph of the side and front of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789),...
Architecture, domestic; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Slaves; Trees;
Photograph of the rear of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. Built between 1760 and 1770, this two-story gabled brick building was probably originally owned by John Rogers (1723-1789), Chancellor of the...
