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...
Photograph of "souvenir hunters" looking through a safe salvaged from the ruins. In the background is a sign for Levenson and Zenitz, furniture manufacturers located at number 3 North Gay Street. This view, therefore, is looking east on Baltimore...
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...
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...
Photograph taken looking northeast from the intersection of South and German Streets at the west side of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company Building located at number 13 South Street. Erected in 1876 and expanded in 1903 to accommodate bank offices...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Power-plants; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United railways and...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the burnt district from the roof of the Courthouse located on the northwest corner of Fayette and Calvert Streets. Among the ruins, five structures stand out: the one-story Safe Deposit and Trust Company...
Photograph taken looking southeast from the intersection of South and Baltimore Streets at the north (left) and west (right) sides of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company Building located at number 13 South Street between Baltimore and German...
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 only Sunday evening June 15 and written probably in 1856 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond complains that it has been too long since she and Muddie (Maria Clemm) have sat and talked. She...
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...
Photograph taken looking southwest from Baltimore and Frederick Streets at the burnt district on the south side of East Baltimore Street. Among the ruins on the left are the walls of the Chamber of Commerce Building (note arched windows in upper...
Photograph of a group of businessmen and workers examining the ruins of an unidentified site. The presence of a policeman in their midst suggests they are checking on the contents of a safe.
(Editor's note: This image is reversed from its...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Newspaper buildings; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district along East Baltimore Street west from Gay Street. Among the buildings that survived the fire are (from left to right) the Safe Deposit and Trust Company Building (left), the Maryland Trust Company...
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...
Photograph taken looking west at the burnt district along East Baltimore Street west of Gay Street. In the foreground is a man looking at a piece of fire hose left in the street. Farther along the street are wagons parked in the middle while...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Power-plants; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United railways and...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the burnt district from the roof of the Courthouse located on the northwest corner of Fayette and Calvert Streets. Among the ruins, three structures stand out: the one-story Safe Deposit and Trust Company...
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...
Broadsides; Flags; Political ballads and songs; Religious poetry; Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American; Worthington, George F. (George Fitzhugh), d. 1887;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Prisoner at Home!" a poem written and self-published by George F. Worthington (1814-1887), an Episcopal clergyman from Baltimore, Maryland. This sequel to the broadside entitled "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! or...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America; Flags; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; Ridgely, N. G. (Nicholas Greenberry), 1841-1882; United States--History--Civil War,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "There Is Life in Old Maryland Yet" written by "Cola" (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist). Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside employs a refrain...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" This broadside raises the question asked by many aging couples; i.e., with aging, will their spouse lose interest in them and their marriage? Centered below the title and...
