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 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
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,...
Postcards--Maryland--Bloomington; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--History; Railroads--Maryland; Bloomington (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Seventeen Mile Grade is a 17 mile (27.3 km) steep section of railroad tracks between the small town of Piedmont, West Virginia and the summit of Altamont, Maryland. It is so steep that in some places it reaches 116 feet (35.4 m) per mile. The track...
Mechanical drawing done about 1910 of a cross section view of an unidentified Spoerer motor vehicle engine. What the phrase 17 inch SILVER refers to is not known.
World War, 1939-1945; Victory gardens; Agriculture--Competitions;
Pamphlet for the 1944 Statewide Big Vegetable Contest, organized by the Maryland Victory Garden Committee. The pamphlet includes the rules for the contest, information about contest judges, prize winnings, and an entry blank. According to the...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
Baltimore County (Md.)--Pictorial works; Bollman, W. (Wendel), 1814-1884; Bridges--Maryland--Jones Falls; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.); Northern Central Railway Company; Truss...
Photograph taken by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken of "Bollman Bridge" on West Belvedere Avenue (now a section of Northern Parkway) over the Jones Falls waterway in the Mount Washington section of then Baltimore County, Maryland. Between 1890 and...
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...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Monasteries; Tower clocks;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. that features a view of the St. Joseph's Passionist Monastery and Church near Baltimore, Maryland. It is located on Old Frederick Road and Monastery Avenue in the Irvington section of Baltimore. This, the second building...
Buildings; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Hotels; Monuments; Statues; Streets; War memorials; Baltimore (Md.);
Wood engraving from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper of July 13, 1861, that features a view of Monument Square in Baltimore. Here a section of Cook's Boston Light Infantry with artillery stands in position, by order of Major General Banks, to...
Photograph of the 1959 Baltimore Orioles baseball team, their trainers and coaches, batboys, and announcers posing in front of the center-field scoreboard sponsored by the Gunther Brewing Company at Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street in Baltimore,...
Airplane factories--Employees--Maryland--Baltimore;Glenn L. Martin Company;African American men
Photograph of three African American aircraft workers assembling the pilot's compartment of a bomber plane at the Glenn L. Martin Company segregated plant on Oldham Street in the Canton section of Baltimore, Maryland. These young African American...
Aircraft industry--Maryland--Baltimore--Employees; Glenn L. Martin Company; World War, 1939-1945--African Americans;
Photograph of two aircraft workers assembling the landing gear of a medium bomber at the Glenn L. Martin Company segregated plant in the Canton section of Baltimore, Maryland. These African American mechanics were the products of the government's...
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...
African Americans--Dwellings--Maryland--Church Hill; Church Hill (Md.)--Pictorial works; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Church Hill
Photograph of one of the oldest houses in Church Hill in the section called Upper Church Hill in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. In 1935, it was occupied by an African American family.
African American men--Maryland--Baltimore County; Boys--Maryland--Baltimore County; Carriages and carts; Horses; Parsons, James; Webb, R. Prescott--Estate--Maryland--Baltimore County
Photograph of a Victorian-style two-horse carriage characteristic of those seen in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1890s. In this Webb family carriage are seated R. Prescott Webb and the African American coachman thought to be James Parsons. The...
African American women; Addison, Annie, fl. ca. 1842-1920; Baltimore (Md.); Carroll, John Lee, 1830-1911; Domestics; Howard County (Md.); Slaves;
Photograph of Annie Addison, an African American woman born into slavery about 1842 at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. The former slave of John Lee Carroll, Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1879, she for many years thereafter worked...
African American men; Architecture, domestic; Baltimore (Md.); City planning; Dwellings; Housing Authority of Baltimore City; Pipe smoking; Row houses; Sidewalks; Slums; Streets;
Photograph of numbers 812 and 814 West Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1939, several square blocks in this section of the city, including this brick duplex with gabled tin roof, were scheduled to be razed as part of the Baltimore...
