Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Customhouses; Fells Point (Baltimore, Md.); Hospitals; Hotels; Jails; Monuments; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Watercolor drawing signed by T. Tanssen and dated 1831. A panorama from near what is today the corner of St. Paul and Madison Streets, at that time the southern edge of Howard's Park. The picture was found in Australia by an American sailor, a...
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 shows the Phoenix Shot Tower at the end of the street in the distance. Built by the...
Photograph taken looking east from North Gay Street at the Phoenix Shot Tower located at number 801 East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Constructed in 1828 of 1.1 million bricks without the use of scaffolding by the Phoenix Shot Tower...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Architecture, Industrial; Shot Tower (Baltimore, MD);
Pen and ink drawing of by Aaron Sopher of the Baltimore Shot Tower. The drawing was created as an illustration for "Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State" (published in 1940 by the Writers' Program of the Works' Project Administration in the...
Lithograph by painter, etcher, and illustrator Herbert Pullinger, a native of Philadelphia and a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that features a view of Baltimore Street looking east from Light Street and provides a look at the...
Buildings; Church buildings; Cityscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Ships in art;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., a prominent lithography company in Baltimore in the mid-1800s, that features a view of Baltimore City from Federal Hill that was printed and published in 1859. It offers a splendid view of Baltimore two years...
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.);
Lithograph based on a sketch from nature by Fitz Hugh Lane, lithographed and printed in colors by Sarony & Major of New York and published by A. Conant, which features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. From the eastern slope of Federal Hill...
Original watercolor by an unknown artist. This view of the tower looks east along Fayette Street and shows Browne's clothing store on the left (north) side of the street.
Baltimore (Md.); Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Church buildings; Cityscapes; Landscapes; Round towers; Ships in art;
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. Neale at Illman & Pilbrow's in 1831, that features a view of Baltimore taken near Whetstone Point. This is one of the celebrated Bennett...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834; Aquatint, English--19th century; Color prints, English--19th century; Etching, English--19th century; Illustration of books--Great Britain--19th century; London (England)--Pictorial works; London (England)--Buildings,...
Hand-colored aquatint titled View of the tower (of London) by Thomas Sunderland from an engraving by Auguste (Augustus) Charles Pugin after a drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, published October 1, 1809, from the book titled Microcosm of London, volume...
Line engraving titled Campanile di Pisa [Bell tower of Pisa, now widely known as the Leaning tower of Pisa, by Ranieri Grassi from the book titled Descrizione storica e artistica de Pisa [Historic and artistic description of Pisa] published between...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Baltimore (Md.); Church architecture; Catholic Church Buildings;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of St. Leo's Church in Baltimore. In the foreground, a man smoking a pipe walks down the street. On the corner next to him is a lamp post and telephone pole. Further up, on the left side of the street,...
Original etching by Sears Gallagher that features a view that looks east from the south side of Baltimore Street at Light Street, showing the Emerson Hotel and Hearst Tower Building.
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Cityscapes; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Night photography--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Photograph taken looking southwest at the Baltimore skyline ablaze near Calvert and Baltimore Streets at 1:00 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 1904. The needle-like structure on the left center of the photograph is the Phoenix Shot Tower, while the...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Baltimore and Hanover Streets after rebuilding has begun. Streetcar service has been restored, and much of the rubble has been removed. In the background are (from left to right) several...
Photograph taken looking west from Harrison and Fayette Streets at a panoramic view of the Baltimore skyline before the 1904 fire. This elevated view shows much of the business district that would be destroyed in the fire. Fayette Street, between...
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...
