Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and Lombard Streets. On duty in the foreground is a Maryland National Guardsman. Beyond the rubble in the background are two buildings that survived the fire: the Fidelity Building...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and Lombard Streets. On duty in the foreground is a Maryland National Guardsman. Beyond the rubble in the background are two buildings that survived the fire: the Fidelity Building...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Clifton Park (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Maryland--Baltimore; Parks--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of the Mansion House, or Johns Hopkins Mansion, inside Clifton Park in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins bought the house and the surrounding farm land in an auction in 1838. Hopkins converted the mansion into an Italian villa with a tower, the walls...
Line engraving titled Veduta generale della Piazza del Duomo (General view of the Piazza del Duomo in 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.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a view looking west on Fayette Street in Baltimore. Titled, signed, and dated by the artist in the bottom left corner. (Editor's note: The view appears to be of the intersections of East Fayette...
Colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier published in 1848. This scene was copied from William Henry Bartlett's view of Baltimore published in 1839 (Cator Print 194). Most of the prominent landmarks of the City can be recognized: the Washington...
Church buildings; Monuments; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Round towers;
Hand colored print that features a view of Baltimore around 1850 and is said to be the only known copy. Conspicuous objects in this view from Federal Hill are the tall spire of the German Reformed Church, situated near Gay and Water Streets, and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph probably by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features Fort Federal Hill in Baltimore. In May 1861 Federal Hill was seized and fortified by General Benjamin F. Butler...
Buildings; Cityscapes; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Government buildings; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.);
Aquatint signed by Louis Garneray that features a view of Baltimore harbor around 1834. Of this scene Charles Varle in his book Complete View of Baltimore, 1833, wrote, "We would recommend to the stranger a visit to Federal Hill, situated on the...
Engraving by S. Fisher after a painting by William H. Bartlett that features a view of Baltimore. Published in Willis' book American Scenery, London, 1840. Among the oddities in this view are the Cathedral belfries in the wrong position, Washington...
City halls--Maryland--Baltimore; Domes; Government buildings; Tower clocks;
Tinted lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., 1875, from the book The City Hall, Baltimore, published at the time of the dedication. Erected after plans by George A. Frederick, the building was occupied in March 1875 though the cornerstone had been laid as...
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...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Athenaeum Building (Baltimore, Md.);Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the Athenaeum building located on the northwest corner of Saratoga and St. Paul Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849) in the Italianate style, the building became home to the Mercantile Library...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet 34 pages long containing photographs of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. Includes a few striking facts about the Baltimore fire and a list of some of the greatest fires in the United States that occurred between 1820 and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Cityscapes; College of Physicians and Surgeons (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Night photography--Maryland--Baltimore; Post office buildings--Maryland;...
Hand-colored photograph taken looking south from an upper story of City Hospital at the Baltimore skyline ablaze at 1:30 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 1904. Located at Saratoga and Calvert Streets, Baltimore City Hospital provides an elevated look at...
Advertising--Tobacco; Bars (Drinking establishments); Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of Habliston's drugstore located on the northeast corner of Baltimore and Gay Streets. Located at number 500 East Baltimore Street, this was the only structure on the east side of the unit block of North Gay...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and Lombard Streets. In the center background of this elevated view is the Union Trust Building located on the northeast corner of Charles and Fayette Streets. Built in 1899, the...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district east on Baltimore Street from atop the Darby Building. Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and Liberty Streets at number 131 West Baltimore Street, the six-story Darby Building is just outside...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore,...
Photograph taken looking northwest from an upper story of the Maryland Trust Building (not shown) at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters Building on the northwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets. Designed by E. F. Baldwin...
Boards of trade; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northwest of Exchange Place and Frederick Street. In the foreground are several horse-drawn wagons, used to clean up the debris left by the fire, and the rubble of many small businesses. In the...
