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...
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...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Horse racing; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a crowd in the stands at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. In the center left foreground, a heavyset man in a suit stands with pencil and sheet of paper. In the right foreground, an elderly...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Horse racing; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of people at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, two women wearing hats, dresses, and high heeled shoes sit in chairs looking out at the track. A woman behind them sits looking down at...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Horse racing; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen, ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a scene at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foregound, a woman is shown woman is shown in profile. She carries a pencil and paper in one hand. A crowd of well-dressed onlookers are...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Racetracks (Horse racing);
Watercolor portrait by Aaron Sopher of a man at a racetrack. The man wears a suit, dark colored shirt, yellow patterned tie, and a fedora-style hat. In his hand he holds up a piece of paper, most likely a tip sheet or a betting sheet. Over the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Racing; Racetracks (Horse racing);
Pen, ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of two women at a racetrack. The women face one another in conversation. Both wear hats, and the woman on the left smokes a cigarette. Behind them, three other people are shown in the stands- a man...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Railroads; Railroad yards; Railroad switches;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of the Cumberland Railroad Yard in Cumberland, Maryland. In the foreground, a railroad switch operator is shown pulling a lever to move an approaching train from one track to another. In the background, railroad...
Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobiles--Equipment and supplies; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Parts; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing an unsigned order for a 4-cylinder, 5-passenger Spoerer commercial vehicle. Typed on Carl Spoerer's Sons Co. stationery and dated July 27th, 1908, this unsigned order gives the description of and the parts to be used in this...
Broadsides; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Retreat of the Grand Army From Bull Run" written by Ernest Cliftan and sung to the tune "Dear Evelina, Sweet Evelina." Published in Baltimore during the Civil War, this Confederate broadside tells...
Broadsides; Hessians; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Marylanders [sic] Good Bye" sung to the tune "The White Rose." This broadside relates the feelings of a Marylander who supported the South during the Civil War. Having watched "hundreds" of Maryland...
Fair of the Iron Horse (1927 : Halethorpe, Md.); Tobacco--Maryland; Agricultural exhibitions--Maryland; African American men--Maryland--Halethorpe; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Mules; Spectators--Maryland--Halethorpe
Photograph of tobacco rolling, an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a celebration of its one hundredth birthday held from September 24 to October 15, 1927 at outdoor fairgrounds in Halethorpe,...
Lithograph by Thomas S. Sinclair of Philadelphia, after the drawing by F. F. Schell, that features a view of the railroad track across the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace in Maryland. At this date the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad...
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...
