Photograph of two traffic patrolmen looking west from a traffic control booth located in front of the M. S. Kahn and Co. drugstore at the corner of Lexington and Liberty Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Note the stop-and-go sign on the roof of the...
Photograph taken of West Biddle Street from Madison Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. At 900 Madison Avenue (right) is Dave's Food Market. Although cars are parked on both side of Biddle Street, there is room enough for two more lanes of traffic....
Baltimore (Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Maps; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Map of historic Baltimore by Edwin Tunis, dated 1936, that shows main traffic routes and points of interest inside the City's 1918 boundaries. The principal points of interest are marked on the map with numbered orange circles and indexed with a...
View of North Broadway in the Fells Point section of Baltimore ca. 1911. The middle of the street that separates the opposing traffic was neatly landscaped with grass, shrubs and paths for pedestrians. Also known as Broadway Squares, it was...
African American children's games--Maryland--Baltimore; African American women--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States. Works Progress Administration of Maryland
Photograph of African American children at play on Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The activities of various groups of children are being lead by adult Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) supervisors. In the background to the left is the...
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...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Brick wall signs--Maryland--Baltimore; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking west from about number 1637 East Fayette between North Bond and Broadway Streets at the north side of the 1600 block East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1936-1937, these two- and three-story brick row houses were...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Group games; United States. Works Progress Administration;
Photograph of African American children at play on Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, most of the children are standing in a circle around another child, participating in some kind of game or play activity. Their activity is...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Group games; United States. Works Progress Administration;
Photograph of African American children at play on Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, a group of about twelve young African American girls engage in a game or play activity with a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)...
Photograph of a float, most likely carrying bells of the McShane Bell Foundry, in a parade on Baltimore Street just east of Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Four pairs of horses are pulling a float on which one large bell and several smaller...
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...
Bridges; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Jones Falls (Md.); Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west across the Lombard Street Bridge over the Jones Falls at the burnt district. Designed and built by Wendel Bollman in 1877, this is a truss-type cast-iron bridge and carries both traffic (people and vehicles) and water...
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...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Calvert Street Bridge (Baltimore, Md.); Latrobe, Charles Huzlehurst, 1833-1902; Bridges--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A full view of the old Calvert Street Bridge. Built in 1880, the bridge had decorative ironwork on it, including arches, lamps, and lions at the ends. The bridge, designed by Charles H. Latrobe and built at the time on the edge of the settled city...
World War, 1939-1945; Civil Defense; Air raid wardens
Booklet dating from January 1943 titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes...
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.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a street scene. In the foreground are a dog and an elderly man with a cane. Behind him are two men crossing the street, and a policeman directing traffic. Signed by the artist in the bottom left...
