Concerts; Drawing; Musicians; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck entitled "A Quartette." In this sketch, members of the Wednesday Club have gathered for the performance of a string quartet. Frank Clark and Frank Frick are the two men standing at the far left. George B. Coale is seated in...
Clothing and dress--France--Paris--19th century; Engraving--19th century; Magazine illustration--France--19th century;
Engraving of three well-dressed and fashionable young ladies appearing in Supplement to the Young Ladies' Journal for February 1896. Printed in France but intended for the English or American market, this print is identified as plate 8.
Clothing and dress--France--Paris--19th century; Engraving--19th century; Magazine illustration--France--19th century;
Engraving of two well-dressed and fashionable young ladies appearing in Supplement to the Young Ladies' Journal for March 1896. Printed in France but intended for the English or American market, this print is identified as plate 3.
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; War memorials--Maryland--Baltimore; Battle Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a view of the Battle Monument, possibly prior to 1830. This view is identical to that of Goodacre's engraving (Cator Print no. 147). The monument was begun in 1815 to commemorate the...
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; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. The fort occupies the site of the "water battery" erected in 1776. In 1794 the old works were repaired and the present star-shaped fort was built under the direction of...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Ships in art; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a view of Fort McHenry from the channel. This view includes what is thought to be the barracks.
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a view of the city jail in Baltimore as seen from East Madison street near the Jones Falls. This structure was begun circa 1855 on the site of an earlier structure.
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a view of the building in Baltimore known as Exchange Place. The Exchange building, erected in 1815 after designs by Benjamin H. Latrobe, was said to be the finest building in the...
Original watercolor drawing by an unknown artist that features a dwelling dubbed the oldest house in Baltimore, the home of Kaminskey's Tavern. This building has also been referred to as "Washington's Headquarters" because tradition says that he...
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.
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...
Architecture--Maryland--Baltimore; Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Wetherald...
Photograph of an etching of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located on Baltimore Street and Centre Market Space (opposite Harrison Street) before the 1904 fire. Designed by Reasin...
Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Cassell, John F. S., 1872-1909; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Food conservation; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the rebuilt Hotel Junker after the 1904 fire. Located between Charles and St. Paul Streets at numbers 20-22 East Fayette Street, the original Hotel Junker, which was designed by architect J. S. Cassell (1872-1909) and...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore Sun Building, also known as the Sun Iron Building, before the 1904 fire. Located on the southeast corner of Baltimore and South Streets, this five-story building housed the Baltimore Sun newspaper...
Photograph taken looking southeast from the roof of the Fidelity Building at the Baltimore business district before the 1904 fire. The Fidelity Building, which is located on the northwest corner of Charles and Lexington Streets, affords an elevated...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Fire chiefs--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Portraits;
Photograph of former Chief Engineer (Fire Chief) William C. (Corbell) McAfee (1865-1906), who, when Chief Engineer George W. Horton was injured within an hour of the start of the 1904 fire, was asked by Mayor Robert M. McLane (1903-1904) to take...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Copy of Verses by a Party of Poor Operatives." This broadside appears to be a door-to-door advertisement used by tradesmen to find work from individual households or small businesses when jobs in...
Carroll County (Md.); Legal documents; Slaves; Slaveholders;
Document headed "Tabular Statement of Ownership of Certain Slaves in Carroll County, Maryland," that lists the slaves owned by Ignatius Gore. The statement includes the names of the slaves as well as information about their age, gender, physical...
