Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of ice-encrusted ruins on West Falls Avenue west of Fleet Street. West Falls Avenue, which represents the eastern edge of the fire line, lies immediately west of the Jones Falls waterway. Using water from the Jones Falls, fire...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Photograph taken looking southeast from the upper story of a building near German and Liberty Streets at the southwest edge of the fire line on West Lombard Street. This view is taken near the source of the fire at John E. Hurst and Company, a dry...
Commercial buildings--Maryland; 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 Jones Falls from President Street at the ruins of businesses on West Falls Avenue. This shows the southeastern edge of the fire line.
(Editor's note: Whether this view looks west from the vicinity of...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
Photograph of a temporary toll ferry and the ruins of the highway bridge across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The bridge was swept away during the severe flood that occurred in March 1936. An African American man is operating...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military hospitals--Maryland--Baltimore; Warehouses--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Tinted lithograph by A. Hoen, after the drawing by Henry Whitton that features a view of the West's Buildings of the U.S.A. General Hospital in Baltimore. "West's Buildings consist of a row of six large warehouses, erected some years ago, by...
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...
African Americans in art; Peddlers--Maryland--Baltimore; Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931; Oysters; Harper's Weekly (New York, N.Y.)--Illustrations
Photograph of an illustration entitled "A Southern Oyster Peddler" by B. West Clinedinst that appeared on page 173 of Harper's Weekly of March 2, 1889. This illustration depicts an African American oyster peddler in Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a...
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...
Bridges; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Jones Falls (Md.); Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on West Falls Avenue southwest of the Lombard Street Bridge over the Jones Falls. Closest to the bridge on West Falls Avenue are the ruins of the Asendorf and Dreyer box factory located at number 100...
Postcards--Maryland--Hagerstown; Washington Street (Hagerstown, Md.); Historic districts--Maryland--Hagerstown; Streets--Maryland--Hagerstown--Pictorial works; Hagerstown (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
A view of West Washington Street from the public square in Hagerstown. The building on the left was the Hagerstown Railway Company's Waiting Room. On the right, the building with a clock seen in the distance is the Baldwin House, a four story hotel...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the house at number 811 West Lexington Street where H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken was born. On September 12, 1880, when Mencken was born, this house was numbered 380 West Lexington Street; by 1940, when Mencken commented on this picture...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.); Ferry Hill Plantation (Md.); Potomac River; Sharpsburg (Md.); Shepherdstown (W. Va.); United States History Civil War, 1861-1865;
Photograph taken looking across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia from Ferry Hill plantation on the Maryland side. Ferry Hill plantation, where at various times before and after the Battle of Antietam both Confederate and Union...
Photograph that features a view of Baltimore Street west of Hanover Street on Baltimore before the fire of 1904. Conspicuous landmarks are the Continental Building, now the Mercantile Trust Company, and the business house of Armstrong Cator & Co....
Newspaper print that features a view of the south side of Baltimore Street west of Charles Street circa 1854. The caption reads, "This old print shows the warehouses that stood on the south side of Baltimore Street just west of Charles Street 53...
Photograph of the north side of the 800 block West Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story row houses were scheduled to be demolished in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance program. In the...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking east at the south side of the 200 block West Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Taken from numbers 221-223 West Biddle Street, this picture documents these three-story brick row houses before demolition to make way for...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African American women--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking east at the south side of the 200 block West Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This picture documents these two-, three-, and four-story brick row houses before demolition to make way for the extension of Howard Street....
Roads--Design and construction--Maryland--Annapolis; Road construction workers--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Bricks; Building materials; Electric lines; Road rollers;Trees in cities--Maryland--Annapolis
Photograph taken looking west from Monroe Court at road construction on West Street in Annapolis, Maryland. To the left are piles of bricks both in the road and on the brick sidewalk next to wooden frame houses. In the roadway are workers, many of...
