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...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Clapham, John; Eddis, William, 1738-1825; Engraving, Colonial; Green, Anne Catharine, d. 1775; Green, Frederick, 1750-1811; Green, Jonas, 1712-1767; Maryland. History. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Money. United States. History. Colonial period,...
Maryland one dollar note dated April 10, 1774 and signed J [John] Clapham and Wm [William] Eddis: serial number 21714.
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...
Program for a celebration and tribute by the city of Baltimore in honor of the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944. The program includes a listing of the activities of the "Mayor's Committee Celebration Tribute to the Fighting French," such as an...
African American children; African American men; African American women; Annapolis (Md.); Architecture, domestic; Cobblestones; Dwellings; Electric lines; Government buildings; Row houses; Wooden-frame houses;
Photograph of Cornhill (left) and Fleet (right) Streets from Market Space in Annapolis, Maryland. On both sides of these stone-embedded streets are Revolutionary era two-story clapboard row houses. At their intersection is a small (perhaps...
African American men in art; Clothing and dress in art; Newspaper vendors--Maryland--Baltimore; Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903; Sindall, Harry S., fl. 1850s
Black and white photograph of a Maryland Historical Society (MHS) lithograph of the oil-on-canvas color painting entitled "Moses, the Baltimore News Vendor." The original painting of that title was completed by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) in...
Photograph of a tree planting ceremony held at Sharp and Hill Streets in Baltimore, Maryland to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington and honor the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Standing at the microphone is Lawrence Cardinal Shehan (1898-1984),...
American Red Cross; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by W. (believed to be Paul Lingenbrink Whitman, 1897-1950) that shows a man in an American Red Cross (note ARC on lapel) officer's uniform working at a desk while in the background soldiers are boarding a ship for overseas assignment....
Amusement parks Maryland; Correspondence; Sanctions, Administrative; Winter sports;
Letter from a member [Frederic C. Lee], Board of Managers, and Co-Chairman of Carnival Committee, the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., to Mr. George W. Pepper, Jr. of the United States Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.) concerning payment of a...
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Broadsides; Flags; Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863; Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Battle of Hagers' Town Road. The Rebels Are Skedadling [sic] Out of My Maryland, and leaving all their 'Stolen goods behind'," sung to the popular Confederate tune "Gay and Happy." This broadside, an...
Photograph taken looking at Charles Street north of Wine Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is Oehm's Acme Hall Clothing House located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets. On the right are several small businesses,...
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886; Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891; Beane, Fannie; Behman, Louis C., 1855-1902; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923; Broadsides; Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932; Gilday, Charles; Ingersoll, Robert...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Jumbo!" a parody sung by Fanny [sic] Beane and Charles Gilday. Fannie Beane and Charles Gilday were traveling comedy performers who, after marriage, continued to perform as a team. "Jumbo" was one of the...
Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862; Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858; Broadsides; Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Cadwalader, George, 1806-1879; Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Jackson, Stonewall,...
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with a Latin epigram, "Quamdiu tandem abutere patientiae nostra? Ad quem finem sese jactabit audacia?" and written by "B." (a pseudonym used by Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely, a Baltimore satirist)....
Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861; Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) Siege, 1861; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" and signed by "A." This broadside, told from the view of a Confederate living under martial law in Maryland, reminds fellow citizens that truth and right are on their side and that one day they...
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...
Baltimore (Md.); Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Jones, Edward Franc, 1828-1913; Riots; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Baltimore Boys' Own" sung to the tune "Charley Cole." This broadside is a call to the sons of the South to take arms against their Northern foes. It particularly refers to the Baltimore riot of 1861 in...
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...
Baltimore County (Md.); Cotton manufacture; Dams Maryland; Rivers Maryland;
Photograph of Union Dam on the Patapsco River in Baltimore County, Maryland. Two dams of the same name were constructed in this area; the first was built in 1808 farther north of the present dam. Pictured is the Union Dam built in 1912 by the...
