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...
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...
Building, Fireproof; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Sperry, Joseph...
Photograph taken looking west at the ruins of the Hotel Rigbie (left foreground) and at the Equitable Building (right background) as a crowd walks along East Fayette Street. Located at 211 East Fayette Street, the Hotel Rigbie was situated in the...
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...
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...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Carriage industry--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriage industry--Employees; Carriages and carts; Signs and signboards;
Photograph taken probably before 1900 of the Carl Spoerer carriage, wagon and truck works located at numbers 400-402 South Fremont Avenue in southwest Baltimore City (SW Balto). Carl Spoerer ran a carriage-making business from 1890 to 1899, when he...
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....
Dixon, William B., 1890-1963--Portraits; African American businesspeople--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Blackstone Studios (Baltimore, Md.)
Photographic portrait of William B. Dixon (1890-1963), made at Blackstone Studios, Inc. In 1937, he and two other African American men opened Metropolitan Finance Corporation, the first African American owned and operated loan business licensed in...
Postcards—Maryland--Salisbury; Williams Street (Salisbury, Md.); Streets--Maryland--Salisbury--Pictorial works; Salisbury (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
Residential area of Williams Street viewed from Division Street. On the right one can see the Arthur Leonard House, which later was replaced by John Downing House. On the left the steps of the Grier-Gillis House are visible. Salisbury is the county...
Northumberland (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Seventeenth century double-page map of the county of Northumberland, England, probably originating from Blaeu's atlas published in 1645. Includes a decorative cartouche, mileage scale, numerous coats-of-arms of local noble families including Robert...
Postcards--Maryland--Hagerstown; Courthouses--Maryland--Hagerstown; Renaissance revival (Architecture)--Maryland--Hagerstown; Sims, Henry Augustus, 1832-1875; Sims, James Peacock, 1849-1882; Hagerstown (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
The third courthouse on this site, the Washington County Courthouse was built 1872-1873. The architects of the project were Philadelphia based Henry A. Sims and James P. Sims. It is a 2-story red brick building with decorative elements in...
Fortification--Rhine River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800; Cities and towns--Rhine River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800
Twenty plans of fortified cities along the Rhine, Moselle, Saar and Neckar rivers: Rijnsburg, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz, Mainz, Frankenthal, Landau, Philippsburg, Mannheim, Fort-Louis, Strasbourg, Breisach, Freiburg im Breisgau, Huningue, Basel,...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Street (Baltimore, Md.); International Trust Company Building (Baltimore, Md.); Bank buildings--Maryland; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works;
View of business section of Baltimore Street rebuilt, a few years after the 1904 fire. The International Trust Company building was built in 1902 by the firm Parker and Thomas (Douglas H. Thomas, 1872-1915, and J. Harleston Parker, 1873-1930) of...
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...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Office buildings--Baltimore (Md.)--1900-1910; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--History; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; Rogers, James Gamble, 1867-1947; Thomas, Douglas Hamilton, 1872-1915; Parker,...
When the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad building was lost in the great fire of 1904, the company turned to a renowned architectural firm of Parker and Thomas to design the new headquarters. In collaboration with another architect, James Gamble...
