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...
Photograph taken looking east from North Gay Street at the Phoenix Shot Tower located at number 801 East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Constructed in 1828 of 1.1 million bricks without the use of scaffolding by the Phoenix Shot Tower...
Mahón (Spain)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Fortification--Minorca (Spain)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Map shows plans of the city of Mahón and the fortress Castillo de San Felipe on the island of Minorca, one of the Balearic Islands near the coast of Catalonia. Inset map shows a plan of Fort St. Philippe, as it was called by the French, at the...
Pomerania (Poland and Germany)--Maps--Early works to 1800.;Brandenburg (Brandenburg, Germany)--Maps--Early works to 1800.;Wielkopolska (Poland)--Maps--Early works to 1800.;Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Historical map of northern part of Germany and Poland with relief shown pictorially. Dedicated to Prussian prince and Brandenburg elector, Friedrich Wilhelm, and other regional electors and princes, including those of Pomerania and Margraviate of...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
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...
Photograph taken looking southeast at a soup kitchen operated out of the John S. Gittings and Co. Building located on the southeast corner of North and Fayette Streets. After the fire, the banking business of John S. Gittings and Co. operated a...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Brick wall signs--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the south side of the 1500 block of Orleans Street, as viewed from Dallas Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. In front of these two- and three story brick row houses are three African Americans walking on the sidewalk, passing another...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriages and carts--Maryland--Baltimore; Machine shops--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Painted signs and signboards--Maryland--Baltimore; Wagons--Maryland--Baltimore; Horses
Photograph of the southwest corner of Ann and Thames Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1912, the house on the corner (at number 1743 Thames) was the business address for Richard Walters, decorator. To its left at numbers 900-902 South Ann Street...
Bald eagle in art; Printing--United States--World War, 1939-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Two color posters on one sheet: "The Pen and the Sword", a poster printed in patriotic red, white, and blue colors, is on the obverse side; and Crocker-McElwain's paper news poster, volume 1, number 2, May 1942, a four-page pamphlet, is on the...
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,...
Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Building, Fireproof; Carson, Charles L., 1847-1891; Clocks and watches, Electric; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;...
Photograph taken looking northeast from the unit block of East Baltimore Street at three office buildings that survived the fire: the Calvert (left), Equitable (left center), and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters (right center)...
Photograph of the west side of the 200 block North Poppleton Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These three-story brick row houses were scheduled to be razed in 1939 as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance program. In the corner...
A view of an old Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road bridge over the Potomac River and a panorama of Westernport, a port located along the Georges Creek Valley where George's Creek empties into the Potomac in Allegany County. Known since 1774 as...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Stonemasonry; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking south at ruins of the William A. Gault and Son Building on East Lexington Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The posted sign indicates that William A. Gault and Son operated a stonemasonry business from offices at...
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...
