Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
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...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects; Rationing;
War Ration Book no. 3, containing unused ration stamps. The front cover includes a serial number (958025), spaces where the recipient could write in his or her personal information and signature, an area to be filled in by the local ration board,...
Death; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Real photo postcards;
Photograph postcard commemorating the centenary (1849--1949) of the death of Edgar Allan Poe. This card is the official Baltimore first day cover of the Baltimore Philatelic Society and the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore and is postmarked 4...
Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
Chromolithography, English--19th century; Color prints, English--19th century; Illustration of books--Great Britain--19th century;
Chromolithograph titled Old England: a pictorial museum of national antiquities, vol. I, 1844, printed in color from wood from the book titled Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities...
Buildings; Hotels; Monuments; Museums; Streets; Views; War memorials;
Colored lithograph from the cover of the sheet music for "The Very Last Polka" by Francois Bernard, lithographed by E. Weber & Co. (later A. Hoen & Co.) of Baltimore, and published by F. W. Benteen, circa 1843. This lithograph features a view of...
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., the cover of sheet music published by Henry McCaffrey, Baltimore, and J. F. Ellis, Washington, D.C., that features a view of the Sun Iron Building erected in 1851 at the southeast corner of Baltimore and South...
Baltimore (Md.); Buildings; Hotels; Monuments; War memorials; Views;
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., the cover of sheet music that features a view of the Gilmor House and Battle Monument, Monument Square, Baltimore. The Gilmor House was opened in 1856 and flourished until 1871 when it changed hands and for a...
Allegany County (Md.); Anne Arundel County (Md.); Baltimore (Md.); Baltimore County (Md.); Calvert County (Md.); Caroline County (Md.); Carroll County (Md.); Cecil County (Md.); Charles County (Md.); Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Choptank River...
Map of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) by John F. Weishampel, Jr., a Baltimore bookseller and stationer. This map is dated 1875 and features all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel,...
Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company; Delivery of goods--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Furniture industry and trade--Maryland; Factories--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph of three horse-drawn furniture delivery wagons belonging to the Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company and parked in front of its furniture plant at numbers 113-123 West Conway Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The wagons consist of long...
African American women--Maryland--Baltimore;Slums--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the corner of East Lombard and South Bond Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. In the rear of these three-story brick row houses are dilapidated room extensions and wooden porches. Behind the corner row house with a grocery store on the...
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...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 12 pages long containing the seventh and final semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission, ending September 11, 1907. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
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...
