Photographs combined in a triptych to show a panoramic view of the burnt district seen from the roof of the Wise Brothers (Edward H. and Leo H. Wise) Factory located at numbers 126-132 West Fayette Street near Sharp (also known as Little Sharp)...
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 taken looking at the burnt district on Charles Street north of Lombard Street. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses and warehouses in the wholesale dry goods district on Charles Street. In the background are two...
Photograph taken looking south from the roof of the Calvert Building at the burnt district between Calvert and Light Streets. The twelve-story Calvert Building located on the southeast corner of Fayette and St. Paul Streets provides an aerial view...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Power-plants; United railways and electric company of Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore business district between the Jones Falls on the east (left) and South Street on the west (right) and Exchange Place on the north (foreground) and the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) on the south...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Charles Street north of Lombard Street. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses and warehouses in the wholesale dry goods district on Charles Street. In the background are two...
Photograph taken looking southwest from the roof of the Calvert Building at the burnt district between Light (left, not visible) and Liberty (far right, not visible) Streets. The twelve-story Calvert Building located on the southeast corner of...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Post office...
Photograph taken looking northeast across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near the 200 block East Pratt Street between Calvert Street and Cheapside. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses including grocers and...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of the roof of the Darby Building. In the foreground is the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building located at number 7 Hopkins Place, the only building within the western fire line to survive...
Photograph taken looking south at the burnt district from the roof of the Calvert Building. The twelve-story Calvert Building located on the southeast corner of Fayette and St. Paul Streets provides an aerial view of the burnt district between...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Steamboats;...
Photograph taken looking northeast across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near the 200 block East Pratt Street between Cheapside and Gay Street. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses including wholesale...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Charles Street north of Lombard Street. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses and warehouses in the wholesale dry goods district on Charles Street. In the background are two...
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,...
Photograph taken looking west from the upper story of a building near Hanover Street at the burnt district near Liberty and German Streets, revealing the western edge of the fire line. In the right foreground at the corner of Hopkins Place, German...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district north of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. In the foreground is a man looking at the rubble of several small businesses. In the background are (from left to right) the ruins of the John E. Hurst and...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins pictured are (from left to right) the Ambach Brothers and Company Building (note tall ringed structure left of center) located on the...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district southwest of Gay Street between Baltimore and Fayette Streets. In the distance beyond the rubble are (from left to right) several buildings that survived the fire: the Continental Trust Building...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district in the 100 block of North Charles Street just south of Lexington Street, showing the northernmost advance of the fire. In the left foreground are the ruins of the Kranz-Smith Piano Company Building...
Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hotels--Maryland--Baltimore; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on the north side of Baltimore Street east of Liberty Street. In the left foreground are the ruins of the Hotel Mullin located at number 110 West Baltimore Street. In the center foreground are several...
Bridges; 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 Lombard Street Bridge over the Jones Falls at the burnt district. Designed and built by Wendel Bollman in 1877, this is a truss-type cast-iron bridge and carries both traffic (people and vehicles) and water...
