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...
Baltimore (Md.); Bills of sale; Slavery; Slaveholders;
Document containing bills of sale for Josiah M. Cleaveland and Edgar A. Poe. Cleaveland sold a number of household goods to John F. Duryee. Edgar Allan Poe sold a slave on behalf of his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm Poe, to Henry Ridgway of Baltimore...
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...
In this letter dated March 6, 1809 and written from Stockerton, George Poe, Jr. tells William Clemm about troubles from a couple of Baltimoreans, relatives of the family. This letter includes the only known copy of a note by Edgar Allan Poe's...
Boardinghouses; Letters; New York (N.Y.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Virginia, 1822-1847; Travel;
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Maria Clemm dated April 7, 1844. In this letter, Poe recounts his latest journey with Virginia, including details about their arrival, search for a place to stay, and the meals they ate once they'd found lodging,...
Adventure stories--Illustrations; Children's drawings; Fantasy fiction, English--Illustrations; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pen and ink drawing of a gentleman standing before a cottage door, done in 1894 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken to illustrate page 17 of H. (Henry) Rider Haggard's adventure story set in Victorian England and Africa and entitled "The People of the...
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...
African American boys; Annapolis (Md.); Architecture, domestic; Bitters; Drugstore employees; Drugstores; Electric lines; Pedestrians; Sidewalks; Streets; Telephone lines;
Photograph of the City Drug Store at number 164 Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland. Standing in front of and to the left of the front door of the store are several sale clerks, perhaps even the owner. A sign over the door reads "Soda Water." In the...
Photograph of the fireplace in the historic Thomas Run house located at the corner of Kalmia and Thomas Run Roads between Bel Air and Churchville in Harford County, Maryland. The walls surrounding the fireplace are made of painted wood panels. On...
African American life--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works;African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Ragpickers--Maryland--Baltimore; Scrap...
Photograph of the south side of the 1000 block Ashland Avenue between Ensor and Aisquith Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These mostly two-story brick row houses are small and in poor repair. On the nearest corner, a Caucasian man is standing in...
Photograph of the exterior of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 1 on the northeast corner of Pitcher Street and Fremont Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This building and the buildings for Branch numbers 2, 3, and 4 and Central were...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the corner of North Front and Gay Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. On the ground floor of these two- and three-story brick row houses on Gay Street are businesses. An African American woman is opening the door to the second house on...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Slaves--Dwellings--Maryland--Howard County;Doughoregan Manor (Md.);Log cabins--Maryland;
Photograph of a log cabin that sits alongside the main house at Doughoregan Manor in Howard County, Maryland. Doughoregan Manor was the ancestral home of the Carroll family, including Charles Carroll (1737-1832), of Carrollton, one of the original...
African American women--Maryland--Baltimore; Dining rooms; United States. National Youth Administration of Maryland; Recreation centers--Maryland--Baltimore; Waiters and waitresses--Maryland--Baltimore
Domestic service department of an African American recreation center located on Druid Hill Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This center was run as part of a program of the National Youth Administration (NYA) of Maryland. Three young African American...
Photograph of a two-story wooden frame duplex on Low Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing on the top step leading to the door of the right house is an African American man leaning on the top rail of the steps. Located to the left of the duplex...
Allen, William J.; Blacksmithing; Broadsides; Nostalgia; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Old Village Blacksmith Shop" from a song written by William J. Allen. This broadside tells what it felt like to be a boy in the local blacksmith's shop. The speaker recalls with nostalgia how he and...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Electric lines; Streets--Maryland--Annapolis;
Photograph taken from College Avenue of the Forbes (McIlHenny) House on Church Circle in Annapolis, Maryland. Torn down between 1893 and 1900, it became the site of the Annapolis Main Post Office, which opened January 1, 1901. Standing in front of...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Pickup trucks; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the north side of Baker Street between Vincent Court (right) and North Mount Street (left) in Baltimore, Maryland. Three-story row houses are situated along this sunny, tree-lined street. A few wooden half-whiskey barrel planters are...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the northwest corner of East Fayette and Colvin Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story brick buildings were scheduled to be razed as part of the Fayette Street widening project. The second building on the left at...
