Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 21 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1906. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its...
World War, 1939-1945; Award presentations; Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.);
Program for the presentation of the Army-Navy "E" Award for Excellence in War Production to Aberdeen Proving Ground workers on September 28, 1942. Included in the program is a listing of the award ceremony activities, such as addresses by Governor...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing showing the south front of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
American Red Cross; Soldiers--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Paul Lingenbrink Whitman (1897-1950) that shows a wounded soldier kneeling on the ground holding his head with one hand and his rifle with the other. His helmet, which has a bullet hole through its side, lies on the ground in front...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;Patterson Park (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in the mid-1800's, that features Patterson Park, the nucleus for which were "two squares of ground on Hampstead Hill" given to the city by William...
Original etching by Sears Gallagher that features a view of Lexington Market in Baltimore. This covered market has been a Baltimore tradition since 1782, when land donated by General John Eager Howard (1752-1827), a soldier in the American...
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...
Baltimore (Md.); Buildings; Jones Falls (Md.); Maps;
Engraving by Francis Shallus of Philadelphia, Warner and Hanna's plan of the city and environs of Baltimore, respectfully dedicated to the Mayor, City Council and citizens thereof, by the proprietors, 1801. One of the most interesting maps of...
Engraving that features a view of the residence of Samuel Chase in Baltimore that was used in Brotherhead's book Centennial Book of the Signers. Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and one of the signers of the...
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore during the mid-1800's, that features a view of Market Street in Baltimore, and frequently called the Museum Print. One of eight known copies, it is...
Cityscapes; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Government buildings; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. & G. Neale at Illman & Pillbrow's, that features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. This print was published in 1831 as one of a...
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Frederick Calvert, Sixth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Named for his father's friend, Frederick, Prince of Wales, the last Lord Baltimore...
African Americans--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Havre de Grace;Porches--Maryland--Havre de Grace
Photograph of the "old ordinary" at number 100 St. John Street in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland. Built ca. 1814 as an ordinary, i.e., an inn or tavern that offered lodging to travelers, this brick building with a wide wooden veranda off...
Photograph taken looking east from North Bond Street at the north side of Mullikin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. On the ground level of the corner building (left) is what was...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Signs and signboards--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Slums--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking west from North Bond Street at the north side of Mullikin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists of two- and three-story brick row houses. In the ground level building on the near corner is the "Poor Boy Lunch...
Broadway (Baltimore, Md.); Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Baltimore; Horse-drawn vehicles--Maryland--Baltimore; Central business...
Photograph taken looking south at the 500 block South Broadway Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On the right in this block are three-story brick row houses with businesses on the ground floor. Several people are standing in front of the first...
Photograph of the interior of Lexington Market in Baltimore, Maryland. This covered market has been a Baltimore tradition since 1782, when land donated by General John Eager Howard (1752-1827), a soldier in the American Revolution, brought farmers...
Coon hunting--Maryland; African Americans in art; Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Women hunters--Maryland
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 204 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of May 17, 1884, showing ladies on a coon hunt in Maryland. Frank Leslie (1821-1880) (real name, Henry Carter) shortened the time it took to...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African American boys--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Electric lines--Maryland--Baltimore; Housing Authority of Baltimore City;...
Photograph of Cloney Street at its intersection with Amity Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This area (known as Area 14) was scheduled to be demolished as part of the Baltimore Housing Authority's slum clearance program. In the ground floor window of...
