Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 7 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1907. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its sixth...
African Americans; Bland, James A. (James Allen), 1854-1911; Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901; Minstrels; Slavery; Spirituals (songs);
Document containing the broadside entitled "In the Morning by the Bright Light." Although some regard the words to this song as a celebration of the end of slavery, that view seems short-sighted. The point of the song is spiritual in nature, with...
African Americans; Bland, James A. (James Allen), 1854-1911; Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901; Minstrels; Slavery; Spirituals (songs);
Document containing the broadside entitled "In the Morning by the Bright Light." Although some regard the words to this song as a celebration of the end of slavery, that view seems short-sighted. The point of the song is spiritual in nature, with...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at fire fighters spraying water on the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Conference rooms; Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features an interior view of the conference room on Light Street in Baltimore. This is a view of the interior of the Old Methodist Parsonage (second...
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the old Light Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore around 1779. This church was at the northwest corner of Light Street...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Dedicated to the Baltimore Light Artillery, CSA." There appears to be a playful irony in the dedication of this piece: Captain Alexander, the supposed author of the piece, was the man ordered by President...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parsonages;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the old parsonage on Light Street in Baltimore. This old house was part and parcel of Methodism nearly from its beginnings in...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Conference rooms; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of the conference room on Light Street in Baltimore. This was on the second floor of the building, which was situated on the west...
Conference rooms; Church buildings; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781; Views;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. after the drawing by Thomas Coke Ruckle. This is an uncolored duplicate of Cator Print 87 that features a view of the conference room on Light Street in Baltimore. This was on the second floor of the building, which was...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views;Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore--Pictorial works;Electric power-plants--Maryland--Baltimore;Gas power plants--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of a panoramic view of South Baltimore featuring the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore (subsequently renamed the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company). In this westward-looking view South Baltimore is in the...
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east on Pratt Street at the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company Building located on the southeast corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Fire hoses are stretched across the street as a crowd of people standing to the...
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking east from Light Street at the burnt district on the north side of the 100 block of East Pratt Street between Light and Ellicott Streets. Included among these ruins are structures that once housed workshops, warehouses, and...
Lithograph by painter, etcher, and illustrator Herbert Pullinger, a native of Philadelphia and a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that features a view of Baltimore Street looking east from Light Street and provides a look at the...
Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Parsonages;
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle that features a view of the old parsonage on Light Street in Baltimore taken from Roberts' book Centenary Pictorial Album. This print is the same as Cator Print 86 except that it is uncolored....
Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company; Railroad stations; Railroads; Views;
Colored lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., probably 1897, that features a view of Bay Line Railroad's new terminal. This structure was built when the company first occupied piers on Light Street, about 1897, after moving from Pratt Street. The bridge...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland stocked dynamite, turpentine, and...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Skipjacks--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Steamboats;...
Photograph taken looking west across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the Light Street wharves on Monday, February 8, 1904. In the center foreground are the blackened remains of a wharf along East Pratt between South Calvert Street and the Jones...
