Photograph of the interior of the North Avenue Market in Baltimore, Maryland. Although the exterior of the building features Moorish-style towers (not shown), the central section appears modern, clean, and sanitary. Large skylights supplement the...
African American life--Maryland--Baltimore--Pictorial works;African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken looking east at the north side of Biddle Street from its intersection with Bolton Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Streetcar tracks embedded in Biddle turn north onto Bolton Street at this corner. A pool hall at number 232 displays...
Photograph of the west side of the 400 block Pine Street north of Mulberry Street in Baltmore, Maryland. These two-story brick row houses have chimneys set into the roof on the front and back of the building and an attic with a dormer window. On...
Construction and demolition debris--Maryland--Baltimore;Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church...
Photograph of High Alley at North Central Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center) and St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (center, behind filling station, with its front on Fayette Street) were razed in 1937...
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...
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...
Photograph taken looking southeast at a soup kitchen operated out of the John S. Gittings and Co. Building located on the southeast corner of North and Fayette Streets. After the fire, the banking business of John S. Gittings and Co. operated a...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire engines; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north from Pratt Street at fire fighters spraying water on buildings on both sides of Hopkins Place north of Lombard Street between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 1904. This view shows the fire moving south on...
Photograph taken looking southwest from the intersection of North and Fayette Streets at the ruins of the Baltimore American Building (center) located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and South Streets. (North Street becomes South Street at its...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the burnt district on the east side of the 100 block of North Charles Street just south of Lexington Street, showing the northernmost advance of the fire. This view from Charles and Lexington Streets shows the...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district north of the unit block of East Baltimore Street. In the foreground are the ruins of several small businesses located on the north side of East Baltimore Street and the south side of East Fayette...
Photograph taken looking southwest from the upper story of a building near Fayette and Calvert Streets at fire fighters spraying water on embers in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters Building (left center) on North Calvert Street....
Photograph taken looking northwest from South Street at rubble between Water and German Streets. In the foreground are the ruins (from left to right) of the William J. Hooper Manufacturing Company and the W. A. Simpson Company. Located on the west...
Photograph taken looking at Charles Street north of Wine Street before the 1904 fire. On the left is Oehm's Acme Hall Clothing House located on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets. On the right are several small businesses,...
Courthouses--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States Customhouse (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph of two detectives standing at the gates and of some "regulars", probably troops of the Maryland National Guard, standing on the steps of the temporary United States Customhouse located at Fayette and North Streets. Between 1900, when...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore Herald; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Journalists--United States;
Document showing the early newspaper stories written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and published in the Baltimore Morning Herald newspaper between February 24 and March 1, 1899. Page 1 shows all of the stories collected in a three-column spread on...
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $1.50 in dues paid by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, Aug[ust] Mencken, to Boumi Temple, a Baltimore center for the fraternal A.A.O.N.M.S. (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine) for North...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
Engraving, American--19th century; Illustration of books--United States--19th century; Indians of North America--Portraits; Lithography, American--19th century;
Lithograph titled Stum-Ma-Nu, a Flat-head boy by John T. Bowen after a portrait painted by Charles Bird King from the book titled History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs,...
Cherokee Indians; Engraving, American--19th century; Illustration of books--United States--19th century; Indians of North America--Portraits; Lithography, American--19th century; Ridge, John, 1803-1839--Portraits;
Lithograph titled John Ridge, a Cherokee by John T. Bowen after a portrait painted by Charles Bird King from the book titled History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, written by...
