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...
Foldout pamphlet titled "Take Care of Household Rubber" dating from October 1942. The pamphlet includes information on how to care for, patch, and repair household rubber products, including: boots and galoshes; clothing made from rubber thread;...
Midnight Lunch Committee (Baltimore, Md.); World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Dedication program to participants of the Midnight Lunch Committee. The program was held on Oct. 28, 1943 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The Midnight Lunch Committee, formed in January 1942, was comprised of volunteers from...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken about 1910 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken joking with colleagues on the sidewalk outside Wegner's Restaurant on German (now Redwood) Street behind the Baltimore Sun offices. Standing from left to right are H. L. M., McKee Barclay...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a street corner at night. The building on the corner houses a small store. The lit interior of the store is visible from outside. Through two large door windows, a store customer, products for sale, a...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
Allegany County (Md.); Annapolis (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.);...
Map of Maryland by Frank A. Gray, dated 1879, that shows all twenty-four of Maryland's counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore City (city limits shown by lines of demarcation), Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester,...
War--Relief of sick and wounded--Maryland--Hagerstown; Women--Charitable contributions--Maryland--Hagerstown; Davis, Theodore R. 1840–1894; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war
Photograph of a sketch entitled "Ladies of Hagerstown [Maryland] Administering to Our Wounded" by Theodore R. Davis that appeared on page 645 of Harper's Weekly on October 11, 1862. This illustration depicts a group of women carrying baskets or...
Photograph taken looking south from Orleans Street at the west side of the 300 block North Bond Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists of three-story brick row houses with a store on the ground floor of each corner house. To the right...
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the east side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is an African American man walking toward the camera,...
Photograph taken looking north at the west side of the 100 block North Caroline Street from its intersection with East Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street consists mostly of three-story brick row houses, some of which have stores on...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; J.W. Crook Stores Company (Baltimore, Md.); Pedestrians--Maryland--Baltimore; School children--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the J.W. Crook store at number 1626 Edmondson Avenue at Mount Street in Baltimore, Maryland. J.W. Crook Stores Co. was the name of one of the first chain of grocery stores owned and headquartered in the city. On this evening (the...
Photograph of the east side of the 300 block North Bond Street from just south of Orleans Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In the left center of the picture is an alleyway known as Mullikin Court. To its left is a wooden garage; hanging above the...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Document 42 pages long containing photographs taken by Jack Hement (John C. Hemment) of Baltimore in the aftermath of the fire of 1904. This souvenir booklet includes a narrative that provides an overview of the events of the fire and a map that...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Charles and Lombard Streets. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses located in the unit block of East Lombard Street. In the background are (from left to right) several...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Baltimore and Hanover Streets after rebuilding has begun. Streetcar service has been restored, and much of the rubble has been removed. In the background are (from left to right) several...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and Lombard Streets. In the center background of this elevated view is the Union Trust Building located on the northeast corner of Charles and Fayette Streets. Built in 1899, the...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Pennington, Josias,...
Photograph taken looking west at the unit block of East Lexington Street including the ruins of the Law Building (left foreground) from an upper story of the Courthouse. Located on the southwest corner of St. Paul and Lexington Streets, the...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Cityscapes; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Night photography--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Hand-colored photograph taken looking southeast from City Hospital at the Baltimore skyline ablaze between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 1904. Located at Saratoga and Calvert Streets, Baltimore City Hospital provides an elevated look at...
