Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 33 pages long that is believed to be an official copy of the act passed by the Maryland General Assembly on March 11, 1904 that created the Burnt District Commission. The Commission was to be composed of four members appointed by the Mayor...
Amusement parks Maryland; Figure skating; Ice dancing; Programs; Winter sports;
Official souvenir program of the appearance of Evelyn Chandler and Bruce Mapes at the Iceland skating rink at Carlin's Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Billed as the world's greatest professional figure skaters, Evelyn Chandler and Bruce Mapes perform...
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886; Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891; Beane, Fannie; Behman, Louis C., 1855-1902; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923; Broadsides; Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932; Gilday, Charles; Ingersoll, Robert...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Jumbo!" a parody sung by Fanny [sic] Beane and Charles Gilday. Fannie Beane and Charles Gilday were traveling comedy performers who, after marriage, continued to perform as a team. "Jumbo" was one of the...
Official souvenir program for the Ice Vanities of 1940 appearing at the Iceland skating rink at Carlin's Park in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ice Vanities, a show produced by Bill O'Brien, the president of World-Wide Sports, displays the talents of a...
Letter from Peggy Fahy to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc., about a misunderstanding with Bill [O'Brien], a promoter, concerning confusion over whether she and her partner Richard [Toucey] of the New Haven Skating Club had...
Correspondence; Cleveland Skating Club; Figure skating; Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc.; Skating rinks;
Letter from Howard P. Eells, Jr., president of the Cleveland Skating Club, to the president of the Ice Club of Baltimore. In this letter Mr. Eells announces the opening of the Cleveland Skating Club and ice rink, inviting representatives of the Ice...
Letter from Bruce Mapes to Freddie [Frederic C. Lee]. In a letter typed on personal stationary, Mr. Mapes explains why he and his wife, the skater Evelyn Chandler, will not be available for an upcoming carnival sponsored by the Ice Club of...
Letter from Joan Tozzer to Mr. [Frederic C.] Lee of the Ice Club of Baltimore, Inc. In her letter Ms. Tozzer lists the music for skating routines that she and others will perform in the club's upcoming carnival, including "Life Begins at Oxford...
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...
