Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee" from the song written by Harry Braisted with music (not included) by Stanley Carter. This broadside tells the story of a young man returning home to Tennessee after a...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Whist'ling Rufus or the One Man Band" from the 1899 song written by Kerry Mills (born Frederick Allen Mills). This broadside, in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, tells the story of...
Dwellings--Maryland; Methodist preaching; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features Jessie Durbin's house ca. 1767. The date given above is the supposed date of erection of this ancient structure. Here also the Methodist...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Cedar Avenue Bridge (Baltimore, Md.); Bridges--Maryland--Baltimore; Jones Falls (Md.); Rivers--Maryland; Gristmills--Maryland--Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
The Cedar Avenue Bridge, crossing the Northern Central Railroad, the Jones Falls valley, and Falls Road lead east out of Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. Built in 1889-1890, it was a three-hinged metal arch bridge designed by Charles Latrobe. The...
Postcards--Maryland--Dan's Rock; Dan's Rock (Md.)--Pictorial works; Allegheny Mountains--Pictorial works
Dan's Rock, or Dan's Mountain, is the highest mountain in Allegany County near Frostburg. It is 2835 feet (864 meters) high. According to a legend it was named after Daniel Cresap, son of a pioneer and early Maryland settler Thomas Cresap. One day,...
Automobiles--Maryland; Gill, Howard W. (Howard Warfield), 1883-1912; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Thirty-five years of newspaper work: a memoir;
Photograph of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken riding in an automobile driven by Howard W. Gill in 1908. Mencken mentions Gill, a pioneer Maryland motorist who owned an automobile dealership, in his memoir Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir....
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...
