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;...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 45 pages long containing the first semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1904. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its first...
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Colored lithograph that features a northwest view of Baltimore around 1848. This is considered one of the choice views of Baltimore made apparently from a point near Pennsylvania Avenue, north of Preston Street. This avenue was the main route of...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Floor plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing of the first-floor plan of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Floor plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing of the second-floor plan of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
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...
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 southwest of the upper story of a bulding near Gay and Water Streets. Standing right center are the ruins of the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank Building located on the northwest corner of South...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 130 pages long that contains the report of the Committee on Fire-Resistive Construction of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA publishes fire and building safety standards designed to help reduce...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
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...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
Postcards--Maryland--Braddock Heights; Braddock Heights (Md.)--History--Pictorial works
Braddock Springs, situated near Braddock Heights. The inscription on the postcard claims that it was the place "where General Braddock of revolutionary fame watered his men and horses." Although it is possible that General Edward Braddock...
Postcards--Maryland--Frederick; Fritchie, Barbara, 1766-1862; Frederick (Md.)--History--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
According to popular legend, Barbara Fritchie, an elderly woman in her 90's, waved the Union flag at Confederate troops under the command of General "Stonewall" Jackson as they marched by her house on West Patrick Street in Frederick on September...
Correspondence; Figure skating officials; United States Figure Skating Association; Winter sports;
Letter from Sherwin C. Badger to the Honorable William C. Coleman, eliciting the Judge's opinions concerning the advisability of appointing or electing an executive secretary or assistant secretary to take on duties at the office of the United...
Food conservation--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by A. (Alfred) Parker (1906-1985) that shows a mother and daughter canning fruits and vegetables, with the girl saying, in the banner above the image, "We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother?" Below the image is the full...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects;
World War, 1939-1945--War Work--Maryland;
Printed copy of address titled "Maryland's Contribution to the War Effort." The address was given by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord at the Maryland Historical Society on January 11, 1943. In the address, Reckord describes the state's wartime...
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects; United States. Office of Defense Transportation.;
Undated notice from Mary Johnson, Inc. informing customers that the company is still able to make flower deliveries in compliance with O.D.T. regulations.
[Editor's note: The notice refers to ODT, which was the Office of Defense...
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...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
