Commercial buildings--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Jones Falls (Md.); Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking west across the Jones Falls from President Street at the ruins of businesses on West Falls Avenue. This shows the southeastern edge of the fire line.
(Editor's note: Whether this view looks west from the vicinity of...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of ice-encrusted ruins on West Falls Avenue west of Fleet Street. West Falls Avenue, which represents the eastern edge of the fire line, lies immediately west of the Jones Falls waterway. Using water from the Jones Falls, fire...
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...
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893; Broadsides; Confederate States of America; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) Siege, 1861; Political ballads and songs; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883; United...
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Southern Wagon." This broadside is an advertisement to join the Confederacy, the "Southern wagon" of the verses. It mentions Jeff. Davis and Alexander Stephens, president and vice president of the...
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...
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889; Political posters;
Colored lithograph by Currier & Ives, the Grand National Democratic Banner, 1864. A campaign poster urges the election of General George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton as president and vice president respectively, over Lincoln and Johnson....
Abolitionists; African Americans; Civil rights; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Constitutional amendments; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Parades; Politicians;
Colored lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, 687 West Baltimore Street, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19th...
White, Miles, Jr. (1856-1938); Businessmen--Maryland--Baltimore; Philanthropists--Maryland--Baltimore
Photographic portrait of Miles White, Jr. (1856-1938), a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. As a trustee of many charitable organizations in Baltimore, he devoted considerable time to charitable and philanthropic activities. He was also...
Crowds in art; Visits of state--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriages and carts--Maryland--Baltimore; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Travel; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Photograph of an illustration depicting a Baltimore street crowded with people waiting to see President Abraham Lincoln. Although not provided on the back of the photograph, the date is most likely April 18, 1864, when Lincoln visited Baltimore to...
Black and white photograph of a color lithograph by Metcalf & Clark of Baltimore, Maryland, dated 1870 and entitled, "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, And the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and...
African American men; Baltimore (Md.); City councils; Maryland;
Photograph of members of the Baltimore City Council, January 21, 1957. In the front row (left to right) are Thomas P. Fallon (1891-1969), Michael J. McHale (1913-1988), Henry R. Hergenroeder (1920-1990), Jacob J. Edelman (1894-1984), Leon A....
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...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Industrial mobilization--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Black and white poster featuring a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, sitting in an automobile with military officers, reviewing civilian performance records. Printed below the photograph are the words of...
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...
Program for a celebration and tribute by the city of Baltimore in honor of the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944. The program includes a listing of the activities of the "Mayor's Committee Celebration Tribute to the Fighting French," such as an...
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...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and the Baltimore Sun staff. Mencken, as this picture demonstrates, was no longer just a reporter but now a member of the staff. Standing from left to right are Robert B. Ennis,...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter reporting on the Republican National Convention. Held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12, the convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for...
American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837);
Portrait photograph taken in June 1936 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken at his typewriter at the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 9 to 12. The convention produced the nomination of Alfred M. Landon for president on the...
