Lexington Market (called Western Precincts Market before it took its current name) is a historic Baltimore icon. It has been in existence since 1782 when General John Eager Howard donated land for the purpose of having a market for farmers bringing...
Aquatint, in colors, published in 1817 by Edward Johnson Coale of Baltimore. This is a reconstruction of the rough view by John Moale made on the spot in 1752, now in the Maryland Historical Society library. The Moale sketch has been considerably...
African American young men; Architecture, domestic; Bishops; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Dwellings; Gibbons, James, 1834-1921; Horse-drawn vehicles; Baltimore (Md.); Wagons;
Photograph of the official residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. Located at number 408 North Charles Street, this building is situated behind and connected by a covered walkway to the Basilica of the...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Circus--Maryland--Baltimore;Parades--Maryland--Baltimore;Circus animals--Maryland--Baltimore; Children--Maryland--Baltimore;Horse-drawn vehicles--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of a circus parade on a May afternoon in Victorian era Baltimore, Maryland. A crowd of spectators, including many Caucasian and African American children, watch from the street or from covered coaches (the one on the left is from the...
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...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Post office...
Photograph taken looking northeast across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near the 200 block East Pratt Street between Calvert Street and Cheapside. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses including grocers and...
Photograph taken looking northwest from South Street at rubble between Water and German Streets. In the foreground are the ruins (from left to right) of the William J. Hooper Manufacturing Company and the W. A. Simpson Company. Located on the west...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Steamboats;...
Photograph taken looking northeast across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near the 200 block East Pratt Street between Cheapside and Gay Street. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses including wholesale...
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...
Photograph taken looking northeast across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at the burnt district near the 200 block East Pratt Street between Calvert Street and Cheapside. In the foreground are the ruins of many small businesses including grocers and...
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...
Postcards--Maryland--Baltimore; Wharves--Maryland--Baltimore; Boat ramps--Maryland--Baltimore; Markets--Maryland--Baltimore; Oyster fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Ships;
A busy scene at the Baltimore wharves. These are the places along the harbor that were occupied by docks and piers. Small store owners used to come here on their carts and pulleys to buy fruits, produce, oysters, fish and other products supplied by...
Plows; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Bishop that shows a farmer with one arm in a sling looking at an idle plow, with the words “You can't afford to get hurt!” set in the background against a darkened sky. In the left lower corner is a box-like structure in which...
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; 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; Award presentations; Food industry--Maryland; S.E.W. Friel Company (Queenstown, Md.);
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of S.E.W. Friel, Queenstown and Wye Mills Plants, on March 17, 1945 at the Centreville Armory in Centreville, Maryland. The program includes images of...
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...
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;...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Baltimore (Md.); Church architecture; Catholic Church Buildings;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of St. Leo's Church in Baltimore. In the foreground, a man smoking a pipe walks down the street. On the corner next to him is a lamp post and telephone pole. Further up, on the left side of the street,...
