Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Real property tax--Maryland; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Tax collection--Maryland--Baltimore;
Document showing the 1898 property tax bill paid July 27 of that year by H. L. Mencken's father, August Mencken, on their house at number 1524 Hollins Street. With the property assessed at $400.00, the total state and city property tax bill...
Postcards--Maryland--Sharpsburg; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Antietam National Battlefield (Md.)--Pictorial works; Farms--Maryland--Washington County
During the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, Union troops under generals French and Richardson crossed William Roulette's farm, heading toward a group of Confederate soldiers posted near a sunken road just beyond the property. The farm...
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...
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...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district east of Baltimore and Liberty Streets. Located on the north side (left) of the street at the corner of Liberty and Baltimore Streets are the ruins of Mulllin's Hotel (note rod-iron balcony). Its...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 7 pages long containing the annual report of the Burnt District Commission for the six months ending March 11, 1907. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its sixth...
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...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Born during the trying period when his father was straining his resources to maintain...
Dixon, William B., 1890-1963--Portraits; African American businesspeople--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Blackstone Studios (Baltimore, Md.)
Photographic portrait of William B. Dixon (1890-1963), made at Blackstone Studios, Inc. In 1937, he and two other African American men opened Metropolitan Finance Corporation, the first African American owned and operated loan business licensed in...
Cannon's Warehouse (Dorchester County, Md.); Cannon, Lucretia P., ca. 1760-1829; Slave traders--Maryland
Photograph of Cannon's Warehouse in Dorchester County, Maryland. This warehouse near Patuxent Bay was used by Lucretia P. (Patty) Cannon, the infamous dealer in stolen slaves and kidnapped freedmen in the first half of the nineteenth century, to...
Chase-Lloyd House (Annapolis, Md.); African American men--Maryland--Annapolis; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Annapolis; Buckland, William, 1734-1774; Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811; Horse-drawn vehicles; Lloyd, Edward, 1779-1834;...
Photograph of the Chase-Lloyd House at number 22 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, Maryland. Construction of this three-story Georgian townhouse was begun in 1769 by Samuel Chase (1741-1811), a revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of...
Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Colonial administrators; Governors; Hotels; Prince George's County (Md.); Pratt, Thomas George, 1804-1869; Rogers, John, 1723-1789; Slaves; Trees;
Photograph of a slave block on the lawn of an old hotel on Main Street in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. This property, originally a market place along the roadway, still retains the stone block that was long used an auction...
African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Athenaeum Building (Baltimore, Md.);Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the Athenaeum building located on the northwest corner of Saratoga and St. Paul Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr. (1810-1849) in the Italianate style, the building became home to the Mercantile Library...
Photograph of the 100 block North Carey Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by Thomas Dixon and built in 1850-1851, these Waverly Terrace brick row houses feature a rear porch balcony framed by intricate cast-iron fencing (the fronts of the...
Baltimore (Md.). Fire Dept.; Building, Fireproof; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking east from the northwest corner of Liberty and Baltimore Streets at Hopkins Place buildings in ruins. In the foreground at number 17 Hopkins Place are the ruins of the Ambach Brothers and Company Building. In the background...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northwest at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland stocked dynamite, turpentine, and...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 12 pages long containing the seventh and final semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission, ending September 11, 1907. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued...
Eminent domain--Maryland; Fire prevention--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hardware stores; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Pratt Street and Calhoun Alley at the ice-encrusted Anderson and Ireland hardware store located on the northwest corner of Pratt and Light Streets. Like other hardware stores of its day, Anderson and Ireland...
Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission; City planning; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Statutes;
Document 31 pages long containing the third semi-annual report of the Burnt District Commission ending September 11, 1905. Created by an act of the Maryland General Assembly approved March 11, 1904, the Burnt District Commission issued its third...
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...
