African American men; Architecture, domestic; Baltimore (Md.); City planning; Dwellings; Housing Authority of Baltimore City; Pipe smoking; Row houses; Sidewalks; Slums; Streets;
Photograph of numbers 812 and 814 West Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1939, several square blocks in this section of the city, including this brick duplex with gabled tin roof, were scheduled to be razed as part of the Baltimore...
African Americans; Architecture, domestic; Automobiles; Baltimore (Md.); Refuse; Street lighting;
Photograph of the narrow entrance to "Little Rock Street", reportedly the smallest street in Baltimore, Maryland. This street, which is east of Poppleton between the 800 block West Saratoga and West Lexington Streets, is a block long and, because...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Group games; United States. Works Progress Administration;
Photograph of African American children at play on Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, most of the children are standing in a circle around another child, participating in some kind of game or play activity. Their activity is...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works; Architecture, domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph of the corner of North Front and Gay Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. On the ground floor of these two- and three-story brick row houses on Gay Street are businesses. An African American woman is opening the door to the second house on...
African American children--Maryland--Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works;Group games; United States. Works Progress Administration;
Photograph of African American children at play on Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In the foreground, a group of about twelve young African American girls engage in a game or play activity with a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)...
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...
Photograph of the northwest corner of East Madison (900 block) and Ensor Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Standing in the street in front of the second house is an African American woman running water from a hose into a wooden bucket. Standing on...
Photograph of the east side of the 300 block North Bond Street from just south of Orleans Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In the left center of the picture is an alleyway known as Mullikin Court. To its left is a wooden garage; hanging above the...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore;City planning--Maryland--Baltimore;St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore, Md.);Lutheran church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore;Service stations--Maryland--Baltimore;Streets--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of East Fayette Street at North Central Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1937, the Lord Baltimore Filling Station (center left) and St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (center, behind the filling station) were razed as part of...
Photograph of the west side of the 800 block Ensor Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Sitting on the steps of these three-story brick row houses (right) are some African American women talking. Tracks are embedded in the cobblestone roadway, and...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore;Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore;African American life--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the west side of the 800 block Ensor Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These two-story brick row houses appear to be deserted. An automobile is parked in front of a building.
Photograph taken looking northeast at the west side of Bowley's Wharf and the burnt district as seen from across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) from the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway (B C and A) on Light at Camden Streets. Directly in...
Photographs combined in a triptych to show a panoramic view of the burnt district seen from the roof of the Wise Brothers (Edward H. and Leo H. Wise) Factory located at numbers 126-132 West Fayette Street near Sharp (also known as Little Sharp)...
View of North Broadway in the Fells Point section of Baltimore ca. 1911. The middle of the street that separates the opposing traffic was neatly landscaped with grass, shrubs and paths for pedestrians. Also known as Broadway Squares, it was...
Advertising--Pictorial works; Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobile industry workers--United States; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Tires; Carriage industry--Employees; Carriage industry--Maryland--Baltimore; Carriages and carts;...
Photograph taken December 30, 1913 of Carl Spoerer's Sons Company located at numbers 901-909 South Carey Street. Built in 1907, this structure contained the motor vehicle factory where the workers shown in this picture built Spoerer automobiles,...
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...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph probably taken about 1894 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Baltimore Polytechnic Institute class of 1896. Mencken is sitting in the front row, fourth from the left.
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 by Edgar T. Schaefer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken standing on the front steps of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street. Mencken's straw hat and the awning over the front steps indicate that the picture was...
Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore;
Portrait photograph taken about 1928 by Edgar T. Schafer of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken sitting in a chair in the parlor of his home at number 1524 Hollins Street under a portrait of his relative Johann Burkhard Mencken (1674-1732). H. L. Mencken...
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889; Caricatures and cartoons; Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873; Etching; Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; McClellan, George...
Etching by Adalbert Volck that depicts Abraham Lincoln as a puppeteer dressed in a jester's attire. Lincoln holds a sword, and the hilt of the sword is topped with a miniature jester's head. With his free hand Lincoln gestures toward a number of...
