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...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing showing the south front 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...
Photograph of a copy of an architect's drawing showing the south front of original Homeland (17__-1839), the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. The drawing was done in 1917 by architect Howard Sill (1867-1927). In the...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing showing the west flank (side) 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...
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...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Baltimore (Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Parks;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 21. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Baltimore City. Improvements to Federal Hill. View showing old granite block walks."
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Williamsport (Md.); Washington County (Md.); Streets; Curbs; Roadside improvement;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 6. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Williamsport, Washington County. View showing concrete curbs and grass plot...
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...
Camouflage (Military science)--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing an aerial view of trucks moving across a field, with one truck leaving tire tracks in the grass (the "wrong" way) and one showing no tire tracks (the "right" way). Below this image are the words "Hide those tracks! They guide...
Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; United States. Army--Job descriptions; United States. Navy--Job descriptions; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War,...
Color poster designed in the pattern of a checkerboard with one board square showing a military item and an accompanying square showing the cost in savings bonds or savings stamps to purchase that military item, with the words "Do you part to win...
Autobiographies; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing first typescript page of the preface to H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Happy Days (1940), the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy. These books contain some of the most delightful prose of this American journalist.
Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800;Israel--History--Maps--Early works to 1800;Bible--History of Biblical events--Maps--Early works to 1800;Twelve tribes of Israel
Decorative map of the Holy Land, with title cartouche showing a lady holding Tablets of the Law, and Joshua holding a flag with names of the Tribes, and a small elaborate allegorical cartouche map of the Exodus at the bottom right. The map shows...
Original etching by Leon Louis Dolice inscribed to George Cator, Esquire that features Shot Tower just showing through light fog at the end of a street in Baltimore. Built by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company in 1828 without the use of scaffolding and...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.); Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Colored lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., one of two prominent lithography companies in Baltimore in mid-1800's, that features Fort Marshall in Baltimore. This lithograph is one in a series of Civil War scenes in and around Baltimore by Sachse. Fort...
Buildings; Monuments--Maryland--Baltimore; Parks; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Original etching by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a native of Philadelphia who taught at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. This is a signed artist's proof that features a view of the Washington Monument dated 1896. This is of special interest as...
Original etching by Sears Gallagher that features a view that looks east from the south side of Baltimore Street at Light Street, showing the Emerson Hotel and Hearst Tower Building.
Baltimore (Md.); Canton (Baltimore, Md.); Jones Falls (Md.); Maps;
Engraving by James Poupard of Philadelphia after a drawing by A. P. Folie that features a plan of the town of Baltimore and its environs around 1792. This is said to be one of the earliest known detailed maps of Baltimore showing the three units...
Baltimore (Md.); Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.); Maps; Parks; Patapsco River (Md.); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Map of historic Baltimore by Edwin Tunis, dated 1936, that shows main traffic routes and points of interest inside the City's 1918 boundaries. The principal points of interest are marked on the map with numbered orange circles and indexed with a...
Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Md.)--Buildings; African American schools--Maryland--Baltimore; High school buildings--Design and construction--Maryland--Baltimore; Owens, Benjamin Buck, 1841-1918; Perring, Henry G., 1881-1946; Sisco,...
Photograph of an architectural sketch showing the southwest façade of the old Frederick Douglass High School at North Calhoun and Baker Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Prepared by Owens & Sisco Architects [Benjamin Buck Owens (1841-1918); Spencer...
African Americans in art; African American fishers--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing boats; Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper--Illustrations; Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880; Turtle fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Photograph of an illustration that appeared on page 28 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922) of September 13, 1879, showing two African American men using bated poles to catch terrapin from a skiff on an inlet near Annapolis,...
