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...
Document containing the broadside entitled "I Only Had 50 Cents," a version of the song known as "The Original Fifty Cents" written by Sam Devere (ca. 1842-1907) , a well-known minstrel and, later, owner of his own vaudeville company who performed...
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...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Map of Baltimore City with map of Maryland and certain pieces of descriptive information about Maryland, Washington D.C., and Delaware. These two pages appeared in the Rand, McNally & Company Indexed Atlas of the World.
Photograph taken looking southeast from the upper story of a building near German and Liberty Streets at the southwest edge of the fire line on West Lombard Street. This view is taken near the source of the fire at John E. Hurst and Company, a dry...
African Americans; Broadsides; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Minstrels; Slavery; Songs; ; Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884
Document containing the broadside entitled "Kingdom Coming" from a song written by Henry Clay Work (music not provided) and published in 1862. This broadside, told in the minstrel's stereotypical African American dialect, relates with wry humor...
Broadsides; Love; Songs; United States History War of 1812; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Edwin and Mary." This broadside tells the story of two young lovers, Edwin and Mary, who were torn apart by war. That war was probably the War of 1812, when American merchant ships were being stopped on...
Allen, William J.; Blacksmithing; Broadsides; Nostalgia; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Old Village Blacksmith Shop" from a song written by William J. Allen. This broadside tells what it felt like to be a boy in the local blacksmith's shop. The speaker recalls with nostalgia how he and...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America;
Estres, William C.; Flags; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Volunteers to the 'Melish'," written by William C. Estres. Printed by R. M. Chambers in Baltimore, Maryland during the Civil War, this broadside tries to raise Confederate recruits, first by teasing, then...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" This broadside raises the question asked by many aging couples; i.e., with aging, will their spouse lose interest in them and their marriage? Centered below the title and...
Fourth of July; Fund raising; Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792; Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775; Liberty; Minutemen (Militia)--Massachusetts--Lexington; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; United States. Continental...
Four separate color posters on one sheet by JD or J. (James Henry) Daugherty (1889-1974) that shows four historical scenes meant to inspire Americans to "buy war stamps & bonds."
Upper left: In this poster, minutemen are portrayed fighting...
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.
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Lectures and lecturing; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Spiritual healing and spiritualism; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878;
In this letter dated February 3 and probably written between 1852 and 1854 from Providence, Rhode Island, Sarah Helen Whitman, who once was engaged to Edgar Allan Poe, tells Maria Clemm, Poe's mother-in-law, that she, through their mutual friend...
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Richmond, Nancy Heywood, 1820-1898;
In this letter dated January 7, 1864 and written from New York City, Elizabeth Fries Ellet mentions briefly her trip to Europe to Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond. Apparently responding to a request from Mrs. Richmond for a photograph, Mrs. Ellet...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Military hospitals--Maryland--Baltimore; Warehouses--Maryland--Baltimore; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Tinted lithograph by A. Hoen, after the drawing by Henry Whitton that features a view of the West's Buildings of the U.S.A. General Hospital in Baltimore. "West's Buildings consist of a row of six large warehouses, erected some years ago, by...
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Harbors--Maryland--Baltimore;
Engraving by J. B. Neagle after the drawing by J. R. Smith. This early view from Federal Hill is of uncertain date, but judging by the large building on Calvert Street between Baltimore and Fayette, evidently Barnum's Hotel, it was drawn between...
Buildings; Church buildings; Military camps--Maryland--Baltimore; Monuments; Soldiers; Washington Monument (Baltimore, Md.);
Lithograph by Thayer & Co., Boston, after a sketch by William Lydston, Jr., that features a view of the encampment of the Boston City Greys at Baltimore in July 1844. This crack military outfit came to Baltimore in the year named, the visit...
Jones Falls (Md.); Landscapes--Maryland--Baltimore;
Aquatint by John Hill after the painting by John Shaw, 1820, that features a view of the Jones' Falls in Baltimore. One of the best-known works of Hill is the Landscape Album, first issued by M. Carey & Son of Philadelphia, 1820 (reissued in 1835),...
Buildings; Monuments; Statues; Streets; Views; War memorials;
Lithograph by Archer & Boilly of New York after a drawing by W. Goodacre that features the Battle Monument in Baltimore. This is a very early view of the monument. The street seems little more than a rutted dirt road, and the building at the...
