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.). 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...
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...
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...
Eighteen-page document (pamphlet) written by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken in 1902 to extol the beauties and charms of Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Containing seven photographs of buildings and scenes around the cemetery and one...
In this letter dated March 6, 1809 and written from Stockerton, George Poe, Jr. tells William Clemm about troubles from a couple of Baltimoreans, relatives of the family. This letter includes the only known copy of a note by Edgar Allan Poe's...
Espionage; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Dal (Delorma Bostwick) Holcomb (1901-1978) that shows the cartoon character of a derby-clad gentleman whose mouth is covered by Uncle Sam's hand, with the word "Quiet!" printed at the man's eye level and the words "Loose talk can...
Document containing the broadside entitled "A Holiday's Dream, After Too Much Egg Nog." This broadside is a light-hearted advertisement for "Marble Hall," a clothing store owned by Smith, Bros. & Co. in the 1860s and located at 40 West Baltimore...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Baron, 1699-1751; Colonization; Colonial administrators--Portraits; Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;
Painting of Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore, that hangs in the main hall of the Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center. Immediately after the death of the fourth Lord, the principal powers specified by the...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Horse racing; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Maryland--Baltimore;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of a crowd in the stands at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. In the center left foreground, a heavyset man in a suit stands with pencil and sheet of paper. In the right foreground, an elderly...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Picknicking; Outdoor cookery; Rocks; Forests and Fields; Trees;
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing by Aaron Sopher of a group of people picnicking in the woods. In the foreground, a woman is shown from behind sitting next to a large log. Next to her, several other people stand and sit on top of a large, flat...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); August (Month); Beach-going; Summer;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a family going to the beach. The family is comprised of a woman, a man, a child, a teenage girl. The woman walks in front, carrying a thermos and food items. She wears a dress and sunhat. The man wears a straw...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Cattle; Agricultural Exhibitions;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a large cow. The cow has a large ring through its nose attached to a chain. Beside the cow stands a man in a suit and tie. He wears a hat and has cigar or cigarette in his mouth. The drawing is marked as...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Art; Art Exhibitions;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a man and woman looking at art in a museum or gallery. The man stands in the foreground of the drawing looking at a piece of sculpture on a pedestal. He wears a suit and tie, has a coat draped over one arm,...
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); April; Weather;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of a man running on a sidewalk in the rain. He wears a suit, tie, and carries his hat in his hands. Alongside him, in the street adjacent to the sidewalk, another man (possibly a cab driver or a policeman) is...
African Americans in art; Peddlers--Maryland--Baltimore; Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931; Oysters; Harper's Weekly (New York, N.Y.)--Illustrations
Photograph of an illustration entitled "A Southern Oyster Peddler" by B. West Clinedinst that appeared on page 173 of Harper's Weekly of March 2, 1889. This illustration depicts an African American oyster peddler in Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a...
African American life--Maryland--Pictorial works; African American young men--Recreation--Maryland--Pictorial works; Streetball--Maryland--Pictorial works;United States. National Youth Administration of Maryland;United States. Works Progress...
Photograph of the tip-off to a basketball game played in Baltimore as part of National Youth Administration (NYA) recreation program sponsored by the Operations Division of the Works Progress Administration of Maryland. The NYA leader, an African...
Fair of the Iron Horse (1927 : Halethorpe, Md.); Tobacco--Maryland; Agricultural exhibitions--Maryland; African American men--Maryland--Halethorpe; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Mules; Spectators--Maryland--Halethorpe
Photograph of tobacco rolling, an exhibit from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's "Fair of the Iron Horse", a celebration of its one hundredth birthday held from September 24 to October 15, 1927 at outdoor fairgrounds in Halethorpe,...
Merchant ships--Maryland--Baltimore; Loading and unloading--Maryland--Baltimore; African American men--Maryland--Baltimore; Banana trade--Maryland--Baltimore; Food inspectors--Maryland--Baltimore; United Fruit Company
Sepia-toned photograph of bananas being unloaded from a United Fruit Company boat docked at Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture Inspector John F. Earnshaw (taller Caucasian man dressed in a suit, white...
Burlesques; Drawing; Rhodes, William Barnes, 1772-1826; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the Thomas (i.e., William) Barnes Rhodes burlesque drama, Bombastes Furioso. In this illustration, the lavishly dressed Distaffina sits in a chair next to a spinning wheel with her arm...
