Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Eminent domain--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast from Liberty and Baltimore Streets at two Maryland National Guardsmen standing before the ruins opposite the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building. Among the ruins on the west side of Hopkins Place (foreground) are...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Hornblower and Marshall; Maryland. National Guard; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States Customhouse (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph taken looking north on Gay Street at Maryland National Guardsmen on duty near the United States Customhouse still under construction on the northwest corner of Gay Street and Exchange Place. Designed by Hornblower and Marshall with...
Photograph taken looking northeast from the intersection of South and German Streets at the west side of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company Building located at number 13 South Street. Erected in 1876 and expanded in 1903 to accommodate bank offices...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking south from Baltimore and Harrison Streets at two Maryland National Guardsmen patrolling the burnt district on the west side of Centre Market Space. In the left foreground are the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also...
Exhibition buildings; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; Power-plants; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Reasin, William H., 1816-1867;...
Photograph taken looking south at a Maryland National Guardsman on duty before the ruins of the Maryland Institute Hall (also known as the Centre Market Building or the Great Mechanics' Hall) located at Baltimore Street opposite Harrison Street....
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken of the front of the National Bank of Commerce Building located on the west side of South Street at number 26 South between Baltimore and German Streets. This one-story brick and stone building sustained fifty percent damages....
Photograph taken looking southeast from the intersection of South and Baltimore Streets at the north (left) and west (right) sides of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company Building located at number 13 South Street between Baltimore and German...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Power-plants; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; United railways and electric company of...
Photograph taken looking northeast at the burnt district across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) from Federal Hill. Federal Hill is situated south of the southern edge of the fire line across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor). In the foreground is American...
Photograph taken looking southeast toward the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building located on the east side of the street at number 7 Hopkins Place. Designed by Baldwin and Pennington and built in 1893, this building survived the fire because of the...
City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking northeast from Lombard Street and Franklin Lane at the south side of the National Mechanics' Bank Building (center), with the dome of City Hall in the background (left center). Located on the northwest corner of South and...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Lombard Street and Hopkins Place. Among the ruins pictured are (from left to right) the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building (note three-windowed structure on far left) located on the east...
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...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building amid ruins. Located on the east side of Hopkins Place at number 7, the Hopkins Place Savings Bank Building, which was designed by Baldwin and Pennington and built of...
Photograph taken looking west at the burnt district along East Baltimore Street west of Gay Street. In the foreground is a man looking at a piece of fire hose left in the street. Farther along the street are wagons parked in the middle while...
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...
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...
Boards of trade; Cassell, Charles E., 1842-1916; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Niernsee, John Rudolph, 1814-1885; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the northeast corner of the ruins of the Chamber of Commerce Building at Holliday and Water Streets. Built by John Niernsee in 1881, this four-story building sustained 66 percent damage. At the base of the building is a...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Document 26 pages long containing the report of the Citizens' Relief Committee submitted to the Relief Fund Commission on August 11, 1904. This Citizens' Relief Committee was assembled at the request of Baltimore City Mayor Robert M. McClane for...
British War Relief Society (U.S.); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Children--Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Carleton F. McCutcheon that features a brother and sister holding each other as they stand amidst the rubble of a destroyed brick building, with a transparent British flag hanging over the ruins. Emblazoned in red on a white border...
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply; Award presentations; Seafood industry--Maryland.; Tilghman Packing Company (Tilghman, Md.)
Program for the presentation of the War Food Administration Achievement "A" Award to the workers of the Tilghman Packing Company in Tilghman, Maryland on August 12, 1944. The program includes the text of letters exchanged between the War Food...
