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...
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...
Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works;
Booklet on the aftermath of the great Baltimore fire of 1904 published by D. M. (Daniel McIntyre) Henderson (1851-1906) with photographs by J. E. (James Everell) Henry (1831-1912). One of the better souvenir publications about the fire, this...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeannette Expedition...
Color advertisement for Jeannette cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. This advertisement depicts scenes of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Expedition to the North...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Girls in art; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Color advertisement for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In the center of this advertisement is a young girl wearing a sun dress and looking at a butterfly perched on her...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Vienna International Exhibition (1873); Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Marguerite" cigars printed by Geo. S. Harris and Sons of Philadelphia for H. L. Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. On the right sitting on a cloak covering a rock is a...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Daisy" cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. The woman in this advertisement is wearing a short sleeved dress with hat, long gloves,...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for Havana Rose cigars printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. In this advertisement three young women dressed in shoes, stockings, and summer...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team); August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Kilroy, Matthew Aloysius, 1866-1940; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and...
Advertisement (color poster) for the Kilroy cigar printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars, by Isaac Friedenwald of Baltimore. To H. L. and his brothers, this poster was a...
Advertising--Tobacco; Bars (Drinking establishments); Church buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking at the ruins of Habliston's drugstore located on the northeast corner of Baltimore and Gay Streets. Located at number 500 East Baltimore Street, this was the only structure on the east side of the unit block of North Gay...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district on Liberty Street northeast of Lombard Street. Buildings on the left went undamaged by the fire, while buildings on the right burned and were destroyed, indicating the western fire line. The turreted...
Advertising cards--United States; Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Color advertising card. On one side (page 1) is a depiction of two angelic female figures holding a banner displaying the United States flag as they rise above a globe of the Earth on which the words North America are displayed and below which is a...
Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.); Business enterprises; Maps;
Photograph of a panoramic map entitled E. Sachse & Co's Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore 1869, a lithograph produced in 12 parts by E. Sachse & Co. located at 104 South Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
African American agricultural laborers--Maryland--St. Mary's County; Ox driving; Oxen
Photograph of a team of oxen and their African American driver in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The oxen, with their hitch and the driver's whip showing, are pulling a cart along a narrow dirt road between bushes and trees. The use of this type of...
African American men; Agricultural machinery; Bahr, Leonard Marion, 1905-1990; Baltimore County (Md.); Mural painting and decoration; Libraries; Roads; School buildings; Slaves; Tobacco; Transportation; United States. Public Works Administration.;
Photograph of a 1934 mural entitled "Slaves Rolling Hogsheads of Tobacco Down a Road" by Leonard Marion Bahr (1905-1990) located on the wall of the Catonsville High School library in Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The mural was...
Business card in the handwriting of John Allan, Poe's foster father, in 1816. This card may be an actual business card used by Allan, who at the time was a partner in the firm of Ellis and Allan, tobacco merchants in Richmond, Virginia, or it may...
Photograph taken looking south from East Eager Street at North Ensor Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These buildings consist mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. Facing Eager Street are several row houses with stores on the ground floor....
Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Tobacco;
Pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher of an old woman sitting in front of a spinning wheel. She wears a dress and bonnet, and smokes a long pipe. Next to her is a large barrel filled with tobacco plants. The drawing is marked as though it was...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Cityscapes; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904; Power-plants; United railways and electric company of Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking southeast at the Baltimore business district between the Jones Falls on the east (left) and South Street on the west (right) and Exchange Place on the north (foreground) and the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) on the south...
Baltimore (Md.)--Harbor; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Public buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Tugboats; Wharves--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north across the Baltimore Basin (Harbor) at wharves along East Pratt Street at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 1904. On the left are the ruins of the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, which operated a flour mill at this...
