Automobile industry and trade--Maryland; Automobiles--Equipment and supplies; Automobiles--Maryland; Automobiles--Parts; Letterheads--Pictorial works; Stationery--Pictorial works;
Document showing an unsigned order for a 4-cylinder, 5-passenger Spoerer commercial vehicle. Typed on Carl Spoerer's Sons Co. stationery and dated July 27th, 1908, this unsigned order gives the description of and the parts to be used in this...
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...
Blueprint drawn by WDT (William D. Tipton) and dated November 27, 1915 of a clutch throwout collar used in Spoerer motor vehicles between 1908 and 1915. Scale: full size.
Food conservation--United States--Sugar; Merchant ships--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--United States; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Black and white poster of a drawing of a woman sipping a drink through a straw. In the background are ships labeled "arms", "supplies", "soldiers", and "food" sailing toward a land where there is "war" and a soldier is beckoning them to "Hurry!"...
Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Typewriters;
Typewriter used by H. L. Mencken. On this tiny Corona typewriter, H. L. Mencken wrote some of the finest prose ever produced in America. He used this typewriter for all of his books and many of his articles published before 1930. Mencken was a...
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...
Methodist preaching; Pulpits; Strawbridge, Robert, ca. 1732-1781;
Hand colored lithograph drawn by Thomas Coke Ruckle and printed by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore that features a view of a table used by Reverend Robert Strawbridge as a pulpit.
Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; Used furniture industry--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph taken from Pennsylvania Avenue of the west side of Oxford Street in Baltimore, Maryland. On both sides of the street are two- and three-story brick row houses. In the left foreground is a used furniture store operated out of a garage,...
Photograph taken looking south at the east side of the 200 block South Caroline Street from its intersection with East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block, which consists of two- and three-story brick row houses, including vacant stores...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Horses; Livery; Maryland; Metis; Native Americans; Ox driving; Oxen; Railroads; United States History; Wagons;
Photograph of Red River oxcarts hauling hides, 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...
Photograph taken looking southwest from an upper story of the United States Post Office Building on Fayette Street at the remains of the Baltimore and Ohio Central Headquarters Building located on the northwest corner of Calvert and Baltimore...
Photograph taken looking south from Baltimore Street at the west side of South Street and the front of the National Bank of Commerce Building. Located at number 26 South Street (right center), the National Bank of Commerce Building contained bank...
Photograph taken looking east at the burnt district on Baltimore Street from the upper story of a building near Hanover Street. In the foreground is a machine used to pull down walls. In the background are several buildings that survived the fire...
Photograph taken looking at the burnt district northeast of Hanover and Lombard Streets. In the center background of this elevated view is the Union Trust Building located on the northeast corner of Charles and Fayette Streets. Built in 1899, the...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Baldwin, Ephraim Francis, 1837-1916; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; City Hall (Baltimore, Md.); Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore,...
Photograph taken looking northwest from an upper story of the Maryland Trust Building (not shown) at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Central Headquarters Building on the northwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets. Designed by E. F. Baldwin...
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...
Courthouses--Maryland; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; United States Customhouse (Baltimore, Md.);
Photograph of two detectives standing at the gates and of some "regulars", probably troops of the Maryland National Guard, standing on the steps of the temporary United States Customhouse located at Fayette and North Streets. Between 1900, when...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Building, Fireproof; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Machinery; Maryland. National Guard; Ruins--Maryland--Baltimore;...
Photograph taken looking east at the burnt district on Baltimore Street from the upper story of a building near Hopkins Place. In the foreground is a businessman standing on a pile of rubble with several Maryland National Guardsmen watching. In the...
Broadsides; Flags; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing an untitled broadside beginning with the words "I left New Kent Court-house, all in the month of May." This broadside, written by Edwin Rosell of Company G of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers (known originally as "The Luzerne...
Broadsides; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Political ballads and songs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "Southern Prisoner Gives His Thanks to the Baltimore Ladies" sung to the 1851 tune "The American Boy" written by J. H. Hewitt. This broadside, which appears to be the Confederate answer to the untitled...
