Artists--Maryland--Baltimore; Drawing; United States. Works Projects Administration; United States. Works Progress Administration; Writers' Program (U.S.); Baltimore Museum of Art--Exhibitions; Miniature Rooms;
Pen and ink and wash drawing by Aaron Sopher of museum-goers viewing an exhibit of miniature rooms. In the foreground left of the drawing, a woman is shown from behind. She wears a coat, a hat, and holds a pocketbook. She stands next to the large...
Photograph in fisheye view of the waiting room at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland. In preparation for Penn Station's 1983 rededication, window washers are clean lobby windows. One window washer is using a ladder to reach the higher...
Photograph of number 441 Druid Hill Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This two-story brick row house is like other older houses in the city, i.e., frequently seen with newer buildings on each side. In the ground-floor windows are signs that read Druid...
Vernacular architecture--Maryland--Calvert County; African American children--Maryland--Calvert County; Wooden-frame houses--Maryland--Calvert County
Photograph of a wooden-frame house located on Solomons Island Road in Calvert County, Maryland. This house has a long, rectangular base topped with a gambrel roof that has three dormer windows. On each end of the house is a brick chimney. The...
Howard Auditorium (Baltimore, Md.); Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--Maryland--Baltimore; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Baltimore; Cobblestone roads--Maryland--Baltimore; Kernan, James L., 1840-1912
Photograph of the facade of Kernan's Howard Auditorium, a theater located at number 508 North Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This building, originally built 1870 as the Natatorium, was bought in 1890 and remodeled into a vaudeville theater....
Photograph of a copy of an architect's drawing showing the south front of original Homeland (17__-1839), the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. The drawing was done in 1917 by architect Howard Sill (1867-1927). In the...
African American young men; Architecture, domestic; Bishops; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md.); Church buildings; Dwellings; Gibbons, James, 1834-1921; Horse-drawn vehicles; Baltimore (Md.); Wagons;
Photograph of the official residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. Located at number 408 North Charles Street, this building is situated behind and connected by a covered walkway to the Basilica of the...
Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Dynamite; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking at the collapsing wall of a building on Baltimore Street near South Charles Street shortly after dynamite charges were set off. Whether this was done during the fire, to prevent its spread, or done after the fire, to remove...
Baltimore (Md.)--Aerial views; Commercial buildings--Maryland--Baltimore; Crowds; Dynamite; Fire extinction--Maryland--Baltimore; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904--Pictorial works; Horse-drawn vehicles; Street-railroad...
Photograph taken looking west from the upper story of a building near Light and German Streets at the dynamite line on Charles and German Streets about 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 1904. As businessmen (foreground) load and haul away important...
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...
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...
Church architecture; Church decoration and ornament; Baltimore County (Md.); Jesuits History 20th century; Woodstock College (Woodstock, Md.);
Photograph of the interior of the chapel built in 1924 at Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart in Woodstock, Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed originally by Benedict Sestini (1816-1890), a Jesuit mathematician, teacher, and architect, the...
Cityscapes; Federal Hill (Baltimore, Md.); Government buildings; Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.);
Engraving painted and engraved by William J. Bennett, published by H. J. Megarey of New York and printed by J. & G. Neale at Illman & Pillbrow's, that features a view of Baltimore from Federal Hill. This print was published in 1831 as one of a...
Photograph taken looking east from North Bond Street at the north side of Mullikin Street in Baltimore, Maryland. This block consists mostly of two- and three-story brick row houses. On the ground level of the corner building (left) is what was...
Photograph of the staff in the main room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library Branch number 26 at number 5427 Belair Road in the Gardenville section of Baltimore, Maryland. Standing by the recent fiction display (right) are Raymond B. Agler,...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Automobiles--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore; Housing Authority of Baltimore City; Street-railroads--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore;
Photograph taken looking north at the east side of the 200 block South Bond Street between Gough and Pratt Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. These two- and three-story brick row houses were scheduled to be demolished as part of the Baltimore Housing...
Row houses--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore; Trees in cities--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of the northwest corner of Aisquith Street and Ashland Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. In the windows of this two- and one-half-story brick building on the corner are images of a dark, draped crucifix on a light circle, advertisements for...
Photograph of the Enoch Pratt Free Library book wagon during a visit to the 1000 block Dallas Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Gathered around this horse-drawn wagon and looking over the books before making a selection are numerous African American...
Slums--Maryland--Baltimore; African Americans--Housing--Maryland--Baltimore; City planning--Maryland--Baltimore; Streets--Maryland--Baltimore; Poverty--Maryland--Baltimore
Photograph of Creek Alley in the rear of houses on Hamburg Street in Baltimore, Maryland. These abandoned two- and three-story brick row houses, scheduled to be razed as part of Baltimore's slum clearance program, have broken or boarded-up windows,...
Homeland (Baltimore, Md.); Mansions--Designs and plans; Long, R. Cary (Robert Cary), 1810-1849; Perine family
Photograph of a copy of the architect's drawing showing the south front of Homeland, the Perine family's country estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by architect Robert Cary Long (1810-1849) and originally built in 1839 by David Maulden...
