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Note: This page includes a list of digitized images in the BCPL Legacy Web database for topics beginning with the letter "A".
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- Accidents
2507001
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Automobile accident with an early 1920s era touring car is seen at the side of an unidentified snowy road, possibly near Warren. The left rear tire is flat and rear right side of the car is badly crumpled. Two men and one woman are examining the engine. A little girl is standing on the running board. Undoubtedly some of the people in the picture are members of the Edward T. Britton family. The picture came from the Maude Britton collection via Mrs. Judy Smith, her niece.
- Accidents
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A group of stray horses holding up an automobile at the Interstate-95 ramp and the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate I-695.)
- Accidents - Towson
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This was the scene in the Chestnut Hills section of West Towson after a light plane crashed.
- Accidents - Towson
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This was the scene in the Chestnut Hills section of West Towson after a light plane crashed.
- Accidents - Towson
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Firemen work under night lights after a small airplane crashed into two homes in the Chestnut Hill area of Towson. The property is littered with white fire-suppressant foam.
- Advertisements
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A page of advertisements in a playbill announcing Nixon & Zimmerman's Academy of Music's Season of 1901-1902. Especially note the ad for the Chattolanee Springs Hotel that gives the price of a room of $12 per week. It was also known for the "purest and most delicious spring water in the world," Chattolanee Spring Water. Also see prints #22490487 and 24764007.
- Advertising
3776004
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An advertisement for the Poole & Hunt Company, Woodberry, turbine water wheel.
- Advertising
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Poole and Hunt, Founders & Machinists were located on North St. in Woodberry.
The plant was the scene of a fatal industrial acident in 1854 involving a Mr. Nathan Fales and a workman identified only as "Courtney."
- Advertising
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Two alert pointers are seen in a mountain hunting scene in a 1934 calendar for the Baltimore Brewing Company.
- Advertising
11837001
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An example of early 20th century Baltimore area brewery advertising. It promoted the Eigenbrot Brewing Company, a branch of the Bauernschmidt Brewing Company of 10-40 Wilkens Avenue.
- Advertising
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Engraved advertising or letterhead for the Mt. Vernon textile company showing vignettes of: Mt. Vernon Mills, numbers 1 and 3; the Phoenix Mill; and Mt. Vernon Mill number 4. Richard Cromwell-(actually Richard Cromwell, III) is listed as president; his son, William K. Cromwell as vice president and general manager and A.P. Fairfax as secretary.
- Advertising
1593016
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Advertisement for Wlliam Wilkens' steamed curled hair manufactory. Lists William Wilkens, Louis Wilkens and H.H. Graue as the officers. Engraving shows the sprawling plant, with a horse drawn wagon and a streetcar passing in front of it. Offices of the business are given as 100 1/2 W Pratt Street, Baltimore, nd 217 Pearl Street, New York.
A cartouche inset shows the four story iron main office of the company at the Pratt sreet address.
- Advertising
1681003
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Mid-19th century advertisement for Wendell Bollman from a City Directory , a civil and constructing engineer noted for his truss bridges. An engraving in the ad. shows a truss bridge with a Civil War era locomotive about to cross it. The address for Bollman's works was given as Clinton Street and Second Avenue, Canton.
- Advertising
2264014
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Isaac McKim, William McKim, and Haslett McKim's Gunpowder Copper Works advertisement from Murphy's Baltimore City Directory.
- Advertising
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Letterhead of a spring water bottler in Woodlawn.
- Advertising
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Advertisement from Howard's "Monumental City" for Robert Garrett & Sons, 7 South Street, Baltimore. Services offered included: Make advances on approved collaterals; deal in sterling exchange; allow interest on deposits; make collections; negotiate railway and other loans and commercial paper; buy and sell stocks and bonds on commission.
- Advertising
2264015
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Advertisement for Elder, Gelston & Co., general commission merchants and forwarding agents.
John McGrain deduced that this was the same Hugh Gelston who owned the Calverton carpet factory.
From Matchett's 1853-1854 Baltimore City Directory a
- Advertising
3776003
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An advertisement for the Poole & Hunt Co., Woodberry, for the Poole-Leffel turbine water wheel.
- Advertising
1681002
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This engraving from an unidentified mid-19th century Baltimore Street directory shows a slide valve stationary engine used in lumber mills.
- Advertising
2291002
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This engraving from Wood's Baltimore Directory shows the Noah Walker's clothing store at 165-167 West Baltimore Street. Walker built the Dumbarton mansion in Pikesville as a wedding present for his son.
- Advertising
3339015
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A packing label for "Warranted Fast Colors Brown Twills" from the Alberton Cotton Mill, obviously taken from one of the Hoen lithographs of the mill complex.
- Advertising
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An advertisement from John Murphy's "The Baltimore Directory" for Jones, Burneston and Co.
- Advertising
1593003
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Advertisement from George Howard's "Monumental City 1873" for John Henry Stickney's Iron works, which had been founded in 1862. The Maryland Journal of January 21, 1899 recorded the final closing of the company, which threw some 120 skilled workers and laborers out of work. The advertisement is enhanced by an engraving of the works.
- Advertising
1643003
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Advertisement for the George Page & Co. patent portable circular saw mill. The engraving shows an representation of the steam driven device working on some lumber. Page, whose works were at 5 North Schroeder Street in Baltimore, noted that "the Baltimore and Gay Street line of the City Passenger Railway Cars passes within a few steps of our manufactory."
- Advertising - Ashland
3457014
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Polk's Baltimore City Directory carried advertisements from local firms such as the Uriah G. Miller Company a diverse fabicator of iron and steel products for local agricultural and manufacturing use.
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