The Baltimore Fire
Frederick W. Mueller, photographer
Cycloramic View of the Burned
Area of Baltimore's Big Fire
Gelatin silver print, February 1904
Prints & Photographs Division
(142.1)
Copyright deposit, 1904
Jack Hemmett
The Baltimore Fire Through a
Camera.
New York: Illustrated Press Syndicate, 1904
Prints & Photographs Division
(143.3)
Copyright deposit, 1904
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Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cities
were plagued by devastating fires. These disasters were memorialized
in panoramas, stereographs, and souvenir booklets as well as official
documents like topographical maps. In 1904 a blaze spread through
downtown Baltimore and took thirty hours to extinguish. More than
1500 buildings in eighty-six city blocks were destroyed; $150 million
in damages was incurred, but no loss of life.
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