Folder Oversize

Abstract This subseries includes various types of notes ranging from field notes regarding property sales, plat sketches and mathematical computations made by Swann to working copies of what would eventually become the Report of the Burnt District Commission. Also included are meeting minutes, sub-committee reports, statements made by other committee members, ordinance copies and notes regarding docks, piers and street improvements as well as a chart concerning street improvement located in the...

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This subseries contains a map showing improvements and street widening plans dated February 7-8, 1904 (Oversize Folder). Also included are plat sketches of Hopkins Place and another property.

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This subseries contains magazine pages and newspaper clippings. A page from Collier’s dated February 13, 1904 shows some of the damage to the city (Oversize Folder). Newspaper clippings range from articles of intent of the Burnt District Commission to auction notices for public sale of land destroyed in the fire. Of particular interest are two articles from The Baltimore Sun regarding City Solicitor W. Cambell Bruce’s drive to legislate the Commission out of office.

Abstract This subseries contains charts, field notes and drafts of reports, letters and ordinances. Included are two handmade charts: one comparing various city populations to number of patrolmen and another titled “Pay of Police Force of Baltimore.” Report drafts include the following titles: “Hotels,” “A Patrolman Must” and “Oath of Police Commissioners.” Letter drafts consist of three pages to an unnamed official regarding police salaries, a letter draft to Marshal Farnan regarding the...

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This subseries consists of a map titled “Municipal Art Society Plan Showing Armory Circle and Parkway” located in the Oversize Folder. Printed reports include: Report of the Board of Police Commissioners 1908-1909, Report of the Board of Police Commissioners 1911, Maryland Motor Vehicle Law Act of 1910, Laws of New York, and Pennsylvania State Highway Department Automobile Law.

Abstract This subseries includes various pamphlets and reports. Titles include: Senate of Maryland No. 258, House of Delegates No. 55, Report of the Commission on Traffic 1923, Traffic Regulations Rules of the Road (1922), Maryland Automobile Law, Giving Baltimore Another Great Street, Cleveland Traffic and Parking Regulations, and Baltimore Street Railway Directory. Also included is a map of Saratoga and Lexington Streets and a chart located in the Oversize Folder, “Total Cars in Service Weekdays...

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This subseries contains clippings from The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore American and The New York Times relating to various traffic matters. The Oversize Folder contains an article from The Sun, “How New Parking Regulations Would Apply to Downtown District,” June 4, 1924.