Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 巴爾的摩市大火

The Enoch Pratt Free Library and Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Project
are pleased to announce the release of an interactive exhibit commemorating
the 100th anniversary of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 Few events have had a greater impact on the development of Baltimore than the Great Fire of 1904.  On February 7th, 1904 Baltimore, then the sixth
largest city in America, woke up to a cold and breezy Sunday morning.  The first call came in at 10:48 am, and as the fire began to spread, fire fighters and equipment were brought in from as far away as Philadelphia and New York City.  After two days of raging fires, most of Baltimore's commercial district had been destroyed.  The devastation was massive. Over 1,500 buildings were destroyed across 70 city blocks, closing 2,500 businesses and leaving 35,000 employees without work.  Despite the wide-spread destruction, only one death was directly attributed to the fire.
The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 interactive exhibit includes historical photographs, video clips and contemporary views of the city.  One can navigate through the stages of the fire, each stage textually and visually illustrating its development.  The exhibit juxtaposes historical and contemporary photographs, offering a sense of Baltimore before the fire, the destruction that followed and Baltimore of today. 
Approximately 1,000 photographic prints, maps, clippings and published documents relating to the fire of 1904 have been digitized from the Enoch Pratt Free Library's extensive collections.