Week of November 16th Update

I have finished most of my research on this project, but I am still looking forward to going once again to the MD Historical Society on Saturday due to the amount of journals they obtain of Baltimore's citizens who have written about the event during 1904. I found a large list of journals that i can look through that I have printed from their web page.

I have also finished many outlines. Some thorough, some not so thorough, which became a huge help as to how I would like to format the paper and I strongly recommend others to do so. I was very intimidated at first about how to start this entire project, but these outlines helped me to discover what I have and what I still need.

I am very disappointed because the website below is the only website that has the main (and only) footage form the fire and I cannot access it.

http://www.mdch.org/fire/

This is a crucial part of my blog and I'm hoping that it is just my computer that won't allow access- for the only other place that I can watch the film is at the Library of Congress.

Update for week of November 8th

I must admit that I haven't been accomplishing as much research as the rest of the class has up to this point due to midterm projects from all of my classes up until this week. I have completely dove into research starting in the beginning of this week and will be spending many saturdays in the Enoch Pratt Free Library and MD Historical Society.

I have found MANY helpful sources pertaining to "The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904" including information in the media during this period and in journals of the citizens during this period as well. Although, I would like to find more information from The Sun Paper by going back to the main library and printing the original copies.

Although it took me quite some time to get the boost that I needed to get deeply involved in this project, I am still confident that this reasearch project will become very successful.