Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
   N. P. Willis on the “Baltimore and Ohio Railroad” (1859)
   Something Afoot! (1861)

Barnum & Bailey Circus
   Big Circus Shows Today (1911)

Baseball
   Masquerade to Raise the Coin (1912)

Bavaria
   Crazy King Ludwig (1886)

Beall, Lloyd James (American / Confederate Army Officer, 1808-1887)
   Going South (1861)

Beamish, Richard (Civil Engineer, 1798-1873) [Biography page >>]
   On the Thames Tunnel (1837)

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (American/Confederate officer, 1818-1893)
   The Commander-in-Chief at Charleston, S. C. (1861)
   Beauregard, Davis, and Ruffin (1861)
   Sketch of Gen. Beauregard (1861)
   Address to the Army from Gen’s Johnston and Beauregard (1861)

Bingham, Hiram III (American academic, explorer and politician, 1875-1956)
   To Dig Into Man’s Past (1912)

Boer War
   Pursuing the Boers (1900)
   Appeals to Kruger (1901)

Bonny, Kingdom of
   King of Bonny at Liverpool (1859)

Botany & Horticulture
   Fair of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society (1854)
   West Coast Horticulture (1888)

Boxer Rebellion
   Boxers Slay and Mutilate (1901)

Brazil
   Fanatics of Bahia (1897)

Brooklyn, USS (Screw sloop)
   Affairs in Florida (1861)
   Forts Sumter and Pickens (1861)

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (Civil Engineer, 1806-1859) [Biography page >>]

   Railroads
     Engineer's Report, West Cornwall Railway (1852)

   The Thames Tunnel
     Journal entry on the flooding of the tunnel (1828)
     Young Brunel in the Thames Tunnel (1833)

Brunel, Marc (Civil Engineer, 1769-1849) [Biography page >>]
   Marc Brunel’s Account of the Thames Tunnel (1837)

Bryan,  Francis Theodore (American Army officer and Topographer, 1823-1917)
   Capt. F. T. Bryan (1861)