The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Hires, Will E. "Profile of the R. E, Gibson Library and Information Center and Mr. Robert S. Gresehover, Director." The Cutting Edge 49 (December 2000): 9, 11.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Hunter, Wilbur H., Jr. "The Tribulations of A Museum Director in the 1820s." Maryland Historical Magazine 49 (Spring 1954): 214-222.
Notes: Rubens Peale is considered to be the first professional museum director in the country. For two years 1822-1824, and off site for an additional seven years, he administered the Peale Museum in Baltimore. This discussion, mostly of the years in Baltimore, generally unsuccessful, is based on a series of letters between Rubens and his brother Franklin.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Lamberg, Lynne. "Preserving the Life of a Lab." Johns Hopkins Magazine 49 (November 1997): 34-35.
Notes: A discussion of the specialized collection of the Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
LeGath, Judy. "Museum Receives Collection of Tools Used to Produce Kirk's Famous 'Baltimore Silver' On Display in New Kirk-Stieff Exhibit." Nuts and Bolts 13 (Summer 1995): [4].
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
McCall, Nancy, and Lisa A. Mix. "Scholarly Returns: Patterns of Research in a Medical Archives." Archivaria 41 (Spring 1996): 158-87.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Medicine, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Marine Life Revisited: An Update on the CMM Estuarium." Bugeye Times 18 (Summer 1993): 1, 3.
Categories: Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Pelsinsky, Amy. "Tales from the Cryptology Museum." Columbia Magazine (Summer 1995): 28-30.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Piasecki, Judy. "Baltimore's Industrial Attic." Nuts and Bolts 9 (Special Anniversary Edition 1991): 3.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Revolutionary War Museums and Sites of Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Summer 2001): 25.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Washington County
Shapin, Alice Rindler. "Beneath the Surface at the National Aquarium." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 26-31.
Categories: Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Wennersten, John R. "The Calvert Marine Museum." Maryland 17 (Summer 1985): 35-38.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region
Skotnes, A. "The Communist Party, Anti-Racism, and the Freedom Movement: Baltimore, 1930-1934." Science and Society 60 (Summer 1996): 164-94.
Categories: Politics and Law, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Guest, C. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63 (March 1989): 92-112.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Jerrard, Margot. "Love and Marriage in Colonial Maryland." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 66-67, 69.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Quinn, David B. "Why They Came." In Early Maryland in a Wider World, edited by David B. Quinn, 119-148. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.
"After 100 Years." Glades Star 7 (December 1995): 660.
Notes: Casselman Bridge.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Allen, Cathy. "Prince George's County's Aviation History." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 27 (March 1998): [2-4].
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mechanical Engineers in America Born Prior to 1861. New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1980.
Notes: Entries on James Millholland, Ross Winans, and other early mechanical engineers that practiced in Maryland.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Amrhein, Edward M. "The Brake Shoes You Can't Get at the Auto Parts Store." Live Wire 24 (April-May-June 1993): 1, 5.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Bernard, William S., and Forrest E. Meeks. "The Maryland State Police Aviation Division: Helicopters in the Public Service." Verti-flite 37 (May 1991): 10-17.
Breihan, John R., Stan Piet, and Roger S. Mason. Martin Aircraft, 1909-1960. Santa Ana, CA: Narkiewicz-Thompson, ca. 1995.
"The Bridge That Disappears." Glades Star 7 (March 1992): 2-3.
"Bridges over the Youghiogheny River." Glades Star 6 (September 1986): 48-51.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Brown, William H. The History of the First Locomotives in America. New York: D. Appleton, 1871.
Notes: Includes an account and a dramatic fold-out illustration of the famous race between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's early locomotive, the <em>Tom Thumb</em>, and the horse.