The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Chapelle, Howard I. The Baltimore Clipper. Hatboro, PA: Tradition Press, 1965.
Notes: First published in 1930, this is a classic treatment, with drawings and illustrations, of a famous ship developed on the Chesapeake Bay. The author, one of America's most distinguished naval historians, lived for many years on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The Chesapeake, and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland. The Telephone in Maryland. Baltimore: n.p., 1974.
Chevalier, Michel. Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États Unis et des travaux d'art qui en dépendent [History and Description of the Channels of Communication of the United States...]. Paris: 1841.
Notes: A good deal of important early information on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is contained in two volumes, one of text and the other of maps and illustrations, by the French economist and advocate of industrial development as the key to social progress. Other railroads and canals are also given extensive treatment.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Clark, Douglas N., and F. Edgar Ruckle. The Street Railway Post Offices of Baltimore. The Mobile Post Office Society, 1979.
Clark, Ella E., and Thomas F. Hahn, eds. Life on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1859. Shepherdstown, WV: American Canal & Transportation Center, 1975.
Notes: I was drifting, begins this 1859 tale of a round trip between Cumberland and Washington, D. C. on the canal written by an anonymous, unemployed New Englander. A rare, pre-Civil War account of a vanished way of life on the canal illustrated with later photographs.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Clark, Joseph S., Jr. "The Railroad Struggle for Pittsburgh. Forty-Three Years of Philadelphia-Baltimore Rivalry, 1838-1871." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 48 (1924): 1-37.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Colburn, Zerah. The Locomotive Engine: Including a Description of its Structure, Rules for Estimating its Capabilities, and Practical Observations on its Construction and Management. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1854.
Notes: Railroad historian John H. White, Jr. describes the author as "a leading authority on locomotive engineering and one of the most gifted technical writers of the nineteenth century," and his book as "a small but valuable manual." It includes material on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its greatest early locomotive builder, Ross Winans.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Colburn, Zerah. Locomotive Engineering, and the Mechanism of Railways: a Treatise on the Principles and Construction of the Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant. London: Glasgow, W. Collins, sons, and company, 1871.
Notes: No-one wrote better about the steam locomotive than Colburn, who was also a founder and editor of American engineering journals. This last of his great works was published a year after his suicide.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Cole, Merle T. "89 CG/OLC: The Davidsonville Transmitter Station." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (January 1994): 7-8, 19.
"Continual Changes in Old National Road." Glades Star 6 (December 1990): 478-81.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Cook, Roger, and Karl Zimmerman. The Western Maryland Railway; Fireballs and Black Diamonds. San Diego, CA: Howell-North Books, 1981.
Categories: Transportation and Communication
Cox, Harold E. Electric Cars of Baltimore. Forty Fort, PA: Published by the author, 1979.
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Cronin, Charlotte Garretson. "Aberdeen's Railroad Stations." Harford Historical Bulletin 54 (Fall 1992): 112-17.
Cronin, Charlotte Garretson. "The Role of Railroads in Aberdeen." Harford Historical Bulletin 54 (Fall 1992): 105-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Harford County
Crown of the Chesapeake, the Life and Resources of Maryland, the Trade and Industries of Baltimore, a Souvenir of the Jamestown Exposition held on Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1907. Baltimore: A Hoen & Co., 1907.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region
Cudahy, Brian J. Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Cusimano, William. "Bridgework." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (September 1989): 41-45.
Notes: Construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Dalton, T. A. "Another One Bites the Dust." Quill 82 (November/December 1994): 39-40.
Notes: Baltimore <em>Sun</em>.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Davidson, Heather R. "Maryland's Covered Bridges." Maryland 27 (February 1995): 38-43.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication
Davis, A. Vernon. "Eighteen Employees Operate Successful Freight-Carrying Railroad." Cracker Barrel 17 (March 1988): 3-5.
Notes: Maryland Midland Railway.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Washington County
Davis, Milton A., and Charles S. Roberts. B&O Salute. Baltimore: Barnard, Roberts & Co., 1987.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Davis, Timothy Mark. Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway. Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
DeBoard, Kermit. "The Philadephia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 81 (Spring/Summer 1999): 1, 7.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Deiter, Ronald H. The Story of Metro Transportation and Politics in the Nation's Capital. Glendale, CA: Interurban Press, 1985; revised edition, Glendale, CA : Interurban Press, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
DeLony, Eric. Landmark American Bridges. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
Notes: Few structures define the American experience, landscape, and spirit as well as bridges, according to the jacket copy. Maryland bridges for the National Road, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the C&O Canal among other public works, loom large in this state-by-state collection by the chief of the Historic American Engineering Record, illustrated with photographs from the HAER collection.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century