The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Wingate, P. J. "Women Understood H. L. Mencken." Menckeniana 128 (Winter 1993): 7-9.
Clarke, Donald. Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Deutsch, Helen Waverly. Laura Keene's Theatre Management: Profile of a Profession in Transition. Ph.D. diss., Tufts University, 1992.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Women
Drake, James A. Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography. Portland, OR: Amadeus/Timber, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
O'Meally, Robert G. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday. New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Rosa Ponselle: American Diva. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Ponselle, Rosa, and James A. Drake. Ponselle: A Singer's Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Weems, Helen R. The History of the Women's String Orchestra. M.M. thesis, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1990.
Notes: The Women's String Orchestra was organized in 1936 to provide performance opportunities to women musicians barred from the all-male Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra, which numbered between 35 to 40 players, performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cadoa Hall and the Peabody. Less than two months after the debut of the Women's String Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony opened its auditions to women (five of the women string players were hired). Weems' thesis examines the public response to female orchestral musicians in Baltimore and elsewhere in the United States and the role of women in the musical life of the city in the late 1930s. Her interviews with the founding members of the orchestra provide vivid accounts of the barriers placed in the paths of these pioneering women and how they surmounted them.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945. Part IV: Performances by Servicemen and Women in Fort Meade and American Cities." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 5-6, 12-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Baltimore Museum of Art. :Annual I The Museum: Its First Half Century. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.
Notes: A history of the first fifty years of the BMA, from its start as a City-Wide Congress Committee on Founding an Art Museum (1911), to its temporary home in Mount Vernon, to the construction of its permanent home in Wyman Park. A major thesis is that a very modern thinking museum became a great success in a city known for being conservative. Nicely illustrated with works from the collection and photographs of museum activities.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Beirne, Francis F. "The Four Merchants." In The Amiable Baltimoreans. New York, 1951; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Berry, John. "Librarian of the Year: 1995: Carla D. Hayden: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore." Library Journal 121 (January 1996): 36.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Bowers, Deborah. "A One-Hundred Year History of Libraries in Harford County from 1885." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 3-27.
Notes: In the late nineteenth century many of Harford County's communities formed library organizations. Following the 1945 Maryland Library Aid Act a Harford County library system was established. At the time of this article Harford County has a growing public library system with a good number of branches spread across the county.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brown, Lauren R. "Present at the Tenth Hour: Appraising and Accessioning the Papers of Congresswoman Marjorie S. Holt." Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 2 (Fall 1987): 95-102.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Women, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Caruthers, Jack M. "Ruth Enlow Library." Glades Star 6 (March 1991): 528-29.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Crook, Mary Charlotte. "Lilly Moore Stone, Founder of the Montgomery County Historical Society." Montgomery County Story 20 (November 1977): 1-10.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Dennis, Samuel K. "A Brief Summary of the Maryland Historical Society's Hundred Years." Maryland Historical Magazine 39 (March 1944): 1-5.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dowell, Susan Stiles. "Villa Pace: Rosa Ponsell's Italianate Estate." Maryland Magazine 16 (Autumn 1983): 25-8.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Gustafson, E. H. "Museum Accessions." Antiques 138 (December 1990): 1174.
Notes: Quilts at the Maryland Historical Society.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"The Historical Society of Carroll County: Fifty Years of Service to the Community." Carroll County History Journal 40 (Winter 1990): 3-6.
Notes: The story of the Society's founding as told by its first curator.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Key, Betty McKeever, comp. Oral History in Maryland: A Directory. Edited by Larry E. Sullivan. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981.
Notes: Although it is very outdated, this directory should serve be the starting point for anyone attempting to locate oral history collections relevant to Maryland. Collections surveyed were not only in institutional hands (schools, libraries, and historical agencies) but also belonged to governmental agencies and private individuals. Included are DC and PA collections of potential interest.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
"Library Journal Selects Dr. Carla D. Hayden as the 1995 Librarian of the Year." Jet 89 (March 4, 1996): 22.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War