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Clemens, Augustus. Baltimore Town, 1830-1850: Reminiscences. [Towson, MD?]: Matilda C. Lacey, 1991.
Heller, Janet. "Saving Baltimore History and Keeping It in the Family." Historic Preservation News 33 (February 1993): 10-13.
Clayton, Ralph. Black Baltimore, 1820-1870. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.
Clayton, Ralph. Slavery, Slaveholding and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.
Coates, James Roland, Jr. Recreation and Sport in the African-American Community of Baltimore, 1890-1920. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Della, M. Ray, Jr. "An Analysis of Baltimore's Population in the 1850's." Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (1973): 20-35.
Fuke, Richard Paul. "The Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People, 1864-1870." Maryland Historical Magazine 66 (1971): 369-404.
Annotation / Notes: In 1864, Baltimore businessmen, lawyers and clergymen formed the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People. Many of these men had been associated with emancipation causes. These men coordinated the flow of money and supplies provided by the Freedmen's Bureau. Eventually, the schools founded by the Association were taken over by the state, which had initially not provided for free, public Negro education at all.
Graham, Leroy. Baltimore: The Nineteenth Century Black Capital. Washington, DC: University Press of America, Inc., 1982.
Jacob, Grace Hill. The Negro in Baltimore, 1860-1900. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1945.
Katz, Sarah. "Rumors of Rebellion: Fear of a Slave Uprising in Post-Nat Turner Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 328-33.
Leffler, Bob. "Baltimore's African-American Baseball Teams Were Big League." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1993): 10-11.
Andrews, Andrea. "The Baltimore School Building Program, 1870-1900: A Study in Urban Reform." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Fall 1975): 260-274.
Beirne, Francis F., and Carleton Jones. Baltimore, A Picture History. 1957;1968; Third rev. ed. Baltimore: Bodine & Assoc. and MacLay & Assoc., 1982.
Annotation / Notes: Contains valuable photographs of historic Baltimore buildings, many no longer extant.
Burdine, D. Randall. "Hampden-Woodberry: The Mill Village in an Urban Setting." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (March 1982): 6-26.
Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene. An Illustrated History, Baltimore. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, 1980; reprint, 2000.
Annotation / Notes: A good companion to Sherry H. Olson's Baltimore, the Building of an American City, this book by a Baltimore historian also contains many historic photographs of buildings and urban views.
Dorsey, John. Mount Vernon Place: An Anecdotal Essay with 66 Illustrations. Baltimore: Maclay and Associates, 1983.
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman. The Baltimore Book; New Views of Local History Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Annotation / Notes: An alternative look at Baltimore's history from a leftist, social activist perspective, the book includes historic photographs of the city's buildings and areas.
Giza, Joanne, and Catherine F.Black. Great Baltimore Houses: An Architectural and Social History. Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1982.
Hayward, Mary Ellen. "Rowhouse: A Baltimore Style of Living." Three Centuries of Maryland Architechture, 65-79. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1982.
Hunter, Wilbur H., Jr. "Baltimore in the Revolutionary Generation." In Boles, John B., ed., Maryland Heritage; Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial, 183-233. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.
Jakmauh, Edward, and Robert Wales. Waterfront Study, Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore: n. p., 1975.
Annotation / Notes: A planners' survey evidently prepared for the American Bicentennial, the booklet provides a well-illustrated history of one of Baltimore's most important areas and its people, threatened at the time by an expressway. The threat of the highway has since been removed; unfortunately much of Fells Point's industrial architecture, unique in the city, has disappeared as well.
Jones, Carleton. "Mencken's Union Square: Then and Now." Menckeniana 61 (Spring 1977): 1-3.
Kelly, Jacques. Bygone Baltimore. Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1982.
Annotation / Notes: The real Baltimore in historic photographs selected and annotated by one of the city's most diligent appreciators. The photographs of buildings are excellent and include many interiors.
Miller, Mark B. Baltimore Transitions; Views of an American City in Flux. Baltimore: Pridemark, 1998.
Annotation / Notes: Through historic and contemporary views of the same location, the author illustrates the dramatic effects of the automobile, the high-rise building, and other aspects of modern urban life on the Baltimore of a century ago.
Olson, Sherry. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Annotation / Notes: Geographer Olson's book, by far the most thorough illustrated history of Baltimore, is strong on geographic and commercial development, and gives less attention to the arts, including architecture. However it does feature many historic photographs of buildings and contemporary news accounts of their construction.