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Winterbotham, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical view of the America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. 1795; reprint, New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796.
Annotation / Notes: An unusual contemporary view of the U.S. as an infant nation, especially of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the City of Washington. Discusses natural wonders, weather, plants, and makes recommendations to "European settlers".
Woodward, William. "The Thoroughbred Horse and Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 17 (1922): 139-62.
Wirtz, Willem. Baltimore and Streetcars 1926. Baltimore: Baltimore Streetcar Museum, 1988.
Wiltbank, William White. "Colonel Thomas White, of Maryland." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1 (no. 4, 1877): 420-38.
Categories:
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Winkler, Wayne. "Minton Somers House is in the Way of County Government and Must Come Down!" News and Notes from the Historical Society of Charles County, 93 (July 2001): [2].
Wadlington, Walter. "The Loving Case: Virginia's Anti-Miscegenation Statute in Historical Perspective." Virginia Law Review 52 (1966): 1189-1223.
Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
Annotation / Notes: Must reading for anyone wishing to know the Chesapeake, its environment and water ways.
Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1976.
Annotation / Notes: Naturalist writer Warner examines the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab-the "beautiful swimmer"--and the watermen whose distinctive economy and life-style have been based upon it. Warner uses the cycle of the seasons to trace the complex relationship between natural environment and human community, with attention both to the social patterns and economics of water-related societies. Traditional watermen communities of the Chesapeake Bay region receiving considerable attention are Deal Island, Smith Island, Kent Island, and Crisfield in Maryland, and Tangier Island in Virginia.
Wiser, Vivian. "Erie Locke: A Forgotten Superintendent of Agriculture." Agricultural History 41 (1967): 405-406.
Annotation / Notes: Erie Locke's only connection to Maryland was his birth in Rising Sun in 1823. Lincoln's Secretary of Interior appointed him superintendent of agriculture in the Patent Office, but only four months later, Locke joined the Union Army. His successor, Isaac Newton, was the first commissioner of the new Department of Agriculture. After the war, Locke and others developed the citrus industry in Pasadena, CA.
Categories:
Agriculture,
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Wiser, Vivian. "Improving Maryland's Agriculture, 1840-1860." Maryland Historical Magazine 64 (1969): 105-132.
Wiser, Vivian. "Maryland in the Early Land-Grant College Movement." Agricultural History 36 (1962): 194-199.
Wiser, Vivian. The Movement for Agricultural Improvement in Maryland, 1785-1865. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1963.
Wiser, Vivan. "Maryland in the Early Land-Grant College Movement." Agricultural History, 36 (October 1962): 194-99.
Zielinski, Vince. "Camp Johnson - Ellicott Mills Union Army Camp - Where Are You?" The Legacy, 50 (Spring 2014): 5, 7.
Volk, Viki. "The Last Watermen." SlackWater, 4 (Spring 2004): 115-18.
Categories:
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Volk, Viki. "Portrait of a Lady." Maryland Life, 3 (July/August 2007): 30, 32.
Categories:
Women
Zuck, Victor. "Innovation and Restoration of the 3/14 Mighty Wurlitzer for the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown." Theatre Organ 36 (May 1994): 6-13.
Valentine, Vikki. "The Last Tobacco Farmer." Chesapeake Life, 9 (November/December 2003): 68-73, 106-7.
Categories:
Agriculture
Valentine, Vikki. "Driving Force." Chesapeake Life, 10 (January/February 2004): 68-73.
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Environment
Vaise, Vincent. "A Classic Beauty." MdHS News, (Fall 2013): 26-28.
Categories:
Fine and Decorative Arts
Weldon, Ulysses. Lake Artemesia in Pictures. N.p.: The Author, 2016.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Prince George's County
Uchida, Tsutomu. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Service Records Rectify Some Discrepancies in His Biographies." Notes & Queries, 64 (March 2017): 159-61.
Troesken, Werner. "Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896." Journal of Economic History, 59 (June 1999): 424-46.
Categories:
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Nineteenth Century
Topham, Washington. "First Railroad into Washington and its Three Depots." Rec. Col. Hist. Soc., 27 (1925): 175-247.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Transportation and Communication
Whall, Tony. Sister Mary Elizabeth Gintling: A Life for God. Berlin, MD: Salt Water Media, 2015.