The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Nast, Lenora Heilig. "Baltimore Art Museums."In Baltimore: A Living Renaissance, edited by Lenora Heilig Nast, Laurence N. Krause, and R.C. Monk, 189-191. Baltimore: Historic Baltimore Society, Inc., 1982.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Nast, Lenora Heilig, and Jacqulein Nast Naron. "Baltimore Art Collectors and Patrons -- City and Citizen." In Baltimore: A Living Renaissance, edited by Lenora Heilig Nast, Laurence N. Krause, and R.C. Monk, 196-199. Baltimore: Historic Baltimore Society, Inc., 1982.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
The Official Museum Directory. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 1971-.
Notes: This guide has been published yearly since 1971. The American Association of Museums is the museum world's major professional organization, although it is oriented more towards large wealthy institutions.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Rutledge, Anna Wells. "Early Art Exhibitions of the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine (June 1947): 124-136.
Notes: During the mid-nineteenth century, the Maryland Historical Society played an important role as Baltimore's art gallery. The original Peale Museum was closed and the Walters not yet founded. Included is a listing of the paintings exhibits, arranged by individual portrayed or subject.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Rutledge, Anna Wells. "Portraits in Varied Media in the Collections of the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 41 (December 1946): 282-326.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Rutledge, Anna Wells. "Portraits Painted Before 1900 in the Collections of the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 41 (March 1946): 11-50.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Stoddaryd, Ann B. "Redecorating the White House." New Art Examiner 20 (February 1993): 16-20.
Notes: Maryland Historical Society Museum.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Vojtech, Pat. "Saving the Endangered Decoy." Annapolis 7 (October 1993): 66-69.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Waesche, James F. "Maryland's Museums: The Peale Museum." Maryland Magazine (Winter 1985): 32-7.
Notes: A discussion of the building boom Baltimore's City Life Museums experienced during the 1990s. The Peale, and all the City Life Museums, closed about ten years later. Includes a history of the Peale, in both its manifestations.
Categories: Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Ward Museum Announces Grand Opening." Peninsula Pacemaker 20 (July 1992): 20-21.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Wicomico County
Weeks, Christopher. "Perfectly Delightful": The Life and Gardens of Harvey Ladew. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Notes: Harvey Ladew lived a privileged life of excitement and venture. He counted Lawrence of Arabia among his friends. Weeks's very readable book tells the story of Ladew and his gardens, now a public attraction.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Worrall, Margaret. "Symington Library Opens at Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Horse 51 (January 1985): 48-52.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Catton, Bruce. "A Southern Artist on the Civil War." American Heritage 9 (1958): 117-120.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Berkey, Barry Robert, Velma Berkey, and Richard Erie Berkey. Pioneer Decoy Carvers: A Biography of Lemuel and Stephen Ward. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1977.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Griebel, Helen Bradley. "Carroll County Rug Hookers: Morphology of a Craft." Midwestern Folklore 17 (Spring 1991): 34-55.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Carroll County
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.
Somerville, Romaine S. "Furniture at the Maryland Historical Society." Antiques 109 (May 1976): 970-89.
Weidman, Gregory R. "The Furniture of Classical Maryland." Maryland Humanities (June 1993): 6-8.
Edmunds, Lavinia. "Patron with Panache." Johns Hopkins Magazine 45 (February 1993): 47-51.
Notes: Alice Garrett.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Glickman, Gena Debra. A Study of the Role of Women in the Transformation of the Curriculum at the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of Mechanic Arts from 1825-1875. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1992.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
"History of Women in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 49 (October 1979): [1-2].
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Medicine, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Hoopes, Roy. "Constance Comes Back." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (June 1991): 44-47, 59-61.
Notes: Photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Women, Twentieth Century
Miller, Fred S. "The Name Game." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (March 1995): 44-46.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Maritime, Women, Twentieth Century