The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945-Part V: GI Variety Shows and Celebrities in Uniform." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 5, 17-19.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945-Part VI: Bringing USO Shows and Celebrity Entertainers to Fort Meade." Anne Arundel County History Notes 28 (October 1996): 1-2, 10-11.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part One: Come Aboard the Showboat for Mesmerizing Maudlin Melodrama." Old Kent 3 (September 1987): 1-3.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part Two: Showtime on the River Landing, Come and See the Show!" Old Kent 3 (December 1987): 1-2.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilmer, L. Ann. "Showboat." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Harvest 1988): 204-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater
Wolf, Edward C. "Two Divergent Traditions of German-American Hymnody in Maryland circa 1800." American Music (Fall 1985): 299-312.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Wood, William B. Personal Recollections of the Stage, Embracing Notices of Actors, Authors, and Auditors. Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1855.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Wright, Dorothy. "The Historic Avalon Theatre." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Sunshine 1990): 168-69.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Music and Theater, Talbot County
Zuck, Victor. "Innovation and Restoration of the 3/14 Mighty Wurlitzer for the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown." Theatre Organ 36 (May 1994): 6-13.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Washington County
Zuker, Adolf E. "The History of the German Theatre in Baltimore." The Germanic Review 18 (1943): 122-35.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Nineteenth 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
Cavanaugh, Joanne P. "Uncertainty in the Archives." Johns Hopkins Magazine 49 (November 1997): 28-33.
Notes: A well written discussion of the varied archival repositories of The Johns Hopkins University. Serves as a useful introduction to the nature of archives, including a discussion of the problems with electronic records.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Music and Theater, 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
Filby, P. William. "Music in the Maryland Historical Society." Notes 32 (March 1976): 503-17.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Glaser, John D. Collecting Fossils in Maryland, Educational Series, no. 4. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1979.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Graham, Bob. "Librarian Hopes Song Index Evens the Score for Musicians." American Libraries (October 1996): 55-56.
Notes: Discussion of the song index developed by the Enoch Pratt's Fine Arts and Recreation Department.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Hunter, Wilbur H., Jr. "The Tribulations of A Museum Director in the 1820s." Maryland Historical Magazine 49 (Spring 1954): 214-222.
Notes: Rubens Peale is considered to be the first professional museum director in the country. For two years 1822-1824, and off site for an additional seven years, he administered the Peale Museum in Baltimore. This discussion, mostly of the years in Baltimore, generally unsuccessful, is based on a series of letters between Rubens and his brother Franklin.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Klemer, Jane. "Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum." Maryland 23 (Spring 1991): 50-53.
Categories: Archaeology, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Nitzberg, Gertrude Singer. "The Music Library of the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, Inc." Generations 3 (December 1982): 37-38.
Notes: A discussion of the development of an oral history program to capture Yiddish songs. The Society was also actively collecting old Jewish 78 rpm records and sheet music.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Schaaf, Elizabeth. Guide to the Archives of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 1857-1977. Baltimore: Archives of the Peabody Institute, 1987.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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
Ackerman, Eric G. "Economic Means Index: A Measure of Social Status in the Chesapeake, 1690-1815." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 26-36.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Bogar, Thomas A. "John E. Owens: The People's Comedian from Towsontown." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Winter 1984): 319-324.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Bond, Chrystelle Trump. "Homefront Heroes: Jitterbugging in Wartime Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Winter 1993): 462-72.
Notes: Bond points out that the dance craze that hit America in the 1930s and 1940s found special expression during World War II in USO clubs, like those in Baltimore, which served as a hub for activities for servicemen in the Mid-Atlantic region. The article describes the etiquette instructions provided for female hostesses and discusses typical dance programs at the clubs, concluding by noting the special wartime popularity of the "jitterbug."
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City