The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Gough, Al, Jr. "'It Don't Stop Here Anymore': The James Adams Floating Theater." Chronicles of St. Mary's 37 (Summer 1989): 209-29.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, St. Mary's County
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 438-447.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 63 (1968): 70-77, 179-187, 420-426.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 64 (1969): 74-77, 412-419.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 65 (1970): 181-184, 301-303.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 71-83.
McCloskey, William. "The Baltimore Opera: An Unobjective Look at 50-Plus Seasons." Peabody News, Sept./Oct. 1992.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century
Pearl, Susan G. "Opera in Prince George's County: From 1752 to 1984." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 12 (December 1984): 49-50.
Categories: African American, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Robson, Nancy Taylor. "The Play's the Thing." Maryland 26 (May/June 1994): 27, 29, 31.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Rosalie, Mary. "Music in Early American Catholic Schools." Catholic Educational Review 60 (1962): 577-587.
Categories: Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Shifflet, Anne Louise. Church Music and Musical Life in Frederick, Maryland 1745-1845. M.A. thesis, American University, 1971.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Spencer, William B. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1965-1982: The Meyerhoff Years. D.M.A. diss., Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1994.
Notes: Spencer's dissertation examines the remarkable growth of the orchestra during Joseph Meyerhoff's tenure as chairman of the orchestra's board of trustees. Drawing on the orchestra's extensive historical records, oral history interviews and archival documents at Maryland Historical Society, the Peabody Archives and Pratt's Maryland Room, Spencer paints a vibrant portrait of an orchestra in transition and the struggle to build a performance hall. Union negotiations, race-relations, management strategies, and the changing image of the orchestra are reviewed in depth. Spencer enlivens his text with back-stage stories from musicians and former conductors.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Theatre Entertainment in Garrett County." Glades Star 8 (December 1998): 463-67, 470-71.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Garrett County
Van Newkirk, Betty. "Theatres and Opera Houses in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 73-86.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Ward, Kathryn Painter. "The Maryland Theatrical Season of 1760." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Fall 1977): 335-45.
Ward, Kathryn Painter. "The First Professional Theater in Maryland in its Colonial Setting." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 29-44.
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
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
Boles, John B., ed. Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Revolution. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.
Notes: This exhibition catalog joins the efforts of five major collecting institutions through a series of essays and illustrations from their respective exhibits.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Brandt, Thirza M. "The Historical Society's Photographic Archives Collection." Harford Historical Bulletin 61 (Summer 1994): 133-40.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brown, John Gregory. "Out of Africa." Columbia Magazine [Summer 1990]: 38-9.
Notes: Maryland Museum of African Art.
Categories: African American, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Carter, Edward C., II. "The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Maryland Historical Society, 1885-1971: Nature, Structure and Means of Acquisition." Maryland Historical Magazine 66 (1971): 436-455.
Notes: An involved discussion of the provenance of the Latrobe collection and the project to microfilm it. Latrobe, a prominent architect, artist, and surveyor, among other talents, left a variety of materials, including drawings depicting America at the end of the eighteenth century. An interesting discussion of the history of a rich collection.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Fine and Decorative Arts, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Carter, Edward C., II, Editor in Chief, and Thomas E. Jeffrey, Microfiche Editor. The Guide and Index to the Microfiche Edition of the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Clifton, NJ: Published for the Maryland Historical Society by James T. White and Co., 1976.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Fine and Decorative Arts, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Celebrating the Baltimore City Life Collections." MHS/News (April-June 1998): 4-5.
Notes: A discussion of the absorption of the Baltimore City Life Museum's holdings by the Maryland Historical Society. Includes descriptions of important collections and of the exhibit installed to showcase the acquisition.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City