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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Robbins, Charles L. R. Madison Mitchell, His Life and Decoys. Bel Air, MD: Published by the author, 1987.
Notes: A Havre de Grace wood carver.

Sellers, Charles Coleman. Charles Willson Peale. New York: Scribner, 1969.
Notes: Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), artist, naturalist, museologist, began his career in Maryland as the son of a clerk transported to the colonies for forgery. Sent to England for artistic training by Maryland patrons, Peale became a leading artist and portrait painter of the new republic. Peale was also noteworthy for his excavation of a mastodon's skeleton and his establishment of museums displaying art and natural history collections. His sons and other relatives formed a dynasty of artists who were influential in Maryland and beyond. Readers seeking in-depth biographical information on the Peales should consult the <em>Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his Family</em>.

Solomon Nunes Carvalho: Painter, Photographer and Prophet in Nineteenth Century America. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1989.

Walker, Irma, and James T. Wollon, Jr. "George Archer's Life and Work." Harford Historical Bulletin 56 (Spring 1993): 35-57.

Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.

"Would Benjamin Latrobe Still Choose America as 'The Place of the Future?'" MHS/News, (July-September 1998): 6.

Greene, Carroll, Jr. "The Search for Joshua Johnson: Early America's Black Portrait Painter." American Visions 3 (February 1988): 14-19.

McDaniel, George W. "Voices from the Past: Black Builders and Their Buildings." In Three Centuries of Maryland Architecture, 79-90. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1982.

"Acorn Park Restored Through Public/Private Partnership." The Preservationist (May-June 1997): 4.

Acton, Lucy. "Bowling Brook Getting a New Lease on Life." Maryland Horse 57 (October 1991): 42-45.

Adams, Eric. "Discord in Charm City." Historic Preservation 48 (March/April 1996): 22-23.

Alexander, Robert L. "Architecture and Aristocracy: The Cosmopolitan Style of Latrobe and Godefroy." Maryland Historical Magazine 56 (1961): 229-43.

Alexander, Robert L. The Architecture of Maximilian Godefroy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
Notes: This excellent biography of the designer of the Battle Monument and other buildings in Baltimore covers his difficult personality and his tragic return to Europe.

Alexander, Robert L. "Baltimore Row Houses of the Early Nineteenth Century." American Studies 16 (Fall 1975): 65-76.

Alexander, Robert L. "Neoclassical Maryland Architecture." Maryland Humanities (June 1993): 4-5.

Alexander, Robert L. "Neoclassical Wrought Iron in Baltimore." Winterthur Portfolio 18 (Summer/Autumn 1983): 147-186.

Alexander, Robert L. "Nicholas Rogers, Gentleman-Architect of Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (Summer 1983): 85 - 105.

Alexander, Robert L. "The Public Memorial and Godefroy's Battle Monument." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 18 (March 1958): 19-24.

Alexander, Robert L. "The Riddell-Carroll House in Baltimore." Winterthur Portfolio 28 (Summer/Autumn 1993): 113-39.

Alexander, Robert L. "The Union Bank, by Long after Soane." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 22 (1963): 135-138.

Alexander, Robert L. "Wealth Well Bestowed in Worship: St. Paul's in Baltimore from Robert Cary Long to Richard Upjohn." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Summer 1991): 123-150.

Ameri, Amir H. "Housing Ideologies in the New England and Chesapeake Bay Colonies, c. 1650-1700." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 56 (March 1997): 6-15.

Anders, K. T. "Overlooking Antietam." Mid-Atlantic Country 17 (April 1996): 36-37, 85.

Anderson, Elizabeth. "Anderson Family Home." Anne Arundel County History Notes 19 (January 1988): 1.

Andrews, Andrea. "The Baltimore School Building Program, 1870-1900: A Study in Urban Reform." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Fall 1975): 260-274.

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