The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Textile Collection at the Maryland Historical Society Museum." Maryland Humanities (September 2000): 27.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County
Moore, Dick. "The New Ward Museum." Maryland 25 (Autumn 1992): 44-47.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Wicomico County
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
Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
Notes: Considering the variety of Maryland's various planned communities - Columbia, Bowie, Greenbelt and Roland Park - it is important to appreciate how each was distinctive. At its conception, Greenbelt, along with several other communities planned and built by Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration, represented the social experimentation associated with New Deal. According to the author: "the greenbelt towns were built to demonstrate that urban expansion by the construction of complete new towns would provide superior safety, convenience, beauty, and a deep sense of community spirit - all at a new low cost. These new suburban towns would therefore provide a superior environment for families heretofore condemned to live in urban slums. New towns would stop urban decay and end economic segregation of the suburbs." (p. xii) What was radical was the comprehensive scope of the enterprise, the creation of co-operative businesses to serve the community, and the fact that the federal government maintained ownership. This study ends with the implementation of Public Law 65 (1949) which transferred ownership of most of the houses to a private co-operative.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County, Prince George's County
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
Brooks, Richard. "Social Planning in Columbia." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 37 (1971): 373-378.
Notes: An evaluation of the planned community of Columbia at an early point in its development, the article contends that the transition from vision to implementation involves a series of social dilemmas. These included the shift from company town to "thriving democratic polity," the potential conflict between the vision of a new form of urban community versus the prevailing attraction of the suburban ideal, and questions about the appropriate balance between residential and commercial functions in a presumably "post-industrial" society. Brooks wonders whether the failure by the planner and many early residents to face up to the challenges of these dilemmas may represent a "heroic failure" for Columbia.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
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
McIntosh, J. Rieman. A History of the Elkridge Fox Hunting Club, The Elkridge Hounds, the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club 1878-1978. Monkton, MD: Published by the author, 1978.
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.
"Thomas Viaduct Monument a Disgrace." The Sentinel 18 (Spring 1996): 28.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Howard County
Travers, Edwin Xavier. "Brief History of Howard County Post Offices." Howard County Historical Society Newsletter 32 (June 1989): 4.
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