The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
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
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
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
Bond, Chrystelle T. "A Chronicle of Dance in Baltimore 1780-1814." Dance Perspectives 66 (Summer 1976): 1-49.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Click, Patricia Catherine. The Spirit of the Times: Amusements in Nineteenth Century Baltimore, Norfolk and Richmond. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.
Notes: Click examines the evolution of popular amusements and attitudes toward them in Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond during the period 1810-1870. The volume considers museum exhibitions, theater, horse racing, clubs, and resorts. She argues that throughout the period there was a broadened acceptance of popular amusements, though the choice of particular entertainment forms often stood as a sign of social status. The study is based upon manuscript sources at the Maryland Historical Society and comparable archives in Virginia, and includes a set of illustrations from those collections.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Cohen, Blanche Klasmer. "Benjamin Klasmer's Contribution to Baltimore's Musical History." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Summer 1977): 272-76.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Disharoon, Richard Alan. A History of Municipal Music in Baltimore, 1914-1947. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1980.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Ewing, Muriel. "Showboat's 'A Comin." Maryland Magazine 13 (Spring 1981): 12-15.
Notes: <em>The James Adams Floating Theatre,</em> 1914-41.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Haims, Lynn. "First American Theatre Contracts: Wall and Lindsay's Maryland Company of Comedians, and the Annapolis, Fell's Point, and Baltimore Theatres, 1781-1783." Theatre Survey 17 (November 1976): 179-94.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Kelbaugh, Jack, and Fred Fetrow. "Murder, Music, and Meteorology: When the Russians Came to the County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (October 1997): 1-2.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County
Koenig, Linda Lee. A History of the Vagabond Players, Baltimore, Maryland, 1916-1978. Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University, 1978.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
McWilliams, Jane. The Progress of Refinement: A History of Theatre in Annapolis. Annapolis: Colonial Players of Annapolis, 1976.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County
Broad, David B. "Annie Oakley: Woman, Legend, and Myth." Journal of the West 37 (January 1998): 11-18.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
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