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The Chronicles of Baltimore : being a complete history of Baltimore Town and Baltimore City from the earliest period to the present by J. Thomas Scharf
Call Number: Special Collections F189 .B1 S2 1874

Publication Date: 1874

Comprehensive history of Baltimore, the beginnings of its institutions, and biographies of its wealthy inhabitants. Scharf was a southern sympathizer during the Civil War.
Baltimore: its history and its people by Clayton Coleman Hall
Call Number: 976.5 B19ba

Publication Date: 1912

Three volumes. (Main collection)
The Origin and Resolution of an Urban Crisis by Alan D. Anderson
Call Number: 301.36 B19a

Publication Date: 1994

(Main Collection)
The Great Baltimore Fire by Peter B. Petersen
Call Number: 976.5 B195p 2004

ISBN: 0938420909

Publication Date: 2004

A photographic history of the 1904 fire that destroyed most of the Baltimore central business district. (Main Collection)
Bodine's Baltimore: 46 Years in the life of a city by A. Aubrey Bodine and Wilbur Harvey Hunter
Call Number: 917.526 B667b 1973

Publication Date: 1973

Bodine was an award-winning photographer for The Sunday Sun magazine, a weekend supplement of Baltimore Sun newspaper, for fifty years. (Main Collection)
Baltimore by Matthew A. Crenson
Call Number: 976.5 B19cre 2017

ISBN: 9781421422060

Publication Date: 2017

A comprehensive political history of Baltimore. (Main Collection)
Reminisces of thirty years in Baltimore by Lilian Welsh
Call Number: 975.6 B19weL 1925

Publication Date: 1925

Lilian Welsh was a professor at Goucher College. (Main Collection. Special Collections also holds two copies. Call numbers: R154 .W45 1925 and FacPubs Welsh)

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