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Formerly known as the Maryland Hall of Records, the state archives is the official repository for state records.
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Provides critical information on the institution of slavery, enslaved people, and slaveholders in Maryland.
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General Baltimore History - Books

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)