Baltimore Then and Now

Alexander D. Mitchell
Images of America Series from Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing is the leading local history publisher in the United States, with a catalog of more than 6,000 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year focusing on not only cities, but various aspects of cities . . . such as ferryboats (pictured left). Arcadia is best known for its popular Images of America series, which chronicles the history of communities from Bangor, Maine, to Manhattan Beach, California. With more than two hundred vintage black-and-white photographs, each title celebrates a town or region, bringing to life the people, places, and events that define the community. Arcadia also publishes other series: Images of Rail, Images of Sports, Images of Baseball, Black America, Postcard History, Campus History, Corporate History, Scenes of America, and Then & Now.

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Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail

Daniel Bacon
A guided walking tour through historical San Francisco from Market Street to Chinatown and then along Grant Avenue to Fisherman's Wharf and along the old waterfront.

Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

Franklin W. Knight (Author),
Peggy K. Liss (Editor)

Louisiana: New Orleans
Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way

Peggy Scott Laborde and John Magill
Stretching from the riverfront to the cemeteries, Canal Street has served as a place for meeting, shopping, protesting, and parading since its creation in 1807; this book chronicles 200 years of events, failures and successes of the street. From white-gloved shopping trips at D.H. Holmes to department store boycotts, from Mardi Gras parades to Christmas displays, and steamships to streetcars, Written by local historian and Historic New Orleans Collection curator John Magill and WYES-TV host Peggy Scott Laborde.

Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans

French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide

Malcolm Heard

Historic Buildings of the French Quarter

Lloyd Vogt

Industrial Baltimore (MD) (Images of America)

Over the course of several centuries, Baltimore evolved from a Colonial-era port city to a thriving and dynamic city of nearly a million people at the conclusion of World War II. As the city grew, a wide variety of industries were established. Railroads, ports, manufacturing sites, and public infrastructure, such as power plants, fundamentally transformed large swaths of Baltimore's landscape. However, the second half of the 20th century saw a dramatic and often traumatic restructuring of the city's economy; individual businesses and entire industrial sectors downsized, relocated, or completely collapsed. Today many such areas of Baltimore have changed radically as abandoned manufacturing sites have been demolished or converted to new uses. Industrial Baltimore documents a vital component of the city's working past through historic photographs of the people and sites that made the city an essential economic engine of the Industrial Revolution. Over the course of several centuries, Baltimore evolved from a Colonial-era port city to a thriving and dynamic city of nearly a million people at the conclusion of World War II.

Death of an Empire:
The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

Robert Booth

Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's first millionaire (still one of history's wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the country's richest city. Westward expansion and the industrial revolution would eventually erode Salem's political importance, but it was a shocking murder and the scandal that followed which led at last to its fall from national prominence.

New York and New Jersey

Pilot Lore; From Sail to Steam, and Historical Sketches of the Various Interests Identified With the Development of the World's Greatest Port.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series