Sherry H. Olson. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980)

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Chapter 7: "A Rent in the Social Fabric, 1866-1877"

Chapter 8: "Consolidation, 1878-1899"

Chapter 9: "The Art of Urban Landscape, 1900-1918"


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