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Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History

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This newly revised and expanded edition of Baltimore Harbor provides a full of life, heavily illustrated history of an important American port that connects the Chesapeake Bay with the remainder of the sector.

Using photographs, historic illustrations, and stories, Robert Keith traces the harbor’s fascinating history. A great hub for the bay’s network of paddlewheel steamers, the working port grew quickly alongside the shipbuilding industry at Fells Point and Federal Hill. This growth continued as the nation’s first public carrier railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, linked the wharves of the Patapsco River with the coal fields of Appalachia and the towns and farms of the Midwest.

Today Baltimore harbor is better known for trendy retail outlets than container ships. Tourists strolling the sidewalks of Harborplace are most likely unaware of the port’s colorful past―and its essential role in recent maritime commerce. Keith’s book connects the harbor’s vibrant present with its storied, equally full of life past.


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