Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History

Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History by Keith, Robert C.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801879807.

This newly revised and expanded edition of Baltimore Harbor provides a lively, heavily illustrated history of a vital American port that connects the Chesapeake Bay with the rest of the world. Using photographs, historic illustrations, and stories, Robert Keith traces the harbors fascinating history. An ideal hub for the bays network of paddlewheel steamers, the working port grew quickly alongside the shipbuilding industry at Fells Point and Federal Hill. This growth continued as the nations 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 shops than container ships. Tourists strolling the sidewalks of Harborplace are probably unaware of the ports colorful past―and its important role in contemporary maritime commerce. Keiths book connects the harbors vibrant present with its storied, equally energetic past.