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Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse is the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals. The Baltimore Rowhouse was winner of the 2000 Maryland Historical Trust Heritage Book Award for outstanding books of scholarly or general interest.
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loved it.......2007-05-16
only wished it had more photos... great research for design ideas and historical renovation... chock full of information.
Wonderfully written story of the interplay between building types, urban form, and changing real estate development methods.......2006-01-21
It's true, those from cities with rowhouses will find this book most interesting, but so will all interested in the history and geography of urban development and how land development, new building technologies, and individuals' working and family lives are interwoven with this development. By referring back to a single family and its trajectory within the city throughout the book, the author makes some of these larger-scale trends much more personal, and by following the paths of a few major developers within the city, you get a sense both of how the city and its hot neighborhoods shift over time, and of how literally a very small group of people can shape the physical space in which thousands live and work. Students of rowhouses or of Baltimore will be better able to see the continuities and the changes in rowhouses-- such as how the technology to make larger panes of glass changed the front facade, and how a simple setback from the sidewalk of 10 feet or so alters the feel of the buildings and the neighborhood by adding a little green. Formstone is also explained (to the extent that's possible...). Specialized, yes, but exceptionally well crafted. Architectural, urban, and social history and their intermingled best.
The history of the city as told by its houses.......2003-02-04
I enjoyed the pictures of these houses, and thought the book was especially well written. It's impossible to separate the evolution of these houses from the changes in the city itself, so some history is inevitable; there is also a great amount of detail involving the lives of the owners and developers. If you are not overwhelmed by all this, you will uncover some interesting bits: the ads for Formstone, the fact that basements were hand-dug by a crew of nine in two days, the tales of the "night soil" removers. Really concentrates on the local history, though, so it may not of interest to others.
Well-written treatment of a highly specialized topic.......2002-12-12
The rowhouse is far more common in Baltimore than other US cities, and these authors have documented its history and development up to the present day. Every nuance of design change is thoroughly discussed, and the amount of detail allows a street-by-street discussion at times. We're told about the various developers who, parcel by parcel, converted old elite estates into street grids covered with rowhouses of varying quality. The book ends as an advertisement for new urbanism, in which dilapidated old rowhouses are renovated and run-down neighborhoods undergo renewal.
The quality of writing is particularly high. There are approximately 140 b&w photos, which for the most part are grouped together so they can be printed on high-gloss paper. This is an awkward arrangement that requires the reader to flip back and forth to the glossy photo pages. There are approximately ten cross-sections and floor plans. There are very few maps, and a detailed knowledge of Baltimore geography is assumed. Because of the highly specialized nature of this book, it is unlikely to appeal to anyone outside Baltimore, but it would probably be a delight to architectural enthusiasts within the city.
They say, "Timing is everything..".......2001-05-19
...and the time to read 'The Baltimore Rowhouse' is now! I'm telling you'se- this book has it all. ; )
You not only get the expected descriptions of the architectural styles of rowhouses, and a historical review of the development of this style of housing, but the author weaves in the chronological social climb of an immigrant family throughout the book. Following the family's real estate history gives the book a story-like, biographical feel; unusual for non-fiction of this nature. It is in a sense, a well documented account of one way the "American Dream" has been realized.
From a social/cultural perspective, the 'Baltimore Rowhouse' is a social commentary on Baltimorean (and American) housing development past, present and future from visionary authors who love the City of Baltimore.
I received the book as a Christmas gift and read it in about 3 days. I couldn't put it down and was a little saddened that it had to end. I say this rarely- IT IS A MUST READ.
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Natalie Shivers
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Platinum and palladium printing is one of the easiest of the non-silver processes to learn. This guide offers a number of variations, which the photographer can closely control. Photographers interested in learning, or improving upon this process, will find this book an indispensable resource and reference guide. This is an absolute must-have for professional photographers and printmakers.
Inside you will find:
*The three basic phases of printing: sensitometry, chemistry, and mechanics
*Practical information based on the making of over 3,000 platinum and palladium prints, covering everything from making your first print, to the most advanced techniques to challenge experienced printers
*Over 50 duotones of the author's platinum and palladium prints and those of five contributors
Also included for the first time are contributions written by recognized authorities in their fields:
*Pyro and Platinum Printing by Bob Herbst
*Crafting Digital Negatives by Mark Nelson
*Ultraviolet Light Sources by Sandy King
*Custom Platinum Printing by Stan Klimek
* Practical information based on the making of over 3000 platinum and palladium prints
* Includes 50 duotones of Arentz's platinum and palladium prints
* Explains sensitometry as applied to the platinum/palladium process
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A brilliant book about a beautiful process.......2007-09-09
This is the bible of Platinum and Palladium printing. The second edition has two or three significant additions over the first edition. It has a quick start chapter to get that first print out. Yes, the book is very technical in some of its treatment of the material - and that is the reason you will go back to it again and again. But the process is fairly straightforward in its essence and working through the steps to get that first print clarifies much of the material to come later on. Second, I think the material covering Palladium printing with the Na2 contrast control method is essential knowledge today. It's surprising the more I've read of the history of Platino/Palladio processes how much information was lost that had to be "discovered" again. Third, there is a strong treatment on the effect of paper choice and characteristics of some papers (at least one of which is no longer being made since the second edition came out) that can help you understand how to find appropriate papers for other alternative processes. Finally, the appendices from different authors provide viewpoints of the process that round out treatment of the subject. Mark Nelson's chapter on digital negatives touches the surface of what has become my primary method for contact printing not only the Platinum and Palladium prints, but traditional silver as well as other alternative processes.
Highly recommended for any student of photography interested in mastering one of the most beautiful processes for printmaking.
straight to the point.......2007-07-30
It goes directly to the important topic, speaking to the photographer with previous knowledge. A book for the professional.
Seems overwhelming, just start with the basic process and get thrilling results!.......2005-12-21
Platinum/Palladium printing has "Wizard of Oz-like" mystique and a sense of mysterious alchemy beyond most photographic processes, but don't fret, it's not that difficult to get started. After my personal hands-on introduction (thank you, William Laven), Dick Arentz provides both the simple path to getting started, and then details comprehensive areas of specialty which he makes pretty helpful sense of. If you are already familiar with Platinum/Palladium, there is enough which has been pioneered in the recent several decades to allow a refresher for old photography hounds. For those starting out, just get the basic kit, read through the core sections of the book several times, then follow the three (3) pages of Chapter 6 - "The First Print". Once you have produced a few Palladium prints, cruise Chapter 7 - "Calibration" which provides a nice mental snack. Then move on to Chapter 8 - "The Platinum and Palladium Print", where having gotten past the panic of getting started, you can actually work out your basic functional understanding of the process. Like when that adult helped you launch on your first bike ride, suddenly you will be moving on your own and starting to get in the groove of the process.
For the silver old-timers, the sensitometry chapter and discussion of Pyro developers will really come into play as you confront the issues of "do I have to choose between making negatives for Platinum or silver ..." Pyro can play equally well in both environments, and was very liberating when I realized that I had a rich path of negative making without conflicts ahead of me. Pyro is an opportunity to evolve once again during this lifetime.
I use 8x10 for my serious work, and with standard films and papers going the way of the buffalo, I now understand what I need to do to use this remarkable process without being on a completely dead-end path.
There are several major advantages to gaining an ability to print Platinum/Palladium:
1. They can't discontinue the product! When you put a small number of drops of specific chemistry in a little cup, evenly coat the paper, expose it to UV light, slip the print into developer for two minutes, clear in three baths for 5 minutes each and then wash - it's like discoving fire as a tool. Pretty basic stuff, but very thrilling!
2. No fixer fumes.
3. You can work with the lights on.
4. You don't need a completely tweaked out darkroom in order to work - a simple space can be transformed into a miracle production facility.
5. It's fun.
6. The prints are beautiful. It will take time to figure it out, gain a vocabulary with the materials and get solid with your workflow, but Dick's book will hold your hand as you take the path towards a new, fruitful printing adventure.
Enthusiasm may inspire you to purchase other books, but this one can get you started successfully, and at the same time, it will provide plenty of sustenance as you grow. Or if you are already knowledgeable, there's plenty to chew on. If you are too advanced and find anything to be critical about in this book, write your own and share it with us!
If it still seems overwhelming to get started, find some fellow photo adventurer so that you can try it out together. Pulling prints on hand coated paper which are archivally stable, have long scale and beautiful physical presence, well, it could make an old dog thrilled about photography again, or simply inspire a newbee with a very remarkable way to make stunning prints. There are challenges, and there are plenty of mysteries, but if you have large format negatives hanging around, or you are boo-hoo-hooing that conventional photography is dying, being replaced by digital, this book will help dry those tears. Get going and happy printing!
A fantastic source of knowledge.......2003-04-25
I think the previous review of this book pretty much summed things up rather well. I bought this book with minimal to no knowledge of the platinum and palladium printing processes. After having read the book several times now (not because it's hard to understand, but because it's so well done), I feel I've gained a very good handle on the basics of the process, and the information provided is given in such a way as to give you both the kind of knowledge needed to start making your first prints as well as the kind of knowledge needed to refine and grow into the process. I tend to be a very analytical thinkier, and the way the book is organized appeals to my thought patterns. If you're more of a romantic (as opposed to classical) thinker, though, the large amounts of numbers-based technical info may seem a little discouraging. Even if you are, though, I must highly recommend this book, as I think it must be the single most comprehensive and well-produced book on the subject.
An Excellent Intro into Platinum Printing.......2000-05-20
This book covers platinum and palladium printing in a very logical, thorough manner. If you have never done Pt/Pd, you will get all the introduction necessary to buy a kit and get started. If you have done some, you can move on fairly quickly to the more advanced topics in the book, and get more out of your printing sessions.
The printing method in this book is not for everyone. The methodology in the book is fairly numerically based, and if you like to work by instinct and intuition, this may not be the right approach for you. However, the discussions of available papers, chemical use and hazzards, and other resources listed in the book are worth the price of admission alone, not to mention the exquisite photographs reproduced in duotone.
The photographs are quite inspirational; Arentz is clearly a master image-maker from the printing perspective, as well as having an eye for composition and subject.
There are other books on platinum printing out there (most notably by Weese and Sullivan) but this book is the one resource I keep going back to again and again.
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Published 2006; Ringbound, 8-1/2 x 11", 123 pages incl. 7 color pages.
Contents:
Introduction
Processes Covered in the Manual
Supply List
Sources for Supplies
Enlarged Negatives
Alt Tips
Chemical Weight Table
Units of Measurement
Conversion Table, Quick and Easy
Dichromated Colloid Processes: Gum Printing
The Iron Processes: Cyanotype
Iron/Silver Processes: Argyrotype - Kallitype - Van Dyke Brownprint
Iron/"Noble" Metal Processes: Platinum/Palladium - Ziatype
Silver/Chloride Processes: Salted Paper
Putting It Together: "Combotypes"
Final Notes: Varnishing Prints
Bibliography
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Sell & Resell Your Photos: Learn How to Sell Your Pictures Worldwide
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You have images to sell and 2003 Photographer's Market has the buyers who want them!
Inside you'll find 2000 completely updated market listings with contact information for magazines, stock agencies, advertising firms, book publishers, greeting card and poster markets, newspapers, businesses, galleries and more, including 450 listings new to this edition.
Each entry provides contact names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mails and websites, plus detailed information on what each market pays, preferred submission formats, what they're looking for, how much they buy, and more. Easy-to-reference symbols and indexes get you to the most promising markets for your work FAST.
Inside you'll also find an invaluable selection of helpful articles, Insider Reports, and information on contests, workshops, professional organizations, portfolio review events, websites and more!
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2003 Photographer's Market.......2003-06-06
Having read the other reviews I was probably expecting a bit too much. I admit there is a whole heap of information here, but wading through it is headache inducing. One thing I really hate is the way the subject index just throws everything together: magazines, stock agencies, greetings card companies etc. After a few minutes your brain starts to spin. Surely subdividing the subject index would be more helpful.
Another complaint is that there are no big national newspapers listed. The 'Newspapers and Newsletters' section is truly pathetic, covering every obscure backwater newsletter, but nothing substantial apart from one entry: New York Times Magazine. The British BFP Market Handbook lists all the national newspapers, so why are there none here?
Finally, it seems if publications or organisations do not reply to a listing request, they are deleted. Wouldn't it be better to still include their info with a symbol indicating that it might be out of date material? For instance, you do not list the National Enquirer, but this has earnt freelances a lot of money over the years. It may not be serious journalism but it is a good market.
More info than you'll ever use.......2003-05-06
This book is very exhaustive on places to sell photos. It is almost overwhelming trying to find places to send photos too. If you can't find a place to sell photos in here than you'll never be able to sell or post photos.
What would we do without it?.......2002-09-07
A must for editorial and/or stock photographers. A bible of contact information. A few photo buyers, like those who only buy one or two photos from freelancers a year, could be left out of the book.
Excellent.......2001-10-01
If you want to sell or exhibit photos, this book will give you all the information on places to go that you will need.
Read it Cover to Cover.......2001-09-01
Okay, this is not the type of book one should read cover to cover but I did it anyway. As a young photographer taking baby steps to a new career this book has been invaluable.
Not only does it instill me with the confidence that there is a market for the type of photography I produce, but it gives the contact information I need an the instructions on how to make contact with each photobuyer. The scattered articles also help in pointing the direction for further research into the business aspect of photography.
I will most defiantly make this a yearly purchase! So I will always have the most up to date information on who buys what, when, how, and for how much.
-Christopher Bergeron
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Sometimes on the mark........1999-10-21
Many of the cartoons about the Gulf War were quite humorous. However, too many seemed to be based on Vietnam-War stereotypes (the one about "don't shoot the general's helicopter" comes to mind). And the implication that all Kuwaitis who got out of their country just sat around all day sipping drinks was not just wrong, it was unjust. Two brigades of Kuwaitis aided in the liberation of their country when the time came. But parts of the book are all right, despite the artist being totally out of touch with today's military.
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Oliver's Towns: More Columns of Oliver Towne
Gareth Hiebert
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This is a new collection of columns from legendary newspaperman Gareth Hiebert. For 32 years Hiebert has written a regular column for the St. Paul Dispatch, then for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Using the pen name of Oliver Towne, he covered St. Paul's past and present, celebrating people and neighborhoods. Some of his best-known columns about the community appeared in City on Seven Hills, now out of print. This new collection also includes St. Paul stories, but focuses more on Minnesota and beyond. In fact, Hiebert's columns on his foreign travels constitute much of the book. Its subjects include: meeting Salvador Dali; interviewing Julia Child; dining with Paul Bocuse; visiting with French villagers who risked their lives to aid Jewish refugees; traveling to the island of Iona in the Hebrides, where Macbeth is buried.
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Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think about things, Rudolf Mrázek invents an original way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature.
The central chapters comprise vignettes and take up, in turn, transportation (from shoes to road-building to motorcycle clubs), architecture (from prison construction to home air-conditioning), optical technologies (from photography to fingerprinting), clothing and fashion, and the introduction of radio and radio stations. The text clusters around a group of fascinating recurring characters representing colonialism, nationalism, and the awkward, inevitable presence of the European cultural, intellectual, and political avant-garde: Tillema, the pharmacist-author of Kromoblanda; the explorer/engineer IJzerman; the "Javanese princess" Kartina; the Indonesia nationalist journalist Mas Marco; the Dutch novelist Couperus; the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer; and Dutch left-wing liberal Wim Wertheim and his wife.
In colonial Indies, as elsewhere, people employed what Proust called "remembering" and what Heidegger called "thinging" to sense and make sense of the world. In using this observation to approach Indonesian society, Mrázek captures that society off balance, allowing us to see it in unfamiliar positions. The result is a singular work with surprises for readers throughout the social sciences, not least those interested in Southeast Asia or colonialism more broadly.
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a brilliant work with outstanding originality.......2006-03-08
Some experts call Walter Benjamin's 1000-plus page magnum opus The Arcades Project (Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard 1999) quite simply one of the greatest 20th century efforts to comprehend "History". Some even call this thick tome the greatest endeavour of all studies into one of the most fundamental perceptions in 2500 years of world development: a perception arising from awareness of the way the relationship between limited humanity and unlimited time dictates human life.
Inspired by various sources, particularly Marcel Proust and Martin Heidegger, Mrázek does something nearly similar to Benjamin. Mrázek, an expert on modern Southeast Asian history who was born in the Czech Republic and later moved to America, achieves it in this book.
The Arcades Project excavated bits of debris and `re-built' vanished 19th century Paris - then the world capital - and in so doing , offered fragments of dreams (with its interpretations) of a continent, an era. Mrázek examines Indonesia at the end of Dutch colonial rule, and from this offers an exciting alternative in studying nation, identity and culture in the 20th century. If The Arcades Project - sabotaged as it was by World War II - appeared more like a vast montage or commentary on a number of books than a whole book in itself, Engineers of Happy Land is a book that had enough time to become a fine composition, with a structure and a form of writing that appear deeply considered.
Mrázek organizes the book into six large chapters. The first, titled "Language as Asphalt" is about the technology of moving and expansion, movement and speed. The second chapter is titled "Towers", marking nicely the change of subject from constructions spread out horizontally to constructions erected vertically. The last chapter is titled `Only the Deaf Can Hear Well'. This chapter centres around Pramoedya Ananta Tour, a figure whose life story is clearly not as a statesman or an engineer, but who boomed out modernity and nationalism. He built Indonesian nationalism not with mechanical equipment, but with linguistic tools: with the novel, short stories, essays and letters.
In Pramoedya's lifestory and the events that befell him in exile, Mrázek provides an example of the life of struggle of a nation deeply wounded in gaining its independence. Pramoedya's greatness does not arise from his position as an innocent victim, with selective memory, stubborn-headed and deaf from a pistol-butt strike. The epilogue invites the reader to `leap' to the present, to Pramoedya who in his twilight years ponders the passing of time; and in so doing threads together all the previous chapters, from colonial consolidation to the emergence of independence. This time, spiritual independence.
Mrázek structures his book as an engineer builds an integrated circuit: each section supports the others and their connection sparks ideas. Or, like a sensitive poet aware of the power of space between juxtaposed images that appear momentarily without interconnection. From chapter one through to the epilogue, Mrázek presents a myriad of quotes from letters and diaries, cultural essays, political speeches, novels, poetry, song lyrics, paintings, newspaper reports and advertisement clippings, all against a background of time moving linearly from the late 19th century through to mid and late 20th century. Scattering fragments in constellar fashion, this book is a layered texture that presents simultaneously political, cultural and psychological reality in the Netherlands Indies.
Historians who have scrutinized data from Indonesia from the period Mrázek studies know just how much he has not yet touched. However, with this `limited' data, and in a tidy 300 page book, Mrázek has produced a rich and complex work, so much so that it is impossible to summarize without distorting and ruining it. Mrázek shows how `the World' and `History' are indeed incredibly important parts of Indonesia, of its birth and continuing existence.
Apart from breaking down the walls of time by loosening its intricacies and widening its flow so that the past feels manifest in the present, Engineers also smashes spacial walls and shows that the basic problems of people in Europe were not so different from those of people in Indonesia. If the nationalists in the Indies were anxious about themselves and their past, the colonists were also anxious about themselves, their nation's bankruptcy as a 17th century superpower, occupied by Napoleon and then trampled by Hitler. Culture, identity and sense of nation in the late colonial era are truly clear reflections of dynamics at a global level. The impulse for freedom and to have the right answers for history, to comprehend appropriately the seige of foreign reality that presents itself as chaos, is the same in all corners of the globe. This is why there is nothing strange in the fact that things then just starting to explode in Europe, the avante-garde movement for instance, were already echoing in Nusantara.
Nationalism is the undercurrent of this book, but beneath it flows a wider current, a current affirming that alongside all kinds of difference that strike the senses, people - West or East, white or brown - truly have many similarities. Human differences are caused by their similarities: the thorns and flowers of that difference blossom because the basic roots of similarity - the urge to live and thrive, to sense and make sense of the world - must respond to different contexts. Once these contexts are altered and made the same, then the similarities that lie in the anthropological bases of human communities become clearly visible.
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Happy The Land
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There are 126 songs and tunes referenced in the classic books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, many of them among the finest and most loved in all of American music. This edition is of a selection of those songs, ones heard in performance on the CD, Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Includes guitar chord symbols and piano music where applicable. A short narrative explains the historical background of each song and references where it appears in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. Songs included: The Arkansas Traveler, Barbara Allen, The Big Sunflower, The Blue Juniata, Captain Jinks, The Devils Dream, The Girl I Left Behind Me, The Happy Land, Highland Mary, Nelly Was a Lady, Oft in the Stilly Night, Oh! Susanna, On Jordan's Story Banks, The Promised Land, Roll the Ole Chariot, Sweet By and By, Uncle Sam's Farm
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This is wonderful!.......2007-08-25
Dale Cockrell of Vanderbilt University has done the world of American Literature TWO very big favors...
First, he is in the process of gathering the music of Laura Ingalls Wilder into a series of CDs, to augment the wonderful stories.
And, because music IS an integral part of the Wilders' lives, it is only fitting that this should be done.
Second, he helped compile this book, full of sheet music, lyrics, and vignettes.
I've purchased five copies of the CD, and three of the books...they make most excellent gifts for those relatives of mine who love Laura Ingalls Wilder...my granddaughter was especially pleased to get the CD and book as a package.
I highly recommend this to anybody who loves Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston
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- The Oregon Trail
- The Trouble With Harry
- The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson
- The Houseplant Encyclopedia
- The English Room
- The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web
- The Shadow Dancer
- The Prisons
- The New Classics: Fresh Ideas for Rooms that Endure
- The Seventh Octave - The Early Writings of Saul Stacy Williams
Baltimore Then and Now (Then & Now)
Walking in Baltimore: An Intimate Guide to the Old City
The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History
American Rowhouse Classic Designs (International Design Library)
Highlandtown (MD) (Images of America)
