Baltimore Then and Now

by Alexander D. Mitchell IV

Book Overview

Baltimore may be world-famous for its crab cakes, Johns Hopkins University, and the Orioles baseball team, but there s much more to this Chesapeake Bay city. With lots of unique architecture,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571456880
• ISBN13: 9781571456885
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

I bought this book actually from another website (lol dont know if I can mention it here) and I love it. A must-have addition to your collection I might say. Great photographs comparing an old Baltimore with Baltimore the way it is now. Makes you really want to visit it, which Im planning to do in the near future.

Baltimore Then and Now

I bought this as I use to live in and Baltimore but so did my Great Grandmother. I love Baltimore and thought this book would be a great addition.

great coffee table book

This is a neat idea for a book: putting "then" and "now" photographs side-by-side. Though the book is at times mildly depressing when you see how alive and grand city spots once were as compared to how they look now, this is not a fault of the author, but our upkeep of cities, of course. The author does an excellent job of capturing the exact same angle of the older photograph, so you can really compare streets and buildings and other landmarks. We purchased this book as a gift for friends who are soon moving away from Baltimore, their recent home. It was well received. I have seen other versions of this book, with other cities highlighted. The New York and Philadelphia books look equally engaging, among others. I would recommend this product for history buffs, as a coffee table general interest book, or for Baltimoreans.