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Up Pine Street: A Pictorial History of the African-American Community of Cambridge, Maryland (1884-1951)
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Black American History20th Century United States History
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ISBN13: 9798172820670
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.51 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.51 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The photographic record of Black Cambridge, Maryland, 1884 to 1951: 281 photographs from the families, churches, and schools of Pine Street and Dorchester County. For nearly seventy years Pine Street was the heart of African-American life in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Its churches, schools, barbershops, bakeries, lodges, dance halls, and ballfields held a community that built its own institutions in the decades between Reconstruction and the modern civil rights movement. Up Pine Street is that community's photograph album, assembled by David Henry from family collections, church records, school archives, and private albums, many never before published. Inside the book
281 photographs in thirteen sections, each identified by name, place, and date wherever the record allows:
Business: the Charles Cornish Garage and bus line, the Camper Sisters Bakery, Chase Studio, Dick Parker's Barbershop, Greene's Savoy, Hayes Drug Store, the Community Lunchroom, Hooper and Bacon's Grocery, Henan Slacum's oyster plant.
Religion and the Church: Bethel AME, Waugh Chapel, Zion Baptist, Christ Rock, Bazzle Chapel, Scott's Chapel at Bucktown, and the churches of the county, with the Galilee Singers and the Gospel Travelers.
Civil Rights: Harriet Ross Tubman of Dorchester County.
Clubs and Organizations: the Elks and Daughters of the Elks, the Twentieth Century Club, the Pokeno Club, the Business and Professional Men's and Women's Clubs, the Frontiers, the Royal Dukes.
Education: Frederick Douglass St. Clair High School from the 1930s through the 1944 tornado and the 1952 fire, the classes of 1940 to 1948, Pine Street Elementary, Stanley Institute, Cambridge Grammar School, and the one-room colored schools of Church Creek, Cordtown, Hicksburg, Taylors Island, and Trippe's Neck; the teachers and principals who ran them.
Employment: Phillips Packing Company, tomato canning and oyster shucking, the 1937 strike, the migrant labor camps of 1941, oyster tonging, barbers, tailors, taxicab drivers, railroad workers, and the first African-American toll collector on the Bay Bridge.
Entertainment and Arts: Noble Sissle, the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm in Cambridge; the B Natural Orchestra, the Green Hornets, the Singing Esquires, parades on Pine Street, and nights upstairs at Greene's Savoy.
Fashion and Style: bathing suits of the 1920s, knickerbockers, the war years look, the Billie Holiday look.
Government, Law, and Law Enforcement: Commissioner H. Maynadier St. Clair, City Commissioner Charles E. Cornish, the Republican Voters League, the first African-American police officer, crossing guard, and self-made attorney in Cambridge.
Medicine and Health Care: midwives Bertie Stafford Hart and Victoria Lake Pinder, Dr. Carroll St. Clair, Edwin J. Fassett MD, public health nurse Maxine Magee, and the Harriet Tubman Ambulance.
Military: Buffalo Soldier Isaiah Jackson's 1884 discharge papers, the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Huachuca, Tuskegee Airman Montro C. Askins, and the women of the WAC.
Sports: the F.D. St. Clair state basketball champions of 1935 and 1938, the Cambridge Orioles, the Phillips baseball teams, and field days at the fairgrounds. Written, edited, and published by David Henry, with Brenda Golden-Mitchell as co-editor, Up Pine Street was first published in 2003 and has long been out of print. This edition reproduces the original 8.5 by 11 inch printing in full. For descendants of Cambridge and Dorchester County families researching their genealogy, for students of African-American history on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and for readers of Black history, Chesapeake history, and American photography, it is the essential visual record of a community seen through its own eyes.
Business: the Charles Cornish Garage and bus line, the Camper Sisters Bakery, Chase Studio, Dick Parker's Barbershop, Greene's Savoy, Hayes Drug Store, the Community Lunchroom, Hooper and Bacon's Grocery, Henan Slacum's oyster plant.
Religion and the Church: Bethel AME, Waugh Chapel, Zion Baptist, Christ Rock, Bazzle Chapel, Scott's Chapel at Bucktown, and the churches of the county, with the Galilee Singers and the Gospel Travelers.
Civil Rights: Harriet Ross Tubman of Dorchester County.
Clubs and Organizations: the Elks and Daughters of the Elks, the Twentieth Century Club, the Pokeno Club, the Business and Professional Men's and Women's Clubs, the Frontiers, the Royal Dukes.
Education: Frederick Douglass St. Clair High School from the 1930s through the 1944 tornado and the 1952 fire, the classes of 1940 to 1948, Pine Street Elementary, Stanley Institute, Cambridge Grammar School, and the one-room colored schools of Church Creek, Cordtown, Hicksburg, Taylors Island, and Trippe's Neck; the teachers and principals who ran them.
Employment: Phillips Packing Company, tomato canning and oyster shucking, the 1937 strike, the migrant labor camps of 1941, oyster tonging, barbers, tailors, taxicab drivers, railroad workers, and the first African-American toll collector on the Bay Bridge.
Entertainment and Arts: Noble Sissle, the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm in Cambridge; the B Natural Orchestra, the Green Hornets, the Singing Esquires, parades on Pine Street, and nights upstairs at Greene's Savoy.
Fashion and Style: bathing suits of the 1920s, knickerbockers, the war years look, the Billie Holiday look.
Government, Law, and Law Enforcement: Commissioner H. Maynadier St. Clair, City Commissioner Charles E. Cornish, the Republican Voters League, the first African-American police officer, crossing guard, and self-made attorney in Cambridge.
Medicine and Health Care: midwives Bertie Stafford Hart and Victoria Lake Pinder, Dr. Carroll St. Clair, Edwin J. Fassett MD, public health nurse Maxine Magee, and the Harriet Tubman Ambulance.
Military: Buffalo Soldier Isaiah Jackson's 1884 discharge papers, the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Huachuca, Tuskegee Airman Montro C. Askins, and the women of the WAC.
Sports: the F.D. St. Clair state basketball champions of 1935 and 1938, the Cambridge Orioles, the Phillips baseball teams, and field days at the fairgrounds. Written, edited, and published by David Henry, with Brenda Golden-Mitchell as co-editor, Up Pine Street was first published in 2003 and has long been out of print. This edition reproduces the original 8.5 by 11 inch printing in full. For descendants of Cambridge and Dorchester County families researching their genealogy, for students of African-American history on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and for readers of Black history, Chesapeake history, and American photography, it is the essential visual record of a community seen through its own eyes.
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