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Harbor & haven: An illustrated history of the port of New York

Engineering & Transportation

Bunker, John

Transportation

Windsor Publications

Blake McElvey's Rochester: A Panoramic History tells the vital story of this city's past, present and its future prospects, starring the people who are its greatest resource. Stunning photographs and illustrations punctuate a story that has all the elements of a rousing tale: suspense, tragedy, comic relief, natural catastrophes and, finally, energetic and resilient people. Here are the industrial giants, as large as life: Hiram Sibley of Western Union, George Eastman and his "passing fad of a toy", Lewis Swift, hardware merchant and astronomer and discoverer of comets - only a few of the greats, eccentrics and ordinary people who tell the story of a city that valued quality in its products, resourcefulness in its people, and a belief in its own destiny to be one of America's finest cities."

A panoramic history of Rochester and Monroe County, New York

McKelvey, BLake

Book by Henry W. Schramm, William F. Roseboom

Syracuse, From Salt to Satellite: A Pictorial History

History

Henry W. Schramm

William F. Roseboom

Americas

learn a little history about a desert pueblo

Tucson: Portrait of a desert pueblo

Bret Harte, John

City at the Pass: An illustrated history of El Paso

Metz, Leon Claire

An enlightening text that explores Fort Wayne's past and considers its possibilities for the future.

The Fort Wayne Story: A Pictorial History

Ankenbruck, John

Saginaw, a history of the land and the city

Gross, Stuart D.

Notions of homogeneity to the contrary, Salt Lake City has had a history of on-going religious, political, and ethnic conflict. When Mormon settlers arrived, they vied with indigenous people for economic, as well as cultural, hegemony. Over the ensuing years,through the Walker War, the Tintic War, the Blackhawk War, and other skirmishes, and through disease and disruption of the lifestyle and social fabric, Utah's native population declined from 20,000 in the late 1840s to a little over 2,000 at the turn of the century. Mormons also wanted independence from the United States to which the latter responded by sending an army, in the face of which Mormons completely abandoned their capital city. They left it a ghost town until a negotiated peace allowed them to return. During the Civil War, federal troops again established a presence in Salt Lake City, this time in the foothills with cannons trained on the city below. The status of black slaves was determined early on by an ordinance that required them to "labor faithfully all reasonable hours, and do such service with fidelity as may be required by his or her master or mistress." As elsewhere in the United States, blacks were an invisible part of the demographic landscape. Nor was the valley utopian for many of the foreign immigrants who crowded into several ethnic neighborhoods on the west side of town, who found work in the mines and railroad yards. So, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the community that had once been a religious sanctuary and that had striven for communal enterprise became an example of good old-fashioned self-interest and frontier squabbling. People no longer even agreed on whether to fund municipal garbage collection or sewer installation. Labor unions mushroomed and radicals proliferated. Alongside respectable businesses, well-attended brothels appeared. During the Great Depression, marches, rallies, and demonstrations attracted thousands.

Salt Lake City: The gathering place : an illustrated history

McCORMICK, John S.

Heart of the promised land, Oklahoma County: An illustrated history (Windsor local history series)

Blackburn, Bob L.

Stated First Edition. 9" x 11 1/2" hardcover is in near fine condition in a VG+, price clipped dust jacket. Small gift inscription inked on the front fly. Small rubs to the dust jacket's spine tips.

Mobile, the life and times of a great southern city: An illustrated history (Windsor local history series)

Melton A. McLaurin

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