Author: Best Books on
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Missouri with a new foreword by Charles van Ravenswaay and a new introduction by Howard Wight Marshall and Walter A. Schroeder.
Missouri
Author: Best Books on
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Missouri with a new foreword by Charles van Ravenswaay and a new introduction by Howard Wight Marshall and Walter A. Schroeder.
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Missouri with a new foreword by Charles van Ravenswaay and a new introduction by Howard Wight Marshall and Walter A. Schroeder.
Miscellaneous Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Missouri
Author:
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9781883982232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Once considered a "foolish boondoggle" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, the Federal Writers' Project was initiated to allow employment opportunity to those associated with the arts during the Great Depression. The American Guide Series became the most successful venture, offering jobs to writers nationwide as each state endeavored to produce a comprehensive guidebook. Under the direction of Charles van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State was first published in 1941. Now, in a classic reprint, Missouri Historical Society Press restores this guidebook to its original splendor and returns it to the bookshelves. With a current road map included with the book, travelers can compare sights and tours described in the antiquated guide and see how they have developed or disappeared. As Walter A. Schroeder and Howard W. Marshall describe in the updated introduction, "The `unmarked, dirt road, impassable when wet, ' that we encounter in reading the WPA guide is no longer a hurdle to be negotiated in order to reach an out-of-the-way site." Due to nearly thirty thousand additional miles of paved roadway and endless gas station and motel chains, every corner of Missouri is now easily accessible. And, as Missouri Historical Society President Robert R. Archibald states in the foreword, "If you are the kind of traveler who has no intention of stirring from a comfortable chair near the reading lamp, this reprint is really all the equipment you require for a fascinating journey through the Missouri of the past."
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9781883982232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Once considered a "foolish boondoggle" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, the Federal Writers' Project was initiated to allow employment opportunity to those associated with the arts during the Great Depression. The American Guide Series became the most successful venture, offering jobs to writers nationwide as each state endeavored to produce a comprehensive guidebook. Under the direction of Charles van Ravenswaay, former director of the Missouri Historical Society, Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State was first published in 1941. Now, in a classic reprint, Missouri Historical Society Press restores this guidebook to its original splendor and returns it to the bookshelves. With a current road map included with the book, travelers can compare sights and tours described in the antiquated guide and see how they have developed or disappeared. As Walter A. Schroeder and Howard W. Marshall describe in the updated introduction, "The `unmarked, dirt road, impassable when wet, ' that we encounter in reading the WPA guide is no longer a hurdle to be negotiated in order to reach an out-of-the-way site." Due to nearly thirty thousand additional miles of paved roadway and endless gas station and motel chains, every corner of Missouri is now easily accessible. And, as Missouri Historical Society President Robert R. Archibald states in the foreword, "If you are the kind of traveler who has no intention of stirring from a comfortable chair near the reading lamp, this reprint is really all the equipment you require for a fascinating journey through the Missouri of the past."
Geographical Guide to Floras of the World
Author: Sidney Fay Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Annotated selected list of floras and floristic works relating to vascular plants, including bibliographies and publications dealing with useful plants and vernacular names.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Annotated selected list of floras and floristic works relating to vascular plants, including bibliographies and publications dealing with useful plants and vernacular names.
Plant Science Literature
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Geographical Guide to the Floras of the World: Africa, Australia, North America, South America and Islands of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
Author: Sidney Fay Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Plant Science Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
Book Description
The WPA Guide to Missouri
Author: Federal Writers' Project
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to the Show-Me State of Missouri literally shows the reader the virtues of this lovely region, by including vivid pictures of Art Deco skyscrapers in downtown Kansas City, farm scenes, the Ozark Mountains, and the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. It includes historical essays about the influence of these rivers on the state as well as Missouri’s important role in the American Civil War.
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to the Show-Me State of Missouri literally shows the reader the virtues of this lovely region, by including vivid pictures of Art Deco skyscrapers in downtown Kansas City, farm scenes, the Ozark Mountains, and the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. It includes historical essays about the influence of these rivers on the state as well as Missouri’s important role in the American Civil War.
Rare Plants of the Ozark Plateau
Author: Beverly J. Roedner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare plants
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare plants
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Steyermark's Flora of Missouri
Author: Julian Alfred Steyermark
Publisher: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
"The Flora of Missouri project, directed by Garden Curator, Dr. George Yatskievych, is an ongoing effort to update and compile information on the state's flora. It began in 1987 as a joint effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Missouri Department of Conservation. One of its main goals is a three-volume revision of former Missouri Botanical Garden curator Julian A. Steyermark's 'Flora of Missouri', first published in 1963. Missouri's ever changing plant diversity, the shifting distributions of its plant species, and the many new records of plants in the state have necessitated an expansion of Steyermark's original publication into three volumes."--
Publisher: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
"The Flora of Missouri project, directed by Garden Curator, Dr. George Yatskievych, is an ongoing effort to update and compile information on the state's flora. It began in 1987 as a joint effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Missouri Department of Conservation. One of its main goals is a three-volume revision of former Missouri Botanical Garden curator Julian A. Steyermark's 'Flora of Missouri', first published in 1963. Missouri's ever changing plant diversity, the shifting distributions of its plant species, and the many new records of plants in the state have necessitated an expansion of Steyermark's original publication into three volumes."--