Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2660
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2660
Book Description
Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students for the Year ... with Announcements for the Year ...
Author: Montana School of Mines
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Author: Cheryl Ganz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252078527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252078527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2606
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Faithful to the Task at Hand
Author: Carroll L.L. Miller
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438442602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Born just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) became a seventeen-time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major sports title, a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the first Dean of Women at Howard University. She provided leadership and service in a wide range of organizations concerned with improving the conditions of women, African Americans, and other disadvantaged groups and also participated in peace activism. Among her many accomplishments, she created the first junior high school for black students in Washington, DC. In this long overdue biography, Carroll L. L. Miller and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan tell the remarkable story of Slowe's steadfast determination working her way through college, earning respect as a teacher and dean, and standing up to Howard's President and Board of Trustees in insisting on equal treatment of women. Along the way, the authors weave together recurring themes in African American history: the impact of racism, the importance of education, the role of sports, and gender inequality.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438442602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Born just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) became a seventeen-time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major sports title, a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the first Dean of Women at Howard University. She provided leadership and service in a wide range of organizations concerned with improving the conditions of women, African Americans, and other disadvantaged groups and also participated in peace activism. Among her many accomplishments, she created the first junior high school for black students in Washington, DC. In this long overdue biography, Carroll L. L. Miller and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan tell the remarkable story of Slowe's steadfast determination working her way through college, earning respect as a teacher and dean, and standing up to Howard's President and Board of Trustees in insisting on equal treatment of women. Along the way, the authors weave together recurring themes in African American history: the impact of racism, the importance of education, the role of sports, and gender inequality.
The Philadelphia Seminary Catalog
Author: Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Checklist of Wisconsin Public Documents
Author:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Early issues include some publications of learned societies as well as state documents.
Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Early issues include some publications of learned societies as well as state documents.