Author: United States. Post Office Department
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Category : Post office stations and branches
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Table of the Post Offices in the United States
Author: United States. Post Office Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Post office stations and branches
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Post office stations and branches
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Table of the Post Offices in the United States
Author: United States. Post Office Department
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Adams Collection
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ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Adams Library of 2,756 volumes was presented to the town of Quincy, Mass., in 1822; a catalogue was issued in 1823 under title: Deeds and other documents relating to the several pieces of land, and to the library presented to the town of Quincy, by President Adams, together with a catalogue of the books. The library was lodged, after various transfers, in the Thomas Crane public library of Quincy in 1882, and deposited in the Boston public library in 1894. Additions to the original collection have brought the numbers to 3,019.
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Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Adams Library of 2,756 volumes was presented to the town of Quincy, Mass., in 1822; a catalogue was issued in 1823 under title: Deeds and other documents relating to the several pieces of land, and to the library presented to the town of Quincy, by President Adams, together with a catalogue of the books. The library was lodged, after various transfers, in the Thomas Crane public library of Quincy in 1882, and deposited in the Boston public library in 1894. Additions to the original collection have brought the numbers to 3,019.
Star Territory
Author: Gordon Fraser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
Waynesboro as We Knew it
Author: Todd Andrew Dorsett
Publisher: Antietam Historical Assn
ISBN: 0615708579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The history of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, through the end of the Twentieth century, told through reminiscences, diaries, letters, pictures, and anecdotes collected by the Author over the past forty years.
Publisher: Antietam Historical Assn
ISBN: 0615708579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The history of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, through the end of the Twentieth century, told through reminiscences, diaries, letters, pictures, and anecdotes collected by the Author over the past forty years.
Philatelic Literature Review
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Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
United States Official Postal Guide
Author: United States. Post Office Department
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
American & British Genealogy & Heraldry
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Publisher: Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
British museum Catalogue of Printed books Virgilius Maro (Publius)
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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