Author: New Orleans Board of Trade
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Annual Report of the New Orleans Board of Trade, Ltd
Author: New Orleans Board of Trade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Annual Report of the New Orleans Board of Trade, Limited
Author: New Orleans Board of Trade
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Annual Report of the New Orleans Board of Trade, Limited
Author: New Orleans Board of Trade
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
With appendices.
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
With appendices.
Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
1921-1942 contain abstracts of periodical reports.
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
1921-1942 contain abstracts of periodical reports.
Spice Mill
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Category : Coffee industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Category : Coffee industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Where The River Runs Deep
Author: Joy J. Jackson
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Joy J. Jackson’s Where the River Runs Deep tells two stories—both significant and both fascinating. It is a biography of the author’s father, Oliver Jackson, who spent virtually his entire life on or near the Mississippi River. And it is a history of the river itself, and the many changes that have transformed it in the twentieth century. Born in an oysterman’s camp in south Louisiana, only a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and raised in an orphanage in New Orleans, Oliver Jackson (1896–1985) grew up to become a pilot boat crew member, a merchant seaman, a tugboat-man, and ultimately a Mississippi River pilot, the profession to which he had always aspired. Drawing extensively on oral history, including a series of audiotapes her father recorded before his death, Jackson presents a detailed social history not only of her father and his forebears but of a way of life now past. She vividly portrays village life in once-thriving but now-vanished river communities such as Port Eads and Burrwood in the delta below New Orleans, and in such working-class areas of the city as the Irish Channel. And she provides detailed descriptions of the early days of riverboat piloting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and of tugboat work in the New Orleans harbor. Throughout, she evokes the special passion and respect that pilots have always had for their work and the river. Woven into Jackson’s narrative of her father’s life and career is a history of the profound changes in life and commerce on the Mississippi River since the turn of the century. During Oliver Jackson’s lifetime, cotton gave way to petroleum as the major product transported on the lower Mississippi, while steamboats faded away and were replaced by towboats, with their long lines of barges. After mid-century many of the plantations and rural homesteads that had lined the banks of the river since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were crowded by the increasing presence of petrochemical plants. Jackson also writes about such calamitous events as the hurricane of 1915 and the great flood of 1927, and she describes the menace of German submarines at the mouth of the Mississippi during America’s early months in World War II. Where the River Runs Deep is a story of river life unlike any other. It will appeal to students of regional history and family history, as well as to anyone fascinated by the lore of the Mississippi.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Joy J. Jackson’s Where the River Runs Deep tells two stories—both significant and both fascinating. It is a biography of the author’s father, Oliver Jackson, who spent virtually his entire life on or near the Mississippi River. And it is a history of the river itself, and the many changes that have transformed it in the twentieth century. Born in an oysterman’s camp in south Louisiana, only a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and raised in an orphanage in New Orleans, Oliver Jackson (1896–1985) grew up to become a pilot boat crew member, a merchant seaman, a tugboat-man, and ultimately a Mississippi River pilot, the profession to which he had always aspired. Drawing extensively on oral history, including a series of audiotapes her father recorded before his death, Jackson presents a detailed social history not only of her father and his forebears but of a way of life now past. She vividly portrays village life in once-thriving but now-vanished river communities such as Port Eads and Burrwood in the delta below New Orleans, and in such working-class areas of the city as the Irish Channel. And she provides detailed descriptions of the early days of riverboat piloting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and of tugboat work in the New Orleans harbor. Throughout, she evokes the special passion and respect that pilots have always had for their work and the river. Woven into Jackson’s narrative of her father’s life and career is a history of the profound changes in life and commerce on the Mississippi River since the turn of the century. During Oliver Jackson’s lifetime, cotton gave way to petroleum as the major product transported on the lower Mississippi, while steamboats faded away and were replaced by towboats, with their long lines of barges. After mid-century many of the plantations and rural homesteads that had lined the banks of the river since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were crowded by the increasing presence of petrochemical plants. Jackson also writes about such calamitous events as the hurricane of 1915 and the great flood of 1927, and she describes the menace of German submarines at the mouth of the Mississippi during America’s early months in World War II. Where the River Runs Deep is a story of river life unlike any other. It will appeal to students of regional history and family history, as well as to anyone fascinated by the lore of the Mississippi.
Annual Report - Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
With appendices, which include also "Annual report on the statistics of railways..." and "Preliminary report on the income account of railways."
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
With appendices, which include also "Annual report on the statistics of railways..." and "Preliminary report on the income account of railways."
Grain World
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
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