Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606086
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Robert Bogdan combines a richly descriptive text with striking illustrations to create vivid biographical sketches of these pioneer photographers, who worked their individual styles to illuminate six different regions of the Adirondack Mountains. The book also provides insight into the popular culture of the times mainly through postcards but it also takes an in-depth look at the families and work lives of these artisans as they plied their trade in the popular venue of commercial postcards. Aside from the Adirondack locals and a few postcard connoisseurs, the gifted folk artists and craftspeople profiled here were virtually unknown until now. Bogdan has collected nearly 250 illustrations including postcards and photographs depicting Adirondack life of the time. Many of these images have never before been published.
Author: New York State Historical Association
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Samuel T. Black
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Category : Imperial County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Crook County (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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Author: New York State Historical Association
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: Law Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Author: Jim Shaughnessy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815604556
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Here, in a pictorial history, Jim Shaughnessy turns an eloquent photographer's eye to the Delaware & Hudson, the line that began in 1823 as a canal system to transport Pennsylvania coal to New York State. The D&H extended from Montreal to the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. It was active for 170 years, when the route was sold in 1993 to the Canadian Pacific Railway Corporation. The line made early railroad fame by importing from England the famous Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive in America. This occurred during a great expansion into gravity, an interesting phase which took advantage of the mountainous terrain. The nineteenth century saw a period of economic growth and amalgamation, which was shaped by extremely able and ambitiou company presidents. Eventually the D&H advertised itself as "the Bridge Line to New England and Canada." Mountainous terrain around the coal mines challenged the line with heavy grades, so it was natural for one of its presidents, L. F. Loree, to be fascinated with experimental traction power. The many Loree locomotives, leaders in progressive design, are pictured and described herein. Because a good railroad history is always an economic history of a region, this book will surely please historian, too. Delaware & Hudson is a definitive work, encompassing the mining of the region and detailing the steamboat operations on Lakes George and Champlain. Syracuse University Press is pleased to reissue this exemplary study of a railroad. Delaware & Hudson has—and will—continue to raise the standards for all future railroad books.
Author: Illinois. Appellate Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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