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Book Synopsis Shiffler Fire Company Records by : Shiffler Fire Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Download or read book Shiffler Fire Company Records written by Shiffler Fire Company (Lancaster, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains minutes for the Conestoga Hose Company and Friendship Fire Company, both in Lancaster.
Download or read book An Uncommon Woman written by Mark Kelley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens’s household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries. Born a free woman near Gettysburg, Smith began working for Stevens in 1844. Her relationship with Stevens fascinated and infuriated many, and it made Smith a highly recognizable figure both locally and nationally. The two walked side by side in Lancaster and in Washington, DC, as they worked to secure the rights of African Americans, sheltered people on the Underground Railroad, managed two households, raised her sons and his nephews, and built a real-estate business. In the last years of Stevens’s life, as his declining health threatened to short-circuit his work, Smith risked her own well-being to keep him alive while he led the drive to end slavery, impeach Andrew Johnson, and push for the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. An Uncommon Woman is a vital history that accords Lydia Hamilton Smith the recognition that she deserves. Every American should know Smith’s inspiring story.
Download or read book The Winchester Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
Book Synopsis American Fire Engine and Hose Company Records by : American Fire Engine and Hose Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Download or read book American Fire Engine and Hose Company Records written by American Fire Engine and Hose Company (Lancaster, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains an agreement, constitution and by-laws, and minutes for the American Fire Engine and Hose Company of Lancaster.
Book Synopsis National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections by :
Download or read book National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Book Synopsis How the Irish Became White by : Noel Ignatiev
Download or read book How the Irish Became White written by Noel Ignatiev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book – the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians – tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White.
Book Synopsis Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society by : Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society written by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Book Synopsis Library of Congress National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections by :
Download or read book Library of Congress National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Humane Fire Company Records by : Humane Fire Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Download or read book Humane Fire Company Records written by Humane Fire Company (Lancaster, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains subscription for the Fireman's Parade for the Humane Fire Company of Lancaster.
Book Synopsis The Volunteers by : helpUselfpublish.com
Download or read book The Volunteers written by helpUselfpublish.com and published by Donald Collins. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical novel of New York City's volunteer firemen during the turbulent period of industrialization, immigration, abolishionist movement and Civil War. The volunteer system was under attack by a political/insurance industry clique pushing for a paid fire department equipped with the new steam fire engines, which the volunteers opposed. A story of bravery and courage of men who came from all walks of life and were responsible for saving the city from destruction by dozens of disastrous fires, only to be scorned by politicians and labeled as rowdies by their insurance enemies. An interesting look at New York in this period of change and incudes how the game of baseball originated with the volunteer firemen. The New York volunteers carried their firefighting experience west during the gold rush and were responsible for formation of many fire departments in western states. A must read for firefighting, newspaper, telegraph, insurance, New York City and Philadelphia history buffs.
Download or read book Fire Protection Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Records of the Central Fire Company No. 1 (Bethlehem, Pa.). by :
Download or read book Records of the Central Fire Company No. 1 (Bethlehem, Pa.). written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Warwick's Keystone Commonwealth by : Charles Franklin Warwick
Download or read book Warwick's Keystone Commonwealth written by Charles Franklin Warwick and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Portland, Me., Fire Dept. Records by : Portland (Me.). Fire Department
Download or read book Portland, Me., Fire Dept. Records written by Portland (Me.). Fire Department and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes of the board of engineers, minutes of the committee on fire departments, clerks' records of engine companies nos. 1 and 5 recording fire alarms and other company activities, and roll book containing data on members of the various engine companies.
Book Synopsis Ordinances and Joint Resolutions, of the City of Philadelphia from January 1st to December 31st, 1865 by :
Download or read book Ordinances and Joint Resolutions, of the City of Philadelphia from January 1st to December 31st, 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Records of the Independent Hose Company by : Independent Hose Company, No. 1 (Morristown, N.J.)
Download or read book Records of the Independent Hose Company written by Independent Hose Company, No. 1 (Morristown, N.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the professional, financial, social and personal activities of the oldest volunteer fire company in Morristown.
