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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271040351
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816Ð1870 written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Scharf
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5883517102
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (835 download)
Download or read book History of Philadelphia written by T. Scharf and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Carreño
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ISBN 13 : 9781680980394
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book John H. McFadden and His Age written by Richard Carreño and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John H. McFadden and His Age: Cotton and Culture in Philadelphia is the first biography dedicated to John McFadden (1850-1921), Philadelphia's-if not the country's-grandest cotton king of his time and collector and donor of an important grouping of British paintings now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tracing his life in both England and Philadelphia, this book not only examines how McFadden accumulated his wealth and art collection, but also illuminates his roles as a notable philanthropist, a rare-book collector, a real-estate developer, and a museum administrator, as well as the founder of possibly the world's first multimedia news café. Situating him within the context of Philadelphia's late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century major players, McFadden is revealed as the city's unofficial arts czar, overseeing-and often ruling- many of its foremost cultural institutions"--
Author : Andrew Heath
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251113
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book In Union There Is Strength written by Andrew Heath and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today. A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people. Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.
Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602199302
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Good Night Philadelphia written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love. This charming board book captures the true spirit of Philadelphia in a tour that includes the Liberty Bell, Museum of Art, The Thinker statue, Philadelphia Zoo, William Penn Statue, Reading Terminal, Betsey Ross House, National Constitution Center, United States Mint, Fairmont Park, Independence Seaport Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, and more.
Author : Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632969
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Silk Stockings and Socialism written by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture then sweeping America and the world. Although the young people who flooded into this booming industry were avid participants in Jazz Age culture, they also embraced a surprising, rights-based labor movement, headed by the socialist-led American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers (AFFFHW). In this first history of this remarkable union, Sharon McConnell-Sidorick reveals how activists ingeniously fused youth culture and radical politics to build a subculture that included dances and parties as well as picket lines and sit-down strikes, while forging a vision for social change. In documenting AFFFHW members and the Kensington community, McConnell-Sidorick shows how labor federations like the Congress of Industrial Organizations and government programs like the New Deal did not spring from the heads of union leaders or policy experts but were instead nurtured by grassroots social movements across America.
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Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. Farley
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271010007
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Making Arms in the Machine Age written by James J. Farley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Arms in the Machine Age traces the growth and development of the United States Arsenal at Frankford, Pennsylvania, from its origin in 1816 to 1870. During this period, the arsenal evolved from a small post where skilled workers hand-produced small arms ammunition to a full-scale industrial complex employing a large civilian workforce. James Farley uses the history of the arsenal to examine larger issues including the changing technology of early nineteenth-century warfare, the impact of new technology on the United States Army, and the reactions of workers and their families and communities to the coming of industrialization. Shortly after the War of 1812, the U. S. Army founded several new arsenals, including Frankford, to build up supplies of arms and ammunition then in short supply. At that time, the Army was held in low regard because of its perceived poor performance in the war, so the arrival of arsenals was not welcomed. By 1870, however, the arsenal at Frankford had integrated itself into the community and become a valued and respected member of it. Farley argues that the Ordnance Department of the U. S. Army created an industrial system of manufacture at Frankford well in advance of private industry. He also contends that the evolution of the Army into an employer of a large-scale civilian workforce helped to end the isolation and anti-militarism that plagued it after the War of 1812. Farley's study joins recent work in the history of technology, such as Judith McGaw's That Wonderful Machine, that seeks to understand technological change in its social and cultural context.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Philatelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Typographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Aged and the Aging in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers effects of the elderly population growth on employment, housing, income, and health care programs; part 6: Examines various health aspects and problems of the aged, state and local counseling and employment programs for the aged, the psychology of the aged, and future program needs and goals. Hearing was held in Grand Rapids, Mich.; part 7: Continuation of hearings on state assistance programs for the elderly. Hearings were held in Miami, Fla.; part 8: Concludes a nationwide study of the problems of the aged and aging to identify the major problems of older persons and the responsibilities of various agencies in filling their needs. Hearings were held in Detroit, Mich
Author : Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Year Book ... written by Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Strawbridge White
Publisher : White Knight Press
ISBN 13 : 1937986810
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Sailers and Strawbridges in America written by Alexander Strawbridge White and published by White Knight Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the family history of Joseph Sailer, M.D., and Mary Lowber Strawbridge, his wife. They married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1901 and had ten children, of whom seven lived to adulthood. This book includes genealogical information about their ancestors and some of their descendants, along with some letters and other documents, as well as photographs. The book is 137 pages long, including a full index.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book Social Security Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Digest of Laws and Ordinances Concerning Philadelphia, with Notes of Decisions and City Solicitors' Opinions Relating Thereto, 1701-1904 written by Philadelphia (Pa.). and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
