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Author : Harry Davidow Boonin
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia written by Harry Davidow Boonin and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Margaret Anderson with John J. Binder
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467121177
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s written by Anne Margaret Anderson with John J. Binder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s explores a little-known but spirited chapter of the Quaker City's history. The hoodlums, hucksters, and racketeers of Prohibition-era Philadelphia sold bootleg booze, peddled illicit drugs, ran numbers, and operated prostitution and insurance rings. Among the fascinating personalities that created and contributed to the Philadelphia crime scene of the 1920s and 1930s were empire builders like Mickey Duffy, known as "Prohibition's Mr. Big," and Max "Boo Boo" Hoff, dubbed the "King of the Bootleggers"; the violent Lanzetti brothers, who ran their own illegal enterprise; mobster Harry "Nig Rosen" Stromberg, a New York transplant; and the arsenic widows poison ring, which specialized in fraud and murder. Bringing to light rare photographs and forgotten characters, the authors chronicle the underworld of Philadelphia in the interwar era. The upheaval caused by the gangs and groups herein mirrors the frenzied cultural and political shifts of the Roaring Twenties and the austere 1930s.
Author : Joseph Minardi
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764341984
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia written by Joseph Minardi and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia is a colorful and comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of the Wissahickon Valley, and the people who made it possible with a locally sourced building stone, the Wissahickon schist. The simple stone structures of Germantown's origins as a village of German immigrants laid the groundwork for the more elaborate buildings for Philadelphia's rising mercantile class that followed. From the colonial period to the 1930s, this architectural tour explores 450 structures, many still standing and well preserved, in the area from Wayne Junction in Germantown to Northwest Avenue in Chestnut Hill. A wide variety of architectural styles and influences are captured in nearly 750 modern day and archival images, including the Georgian, Colonial, and Federal styles of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the Revival of those styles and others; Italianate; Second Empire; and Romantic Eclecticism. This extensive architectural review is ideal for architects, historians, and residents of Northwest Philadelphia.
Author : Aaron V. Wunsch
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616895624
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Palazzos of Power written by Aaron V. Wunsch and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey "solidity and immensity" in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a "blight" in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers. The first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, Palazzos of Power offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's beautiful large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
Author : Joseph Minardi
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764337710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Historic Architecture in West Philadelphia, 1789-1930s written by Joseph Minardi and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West of the Schuylkill River, what was once Blockley and Kingsessing Townships is now West Philadelphia. Here is a comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of neighborhoods in and around University City and biographies of the architects who made it possible. In more than 500 images, see this area of the "City of Brotherly Love" transition from humble beginnings as a collection of sprawling farms and dusty hamlets to a streetcar suburb for upwardly mobile types looking to escape the old city and a haven for esteemed educational institutions. Packed with archival images, maps, and color photos, the book covers Cedar Park to Powelton Village, chronicling the charm and elegance found in West Philadelphia's architecture, much of which is still on public display. Examples include Second Empire, Victorian, Queen Anne, Collegiate Gothic, and Italianate styles. This is a global and historic review ideal for architects, urban planners, historians, and of course residents of Blockley and Kingsessing.
Author : James B. Garrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Houses of Philadelphia written by James B. Garrison and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines 40 properties in detail with over 300 archival and contemporary photographs, drawings, and floor plans." -- Dust jacket.
Author : James Wolfinger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807878103
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Divided written by James Wolfinger and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics. As racial divisions fractured the working class, he argues, Republican leaders exploited these racial fissures to reposition their party as the champion of ordinary white citizens besieged by black demands and overwhelmed by liberal government orders. By analyzing Philadelphia's workplaces and neighborhoods, Wolfinger shows the ways in which politics played out on the personal level. People's experiences in their jobs and homes, he argues, fundamentally shaped how they thought about the crucial political issues of the day, including the New Deal and its relationship to the American people, the meaning of World War II in a country with an imperfect democracy, and the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s. As Wolfinger demonstrates, internal fractures in New Deal liberalism, the roots of modern conservatism, and the politics of race were all deeply intertwined. Their interplay highlights how the Republican Party reinvented itself in the mid-twentieth century by using race-based politics to destroy the Democrats' fledgling multiracial alliance while simultaneously building a coalition of its own.
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.
Author : United States. Wickersham Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1790 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report on the Cost of Administration of Criminal Justice ... written by United States. Wickersham Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library ... written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, National Library of Medicine written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library) written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
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Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, National Library of Medicine: Subjects N-Z written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1985: Department of Transportation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1985 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
