Download or read book A Bird s eye View of Greater New York and Its Most Magnificent Store written by Siegel-Cooper Company and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Bird s Eye View of Greater New York and Its Most Magnificent Store written by Siegel-Cooper Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Bird's-Eye View of Greater New York and Its Most Magnificent Store: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Visitors' Guide to Greater New York, Its Myriad Sights and Scenes, and Its Grandest Emporium of Commerce, the Big Store of Siegel-Cooper Co Queens and It embraces some forty-odd small towns and villages, threaded together by ferry and rai road. Brooklyn and its many suburbs, and Staten Island, separated by a wide stretch of navigable water, are now a part of the city itself. Of the history of the political struggle that resulted in the passage of the bill at Albany it is sufficient to say that the bill for the consolidation of the Greater New York was passed in 1896, and the charter in 1897. The charter went into effect on the first of January, 1898. City government. Very briefly, the city govern ment of Greater New York consists of a mayor (salary, $15, 000; term of office, 4 years; of'ficial headquarters, the City Hall), and a Municipal Assembly, in which there is an upper and a lower house. The upper house is the Council, it which there are twenty-nine members, chosen by the electors of the city. The President of the Council is elected by the city at large, to hold office for four years, with a salary of The other twenty-eight members are elected for four years, with a salary of a year. Each is chosen within a council district, in which he is a resident. The whole city is divided into ten council districts, of which there is one in the Borough of the Bronx, four in Manhattan, three in Brooklyn, one in Queens, and one in Richmond. Three councilors are chosen in each of the council districts of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, and two in Queens and in Richmond. The lower house is called the Board of Aldermen. It con sists of 60 members, one of whom is elected in each of the Assembly Districts. Their term of office is two years, the salary, These, with borough boards, boards of local improvement in each of the 22 Senate Districts, and the officials of 18 city departments, constitute the executive of the government of Greater New York. The city has a municipal debt of an average burden of $56 per capita. The municipal expenditures require a year. The municipal employees form an army of larger than the regular army of the United States. Of these, wear the policeman's blue, and form-the street cleaners' brigade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Birds eye View of Greater New York and Its Most Magnificent Store written by Stuart Charles Wade and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Birds eye View of Greater New York and Its Most Magnificent Store written by Stuart Charles Wade and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Birds Eye View of Greater New York and Its Most Magnificent Store Being a Concise and Comprehensive Visitors Guide to Greater New York written by Stuart Charles Wade and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... summer weather, the balance of the day can well be spent sailing down the Bay on a Coney Island steamer, up the Hudson von any of the numerous excursions), or along the Sound to Glen Island. Coney Island, with its Bohemian freedom, cosmopolitan assemblage, and excellent sea-bathing, has the advantage of being near at hand. But the various excursions and nearby resorts will be found fully described in Chapter VIII. The advertisements in the daily newspapers give the best information of regular and special excursions, and also contain particulars as to time and place of starting, price, etc. THIRD DAY. The business and shopping centers of the city will necessarily be included in the sights of Xew York. Let us start on Broadway at Aid st., and walk southward. Here are the Metropolitan Opera House, the Casino, the handsome building of the New York '. Herald," (notice the presses and machinery through the glass side-windows), Herald Square Theater. Koster and Bial's Music Hall (on 34th st. west of Broadway), and Greeley sq., with the statue of the great editor of the " Tribune." The stores, with an occasional theater or hotel, now occupy the attention. Every conceivable kind of goods is displayed. Let us pass southward, past Pelmonico's. the Hoffman House, and the palatial white front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Then 23d st. westward, or to the right hand, brings us to the shopping center. Sixth ave. is reached, aml southward, occupying the entire block from 20th to 19th sts.. rises that monument of Greater New York's greatest commercial enterprise--The Big Store of Siegel-Cooper Company. To visit Greater New York without inspecting this, its greatest store, would be like playing Hamlet with Hamlet left out of the cast. The...
Download or read book The Urban Department Store in America 1850 1930 written by Dr Louisa Iarocci and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the brick and mortar to reconsider how the ‘spaces of selling’ were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces.
Download or read book The Urban Department Store in America 1850 930 written by Louisa Iarocci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Louisa Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the bricks and mortar to reconsider how the ?spaces of selling? were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces. The agenda of the book is three-fold; to address the lack of a comprehensive architectural study of the nineteenth century department store in the United States; to expand the analysis of the commercial city as a built and represented entity; and to continue recent scholarly efforts that seek to understand commercial space as a historically specific and a conceptually perceived construct. The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930 acts as a corrective to a current imbalance in the historiography of this retailing institution that tends to privilege its role as an autonomous ?modern? building type. Instead, Iarocci documents the development of the department store as an urban institution that grew out of the built space of the city and the lived spaces of its occupants.
Download or read book Designing the Department Store written by Emily M. Orr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book builds an original argument for the department store as a significant site of design production, and therefore offers an alternative interpretation to the mainstream focus on consumption within retail history. Emily M. Orr presents a fresh perspective on the rise of modern urban consumer culture, of which the department store was a key feature. By investigating the production processes of display as well as fascinating information about display-making's tools and technologies, the skills of the displayman and the meaning and context of design decisions which shaped the final visual effect are revealed. In addition, the book identifies and isolates 'display' as a distinct moment in the life of the commodity, and understands it as an influential channel of mediation in the shopping experience. The assembly and interpretation of a diverse range of previously unexplored primary resources and archives yields fascinating new evidence, showing how display achieved an agency which transformed everyday objects into commodities and made consumers out of passersby.
Download or read book Land of Desire written by William R. Leach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.
Download or read book Bird s Eye Views written by John W. Reps and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new towns and cities spread across the American frontier in the nineteenth century, itinerant artists soon followed, documenting these growing urban centers by drawing aerial perspectives, also known as bird's eye views. Commissioned by land speculators, local businesses, civic organizations, and individual citizens, these renderings fostered both civic pride and local commerce. The use of color lithography, a recent invention popularized by such prominent publishers as Currier & Ives, allowed the inexpensive reproduction of the highest-quality drawings, so that a bird's eye view was within the financial budget of even the smallest towns. These extraordinarily detailed lithographs eventually numbered in the thousands and now serve as a rich pictorial record of North America as it stood a century ago. This sequel to our highly acclaimed title An Atlas of Rare City Maps collects over 100 views dating between 1835 and 1902, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges, waterways, and surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns and mining camps. Baltimore, Brooklyn, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Montreal, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Syracuse, and Washington are just a few of the cities presented in this collection. The exquisite color and fine detail of these bird's eye views have been reproduced in all their original glory; also included is an introduction by John W. Reps providing a background on the artistic process and on urban development in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Cycling City written by Evan Friss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.
Download or read book Fodor s 25 Best Las Vegas written by Jackie Staddon and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top25 Must-See Sights Best bets for dining, lodging, sightseeing. Plus a full-color pullout map. Everything you need to experience Las Vegas. • Top lodging and dining picks for every budget • The hottest hotel-casinos all along the Strip • Sophisticated bistros, celebrity-chef outposts, steakhouses, and buffets • Dazzling shows, live comedy, lounges, and trendy dance clubs • Glam resort boutiques, outlet malls, must-have kitschy souvenirs • Kid-friendly attractions, from Shark Reef to King Tut's Tomb • Beyond the neon: the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Red Rock Insider tips • Expert Advice The authors: Jackie Staddon and Hilary Weston are passionate about travel writing and have contributed to many guides covering destinations in Europe and the United States.
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