Download or read book Yacht and Rowing Club Buttons written by Roger Revell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed study of buttons used by British yacht and rowing clubs, covering a period of some two hundred years. The book will be of interest to members of yacht and boat clubs, as well as to collectors needing information on identity, age, and values of these early buttons. Descriptions and illustrations are included for nearly a hundred and eighty buttons, used by nearly a hundred and sixty clubs. The study gives brief histories of individual organisations, and includes many useful appendices for identifying and dating buttons. Many of the buttons are illustrated and described for the first time in print.

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Download or read book Glen Cove written by Joan Harrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated on the beautiful north shore of Long Island, the city of Glen Cove is known as "the heart of the Gold Coast" and has a long and intricate history, dating back to its founding in 1668. The city's unique history follows a community that has been simultaneously rural, industrial, and suburban, with great factories alongside the sprawling country estates of wealthy families such as the Pratts and Morgans. Irish, Polish, and Italian immigrants came to work in the factories and build the estates, settling in the community and creating one of the most ethnically and economically diverse communities in America.

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Download or read book Great Yachts of Long Island s North Shore written by Robert B. MacKay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the 20th century, Long Islands North Shore, the so-called Gold Coast, was becoming the most desirable residential area in the United States. Estates belonging to American captains of finance and industry lined the bluffs and bays from the city line to Eatons Neck. Some of the nations most renowned familiesincluding the Astors, Bakers, Huttons, Morgans, Pratts, Sloans, Roosevelts, Whitneys, and Vanderbiltsused their yachts for racing, cruising, commuting, or epic voyages. These vessels regularly plied the waters of the North Shore and bolstered the development of yacht clubs like the New York and Seawanhaka Corinthiancity institutions that established stations at Glen Cove and Centre Island, respectively. These clubs served to provide many outlets for the social gatherings that accompanied this pastime. Although the Great Depression and then World War II would bring the era of the great yachts to an end, a wealth of images remain that can be marveled at a century later.

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