Download or read book Garnered Sheaves from the Writings of Albert D Richardson written by Albert Deane Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Garnered Sheaves from the Writings of Albert D Richardson written by Albert Deane Richardson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 114 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. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...hair against minute particles floating about like flour in a grist-mill. The walls, as in all other rooms where machinery is running by steam, exhibit placards: " LADIES MUST nor WEAR FULL Sxnrrs IN 'THIS Room." The order originated in the serious injury of one, through her dress catching in a wheel. So through working hours limp skirts hang upon forlorn figures. But in passing the dressing-rooms and alcoves we notice that each, with its long rows of nails, is a museum of hoops, all waiting to be donned at the close of the dayiwhen the Bureau is still. If every private household is entitled to one skeleton in its closet, two or three hundred is not more than a fair allowance for the Treasury Department. i Here is a numbering-room. A dozen girls sit at tiny machines worked by trcadles. One takes a bond----you see it moving hither and thither in her swift hand under the swift stamp--" click--click--click"--and quicker than the ticking of a watch, the number " 194,642" is printed in Vermilion successively upon it, and on all its forty coupons. She touches a spring; the final type " 2 " changes to a " 3," and again the busy little press clicks over another. The girl by her side has a sheet of i $10's on the First National Bank of Portland. Down on the lower left hand corner of the first note is the bank number " 39." On the upper right hand corner she impresses the Department number " 200,242." So the busy steel workers click on, numbering millions of dollars daily. The separating room is, perhaps, most interesting of all. Here are Clark's cutting and trimming machines, in which the Bureau had its origin. A sheet of fractional currency contains...
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Download or read book A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Literature of the republic pt 4 1861 1888 written by Edmund Clarence Stedman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Manhood Factories written by Paula Lupkin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the United States and in major cities around the world. Dubbed "manhood factories" by Teddy Roosevelt, these iconic buildings served as athletic centers and residential facilities for a rapidly growing urban male population. In Manhood Factories, Paula Lupkin goes behind the reserved Beaux-Arts facades of typical YMCA buildings constructed in this period to understand the urban anxieties, moral agendas, and conceptions of masculinity that guided their design, construction, and use. She shows that YMCA patrons like J. P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick Jr., and John Wanamaker hoped to create "Christian clubhouses" that would counteract the corrupting influences of the city. At first designed by leading American architects, including James Renwick Jr. and William Le Baron Jenney, and then standardized by the YMCA's own building bureau, YMCAs combined elements of men's clubs, department stores, hotels, and Sunday schools. Every aspect of the building process was informed by this mission, Lupkin argues, from raising funds, selecting the site and the architect, determining the exterior style, arranging and furnishing interior spaces, and representing the buildings in postcards and other printed materials. Beginning with the early history of the YMCA and the construction of New York City's landmark Twenty-third Street YMCA of 1869, Lupkin follows the efforts of YMCA leaders to shape a modern yet moral public culture and even define class, race, ethnicity, and gender through its buildings. Illustrated with many rarely seen photographs, maps, and drawings, Manhood Factories offers a fascinating new perspective on a venerable institution and its place in America's cultural and architectural history.
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