Download or read book Picture History of Aviation on Long Island 1908 1938 written by George C. Dade and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 rare photos, detailed captions recall exploits of Lindbergh, Curtiss, other pioneers, technological breakthroughs, endurance records, many aviation milestones. Introduction.
Download or read book Picture History of Early Aviation 1903 1913 written by Joshua Stoff and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully researched text, lavishly illustrated with over 250 photos, introduce early pioneers of flight: Otto Lilienthal, Samuel Langley, Octave Chanute, Louis Bleriot, the Wright Brothers, many other aviation pioneers.
Download or read book The Long Island Rail Road in Early Photographs written by Ron Ziel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating text-and-photo documentary details economic, social upheaval following inauguration of Long Island Rail Road's service in 1844. 225 rare photos provide splendid views of early coaches, locomotives, snow-removal operations, stations, passengers, crew, much more. Extensive captions.
Download or read book Picture History of American Passenger Ships written by William H., Jr. Miller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVMore than 100 ships documented, including Leviathan, America, Independence, President Polk, and United States. Detailed captions list tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs. /div
Download or read book Nassau County Long Island in Early Photographs 1869 1940 written by Bette S. Weidman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 175 vintage photos recall aspects of life on Long Island from post-Civil War to modern era. Village life, agriculture, local industries, celebrities, early aviation and movie industries, fabulous estates, beaches, much more. Unique document of early Nassau and pioneer photography. Full informative captions. Introduction. Indices.
Download or read book Women in Long Island s Past written by Natalie A. Naylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.
Download or read book The Long Island Historical Journal written by Roger Wunderlich and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein written by Arthur Rothstein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding 1930s photos: famous dust storm photo, ragged children, the unemployed, much more. 120 photographs. Captions.
Download or read book Children of the Past in Photographic Portraits written by Alison Mager and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture a glimpse of yesteryear with these 165 studio photos of American and European children from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Download or read book War Bird Ace written by Jack Stokes Ballard and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capt. Field E. Kindley, with the famous Eddie Rickenbacker, was one of America’s foremost World War I flying aces. Like Rickenbacker’s, Kindley’s story is one of fierce dogfights, daring aerial feats, and numerous brushes with death. Yet unlike Rickenbacker’s, Kindley’s story has not been fully told until now. Field Kindley gained experience with the RAF before providing leadership for the U.S. Air Service. Kindley was the fourth-ranking American air ace; his exploits earned him a Distinguished Service Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster from the United States and a Distinguished Flying Cross from the British government. In February 1920, during a practice drill Kindley led, some enlisted men unwittingly entered the bombing target area. “Buzzing” the troops to warn them off the field, Kindley somehow lost control of his plane and died in the ensuing crash. Using arduously gathered primary materials and accounts of Great War aces, Jack Ballard tells the story of this little-known hero from the glory days of aerial warfare. Through this tale, an era and a daring flyer live again.
Download or read book The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs written by Ulrich Keller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the canal's construction unfolds in a compelling narrative of risks, hardships, disasters, and triumph. More than 160 historic photographs document the hitherto unparalleled technological achievement, depicting exotic settings, workers' housing, Canal Zone's internal government, dredging operations, and other scenes from a true story of adventure, revolution, ordeal, and accomplishment.
Download or read book History of the American Steam Fire Engine written by William T. King and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 rare illustrations depict more than 70 antique fire engines with steam-powered pumps - from the very first one, built in 1829, to the end of the 19th century. Include the Braithwaite's 'Comet'; the Manhattan No. 8 of New York City; the Hurricane No. 13 of Philadelpia; the Northern Liberty, No. 8, of Bosto; more.
Download or read book Children s Fashions of the Past in Photographs written by Alison Mager and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture a glimpse of yesteryear with these 165 studio photos of American and European children from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Download or read book Lindbergh written by Leonard Mosley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly readable biography, best-selling author Leonard Mosley offers a fascinating account of Lindbergh's childhood, days as a barnstormer and mail pilot, the flight to Paris and its aftermath, the Hauptmann trial, his later life, and much more. Source Notes. Index. 40 halftone illustrations.
Download or read book Driving Horse Drawn Carriages for Pleasure written by Francis T. Underhill and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining guidebook offers wealth of information about horses, harnesses, coaches, stables and liveries. Over 100 captioned photographs of carts, landaus, phaetons, broughams, more.
Download or read book History of Air Cargo and Airmail from the 18th Century written by Camille Allaz and published by Google Consultant. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was first published in French by the Institut du Transport Aerien in 1998 and received very favourable reviews. Through the publication of the English language edition, this remarkable work is now accessible to many more readers around the world. In addition, the author has expanded the book with new sections and he has extensively updated it to bring the story of air cargo into the twenty first century, concluding with a look into the future. The author, Camille Allaz, served as Senior Vice President Cargo at Air France for 10 years which gave him an insider's close-up view of his subject, a privilege not enjoyed by many historians. There is no aspect of mail or cargo transport by air that has not been thoroughly researched and documented by Allaz, from the first brief transport of animals by balloon in France in 1783 to the vast global networks of the integrated express carriers in the 21st century. As a true scholar, he fits his narrative into the larger framework of political, military, economic and aviation history. This book should stand for years as the definitive work on the history of air cargo and airmail, and will be of immense value to the academic community, to the air cargo industry, the postal services, and to the general public.
