Download or read book Annual Report of the Directors of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum written by Redwood Library and Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum written by Redwood Library and Athenaeum (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report written by Redwood Library and Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum written by George Champlin Mason and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Sketch of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport Rhode Island written by David King and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Redwood Library and Athen um in Newport R I written by Redwood Library and Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Printed Book Catalogue in American Libraries 1723 1900 written by Jim Ranz and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1964 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Past Preserved written by Barbra Buckner Higginbotham and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higginbotham traces the development of such techniques as care and handling of library materials; pest control; repair and binding; emergency planning; and temperature control, lighting, and other environmental safeguards. While her primary focus is books, she also looks at pamphlets, periodicals, and maps, as well as the influence of rare book and manuscript handling on preservation techniques. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Library as Place written by Geoffrey T. Freeman and published by Council on Library & Information Resources. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.
Download or read book 740 Park written by Michael Gross and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of House of Outrageous Fortune For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. The last great building to go up along New York’s Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most powerful families, some of America’s (and the world’s) oldest money—the kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier, Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton, and Harkness—and some whose names evoke the excesses of today’s monied elite: Kravis, Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman. All along, the building has housed titans of industry, political power brokers, international royalty, fabulous scam-artists, and even the lowest scoundrels. The book begins with the tumultuous story of the building’s construction. Conceived in the bubbling financial, artistic, and social cauldron of 1920’s Manhattan, 740 Park rose to its dizzying heights as the stock market plunged in 1929—the building was in dire financial straits before the first apartments were sold. The builders include the architectural genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s grandfather), and a raft of financiers, many of whom were little more than white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers. Once finished, 740 became a magnet for the richest, oldest families in the country: the Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the Plymouth Colony; the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins, Scovilles, Thornes, and Schermerhorns; and top executives of the Chase Bank, American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the walls of 740 Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and economically. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. As the social climate evolved throughout the last century, so did 740 Park: after World War II, the building’s rulers eased their more restrictive policies and began allowing Jews (though not to this day African Americans) to reside within their hallowed walls. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. At its core this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old bloodlines to new money. But it’s also much more than that: filled with meaty, startling, often tragic stories of the people who lived behind 740’s walls, the book gives us an unprecedented access to worlds of wealth, privilege, and extraordinary folly that are usually hidden behind a scrim of money and influence. This is, truly, how the other half—or at least the other one hundredth of one percent—lives.
Download or read book Maryland Historical Magazine written by William Hand Browne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Download or read book Preserving Historic New England written by James Michael Lindgren and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resisting not simply this avalanche of change but the amateurish romanticism of fellow antiquaries, Appleton founded the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1910.
