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Book Route  Resorts  and Resources of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway  of Virginia and West Virginia

Download or read book Route Resorts and Resources of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Virginia and West Virginia written by Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Download or read book The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway written by James E. Casto and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1860s, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) pushed its first tracks westward from Virginia's Tidewater region across the mountains into what was then the new state of West Virginia. Ultimately its tracks stretched across a half-dozen states and even into Canada. Appalachian coal was the C&O's primary cargo, but its fast freights carried shipments of all kinds, and its crack passenger trains were marvels of their day. In 1963, the C&O merged with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the first of what would become a wave of railroad mergers. Today the old C&O is part of giant CSX Transportation. Images of Rail: The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway gathers 200 photographs that chronicle the C&O story. Here is a fond look back at its mammoth steam locomotives and the diesels that replaced them, its bustling passenger stations, and much more, including the legendary John Henry, who beat that steam drill, and Chessie, the sleeping kitten that was the C&O's much-loved trademark.

Book Our American Resorts

Download or read book Our American Resorts written by Louis M. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrating the Landscape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew N. Johnston
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 0806154969
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Narrating the Landscape written by Matthew N. Johnston and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period’s landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age’s defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology. Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature, reports of geological surveys, ethnographic studies: all of these new print vehicles brought new meanings to the interplay of time, space, and place as American continental expansion peaked. Instrumental to that project of national and industrial growth, these commercial and scientific publications introduced readers, travelers, and citizens to a changing North American landscape made more accessible by new travel routes blazed between 1825 and 1875. More fundamentally, as Johnston shows in his nuanced analysis, by simulating new temporal frameworks through their presentation of landscape, these print materials established new models of consumption and new kinds of knowledge critical to expansion. Johnston relates these sources to traditional art historical subjects—the landscapes of the Hudson River school, luminist paintings by John Kensett and William Trost Richards, Native portraits painted by George Catlin, and photographs by Timothy O’Sullivan—to show how key discourses associated with expansion shifted away from picturesque strategies pairing imagery and narrative toward entirely new forms that gave temporal structure to viewers’ experience of an emerging modernity. Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

Book Weekly Modern Miller

Download or read book Weekly Modern Miller written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Resorts  and How to Reach Them

Download or read book Popular Resorts and How to Reach Them written by John Badger Bachelder and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book Correspondence Between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company  and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company

Download or read book Correspondence Between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company written by Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company regarding a dispute regarding the right of way for their respective works along the Potomac River.

Book Coalfield Jews

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah R. Weiner
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2006-09-22
  • ISBN : 0252073355
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Coalfield Jews written by Deborah R. Weiner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.

Book Medical Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Medical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Digest

Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life

Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Dixie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reiko Hillyer
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2014-12-29
  • ISBN : 0813936713
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Designing Dixie written by Reiko Hillyer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko Hillyer shows how these boosters crafted distinctive local pasts designed to promote their economic futures and to attract northern tourists and investors. Neither romanticizing the Old South nor appealing to Lost Cause ideology, promoters of New South industrialization used urban design to construct particular relationships to each city’s southern, slaveholding, and Confederate pasts. Drawing on the approaches of cultural history, landscape studies, and the history of memory, Hillyer shows how the southern tourist destinations of St. Augustine, Richmond, and Atlanta deployed historical imagery to attract northern investment. St. Augustine’s Spanish Renaissance Revival resorts muted the town’s Confederate past and linked northern investment in the city to the tradition of imperial expansion. Richmond boasted its colonial and Revolutionary heritage, depicting its industrial development as an outgrowth of national destiny. Atlanta’s use of northern architectural language displaced the southern identity of the city and substituted a narrative of long-standing allegiance to a modern industrial order. With its emphases on alternative southern pasts, architectural design, tourism, and political economy, Designing Dixie significantly revises our understandings of both southern historical memory and post–Civil War sectional reconciliation.

Book The Christian Union

Download or read book The Christian Union written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The School Journal

Download or read book The School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York School Journal

Download or read book New York School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excursion Guide of the Virginia Midland Railway

Download or read book Excursion Guide of the Virginia Midland Railway written by Virginia Midland Railway and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Book The National Druggist

Download or read book The National Druggist written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: