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Book Color Key to North American Birds

Download or read book Color Key to North American Birds written by Frank Michler Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Pacific Bulletin

Download or read book Southern Pacific Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Pacific s Shasta Division

Download or read book Southern Pacific s Shasta Division written by John R. Signor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sellwood Bridge  SE Tacoma Street and Oregon State Highway 43  Multnomah County

Download or read book Sellwood Bridge SE Tacoma Street and Oregon State Highway 43 Multnomah County written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southern Pacific  1901 1985

Download or read book The Southern Pacific 1901 1985 written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword

Book Brotherhoods of Color

Download or read book Brotherhoods of Color written by Eric ARNESEN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of African Americans on the railroad. African Americans have been a part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial victory. In a sweeping narrative, Arnesen re-creates the heroic efforts by black locomotive firemen, brakemen, porters, dining car waiters, and redcaps to fight a pervasive system of racism and job discrimination fostered by their employers, white co-workers, and the unions that legally represented them even while barring them from membership. Decades before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the mid-1950s, black railroaders forged their own brand of civil rights activism, organizing their own associations, challenging white trade unions, and pursuing legal redress through state and federal courts. In recapturing black railroaders' voices, aspirations, and challenges, Arnesen helps to recast the history of black protest and American labor in the twentieth century. Table of Contents: Prologue 1. Race in the First Century of American Railroading 2. Promise and Failure in the World War I Era 3. The Black Wedge of Civil Rights Unionism 4. Independent Black Unionism in Depression and War 5. The Rise of the Red Caps 6. The Politics of Fair Employment 7. The Politics of Fair Representation 8. Black Railroaders in the Modern Era Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index Reviews of this book: In this superbly written monograph, Arnesen...shows how African American railroad workers combined civil rights and labor union activism in their struggles for racial equality in the workplace...Throughout, black locomotive firemen, porters, yardmen, and other railroaders speak eloquently about the work they performed and their confrontations with racist treatment...This history of the 'aristocrats' of the African American working class is highly recommended. --Charles L. Lumpkins, Library Journal Reviews of this book: Arnesen provides a fascinating look at U.S. labor and commerce in the arena of the railroads, so much a part of romantic notions about the growth of the nation. The focus of the book is the troubled history of the railroads in the exploitation of black workers from slavery until the civil rights movement, with an insightful analysis of the broader racial integration brought about by labor activism. --Vanessa Bush, Booklist Reviews of this book: [An] exhaustive and illuminating work of scholarship. --Publishers Weekly Reviews of this book: Arnesen tells a story that should be of interest to a variety of readers, including those who are avid students of this country's railroads. He knows his stuff, and furthermore, reminds us of how dependent American railroads were on the backbreaking labor of racial and ethnic groups whose civil and political status were precarious at best: Irish, Chinese, Mexicans and Italians, as well as African-Americans. But Arnesen's most powerful and provocative argument is that the nature of discrimination not only led black railroad workers to pursue the path of independent unionism, it also propelled them into the larger struggle for civil rights. --Steven Hahn, Chicago Tribune

Book The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles  1873 1996

Download or read book The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles 1873 1996 written by Larry Mullaly and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the fascinating story of how steel rails transformed an isolated ranching and agricultural center into the West's greatest city. An unforgettable walk through time recaptures the West's most powerful railroad.

Book Tabulation of Statistics Pertaining to Block Signals  Interlocking Plants and the Telegraph and the Telephone for Transmission of Train Orders as Used on the Railroads of the United States

Download or read book Tabulation of Statistics Pertaining to Block Signals Interlocking Plants and the Telegraph and the Telephone for Transmission of Train Orders as Used on the Railroads of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic North American Locomotives

Download or read book Historic North American Locomotives written by Ken Boyd and published by Kalmbach Publishing Co. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic North American Locomotives traces the historic development of North American locomotives from the early 1800s through today. Considered a photographic book with the look and feel of fine art, 100 locomotives are profiled using descriptive text and richly detailed and colored photographic imagery. A well-researched introduction provides the reader with a historical perspective. The author/photographer includes high-quality photographs, created through various techniques that vividly capture the distinctive features of the locomotives. From the 1805 Trevithick portable boiler to modern, high-speed locomotives such as the 2013 GE Genesis, the reader will enjoy viewing a variety of locomotives that are not usually shown together in one book.

Book Southern Pacific Passenger Trains

Download or read book Southern Pacific Passenger Trains written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of American Trade unions

Download or read book Handbook of American Trade unions written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America

Download or read book National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America written by Jon Lloyd Dunn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide delivers selected information on every species found from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division written by New York Public Library. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railway Age Gazette

Download or read book Railway Age Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1941-04-14
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  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1941-04-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Red Book

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  • Release : 1905
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  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book Red Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: