Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut
Author: Dwight Loomis
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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History of Piscataquis County, Maine
Author: Amasa Loring
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Category : Piscataquis County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : Piscataquis County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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My Life in China and America
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas Larned
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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History of Monson, Massachusetts
Author: Monson Historical Society (Mass.)
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Category : Monson (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Monson (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Reminiscenses
Author: Sylvester Barbour
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Category : Canton (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Canton (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Race Underground
Author: Doug Most
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466842008
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York-pursued the dream of his city digging America's first subway, and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, life-changing innovations, class warfare, bitter political tensions, and the question of America's place in the world.The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from brilliant engineers to the countless "sandhogs" who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their way into the earth's crust, sometimes losing their lives in the construction of the tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the science of the subway, looks at the centuries of fears people overcame about traveling underground and tells a story as exciting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, their rich, powerful and sometimes corrupt interests, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466842008
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York-pursued the dream of his city digging America's first subway, and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, life-changing innovations, class warfare, bitter political tensions, and the question of America's place in the world.The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from brilliant engineers to the countless "sandhogs" who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their way into the earth's crust, sometimes losing their lives in the construction of the tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the science of the subway, looks at the centuries of fears people overcame about traveling underground and tells a story as exciting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, their rich, powerful and sometimes corrupt interests, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass
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Category : Theological seminaries
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Theological seminaries
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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History and Alumni Record of the State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass., to July, 1876
Author: Albert Gardner Boyden
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Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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