Author: Issachar CozzensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Geological History of Manhattan Or New York Island
Author: Issachar CozzensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The First One Hundred Years of American Geology
Author: George Perkins MerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of London. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Before Central Park
Author: Sara Cedar MillerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.
Bibliotheca Americana Et Philippina
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Maggs BrosCatalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of The Franklin Institute
Author: Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1902-1906 ...
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description