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Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington State Society Publisher: ISBN: 9781684182145 Category : Historic sites Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
This book is a pictorial and historical guide to over 150 Washington State historical markers sponsored or supported by the Washington State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (WSSDAR). Each of these markers is a tiny bit of digestible history and this book is intended to be a roadside companion for your exploration of the state. The markers commemorate historic events; buildings and sites; they honor Native Americans, pioneers, heroes, civic leaders, military leaders and other special people in the State of Washington and the US. They honor our country, flag, and people. You can find these most of these markers along public roadsides or in public parks and they are scattered statewide, from north to south and east to west, including 26 of the 39 counties. And the markers have been organized by county and most markers in the collection include at least one photo, the GPS location, history of the marker, and the actual inscription on the marker.
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington State Society Publisher: ISBN: 9781684182145 Category : Historic sites Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
This book is a pictorial and historical guide to over 150 Washington State historical markers sponsored or supported by the Washington State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (WSSDAR). Each of these markers is a tiny bit of digestible history and this book is intended to be a roadside companion for your exploration of the state. The markers commemorate historic events; buildings and sites; they honor Native Americans, pioneers, heroes, civic leaders, military leaders and other special people in the State of Washington and the US. They honor our country, flag, and people. You can find these most of these markers along public roadsides or in public parks and they are scattered statewide, from north to south and east to west, including 26 of the 39 counties. And the markers have been organized by county and most markers in the collection include at least one photo, the GPS location, history of the marker, and the actual inscription on the marker.
Author: University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History Publisher: ISBN: Category : Historical markers Languages : en Pages : 318
Author: Daniel Brown Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493022016 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasma-like glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames. In some instances, "fire whirls," or tornadoes of fire, danced out from the main body of the fire to knock down buildings and carry flaming debris into the sky. Temperatures reached 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit--the melting point of steel. As the fire surrounded the town, two railroads became the only means of escape. Two trains ran the gauntlet of fire. One train caught on fire from one end to the other. The heroic young African-American porter ran up and down the length of the train, reassuring the passengers even as the flames tore at their clothes. On the other train, the engineer refused to back his locomotive out of town until the last possible minute of escape. In all, more than 400 people died, leading to a revolution in forestry management practices and federal agencies that monitor and fight wildfires today. Author Daniel Brown has woven together numerous survivors' stories, historical sources, and interviews with forest fire experts in a gripping narrative that tells the fascinating story of one of North America's most devastating fires and how it changed the nation.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Publisher: Soyinfo Center ISBN: 1948436000 Category : Nitrogen Languages : en Pages : 1129
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This is the world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 91 photographs and illustrations - mostly color, Free of charge.
Author: Cynthia Mills Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1935623389 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 419
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Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art historian Cynthia Mills traces the stories of four families who memorialized their losses through sculpture. Henry Brooks Adams commissioned perhaps the most famous American cemetery monument of all, the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C. The bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation’s foremost sculptor. Another innovative bronze monument featured the Milmore brothers, who had worked together as sculptors in the Boston area. Artist Frank Duveneck composed a recumbent portrait of his wife following her early death in Paris; in Rome, the aging William Wetmore Story made an angel of grief his last work as a symbol of his sheer desolation after his wife’s death. Through these incredible monuments Mills explores questions like: Why did new forms--many of them now produced in bronze rather than stone and placed in architectural settings--arise just at this time, and how did they mesh or clash with the sensibilities of their era? Why was there a gap between the intention of these elite patrons and artists, whose lives were often intertwined in a closed circle, and the way some public audiences received them through the filter of the mass media? Beyond Grief traces the monuments' creation, influence, and reception in the hope that they will help us to understand the larger story: how survivors used cemetery memorials as a vehicle to mourn and remember, and how their meaning changed over time.
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington State Society
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington State Society
Author: University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History
Author: Southold Historical Society (N.Y.)
Author: University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History
Author: Daniel Brown
Author: South Dakota State Historical Society
Author: Nueces County Historical Commission (Nueces County, Tex.)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Author: Cynthia Mills
Author: Robert C. Allen