Author: New York (City). World's fair commission, New York world's fair, 1939-1940Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Official Guide to City of New York Exhibit Building, New York World's Fair, 1939-1940
Author: New York (City). World's fair commission, New York world's fair, 1939-1940Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Official Guide to City of New York Exhibit Building
Author: Municipal Reference Library Notes
Author: New York Public Library. Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
New York Advancing
Author: Rebecca Browning RankinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Official Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition ...
Author: John Joseph FlinnPublisher:
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The New York World's Fair, 1939/1940
Author: Richard WurtsPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317897
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Photographic tour of best-loved world's fair: the 700-foot-tall Trylon, the 200-foot-wide Perisphere, GM's Futurama ride, 3-D movies, Elektro the 7-foot-tall robot, artwork by Dali and Calder, much more. 155 photographs, map.
Official Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition in the City of Chicago ...
Author: John Joseph FlinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
Author: Architecture of Instruction and Delight
Author: Pieter van WesemaelPublisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064503832
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
A True Politician
Author: Barry W. SeaverPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Rebecca Browning Rankin was a politician in the best sense of the word. She supervised the New York Municipal Reference Library for 32 years until her retirement in 1952. Serving in many key policy-making positions, both on mayoral committees and in professional organizations, Rankin was an excellent lobbyist for the role of information in educating the electorate. She published over fifty articles and books on aspects of city government and libraries, and delivered weekly radio speeches on WNYC from 1928 to 1938. Her career as a librarian, author and radio commentator demonstrates the use of research in the formation of public policy decisions and provides a unique perspective on politics in New York. Rankin also served as president of several library organizations including the Special Libraries Association, which she led to national status during her tenure. During the Depression, she established the Association's employment service and worked with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and other library officials to provide pensions for public librarians in New York City. Rankin and La Guardia shared the belief that government should carry out the will of the people and care for their needs, and the two worked together to make this a reality. Quotations from primary sources in the archives of the New York Public Library and the City of New York give the book a strong narrative style. Focusing on Rankin's efforts to document New York City's past as its unofficial historian, the book examines the city's political history during the first half of the twentieth century and illuminates the relationship of the local government with one of its great cultural institutions, the New York Public Library.