Author: United States. Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National CapitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital
Author: United States. Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National CapitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Parks
Author: Alcatraz
Author: Michael EsslingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970461469
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
ALCATRAZ: the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed "Machine Gun" Kelly into a model of decorum. It took the birds away from the Birdman of Alcatraz.This mammoth reference navigates the island's history through rarely seen documents, interviews and hundreds of pages of historic photographs. Author interviews range from men such as legendary FBI fugitive James Whitey Bulger; Dale Stamphill, a principle in the 1938 escape with Doc Barker and Henry Young; to Atom Spy Morton Sobell, the co-defendant of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Michael Esslinger thoroughly details the prominent events, inmates, and life inside the most infamous prison in American History. His research included hundreds of hours examining actual Alcatraz inmate case files (including rare original documents from Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and over a hundred others) exploring the prison grounds from the rooftop to the waterfront to help retrace events, escape routes, in addition to conducting various interviews with former inmates and guards. His study has resulted in detailed accounts of all the recorded escape attempts including the Battle of Alcatraz. A detailed account of the 1962 escape of Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers provides rare insight extracted through photos, and over 1,700 pages of FBI and Bureau of Prisons investigative notes. Detailed narratives of Alcatraz's most notable inmates who include Robert Stroud (Birdman of Alcatraz), Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Frank Morris, the Anglin Brothers, Doc Barker, Joe Cretzer, Bernard Coy, Miran Thompson, Sam Shockley, and many-many others. Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years, is a comprehensive reference on the history of Alcatraz and contains one of the most comprehensive archives of inmate and prison life photographs (over 1,000).
Writings on American History
Author: United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate GeneralPublisher:
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Category : Military reservations
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
National Parks beyond the Nation
Author: Adrian HowkinsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
“The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks “America’s best idea.” The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a starting point for thinking about an international history of national parks. They explore the historical interactions and influences—intellectual, political, and material—within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. What is the role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics? What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently about national parks at different times and in different places; and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate change. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. If national parks are, as Stegner said, “absolutely American,” they are no less part of the world at large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms.
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36, Parks, Forests, and Public Property, PT. 300-End, Revised as of July 1, 2012
Author: U S Office of the Federal RegisterPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160911798
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.
Building the National Parks
Author: Linda Flint McClellandPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855832
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt, who realized the need to improve intelligence during wartime. A rigorous recruitment process enlisted agents from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specializing in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. At its peak in 1944, the number of men and women working in the service totaled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36, Parks, Forests, and Public Property, PT. 300-End, Revised as of July 1, 2011
Author: U S Office of the Federal RegisterPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160888977
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Parks Department Records Relating to the Zoo
Author: Boston (Mass.). Parks and Recreation DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal dealers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The documents in this series are primarily correspondence between zoo workers, exotic animal suppliers, and zoo patrons. The dates range from 1951 to 1957 during which time James A. Walsh was deputy commissioner of the Boston Parks Department; therefore, the majority of correspondences are to or from him. During this time period, the park was in a period of expansion and many documents refer to the cost of purchasing animals as well as park supplies. A notable example of this is the file title "Correspondence - Purchase of 2 Jaguars" which contains correspondence between Mr. Walsh and the company Zoofauna Exportacao. The file contains financial records, correspondences with the animal supply company, and correspondence with the specialty freight company Air Express International. Additional documents include zoo daily reports, veterinarian reports, financial records, and funding proposals. This series includes several black and white photos of animals.