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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Author: Ellery Bicknell CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Worcester County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Country Gentleman
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A journal for the farm, the garden, and the fireside, devoted to improvement in agriculture, horticulture, and rural taste; to elevation in mental, moral, and social character, and the spread of useful knowledge and current news.
Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Harper's Weekly
Author: John BonnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Cultivator and Country Gentleman
Author: Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington
Author: Louis TorresPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907521287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography;.
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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