Author: Philadelphia. Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Report of the Watering Committee
Author: Philadelphia. Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Annual Report of the Watering Committee for the Year ... , to the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Annual Report of the Watering Committee for the Year ..., to the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Correspondence of the Watering Committee with the Schuylkill Navigation Company, in Relation the Fair Mount Water Works
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canal companies
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
City Water, City Life
Author: Carl SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602251X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Annual Report to the Select and Common Councils
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Annual Report of the Watering Committee for the year 1852, to the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Select and Common Councils (PHILADELPHIA). Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Lydia Bailey
Author: Karen NippsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271062304
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Little known today, Lydia Bailey was a leading printer in Philadelphia for decades. Her career began in 1808—when her husband, Robert, died, leaving her with the family business to manage—and ended in 1861, when she retired at the age of eighty-two. During her career, she operated a shop that at its height had more than forty employees, acted as city printer for over thirty years, and produced almost a thousand imprints bearing her name. Not surprisingly, sources reveal that she was closely associated with many of her now better-known contemporaries both in the book trade and beyond, people like her father-in-law, Francis Bailey; Mathew Carey; Philip Freneau; and Harriet Livermore. Through a detailed examination and analysis of various sources, Karen Nipps portrays Bailey’s experience within the context of her social, political, religious, and book environments. Lydia Bailey is the first monograph on a woman printer during the handpress period. It consists of a historical essay detailing Bailey’s life and analyzing her role in the contemporary book trade, followed by a checklist of her known imprints. In addition, appendixes offer further statistical information on the activities of her shop. Together, these provide rich material for other book historians as well as for historians of the early Republic, gender, and technology.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Author: Astor Library