Author: Elbridge Harper Charlton
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455612598
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.
The Streetcars of New Orleans
Author: Elbridge Harper Charlton
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455612598
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455612598
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.
Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis
Author: Andrew D. Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964727939
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964727939
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The St. Charles Streetcar
Burgess' Railway Directory
The Majesty of St. Charles Avenue
Author: McCaffety, Kerri
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455608201
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The story of St. Charles Avenue as a pictorial biography of the grandest thoroughfare of America's most romantic city. Many of these interiors have never been published.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455608201
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The story of St. Charles Avenue as a pictorial biography of the grandest thoroughfare of America's most romantic city. Many of these interiors have never been published.
The Last Line
Author: Myron Tassin
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780882892504
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780882892504
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
The St. Charles Street Car
Author: James Lee Guilbeau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Garden District of New Orleans
Author: Jim Fraiser
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617032786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West Freeman evokes the romance of this elegant neighborhood with lovely images of private homes, dazzling gardens, and public structures. Author Jim Fraiser vividly details the historical significance and architectural styles of more than a hundred structures and chronicles both the political and cultural evolution of the neighborhood. The Garden District, unlike the French Quarter, evolved under the auspices of predominantly Anglo-American architects hired by newly arriving, and newly wealthy, Americans. Beyond these wealthy homeowners, the Garden District also offers a startlingly diverse and freewheeling history teeming with African American slaves, free men and women of color, French, Italians, Germans, Jews, and Irish, all of whom helped fashion it into one of America's first suburbs and most extraordinary neighborhoods. Fraiser animates the Garden District's story with such notables as Mark Twain; Jefferson Davis; occupying Union general Benjamin Butler; flamboyant steamboat captain Thomas Leathers; crusading Reverend Theodore Clapp; Confederate generals Jubal Early and Leonidas Polk; jazzmen Joe "King" Oliver and Nate "Kid" Ory; champion pugilist John L. Sullivan; local authors Grace King, George Washington Cable, and Anne Rice; Mayor Joseph Shakespeare; architects Henry Howard, Lewis Reynolds, and Thomas Sully; cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner; and Louisiana Lottery co-founder John A. Morris. In words and photographs, Fraiser and Freeman explore the unexpected evolution of this district and reveal how war, plagues, politics, religion, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation shaped the incomparable Garden District.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617032786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West Freeman evokes the romance of this elegant neighborhood with lovely images of private homes, dazzling gardens, and public structures. Author Jim Fraiser vividly details the historical significance and architectural styles of more than a hundred structures and chronicles both the political and cultural evolution of the neighborhood. The Garden District, unlike the French Quarter, evolved under the auspices of predominantly Anglo-American architects hired by newly arriving, and newly wealthy, Americans. Beyond these wealthy homeowners, the Garden District also offers a startlingly diverse and freewheeling history teeming with African American slaves, free men and women of color, French, Italians, Germans, Jews, and Irish, all of whom helped fashion it into one of America's first suburbs and most extraordinary neighborhoods. Fraiser animates the Garden District's story with such notables as Mark Twain; Jefferson Davis; occupying Union general Benjamin Butler; flamboyant steamboat captain Thomas Leathers; crusading Reverend Theodore Clapp; Confederate generals Jubal Early and Leonidas Polk; jazzmen Joe "King" Oliver and Nate "Kid" Ory; champion pugilist John L. Sullivan; local authors Grace King, George Washington Cable, and Anne Rice; Mayor Joseph Shakespeare; architects Henry Howard, Lewis Reynolds, and Thomas Sully; cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner; and Louisiana Lottery co-founder John A. Morris. In words and photographs, Fraiser and Freeman explore the unexpected evolution of this district and reveal how war, plagues, politics, religion, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation shaped the incomparable Garden District.
St. Charles Streetcar, The
Author: James Guilbeau
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781879714021
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A detailed history of the oldest continuously operating street railway line in the world, built in 1835 and now honored as a member of the National Register of Historic Places.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781879714021
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A detailed history of the oldest continuously operating street railway line in the world, built in 1835 and now honored as a member of the National Register of Historic Places.
Streetcar Suburbs
Author: Sam Bass WARNER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.