Bluefield In Vintage Postcards

Author : Mary Margaret Spracher Annett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439612750

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Bluefield in Vintage Postcards by Mary Margaret Spracher Annett Pdf

Nestled at the foot of East River Mountain in the southern tip of West Virginia, Bluefield calls itself "Nature's Air-Conditioned City" and is a place of great cultural, industrial, and natural wealth. The early to mid-1900s were a booming time for the city, thanks to coal mining and the Norfolk and Western Railway. For the many people who lived in or traveled through the region during that era, postcards provided a simple and convenient way to send both personal correspondence and business communications. Today, Bluefield continues to change and evolve but maintains a strong sense of history, with many of its buildings and homes listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Author : Mary Margaret Spracher Annett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738516872

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Bluefield in Vintage Postcards by Mary Margaret Spracher Annett Pdf

Nestled at the foot of East River Mountain in the southern tip of West Virginia, Bluefield calls itself "Nature's Air-Conditioned City" and is a place of great cultural, industrial, and natural wealth. The early to mid-1900s were a booming time for the city, thanks to coal mining and the Norfolk and Western Railway. For the many people who lived in or traveled through the region during that era, postcards provided a simple and convenient way to send both personal correspondence and business communications. Today, Bluefield continues to change and evolve but maintains a strong sense of history, with many of its buildings and homes listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Author : Billyfrank Morrison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 073851828X

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Fort Campbell in Vintage Postcards by Billyfrank Morrison Pdf

Since its establishment in 1941, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, has grown to approximately 30,000 soldiers on over 100,000 acres. With its Southern culture, the base has a rich and interesting history. German prisoners of war were held here during World War II, and Campbell Army Air Field has always been a favorite stopover of NASA shuttle crews. Fort Campbell units have inspired numerous movies and books, such as Black Hawk Down, Band of Brothers, and Shadow Warriors. Through over 200 vintage postcards and photographs, this pictorial history tells the unique story of an army base and its brave soldiers who have fought to defend our country.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043236

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625840639

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Hidden History of Roanoke by Nelson Harris Pdf

How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume of hidden stories and forgotten tales from the Star City. Discover why a Roanoker was found frozen in the North Atlantic and what Mother's Day crime and trial shocked the city in 1949. Meet the Black Cardinals, a semipro African American baseball team that played in the 1930s and '40s, and find out how a fistfight at Shenandoah Life helped save the company. Author Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover these marvelous and mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the South.

Author : Faith Mitchell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496843203

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Emma's Postcard Album by Faith Mitchell Pdf

BCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album—spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma's Postcard Album—becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people “to make a way from no way.” As snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture. In Emma's Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings, a much-neglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world that is far too little known is revealed, and new insights are gained into the perspectives and experience of African Americans. Capping off these contributions, the text is a visual feast, illustrated with arresting images from the Golden Age of postcards as well as newspaper clippings and other archival material.

Author : Betty Boles Ellison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476616223

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The Early Laps of Stock Car Racing by Betty Boles Ellison Pdf

The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America's early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man's sport eventually became the working man's sport, finding a home in the South with the infusion of moonshiners and their souped-up cars. Based in large part on statements of drivers, car owners and others garnered from archived newspaper articles, this history details the development of stock car racing into a megasport, chronicling each season through 1974. It examines the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing's 1948 incorporation documents and how they differ from the agreements adopted at NASCAR's organization meeting two months earlier. The meeting's participants soon realized that their sport was actually owned by William H.G. "Bill" France, and its consequential growth turned his family into billionaires. The book traces the transition from dirt to asphalt to superspeedways, the painfully slow advance of safety measures and the shadowy economics of the sport.

Author : Jay Chatman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439646663

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McDowell County Coal and Rail by Jay Chatman Pdf

Over 200 fascinating postcard images show early coal mining in McDowell County and how it progressed throughout the years. Coal was discovered in McDowell County, located in the Billion Dollar Coalfield of southern West Virginia, in 1748, but it was not explored or mined until the early 1800s. Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company shipped the first railroad car of coal in March 1883 via the Norfolk & Western Railway. By the early 1900s, hundreds of mining companies dotted the county's landscape. The coal from McDowell County fueled the nation's home heating and steelmaking businesses and both world wars. As the coal industry developed, the local population grew; by 1950, the county had grown from a few hundred people to more than 100,000. .

Author : Lisa T. Bergren
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307778147

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Torchlight by Lisa T. Bergren Pdf

Book 2 of the Best-Selling Full Circle Series Can the handsome handyman enlisted to renovate Julia’s estate also fix her mixed-up heart? After inheriting her family’s lighthouse and mansion, heiress Julia Rierdon--sister of Jake Rierdon (Refuge)--travels to the coast of Maine to restore the estate and turn it into a lavish inn. Temporarily separated from her wealthy fiancé, Julia turns to a mysterious stranger for assistance. Motorcycle-riding handyman Trevor Kenbridge is gorgeous, infuriating…and just the man she needs to help her prepare her inn. Could he also be the right man to claim her heart? From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : William R. Archer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0738517992

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McDowell County by William R. Archer Pdf

McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, the county was one of the 55 that separated from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia, thus earning the nickname "the Free State." Long before this, though, McDowell County was known for its bountiful natural resources; a great geologist, Dr. Thomas Walker, touted these vast "coal lands" after his 1748-1750 exploration. Political leaders like Thomas Jefferson, who knew of the county's mineral wealth, steered Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution, to obtain all of McDowell County in the land speculation boom of the mid-1790s. After Morris was sent to debtor's prison in 1799, however, his land holdings were acquired by Michael Bouvier, a cabinet maker. In the 1920s, the remains of Bouvier's holdings were purchased by Henry Ford, the automobile tycoon. Other famous personalities associated with McDowell County include J.P. Morgan and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Author : Frank Kilgore,Katharine Shearer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Buchanan County (Va.)
ISBN : 0972476512

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Far Southwest Virginia by Frank Kilgore,Katharine Shearer Pdf

This collection of over 250 vintage postcards (c. 1905-1955) takes the reader on a journey through the Appalachian coalfields of Far Southwest Virginia, revealing gently rolling mountains and valleys, bustling market towns, coal camps, and strong people.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015058891915

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Railfan & Railroad by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bob Luke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476647814

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Pete Hill by Bob Luke Pdf

Among early 20th century baseball players, John Preston "Pete" Hill (1882-1951) was considered the equal of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker--only skin color kept him out of the majors. A capable manager, Hill captained the Negro League's Chicago-based American Giants, led two expansion teams and retired from the sport as manager of the Baltimore Black Sox. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts, this first ever biography of Hill recounts the career of a neglected Hall of Famer in the context of the turbulent issues that surrounded him--segregation, women's suffrage, Prohibition and the Spanish flu.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UOM:39015048223567

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