Deep River And Ivoryton

Author : Don Malcarne,Edith De Forest,Robbi Storms
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0738510963

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Deep River and Ivoryton by Don Malcarne,Edith De Forest,Robbi Storms Pdf

Deep River and Ivoryton, two villages in the lower Connecticut River Valley, were dominated for more than a century by "white gold"-ivory. The growth of the piano industry led to a new use for this exotic and long-treasured substance and, suddenly, the two villages became tied to Zanzibar, the most important exporting place for the tusks of African elephants. With more than two hundred exceptional photographs and narrative, Deep River and Ivoryton tells the story of how ivory shaped the economy and culture of these villages. Two companies, Pratt, Read & Company and the Comstock, Cheney & Company, employed thousands of people in satisfying the demand for new pianos. Probably more than ninety percent of the ivory processed in this country was handled in Deep River and Ivoryton. The demand for new instruments slowed with the invention of the radio, followed by the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the flow of material stopped altogether in the 1950s, when the use of ivory in the United States was banned.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Buildings
ISBN : OCLC:58939828

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Deep River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wick Griswold,Ruth Major
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781439670491

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Connecticut River Shipbuilding by Wick Griswold,Ruth Major Pdf

Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of the lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Their accomplishments include building the first warship of the Connecticut navy and the world's first submarine. They also served as packet ship captains, navigators and skilled crew members who crossed the Atlantic. The Essex area was also home to dedicated craftsmen who produced some of the finest yachts ever built. Noted historians Wick Griswold and Ruth Major detail one village's important role in American maritime history.

Author : Robert Palmieri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135949648

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The Piano by Robert Palmieri Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Telephone
ISBN : UOM:39015020942176

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National Telephone Directory by American Telephone and Telegraph Company Pdf

Author : FRANK JEWETT. MATHER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033404993

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OLD DEEP RIVER by FRANK JEWETT. MATHER Pdf

Author : Ronald de Levington Kirkbride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314872352

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Deep river by Ronald de Levington Kirkbride Pdf

Author : Alexandra Celia Kelly
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748825

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Consuming Ivory by Alexandra Celia Kelly Pdf

The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like Ivoryton and Deep River, Connecticut, thrived, the African ivory trade left in its wake massive human exploitation and ecological devastation. At the same time, dynamic East African engagement with capitalism and imperialism took place within these trade histories. Drawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly investigates the complex global legacies of the historical ivory trade. She not only explains the complexities of this trade but also analyzes Anglo-American narratives about Africa, questioning why elephants and ivory feature so centrally in those representations. From elephant conservation efforts to the cultural heritage industries in New England and East Africa, her study reveals the ongoing global repercussions of the ivory craze and will be of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and conservationists.

Author : Chhaya Goswami
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789385890703

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Globalization before Its Time by Chhaya Goswami Pdf

How did the Kachchhi traders build on the Gujarat Advantage? In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the dying days of the Mughal empire, merchants from Kachchh established a flourishing overseas trade. Building on a rich legacy of free trade in pre-modern times between the many ports of Gujarat and the Middle East, the Kachchhis dealt in pearls, dates, spices and ivory with the faraway lands of Muscat and Zanzibar. The Kachchhi merchants behaved much like today’s venture capitalists. They knew how to grow capital, seek new markets, and create them where they didn’t exist. They also had a phenomenal risk appetite. What they were able to practise was nothing less than the traits of globalization before its time. This new book in The Story of Indian Business series tells their fascinating story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Middlesex County (Conn.)
ISBN : CHI:16537947

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History of Middlesex County, Connecticut by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robbi Storms,Don Malcarne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738509310

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Around Essex by Robbi Storms,Don Malcarne Pdf

Three hundred years of history follows you around today as you wander the streets of Essex, Centerbrook, and Ivoryton. Essex harbor is located on the Connecticut River six miles north of Long Island Sound, between Mystic Seaport and New Haven. It is a major stopping point for boaters in the Northeast who come from various ports to dock in the harbor, dine at the Griswold Inn, take in the maritime history at the Connecticut River Museum, or walk along the narrow streets to view the fine old houses in this New England community. Homes once owned by sea captains, shipbuilders, and captains of industry are a reminder of the area's glorious past. True, the old 1,200-foot Ropewalk, a mainstay of maritime manufacturing, was gone by 1900. Gone also are the Uriah Hayden Chandlery, Judea Pratt's New City Smithy, and Abner Parker's warehouse. The harbor where working vessels once ruled is now a vibrant waterfront filled with pleasure boats. A row of elegant Victorian houses lines the main street of Ivoryton village, where only a century ago lived executives from Comstock, Cheney & Company, the once great ivory and piano action factory. Enough of the past remains to remind us of the industry that thrived along these riverbanks.

Author : Karl Marlantes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786498820

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Deep River by Karl Marlantes Pdf

A stunningly expansive family saga of anguish, reinvention and courage from the bestselling author of Matterhorn.

Author : Erik Hesselberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493044504

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Night Boat to New York by Erik Hesselberg Pdf

Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.

Author : Jeremy Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748674633

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Oman, Culture and Diplomacy by Jeremy Jones Pdf

This book is a cultural history, offering an historical account of the formation of a distinctive Omani culture; arguing that it is in this unique culture that a specific conception and practice of diplomacy has been developed.

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Bus lines
ISBN : UIUC:30112043166393

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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission Pdf