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Author : Peter Melendy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Cedar Falls (Iowa)
ISBN : IOWA:31858042466015
Author : Kenneth Lyftogt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587296727
Historian Kenneth Lyftogt introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa’s role in the Civil War. Many of these soldiers served the Union for the duration of the war, from the early fighting in Missouri to Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman’s destructive marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. Their letters home are Lyftogt’s primary sources, as are editorials and articles published in the Cedar Falls Gazette.
Author : Joseph Hogan,Jon Lauck,Paul Murphy,Andrew Seal,Gleaves Whitney
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870209499
This collection of twenty-two essays, a product of recent revivals of interest in both Midwestern history and intellectual history, argues for the contributions of interior thinkers and ideas in forming an American identity. The Midwest has been characterized as a fertile seedbed for the germination of great thinkers, but a wasteland for their further growth. The Sower and the Seer reveals that representation to be false. In fact, the region has sustained many innovative minds and been the locus of extraordinary intellectualism. It has also been the site of shifting interpretations—to some a frontier, to others a colonized space, a breadbasket, a crossroads, a heartland. As agrarian reformed (and Michigander) Liberty Hyde Bailey expressed in his 1916 poem “Sower and Seer,” the Midwestern landscape has given rise to significant visionaries, just as their knowledge has nourished and shaped the region. The essays gathered for this collection examine individual thinkers, writers, and leaders, as well as movements and ideas that shaped the Midwest, including rural school consolidation, women’s literary societies, Progressive-era urban planning, and Midwestern radical liberalism. While disparate in subject and style, these essays taken together establish the irrefutable significance of the intellectual history of the American Midwest.
Author : Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0804740577
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Author : Brian C. Collins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0738545821
Located in northeast Iowa along the Cedar River, the city of Cedar Falls is known as the Garden City of Iowa due to its lovely tree-lined streets and well-kept homes. Of special interest to those familiar with the city will be the many photographs of buildings that have been torn down or greatly altered from their original form. The section entitled Main Street, the Heart of the City, traces the evolution of this central boulevard of the city from a dusty, dirt street to a lovely Victorian avenue, complete with cast-iron lamp posts, cobblestone streets, and a trolley line. Most of all, people familiar with Cedar Falls today, as well as visitors and former residents, will enjoy seeing the evolution of this Midwestern town from a tiny pioneer settlement to a modern industrial city. Located in northeast Iowa along the Cedar River, the city of Cedar Falls is known as the Garden City of Iowa due to its lovely tree-lined streets and well-kept homes. Of special interest to those familiar with the city will be the many photographs of buildings that have been torn down or greatly altered from their original form. The section entitled Main Street, the Heart of the City, traces the evolution of this central boulevard of the city from a dusty, dirt street to a lovely Victorian avenue, complete with cast-iron lamp posts, cobblestone streets, and a trolley line. Most of all, people familiar with Cedar Falls today, as well as visitors and former residents, will enjoy seeing the evolution of this Midwestern town from a tiny pioneer settlement to a modern industrial city.
Author : David Hudson,Marvin Bergman,Loren Horton
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587297243
Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation’s affairs. Iowa’s Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists continue to enrich our lives and inspire our imaginations. Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, the readable narratives include each subject’s name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it. From Dudley Warren Adams, fruit grower and Grange leader, to the Younker brothers, founders of one of Iowa’s most successful department stores, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa is peopled with the rewarding lives of more than four hundred notable citizens of the Hawkeye State. The histories contained in this essential reference work should be eagerly read by anyone who cares about Iowa and its citizens. Entries include Cap Anson, Bix Beiderbecke, Black Hawk, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, William Carpenter, Philip Greeley Clapp, Gardner Cowles Sr., Samuel Ryan Curtis, Jay Norwood Darling, Grenville Dodge, Julien Dubuque, August S. Duesenberg, Paul Engle, Phyllis L. Propp Fowle, George Gallup, Hamlin Garland, Susan Glaspell, Josiah Grinnell, Charles Hearst, Josephine Herbst, Herbert Hoover, Inkpaduta, Louis Jolliet, MacKinlay Kantor, Keokuk, Aldo Leopold, John L. Lewis, Marquette, Elmer Maytag, Christian Metz, Bertha Shambaugh, Ruth Suckow, Billy Sunday, Henry Wallace, and Grant Wood. Excerpt from the entry on: Gallup, George Horace (November 19, 1901–July 26, 1984)—founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, better known as the Gallup Poll, whose name was synonymous with public opinion polling around the world—was born in Jefferson, Iowa. . . . . A New Yorker article would later speculate that it was Gallup’s background in “utterly normal Iowa” that enabled him to find “nothing odd in the idea that one man might represent, statistically, ten thousand or more of his own kind.” . . . In 1935 Gallup partnered with Harry Anderson to found the American Institute of Public Opinion, based in Princeton, New Jersey, an opinion polling firm that included a syndicated newspaper column called “America Speaks.” The reputation of the organization was made when Gallup publicly challenged the polling techniques of The Literary Digest, the best-known political straw poll of the day. Calculating that the Digest would wrongly predict that Kansas Republican Alf Landon would win the presidential election, Gallup offered newspapers a money-back guarantee if his prediction that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would win wasn’t more accurate. Gallup believed that public opinion polls served an important function in a democracy: “If govern¬ment is supposed to be based on the will of the people, somebody ought to go and find what that will is,” Gallup explained.
Author : Silas Hertzler
Publisher : Masthof Press & Bookstore
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This Amish and Mennonite genealogy traces 8,757 families descended from 1703 Jacob Hertzler of Berks Co., Pa. Also provides background history and statistical information on the Hertzler-Hartzler families. (733pp. index. hardcover. reprint of 1952 edition. Higginson Book Co.) Please visit www.HigginsonBooks.com to purchase this title.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Catalogs, Subject
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211444968
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004795703
Author : Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253062376
Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004795721
Author : Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101079810162
Author : Luella Margaret Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Iowa
ISBN : UOM:39015059507114
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211286286
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : UOM:39015027007486