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114 produkter
More than Moonshine
Häftad, 1983
312 kr
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Sidney Saylor Farr was a woman who knew Appalachia well. Born in Stoney Fork in southeastern Kentucky, she lived much of her life close to the mountains, among people whose roots are deep in the soil and who pass on to their children a love for the land, a strong sense of belonging and of place, …
Puzzle People
Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon
Häftad, 2003
397 kr
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Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery should have written a spellbinding, and …
Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania
Inbunden, 1995
1090 kr
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A new edition of this long unavailable classic reproduces photographic prints made from original negatives and features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton.Before the 1936 publication of The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, the …
Witness to the Fifties
The Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950–1953
Av Constance Schulz, Steven Plattner
Inbunden, 1999
587 kr
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Initially commissioned to record the progress of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance I, these unforgettable black-and-white photographs of Roy Stryker's Pittsburgh Photographic Library (PPL) capture the city in a state of flux. They reveal a union of opposites—the suited wonderment of the downtown businessman …
Frank Lloyd Wrights House on Kentuck Knob
Inbunden, 2000
415 kr
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This is the first thorough guide to the design and history of "Kentuck," a splendid mountain house in southwestern Pennsylvania designed in 1953-1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Inspired by Fallingwater, the famous house only seven miles away that Wright designed above the waterfalls of Bear Run, local …
Samuel Rosenberg
Portrait Of A Painter
Inbunden, 2003
831 kr
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While other artists moved to New York or Paris, painter Samuel Rosenberg (1896-1972) never left the city he called home. From the age of twelve, when he took his first art class at a settlement house in Pittsburgh's Hill District, through a vigorous career that spanned six decades, Rosenberg was …
Luke Swank
Modernist Photographer
Inbunden, 2005
698 kr
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Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer reintroduces the work of an important artist who had been relegated to virtual anonymity after his untimely death in 1944. As both a biography of Swank (1890-1944) and an analysis of his work, the book focuses on his essential contribution to the modernist …
Pittsburgh and the Appalachians
Cultural and Natural Resources in a Postindustrial Age
Inbunden, 2006
880 kr
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Few American cities reflect the challenges and promise of a twenty-first-century economy better than Pittsburgh and its surrounding region. Once a titan of the industrial age, Pittsburgh flourished from the benefits of its waterways, central location, and natural resources-bituminous coal to fire …
Pittsburgh in Stages
Inbunden, 2007
648 kr
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Pittsburgh has a rich and diverse theatrical tradition, from early frontier performances by officers stationed at Fort Pitt through experimental theater at the end of the twentieth century. Pittsburgh in Stages offers the first comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh, placing it within the …
Helen Clay Frick
Bittersweet Heiress
Av Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Inbunden, 2007
757 kr
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In 1919, at the age of thirty-one, Helen Clay Frick inherited $38 million, becoming the richest single woman in America. These riches, however, came at a price. Helen's tumultuous early life was shaped by her father's infamy as a union strikebreaker and the ensuing attempt on his life, her mother's …
Fallingwater Cookbook
Elsie Henderson's Recipes and Memories
Inbunden, 2008
687 kr
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Winner, 2008 Special Jury Award, Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsHailed as the most architecturally significant private residence in the United States, Fallingwater was a welcome retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann, his wife, Liliane, their son, Edgar jr., and their many guests. The Fallingwater Cookbook …
Chief
Av Robert Zellers, Gene Collier
Inbunden, 2008
366 kr
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Based on the journal writings of Art Rooney Jr., with input from other family members, colleagues, and friends, The Chief is a one-man play that faithfully reenacts the larger-than-life persona of Pittsburgh icon Art Rooney, owner of one of the most successful football franchises of all time. …
Pittsburgh
A New Portrait
Inbunden, 2009
666 kr
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From its founding in 1758, Pittsburgh has experienced several epic transformations. It began its existence as a fortress, on a site originally selected by George Washington. A hundred years later, and well into our own time, no other American city was as intensively industrialized, only to be later …
Pennsylvania Farming
A History in Landscapes
Inbunden, 2017
948 kr
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Since precolonial times, agriculture has been deeply woven into the fabric of Pennsylvania's history and culture. Pennsylvania Farming presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in more than sixty years, and offers a completely new perspective. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly …
Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern
Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning
Inbunden, 2019
593 kr
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Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable …
Knowing and Seeing
Reflections on Fifty Years of Drawing Cities
Inbunden, 2019
524 kr
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In Knowing and Seeing, muralist Douglas Cooper reflects on his long career as a muralist in various cities around the world. Part memoir and part an examination of his art, Cooper looks back on his half-century career from two points of view. First, through personal anecdotes on site sketches and …
Brownsville to Braddock
Paintings and Observations of the Monongahela Valley
Av Ron Donoughe
Inbunden, 2021
524 kr
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Foreword by Maxwell KingAfterword by Ron BaraffThe Monongahela River Valley in Southwestern Pennsylvania is steeped with a rich industrial history. Starting with iron, brass, tin, and glass production, the river towns—from Brownsville to Braddock—ultimately helped make Pittsburgh the one-time …
Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public
Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era through World War II
Inbunden, 2021
907 kr
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Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public charts the history of public libraries and librarianship in Pennsylvania. Based on archival research at more than fifty libraries and historical societies, it describes a long progression from private, subscription-based associations to publicly funded …
American Workman
The Life and Art of John Kane
Av Maxwell King, Louise Lippincott
Inbunden, 2022
613 kr
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American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane’s life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and …
Death of the Daily News
How Citizen Gatekeepers Can Save Local Journalism
Av Andrew Conte
Inbunden, 2022
311 kr
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The City of McKeesport in southwestern Pennsylvania once had a population of more than fifty thousand people and a newspaper that dated back to the nineteenth century. Technology has caused massive disruption to American journalism, throwing thousands of reporters out of work, closing newsrooms, …
Iron Artisans
Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel
Inbunden, 2023
595 kr
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America’s emergence as a global industrial superpower was built on iron and steel, and despite their comparatively small numbers, no immigrant group played a more strategic role per capita in advancing basic industry than Welsh workers and managers. They immigrated in surges synchronized with the …
Watching the River Run
A Photographic Journey down the Youghiogheny
Av Tim Palmer
Inbunden, 2025
358 kr
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Join celebrated author and photographer Tim Palmer as he takes us down one of America’s most magnificent rivers. From the Youghiogheny’s lofty headwaters to its quiet ending only a dozen miles from Pittsburgh, the river he reveals shines with splendor and beckons to all who walk, bike, paddle, or …
Whiskey Rebels
The Story of a Frontier Uprising
Häftad, 1968
339 kr
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Leland Baldwin presents a succinct account of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 in Western Pennsylvania, recalling the economic and sociological factors that led to this historic uprising.
Council Fires On the Upper Ohio
Häftad, 1969
373 kr
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Told from the viewpoint of the Indians, this account of Indian-white relations during the second half of the eighteenth century is an exciting addition to the historical literature of Pennsylvania.From the beginning, when the white traders followed the first Shawnee hunters into Pennsylvania, until …
Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania
Häftad, 2002
896 kr
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A definitive account of nearly every aspect of Western Pennsylvanian life and development up until the War of 1812. The book opens with a narrative of the formative years of the region. Succeeding chapters deal with the development of agriculture, industry, education, religion, social customs, and …
Out of This Furnace
Av Thomas Bell
Häftad, 1976
338 kr
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Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell’s most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment.The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks …
Guns at the Forks
Häftad, 2005
321 kr
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Guns at the Forks is a special reissue commemorating the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War. In a spirited, intelligent, and informative history, O’Meara tells the story of five successive forts, particularly Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, and the dramatic part they played in the war …
Homestead Strike of 1892
Häftad, 1979
358 kr
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In 1893, the Rawsthorne Engraving and Printing Company published journalist Arthur Burgoyne’s complete history of the 1892 Homestead strike and the ensuing conflict between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Although popular at the time of …
Flatlanders and Ridgerunners
Folktales from the Mountains of Northern Pennsylvania
Häftad, 2002
294 kr
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Excerpt from Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Out-Riddling the Judge Back in Prohibition my uncle made moonshine. His name was Moses Kenny and his whiskey--they called it “White Mule” was the best in the county. Well, the feds got after him and finally they arrested him. Took him to a federal judge …
Spencers of Amberson Avenue
A Turn-of-the-Century Memoir
Häftad, 1983
331 kr
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This memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. In a large Victorian house in Shadyside, an affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood, the family begins a middle-class way of life at the turn of the century. Mr. Spencer, who …
