Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Books
University of New Orleans Press Dreaming in the Bone Boat
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University of Iowa Press The Iowa State Fair
Book SynopsisEvery year in early August, a breeze borne by silent messengers from another time blows through Iowa. It carries a whiff of something wonderful, something far off and a bit unclear, yet oddly familiar. It’s a reminder that an extraordinary annual event is about to take place, just as it has for more than 150 years: the Iowa State Fair.In 2013, Kurt Ullrich set out to chronicle the magic of the Iowa State Fair in words and photographs. Join him as August days and nights blow warm and easy over the fairgrounds, brushing lightly against fellow travelers on this earth, both human and not. He captures precious moments of extreme joy and unbridled delight in these beautiful black-and-white images, celebrating the brash rural energy of the fair, from Big Wheel races to people-watching goats, fair queen contestants to arm wrestlers, Percherons to ponies. Prize pigs, prize sheep, prize apples, and the famous butter cow all have their moment in the limelight. Iowa’s very best ear of corn and old friends reminiscing outside their RVs draw the photographer’s fond eye, as do brightly lit beer stands and the brilliant arc of the Ferris wheel against the night sky.If you always go to the Iowa State Fair, this book is for you. If you’ve never been, it will show you what you’re missing—and you’ll understand why it’s well past time you dropped by.
£19.76
Counterpoint Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
£15.19
Mill River Books Roadshow Anthropology
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£31.96
Fonthill Media Buried Philadelphia
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£19.99
Fonthill Media Deserted Dreams
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£21.24
Black Lawrence Press A Brief History of the Midwest
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£16.80
Black Lawrence Press What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise
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£9.45
Arcadia Publishing Hidden History of Flint
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing The Civil War Missouri Compendium
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£19.79
Arcadia Publishing Ghosts of Leavenworth and the Cascade Foothills
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing (SC) The Rise of Charleston Conversations with
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Arcadia Publishing River of Spirits A Natural History of New Mexicos
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Ghosts of Plymouth Massachusetts Haunted America
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£17.99
Arcadia Publishing Connecticut Rock n Roll
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£19.79
Arcadia Publishing Cucamonga Valley Wine The Lost Empire of American
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing Lost Restaurants of Providence American Palate
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Arcadia Publishing Engineering Pittsburgh A History of Roads Rails
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Underground Philadelphia From Caves and Canals to
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Burlington Brewing
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Hidden History of Elko County
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£18.69
Cascade Publishing Cada Día Con Su
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£10.99
Fonthill Media LLc Pioneering Sebastian and Roseland
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Fonthill Media LLc A Chronological History of Canaan Vermont
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Fonthill Media LLc Lower Georgia Street
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Fonthill Media LLc They Drank to That
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Fonthill Media LLc Detroit's Streetcar Heritage
Book SynopsisDetroit's Streetcar Heritage is a photographic essay of the Detroit, Michigan, streetcar system. Replacement of slow moving horsecar service began with the opening of an electric street railway by the Detroit Citizens Street Railway in 1892. By 1900, all of the Detroit streetcar systems were consolidated into the Detroit United Railway (DUR). Following voter approval, the City of Detroit purchased DUR in 1922, becoming the first large United States city to own and operate public transit under Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR). Between 1921 and 1930, DSR purchased 781 Peter Witt type streetcars. Although DSR purchased 186 modern Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) cars between 1945 and 1949, many streetcar lines were converted to bus operation. The last streetcar line on Woodward Avenue was converted to bus operation in 1956 with 183 PCC cars sold to Mexico City. Detroit's Streetcar Heritage documents the city's streetcar era plus scenes of the PCC cars in Mexico City, the Washington Boulevard Line which operated from 1976 to 2003, and the QLINE streetcar which opened in 2017 on Woodward Avenue linking Grand Boulevard with downtown Detroit.
£20.90
Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned Alabama
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Fonthill Media LLc Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground: The
Book SynopsisDuring the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at the southern end of Houck's Ridge was truly a hell on earth during the decisive afternoon of July 2, 1863. The tenacious struggle that raged beyond control at the battle-line's southern end was all-important, because the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge anchored the left flank of the over-extended Union battle-line, before Federal troops occupied Little Round Top to the east. The battle-hardened veterans of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's First Corps captured this vital sector-- the first Union left flank--in one of the few Southern successes of the second day, after some of the war's most bitter fighting. Nevertheless, the dramatic story of the successful turning of the first Union left flank has been long overlooked and ignored largely because of the giant historical shadow cast by the more famous struggle at Little Round Top, which was only the second and last fight for the southern flank of both armies on July 2. Therefore, the important contest for possession of the first Union left flank at the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge was crucial on the bloody afternoon that decided the fate of America.
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Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned New Hampshire
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Abandoned Kentucky
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America Through Time Abandoned Washington, D.C.: Evanescent Chronicles
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America Through Time Getting Around in Glacier National Park
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America Through Time Asheville, North Carolina: A History of the Land
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£28.80
America Through Time Kenmore Square and the Fenway of Boston Through
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America Through Time Abandoned Alabama: Exploring the Heart of Dixie
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America Through Time Abandoned Ohio: But That Day Did End
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America Through Time Touching History: Rediscovering Tahoe City's
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America Through Time Abandoned Connecticut: First World Wasted
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America Through Time Abandoned Eastern Kansas: Skeletons of the
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America Through Time Abandoned Southern Virginia: Reckless Surrender
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America Through Time Waterfalls of Wisconsin: The Wild Waters of
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America Through Time Viewing Pittsburgh's Trolleys and Inclines
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£24.61
America Through Time Early Photographers of Glacier National Park
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America Through Time I Saw You in New Orleans: The Street Photography
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America Through Time Jersey City: The Real Chilltown
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£21.24
America Through Time Abandoned Vermont and New Hampshire: Forgotten in
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America Through Time Abandoned Southern Ohio: Unknown and Forgotten
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