Authors:Dusty Wescott, Kenneth Peters,
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: historic, photos, durham, raleigh
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1596523387
ISBN-13: 9781596523388

By the late nineteenth century, the city of Raleigh-Durham was a vibrant cultural center of the East. Through changing fortunes, Raleigh-Durham has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.Historic Photos of Raleigh-Durham captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the first tobacco factory to the retail district along Fayetteville Street, the construction of Duke University to the opening of Camp Butner, Historic Photos of Raleigh-Durham follows life, government, education

Author: Leonard Jacobs
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: historic, photos, theater, york, broadway, new
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2008-06-18
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 159652362X
ISBN-13: 9781596523623

With 240 carefully selected photographs and memorabilia from the New York Public Library’s acclaimed Billy Rose Theatre Collection Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater 1850 1970 celebrates the Great White Way, the undisputed pinnacle of success and achievement on the American stage. This beautiful coffee table book begins before the Civil War Historic Photos conjures up a time when Times Square was farmland when New York’s theater district crisscrossed lower Manhattan. The volume is packed with photographs of truly incandescent actors: from the great Sarah Bernhardt and Br

Authors:Matthew B. Gilmore, Andrew Brodie Smith,
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: historic, photos, washington
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1596523298
ISBN-13: 9781596523296

From Mount Vernon to Georgetown, The White House to the monuments, Historic Photos of Washington D.C. is a photographic history collected from the area’s top archives. With about 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth of our nation’s capital in stunning black and white photography. The book shows life, government, events and people important to Washington D.C. and the building of this unique city.

Author: Eduardo Obregon Pagan
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: historic, photos, phoenix
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1596523751
ISBN-13: 9781596523753

With the coming of the railroad in the late nineteenth century, the town of Phoenix in the Territory of Arizona would experience a rapid inflow of settlers who would call themselves Phoenicians and help to bring about Arizona statehood in 1912.The images collected in Historic Photos of Phoenix offer a remarkable glimpse into the history of this unique desert community. Included among hundreds of photographs are snapshots of the Hotel Adams and Westward Ho, Riverside and South Mountain parks, the Cave Creek Flood of 1905, the Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix Railway Depot, George Hunt as the first

Author: Dennis Connors
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: historic, photos, syracuse
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1596524324
ISBN-13: 9781596524323

Syracuse was a city born in the early nineteenth century through the combination of a valuable natural resource, salt, and its fortunate position sitting astride the great engineering wonder of the age, the Erie Canal. Over time, the importance of both faded, but by then the community had become a manufacturing power. By the late nineteenth century, it was producing a wide variety of products, from typewriters to agricultural implements. And it had grown to become New York State’s fourth-largest city.Syracuse created beautiful city parks and public buildings in the early twentieth centur

Author: Elizabeth Chasco
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: historic, photos, milwaukee
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1596523379
ISBN-13: 9781596523371

Milwaukee is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Milwaukee has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Milwaukee has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.Historic Photos of Milwaukee captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Milwaukee as the breadbasket of the midwest to its recovery through jobs created by the Works Progress Administration and other programs, His

Author: W. Gay Reading
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Keywords: lexington, photos, historic
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1596522623
ISBN-13: 9781596522626

From early on, Lexington earned a reputation for innovation in arts, commerce and education. The frontier city’s accomplishments in education, architecture, and economics far exceeded the expectations of its Eastern counterparts. Four wars and urban redevelopment have repeatedly altered the city’s landscape and culture. Through its changes, Lexington has endured and prospered through the persistence and innovation of its civic leaders. This volume, Historic Photos of Lexington, captures the journey in still photography collected from the finest archives in private and public collec