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  • New York City Guide
    New York City Guide

    AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (1877) (open 10-5 weekdays, 1-5 Sun.; adm. free), Central Park W. and 79th St., ... 35¢ and 60¢; children 15¢ at all times) is a separate unit in the group of National History Museum buildings, ...

  • North Carolina, a Guide to the Old North State,
    North Carolina, a Guide to the Old North State,

    War. and. Reconstruction. North Carolina, like other Southern States, believed in States' rights and opposed efforts to restrict slavery in the Territories. After the national abolition movement began about 183o, North Carolina ceased ...

  • West Virginia, a Guide to the Mountain State
    West Virginia, a Guide to the Mountain State

    compiled by workers of the Writer's Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of West Virginia ; edited by Jim Comstock.

  • Philadelphia, a Guide to the Nation's Birthplace
    Philadelphia, a Guide to the Nation's Birthplace

    began developing its own architects-—professionally trained men. The important architects of the Greek Revival and the years immediately thereafter were Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William Strickland, Robert Mills, John Haviland, ...

  • Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State,
    Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State,

    Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, Vol. VII, 1885. ... Fiction; tales of early settlers in Rhode Island. Bartlett, John Russell. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Bates, Frank Greene.

  • Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South
    Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South

    Among the more important were the Southern Trail, or the Great Trading Path, Which led from the present site of ... no snow-smothered months and the birchbark canoe was replaced by the pirogue, a light serviceable dugout of cypress.

  • Pennsylvania; a Guide to the Keystone State,
    Pennsylvania; a Guide to the Keystone State,

    Best Books on. McGees Mills, 550 Mclntyre, John T., 131 McKay, David, 128 McKean, Thomas, 44 _ McKee, Alexander, 604; David, ... 365; State Teachers College, 365 Maple Sugar, 5 53 Marcus Hook, 42 5 Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, ...

  • California; a Guide to the Golden State,
    California; a Guide to the Golden State,

    compiled and written by the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration for the state of California ... Sponsored by Mabel R. Gillis, California state librarian.

  • New York City: Vol 1, New York City Guide
    New York City: Vol 1, New York City Guide

    (Independent) Washington Heights subway (local), 59th to 207th St. stations; 9th Ave. el, 59th to 110th St. stations; Fifth Ave. buses Nos. ... the Hudson are Riverside, Fort Washington, Fort Tryon, and Inwood Hill parks.

  • Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
    Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs

    ... 124 Highland Springs, 313 Historic Houses: Adobe los Alamitos, Long Beach, 251-52; Adobe los Cerritos, Long Beach, 252; Alvarado Adobe, Pomona, 308; Amestoy Adobe, 381; Avila Adobe, 153; Casa Adobe de San Rafael, 213; Casa de Adobe, ...

  • Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, and People,
    Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, and People,

    In the summer of 1868, General U. S. Grant, General Philip H. Sheridan, and General W. T. Sherman met at Fort Sanders to discuss gradients and curvatures with railroad officials. According to her own story, Calamity Jane was stationed ...

  • The New Washington: A Guide to the Evergreen State
    The New Washington: A Guide to the Evergreen State

    road, the hilltop offers an exceptional view over the city and the harbor, with Lummi Island and some of the San Juan group lying in the bay and the mountain ranges rising superbly in the distance. The campus of the Western Washington ...

  • Texas, a Guide to the Lone Star State
    Texas, a Guide to the Lone Star State

    ... or Social and Economic M ovements of the Texas Frontier, 1846-1900. Dallas, 1930. Holley, Mary Austin. Texas. Baltimore, 1833. Observations, in a series of letters written during a visit to Austin's colony in 1831.

  • Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors
    Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors

    454-55 Orleans, 57 Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged, 346 _ Our Lady of Cincinnati College, 295 Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, 266 Our Lady of Mercy High School. 230 Our Lady of the Angels High School. 421 Overlook. 451 Over-the-Rhine, 86.

  • Georgia, a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside
    Georgia, a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside

    compiled and written by workers of the Writer®s program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Georgia ; sponsored by the Georgia Board of Education.

  • Vermont; a Guide to the Green Mountain State,
    Vermont; a Guide to the Green Mountain State,

    Vermont; a Guide to the Green Mountain State,

  • Utah: A Guide to the State
    Utah: A Guide to the State

    When rich silver-lead ore was struck in the Beck tunnel in 1907, Knightsville experienced a boom that boosted the population from 300 to ... The plants closed down, and Samuel McIntyre abandoned his fine home to move to Salt Lake City.

  • Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion
    Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion

    John Reuben Thompson, who succeeded Poe as editor of the Messenger, later composed stirring war lyrics that have found ... characterized Virginia at the close of the war is revealed in such books as Women: or Chronicles of the Late War ...

  • Ohio: The Ohio Guide
    Ohio: The Ohio Guide

    _ Baseball: Red Bird Stadium, W.Mound St. at Glenwood Ave., Columbus Red Birds (American Association). Golf: Arlington ... guest cards required at Brookside, Columbus, Overbrook, Scioto, Winding Hollow, Wyandot, and York Country Clubs.

  • Slave Narratives - NORTH CAROLINA - Volume XI
    Slave Narratives - NORTH CAROLINA - Volume XI

    Slave Narratives - NORTH CAROLINA - Volume XI