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Author | : Joel Jensen |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0393082482 |
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A stunning collection that brings an earlier era to life. Although steam engines were seldom used for everyday train transportation by 1960, they live on in the minds of those fortunate enough to have experienced them and in the many museums and steam-powered excursions throughout the country. They are especially active in the West, where master photographer Joel Jensen has, for more than twenty-five years, documented these well-restored and maintained veterans in their natural settings doing what they used to—hauling both passengers and freight and delighting rail fans of all ages. This timeless collection takes us back to the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, with captivating images evoking the past. Essays by John Gruber, the president of the Center for Railroad Photography, and Scott Lothes, the project director for the center, help to put these wonderful photographs in context.
Author | : Miguel Tinker Salas |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2009-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822392232 |
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Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both foreign and Venezuelan. He reveals how class ambitions and corporate interests combined to reshape many Venezuelans’ ideas of citizenship. Middle-class Venezuelans embraced the oil industry from the start, anticipating that it would transform the country by introducing modern technology, sparking economic development, and breaking the landed elites’ stranglehold. Eventually Venezuelan employees of the industry found that their benefits, including relatively high salaries, fueled loyalty to the oil companies. That loyalty sometimes trumped allegiance to the nation-state. North American and British petroleum companies, seeking to maintain their stakes in Venezuela, promoted the idea that their interests were synonymous with national development. They set up oil camps—residential communities to house their workers—that brought Venezuelan employees together with workers from the United States and Britain, and eventually with Chinese, West Indian, and Mexican migrants as well. Through the camps, the companies offered not just housing but also schooling, leisure activities, and acculturation into a structured, corporate way of life. Tinker Salas contends that these practices shaped the heart and soul of generations of Venezuelans whom the industry provided with access to a middle-class lifestyle. His interest in how oil suffused the consciousness of Venezuela is personal: Tinker Salas was born and raised in one of its oil camps.
Author | : Robert Franklin Durden |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822321514 |
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Like the majority of the founders of large philanthropic foundations in the United States, James B. Duke assumed that the Duke Endowment, which he established in 1924, would continue its charitable activity forever. Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas is an examination of the history of this foundation and the ways in which it has--and has not--followed Duke's original design. In this volume, Robert F. Durden explores how the propriety of linking together a tax-free foundation and an investor-owned, profit-seeking business like the Duke Power Company has significantly changed over the course of the century. Explaining the implications of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 for J. B. Duke's dream, Durden shows how the philanthropist's plan to have the Duke Endowment virtually own and ultimately control Duke Power (which, in turn, would supply most of the Endowment's income) dissolved after the death of daughter Doris Duke in 1993, when the trustees of the Endowment finally had the unanimous votes needed to sever that tie. Although the Endowment's philanthropic projects--higher education (including Duke University), hospitals and health care, orphan and child care in both North and South Carolina, and the rural Methodist church in North Carolina--continue to be served, this study explains the impact of a century of political and social change on one man's innovative charitable intentions. It is also a testimony to the many staff members and trustees who have invested their own time and creative energies into further benefiting these causes, despite decades of inevitable challenges to the Endowment. This third volume of Durden's trilogy relating to the Dukes of Durham will inform not only those interested in the continuing legacy of this remarkable family but also those involved with philanthropic boards, charitable endowments, medical care, child-care institutions, the rural church, and higher education.
Author | : John Gruber |
Publisher | : Center for Railroad Photography and Art |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692168110 |
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By employing dramatic images and sweeping promotional strategies, Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg introduced railroad photography to large audiences.
Author | : Robert T. Royem |
Publisher | : Limelight Pr/Royem Photography |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780964343016 |
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Author | : James L. Gelvin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520275020 |
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The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history. In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.
Author | : John Gruber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-04-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692079997 |
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BEEBE & CLEGG takes a new look at the railroad photography of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. Beebe was known for "wedge of pie" views of trains and black smoke emanating from steam locomotives. But other, amazing, creative views from both of them appear in their archives at the California State Railroad Museum. It is high time to remember again their contributions, the strong foundation they built for railroad photography, and to place that contribution into the context of the achievements made in the field of railroad photography during the eighty years since Beebe entered the field. Today's design and printing techniques provide an opportunity to reevaluate his and Clegg's prolific output and make their work shine as never before.We present here an exploration of these ideas along with their most memorable images which remain unsurpassed in their dedication to elegance and everyday railroading. Join us in honoring and remembering Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, partners in life and work whose quest to elevate railroading to become an icon of the American experience has largely succeeded.
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
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Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781610605595 |
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History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Author | : Merrill E. Jarchow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Charities |
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Download Amherst H. Wilder and His Enduring Legacy to Saint Paul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle