The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia
Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Buildings |
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Author | : Thompson Westcott |
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Buildings |
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Author | : Thompson Westcott |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104354787 |
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Author | : Thompson WESTCOTT |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290895415 |
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Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3849677826 |
Mr. Thompson Westcott, the author, is perfectly at home on this subject, having written "The Guide Book to Philadelphia," and a history of the city. In the present volume, he has given a description of all the interesting historic buildings of the city, e.g. Penn’s Cottage, Swedes’ Church, Bartram’s House, Christ Church, Independence Hall, the Slate Roof House or Mount Pleasant, together with a notice of their owners and occupants.
Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal) |
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Author | : THOMPSON. WESTCOTT |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033048016 |
Author | : Ryan K. Smith |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300206976 |
In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris’s wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as “Morris’s Folly.” Setting Morris’s tale in the context of the nation’s founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America’s ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.
Author | : Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
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Author | : Catherine Kerrison |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101886269 |
The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery—apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today—and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.”—USA Today “A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.”—The Boston Globe “A thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.”—BookPage