City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaSimon & Schuster, 1996 - 704 من الصفحات Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, City of the Century captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to a metropolis that by 1890 rivaled New York City. "Brims with life, with people, surprises, and with stories--and stories within stories--all worth telling."--David McCullough, author of Truman. of photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 91
الصفحة 25
... Chicago with an un- rivaled agricultural hinterland , which Sullivan had ... River , " spread their wings , and in a great and beautiful flock , gleam in ... Chicago , he realized . But Sullivan saw the key to it all in the old ...
... Chicago with an un- rivaled agricultural hinterland , which Sullivan had ... River , " spread their wings , and in a great and beautiful flock , gleam in ... Chicago , he realized . But Sullivan saw the key to it all in the old ...
الصفحة 131
... Chicago River , forcing the river to backwash into the lake . The Ogden - Wentworth Ditch also washed thick deposits of sedi- ment into the canal , negating the entire effort of the dredging and deepening operation . One year after the ...
... Chicago River , forcing the river to backwash into the lake . The Ogden - Wentworth Ditch also washed thick deposits of sedi- ment into the canal , negating the entire effort of the dredging and deepening operation . One year after the ...
الصفحة 426
... river be- came again a foul - smelling bayou , its greatly heralded reversal - a mere yearlong phenomenon - short - circuited . Then came unprecedented rain , the most concentrated downpour in Chicago's ... Chicago River , forcing that ...
... river be- came again a foul - smelling bayou , its greatly heralded reversal - a mere yearlong phenomenon - short - circuited . Then came unprecedented rain , the most concentrated downpour in Chicago's ... Chicago River , forcing that ...
المحتوى
Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
حقوق النشر | |
14 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Addams American architects architecture Armour Art Institute Auditorium Autobiography Avenue Baker became began Bertha Palmer building built Burnham Burnham and Root called canal cars Carter Harrison century Charles Chicago Fire Chicago River Chicagoans city's civic Columbian Exposition Company construction cultural downtown Dreiser engineering ethnic fair fire Frank Lloyd Wright George Pullman Gurdon Harper Harrison Haymarket Hubbard Hull-House Hutchinson Illinois immigrants Indian industrial Irish Jane Addams Jenney John Joliet Kinzie labor lake land later lived Louis Sullivan Marquette Marshall Field Michigan modern neighborhood North Ogden Olmsted Palmer Papers Park Philip Armour political Potter Palmer prairie Press Quoted rail railroad reformers Report reprint Root saloons skyscraper social South steel story Street thousand tion town trade Univ urban Ward West William women workers World's Columbian Exposition wrote York young