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. |
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... thousand sewing machines for women to make clothing they could sell to help support their families , the society's leaders believing that able - bodied victims should help themselves whenever possible . With this in mind and with winter ...
... thousand sewing machines for women to make clothing they could sell to help support their families , the society's leaders believing that able - bodied victims should help themselves whenever possible . With this in mind and with winter ...
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... thousand street lamps ( many of them powered by electricity ) , almost a thousand miles of steetcar lines , a fleet of 129 fire engines , a waterworks that pumped 500 million gal- lons of water a day , a system of fifteen hundred miles ...
... thousand street lamps ( many of them powered by electricity ) , almost a thousand miles of steetcar lines , a fleet of 129 fire engines , a waterworks that pumped 500 million gal- lons of water a day , a system of fifteen hundred miles ...
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... thousand passengers a day , enough to populate a small city . Chicago's railroad stations were products of the new urban milieu of money and magnificence , monuments to the centralizing agency that had created that city and defined its ...
... thousand passengers a day , enough to populate a small city . Chicago's railroad stations were products of the new urban milieu of money and magnificence , monuments to the centralizing agency that had created that city and defined its ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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