epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Jennifer Rogers [Rogers, Jennifer]

18 FROM PRIVATE TO DOCTOR Following his life in the Civil War, Joseph Lehman Eisenbrey was more determined than ever to continue his education and start a family. At twenty-three, ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Lou Hebert [Hebert, Lou]

CHAPTER 11 EAST TOLEDO’S MAN OF TREES You’ve probably never heard of Louis Hirschy. But if you live in East Toledo or spend any time there, just look up and ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:G. Wayne Dowdy [Dowdy, G. Wayne]

A Commitment to Innovation Public Libraries in Memphis The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library is the largest facility in the Memphis Public Library and Information Center system. Although opened in ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Val C. Ballestrem

NAHUM AND MARTHA KING HOUSE The Amos and Matilda King family were Oregon Trail pioneers, arriving in the Oregon Country around 1845 before coming to Portland around 1849. They operated ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

The jersey worn by Cliff Bastin of Arsenal during the 1930 FA Cup Final against Huddersfield Town at Wembley Stadium on April 26, 1930. England’s captain Bobby Moore holds aloft ...

pdf |en | | Author: Kaja Silverman

epub |eng | 2019-12-15 | Author:Alexandria Brown

18 MAKING A HOME Many ex-braceros made their homes in the county. Ramon Verdin grew up in Guanajuato, Mexico, and became a bracero when he was nineteen. He came to ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Mike Butler

SAN JOSE DE GRACIA CHURCH ALTAR, JANUARY 1943. The main altar screen was probably built in the early 1800s. It was overpainted in 1860 by Jose de Gracia Gonzales, a ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Thomas Welsh

These charming mermaids graced the former site of the Club Merry-Go-Round until their partial destruction in a recent renovation. The bas-reliefs along the nightclub’s walls were the work of Victor ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Kimber Fountain

A prostitute kept track of her earnings by scratching them on the wall in the old Oleander Hotel (currently Antique Warehouse). Photo by author. Visitors of the esteemed variety were ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Richard Gazarik

Federal and Allegheny County grand juries routinely issued sweeping indictments for voter fraud rolling up ward heelers, police officials and entire election boards. Coyne, along with 8 of his lieutenants, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Rosemary F. Williams

“THE SAILING CAPITAL” The Chesapeake Bay is widely known as a sailor’s paradise, with 4,480 square miles of boating and fishing enjoyment, but it is still small enough for a ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Paul Galvani

KAPHAN’S KAPHAN’S RESTAURANT AND CLUB 7900 S. MAIN STREET (1927–97) RENDEZVOUS ROOM, SOMMELIER ROOM, RED ROOM, COTILLION BALL ROOM, CHARCOAL GARDEN Kaphan’s Restaurant was founded by Eli Kaphan, a baseball ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Brian Allison

Hugh McGavock (1) shot Charles Bent (2) outside Cone’s bookstore and pursued him until he fell in an alley on Church Street (X). Author’s diagram. The second ball hit Bent ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Shane S. Simmons

THE CATCHABLE BUT NOT FETCHABLE MOONSHINER The stereotypical image of an Appalachian moonshiner usually conjures up thoughts of a wiry little old Caucasian man with a long, flowing beard wearing ...