Where Rails Meet The Sea
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Author | : Michael Krieger |
Publisher | : Friedman-Fairfax |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Marine terminals |
ISBN | : 9781567995978 |
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Where Rails Meet the Sea chronicles the American railroads' fascinating maritime history through vividly detailed descriptions and 230 beautiful color and black-and-white photographs depicting the railroads' waterfront operations, buildings and facilities, trains, and majestic sea-faring fleets. Written with keen insight by historian Michael Krieger, this wonderful book portrays the lively character and activities of America's seaports from 1830 to 1960.
Author | : Michael J. Krieger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Marine terminals |
ISBN | : 9781567005974 |
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Author | : Michael D. White |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738569857 |
Download The Port of Long Beach Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rising from a tidal mudflat at the mouth of the Los Angeles River, the Port of Long Beach has grown through the 20th century into the one of the busiest deepwater ports. The ultramodern Port of Long Beach, the second-largest active harbor in the United States in the first decade of the 21st century, progressed steadily through a difficult adolescence fueled by the ambitions of a visionary few local community leaders who overcame political opposition to create a port separate and distinct from its neighboring Port of Los Angeles. Fueled by oil, Southern Californias unprecedented postWorld War II growth, and the container revolution, the Port of Long Beach surmounted numerous natural and man-made hurdles to position itself, in its own right, as a critical link in the nations global supply chain.
Author | : Michael Krieger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Lifesaving |
ISBN | : 0743470915 |
Download All the Men in the Sea Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In 1995, Hurricane Roxanne ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, trapping 245 workers manning barge 269 on a pipeline in the Yucatan Peninsula. Here, Krieger tells the harrowing true story of one of the greatest sea rescues in history.
Author | : George Matteson |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814757383 |
Download Tugboats of New York Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rich with first-person anecdotes of life on the New York waterways and 150 black-and-white photographs, this volume will fascinate readers interested in New York history, boating and maritime history.
Author | : Peter Kay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1990-06-01 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781872524153 |
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Author | : Michael D. White |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008-02-18 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 143963596X |
Download The Port of Los Angeles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world's largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the 1850s. The bay's namesake village expanded from a backwater loading point for raw cattle hides to a deepwater harbor rivaling and eventually surpassing San Francisco as the busiest port on the U.S. Pacific coast, and would later become the nation's largest container port. Political battles in far-off Washington, D.C., economic booms and depressions, world wars, and billions of tons of cargo and material later, the Port of Los Angeles remains America's premier revolving door for trade with markets around the world.
Author | : Justin Piccirillo |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2023-03-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1439677468 |
Download Art and Artisans of Meriden Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Located between the urban centers of New York City and Boston, the city of Meriden, Connecticut, has been an important hub for art and artisans for over a century. The city's rich tradition of innovative design has long been acknowledged as an outstanding contribution to the larger development of American art. Many of America's leading artists have come from or lived in Meriden, including 19th-century sculptor Chauncey B. Ives, early-20th-century painter Ethel Easton Paxson, and, in more recent years, children's book author/ illustrator Tomie dePaola. Meriden's art scene blossomed with an abundance of artistic talent at the beginning of the 20th century. This convergence of artists and designers ultimately led to the creation of an artist colony. In late 1907, the Arts and Crafts Association of Meriden was formed and, to its acclaim, remains the second-oldest continuously active arts organization in the state. Today, Meriden's tradition as a center for art, design, and aesthetics continues.
Author | : Michael D. White |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625851219 |
Download Shipwrecks of the California Coast Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
More than two thousand ships have been lost along California's 840 miles of coastline--Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners. Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The "City of Rio de Janeiro," bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, sliced the fog only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to watery graves. Seven U.S. Navy destroyers, bound on a fateful 1923 night from San Francisco to San Diego, crashed into the rocks at Honda Point on the treacherous Santa Barbara County coast, killing 23 sailors in one of the military's worst peacetime losses. Join author Michael D. White as he navigates the shoals of shipping mishaps with both salvage stories and elegies to the departed.
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Water resources development |
ISBN | : |
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Results of field reconnaissance study of potential water resource development of Territory of Alaska. Also includes economic evaluation of Alaska's natural resources as well as recommendations for initiation of program for detailed investigation of Alaska's water resources.