Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration : New York's river festival of 1909 and the making of a metropolis

by Kathleen Eagen Johnson. aAn invaluable window on how New York self-consciously and very publicly transformed itself from a city that was merely athe largesta to an undisputed world class metropolis . . . a rich historical record of newspapers, manuscripts, artifacts, photographs, and graphics . . . offers a new lens to examine identity, industry, and environment.aafrom the Foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University (Check Catalog)

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