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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley ...

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley ...

John F. Kasson

Distinguished cultural historian John F. Kasson shows how the most famous, adored, imitated, and commodified child in the world astonished movie goers, created a new international culture of celebrity, and revolutionized the role of ...
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body ...

Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body ...

John F. Kasson

A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what ...
Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban ...

Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban ...

John F. Kasson

Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America John F. Kasson. RUDENESS & CIVILITY Manners in Nineteenth - Century Urban America JOHN F. KASSON AMERICAN CENTURY SERIES l($ Hill and Wang NEW YORK Copyright © ippo by ...
Major Problems in American Popular Culture

Major Problems in American Popular Culture

Kathleen Franz

Kasson studies the success of Coney Island, as opposed to high culture, at incorporating “immigrants and ... Workers Seek Leisure Time and Space JOHN F. KASSON Although the subway did not extend all the way to Coney Island until 1920, ...
Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the ...

Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the ...

John F. Sears

American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century John F. Sears. Raid from a ... See John F. Kasson, Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976), 161-65. 10.
Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in ...

Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in ...

John F. Kasson

This work shows us how new technologies affected this drive for a republican civilization - a question as vital now as ever.
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley ...

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley ...

John F. Kasson

2 “Amicable Settlement,” Time, July 29, 1935, 46. 3 “All Fox Producers Fighting for Shirley,” Variety, October 22, 1934, 3; Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century– Fox: A Corporate and Financial His- tory (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1988),  ...
Under the Big Top: Big Tent Revivalism and American Culture, ...

Under the Big Top: Big Tent Revivalism and American Culture, ...

Josh McMullen

Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830–1870 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986); John F. Kasson, Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban ...
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

John F. Kasson

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation ...
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

John F. Kasson

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. "Amusing the Million" examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics

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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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... John • Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John - Wilson, John, the younger Wilson, John Edwards Wilson, John Gray - Wilson, John Jowitt - Wilson, John Nathaniel Wilson, John Richard Shepherd.
The American Shropshire Sheep Record

The American Shropshire Sheep Record

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... Rodger Andrew Mason John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John ...
An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

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Official Register of the United States

Official Register of the United States

United States Civil Service Commission

E QConnor,Jno. W QQonnor,John QQonnor,John O''Connor,John O''Connor,John O''Connor,John J QQonnor,John J 29onnor,John J QQonnor,John J QQonnor, John M 29nnor,John M QQonnor,John ! ----- QQonnor,John P ----- QQonnor,Jos. .... D 一一一一一一一一一一一 873 QHara,James.P ----- 158| O''Loughlin,Michael _ 一一 29 了 O''Hara,Jerry G 一一一一一一 716 | O''Lough1in,William J 一.561 ; O'' Hara,J. H 一一一一一一一一一 626| O''Mahoney,Robert E _ 一一 1100 OHara, John ...
Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

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3111111111610, John E . . . . Tarma.; G een. ... Hollis, John M . Hollis, Ezra E : lord John... iai'dln, John Hughes, David ... Green, William H. Green, Jefferson Н Hollis, John М.... Kershner, John W ..... Kushner, George W. .. lApe, John B ........... M ...
Journal

Journal

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Says he served subpoenas on Samuel Lord, James Ellis, John J. Libert, John Jones, John Ruth, John Kirk, Lukens Kirk, Cornelius Tyson, M. Meglathery, John Williams, John Funk and Charles Coogler. Question by Mr. Bell.—What are the ...
A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

James Dallaway

John Dolite. John Frampton. Nicholas Pole. John Hilley. Richard Haynes. John Windeby. Humphrey Hebster. Nicholas Pole. John Balman. William Barnard. John Hilley. John Balman. John Fust. Robert Seman. John Hilley. Humphrey Hebster.
Municipal Register, City of Nashua

Municipal Register, City of Nashua

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H; Mordough, Salma H. Mordough, Elbridge P. Brown, Thomas G. Banks, John Barney, Paris H. Hill. John W. Twiss. John Barney, John Barney. John Barney. John Barney. John Barney. John Barney. Salma H. MordoughSalma H. Mordough.
The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago

The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago

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RYA Ryan John, lab. r. 146 Wesson Ryan John, lab. r. 148 Forquer Ryan John, lab. r. 162 17th Ryan John, lab. r. 189 N. Paulina Ryan John, lab. r. 215 Kossuth Ryan John, lab. г. 239 Dashlel Ryan John, lab. г. 263 W. Huron Ryan John, lab.
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: a New and Complete ...

The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: a New and Complete ...

John Foxe

Cowper, Humphrey Skinner, John Sneudnam, Richard Philips, John Celos: these nine persons were presented, for that ... Thomas Bele, John Sturgeon, John Wilshire, Thomas Symon, Ralph Clervis and his wife, James Banaster, Nicholas ...
Revised Zug/Zuck/Zouck/Zook genealogy

Revised Zug/Zuck/Zouck/Zook genealogy

Harry D. Zook

John Joseph Zuck b 1846, d 1926 633 John Joshua Zook m Peachey, Frances S 226 John K Zook m King, Fannie 293 John K Zook m Miller, Lydia 190 John K Zook b 1849, d 1850 324 John K Zook m Sullivan, Louisa 553 John K Zook m Mast ...
The Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the ...

The Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the ...

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John McMackin, Ohio, John Korby, Kentucky, Wm. B. Ewing, Iowa Ter., Joseph Powel, ge John Ferguson, Ohio, W. W. Southgate, 44 Wm. S. Hatch, . G4 John S. Findlay, 44 Gen. T. Worthington, 40 John W. Leathers, 64 George Walker, ...
Persecution expos'd, in some memoirs relating to the ...

Persecution expos'd, in some memoirs relating to the ...

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P. 6o, 71, 74, | | Cattle John, P. 97 | Cartwright John, P. 2oo Chappel Dorcas, P. 192 - John, P. 19, 159 Henry, ... Booth Mary, P. 176 Boucher John, P. 75 Boulton John, P. 219 Bowles Edward, Priest, P. 179 George, P. 193,218,239 24 I, 243 ' .
Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological ...

Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological ...

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1378 Ellias Spilley... ... Wm. Earlingham, Wm. Coomb ... ... John Staines. 1379 John Stockes ... ... John Steaves, Thomas Knape ... John Barstable. 1380 Walter darby... ... Robt. Caddiner, Wm. Somerwell ... John Cannings. 1381 Wm. Cannings .
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe

The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe

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Cowper, Humphrey Skinner, John Sneudnam, Richard Philips, John Celos: these nine persons were presented, for that ... Thomas Bele, John Sturgeon, John Wilshire, Thomas Symon, Ralph Clervis and his wife, James Banaster, Nicholas ...
The American Shorthorn Herd Book

The American Shorthorn Herd Book

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Rhynas & Wells John Eicher ._ John Eicher John Hickey John Hickey A. B. Lindsay A. B. Lindsay John Wurm John Eicher Rex Aistrope Nick Sloan Tens. Lillemoe Jens. Lillemoe Thos. A. Laur Fred Silfrank John Mumaw & Son James F. Hast ...
Transactions ...

Transactions ...

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Moody—John Woodall—Edw. Edwards —James Evans John Humphreys—John Vaughan—Sam. Franks—Rob. Gray —John Poyner ' 1887 Jon. Bowen—W“ Morgan—Edw. Edwards—John Poyner John Humphreys—John Woodall—Rob.
The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex

The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex

Thomas Walker Horsfield

John Wincent. Thomas Russel. Thomas Neele. John Coke. Richard Fust. William Fernhurst. Henry Grenelefe. John Smokyn. William Lade. The same. John Hilley. John Dolite. Nicholas Pole. Richard Haynes. Humphrey Hebster. John Balman.
HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOUNTEERS, 1861-5; PREPARED IN ...

HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOUNTEERS, 1861-5; PREPARED IN ...

SAMUEL P. BATES

Casper Fechier William Woter George Moter Casper Diehl John H. Wendel John Bolender Peter Bettinger John Ebertz Valentine Gintling Adam Salzmann.... William Hamm Jacob Husser John Viehman John Merz George Bischoff John Walter, ...

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