Author : Linda Niemann
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804732094
Photographs and memoirs interplay to place the reader inside the exciting, changing, and dangerous world of railroad life in America. This collaboration by two of the first women to work as railroad brakemen presents an evocative and honest portrayal of a world few people have access to. Visit http://www.sup.org/railroad.html for a virtual exhibition.
Author : Kay Winters
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0735231168
From the creators of Voices from the Oregon Trail and Colonial Voices, an unflinching story of two young runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, told in their voices and those who helped and hindered them It's the 1850s and enslaved siblings Jeb and Mattie are about the make a break for freedom. The pair travel north from Maryland to New Bedford, Massachusetts along the Underground Railroad. Each spread tells about a step of their journey through a poem in the first person perspective. The main and repeating voices are Jeb and Mattie, but we also hear from the stationmasters and conductors, those who offer them haven, as well as those who want to capture them. Like its predecessors in the Voices series, this richly researched and beautifully illustrated picture book brings a difficult chapter of American history to life for young readers.
Author : Kay Winters
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803740921
From the creators of Voices from the Oregon Trail and Colonial Voices, an unflinching story of two young runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, told in their voices and those who helped and hindered them It's the 1850s and enslaved siblings Jeb and Mattie are about the make a break for freedom. The pair travel north from Maryland to New Bedford, Massachusetts along the Underground Railroad. Each spread tells about a step of their journey through a poem in the first person perspective. The main and repeating voices are Jeb and Mattie, but we also hear from the stationmasters and conductors, those who offer them haven, as well as those who want to capture them. Like its predecessors in the Voices series, this richly researched and beautifully illustrated picture book brings a difficult chapter of American history to life for young readers.
Author : Sue Lee
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : China
ISBN : 9781885864604
""Voices from the railroad : stories by descendants of Chinese railroad workers" reveal the stories of Chinese railroad workers and their descendants. These stories have never been told outside of their families: until now. Learn about Chin Lin Sou, Hung Lai Woh, Jim King, Lim Lip Hong, Lee Ling & Lee Yik Gim, Lee Wong Sang, Lum Ah Chew, Mock Chuck, & Moy Jin Mun, workers of the Central Pacific Railroad. No longer nameless, faceless workers lost to history, their stories will shatter misconceptions about the Chinese who helped build America."--
Author : Patricia Lantier
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778748229
Examines the life of Harriet Tubman, who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Author : Reynolds Knight
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Linda Niemann
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Women railroad employees
ISBN :
The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey--the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her--providing an elegy to a dying trade.
Author : Lisa Moser
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375868496
On his way to visit Granny Bett, who is feeling blue, Railroad Hank stops at the farms of several friends and, misunderstanding their offers to help, winds up with a trainload of crazy cargo.
Author : Linda G. Niemann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253001544
Culled from the 20 years she spent traveling the American West as a freight brakeman and conductor, Linda Grant Niemann's Railroad Noir delves into the darker side of railroading. The 1990s were a time of crisis for workers caught in the breakup of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Niemann's tales of exhaustion, alcoholism, homelessness, and corporate blundering present a revelatory account of railroading life. Photographer Joel Jensen realizes Niemann's vision of the working West with images of cowboy bars, blue motels, and railroaders working in electrical storms, white-outs, and desert heat waves. The result is an honest, gritty, and striking collaboration.
Author : Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
