Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies and Volunteer Fire Departments of New York and Brooklyn
Author : J. Frank Kernan
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : J. Frank Kernan
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : J. Frank Kernan
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Page : 936 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Biography
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Author : J. Frank Kernan
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781375818964
Author : J. Frank Kernan
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2014-02
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ISBN : 9781294672890
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Steven Scher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738509884
The story of firefighting in New York City is one of danger, tradition, pride, excitement, and tragedy. It is also the story of man's triumph over destructive forces. From the gaslight days of horse-drawn steam engines to the World Trade Center tragedy of 2001, the heroic men and women who make up the city's most dynamic public service have risked and often lost their lives in order to protect and serve the people of New York City. New York City Firefighting: 1901-2001 chronicles the proudest fire department in America. The proximity of buildings in the city streets and the construction materials made each fire especially dangerous, but determined firefighters never hesitated to battle the flames and rescue the victims. Later, facing unprecedented heights and unparalleled danger, firefighters in New York City were called upon to battle infernos in the first skyscrapers, often using the most rudimentary equipment and barely protected from the flames. In its most trying moments, the Fire Department of New York responded to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001, dutifully rushing into the towers to save as many lives as possible and ultimately losing hundreds of their own.
Author : Newark Public Library
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0801462525
"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of Boston had become the nation's first true sports celebrity, an American icon. The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who would not rather be Sullivan than Leo Tolstoy."—from the Afterword to the Updated EditionElliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other.This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
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Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 1897
Category : New York (State)
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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
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Page : 844 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : San Francisco Public Library
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1889
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