Descriptive Illustrated Review of Ottumwa, Iowa
Author : Fred G. Flower
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Author : Fred G. Flower
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Author : Alice Marple
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Authors, American
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Author : Fred G. Flower
Publisher : PBL Limited
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
ISBN : 9781892689900
1890 - Ottumwa, Iowa: The nation's only Coal Palace has just finished its first season, with another exhibition scheduled for 1891. Finishing touches are being put on the Opera House at the corner of Main and Jefferson. The new post office has just gone into service. Churches, schools, businesses and hotels are busy; houses from simple to grand march up the hills on the north side of the Des Moines River and spread across the plain on the south bank. Originally published in 1890, Illustrated Ottumwa is a time capsule of the city's progress and history just decades after its founding. More than 100 years later, few copies of the book exist to show the high hopes, big dreams, and excitement to be found in Ottumwa, Iowa. This edition contains all the text and photographs to be found in the original, along with added illustrations from the 1890s. Text has all been reset for added clarity, and photographs are reproduced in a larger size than in the original.
Author : Historical Society of Linn County (Iowa)
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Linn County (Iowa)
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Author : Ottumwa Blank Book Company, Ottumwa, Ia
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Margaret Walsh
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813182212
The history of the meat packing industry of the Midwest offers an excellent illustration of the growth and development of the economy of that major industrial region. In the course of one generation, meat packing matured from a small-scale, part-time activity to a specialized manufacturing operation. Margaret Walsh's pioneering study traces the course of that development, shedding light on an unexamined aspect of America's economic history. As the Midwest emerged from the frontier period during the 1840s and 1850s, the growing urban demand for meat products led to the development of a seasonal industry conducted by general merchants during the winter months. In this early stage the activity was widely dispersed but centered mainly along rivers, which provided ready transportation to markets. The growth of the railroads in the 1850s, coupled with the westward expansion of population, created sharp changes in the shape and structure of the industry. The distinct advantages of good rail connections led to the concentration of the industry primarily in Chicago, but also in St. Louis and Milwaukee. The closing of the Mississippi River during the Civil War insured the final dominance of rail transport and spelled the relative decline of such formerly important packing points as Cincinnati and Louisville. By the 1870s large and efficient centralized stockyards were being developed in the major centers, and improved technology, particularly ice-packing, favored those who had the capital resources to invest in expansion and modernization. By 1880, the use of the refrigerated car made way for the chilled beef trade, and the foundations of the giant meat packing industry of today had been firmly established. Margaret Walsh has located an impressive array of primary materials to document the rise of this important early industry, the predecessor and in many ways the precursor of the great industrial complex that still dominates today's midwestern economy.
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 1915*
Category : Iowa
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Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Electrical engineering
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Author : Shelton Stromquist
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Michael W. Lemberger
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738541068
Long one of Iowa's most important industrial cities, Ottumwa was established on the banks of the Des Moines River in 1843. The river was both a blessing, providing transportation as well as ice for early meatpacking plants, and a curse, inundating the city with periodic floods until it was tamed in the latter half of the 20th century. This collection of vintage photographs highlights the city's industries and laboring people, the river's role in the shaping of the community, and Ottumwa's unique place in history as the location of the Iowa Coal Palace and Industrial Exhibits of 1890 and 1891 and the Ottumwa Naval Air Station during the World War II era.