The Central Treaty Organization
Author : United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
ISBN :
Toronto Streetcars Serve the City
Author : Kenneth Springirth
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade of April 8, 2012 leading off with Toronto Transit Commission historic Presidents’ Conference Committee car No. 4500, vintage Peter Witt car No. 2766, and Canadian Light Rail Vehicle No. 4074 in this view on Queen Street at Woodbine Avenue was witnessed by thousands of people. Kenneth Springirth, with a lifelong interest in rail transportation, has made numerous trips to Toronto to ride, research, walk, and photograph the streetcar lines. Born and raised in the United States, he commuted to the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia by streetcar, subway, and sometimes commuter train. His father was a streetcar motorman in Philadelphia and his grandfather was a streetcar motorman in Washington D.C. This book is a photographic essay documenting Toronto’s extensive streetcar system that during 2012 on an average Monday to Friday work day carried an average of 285,000 passengers with its 11 routes, 671 stops, and 247 cars. From the urban residential area of Kingston Road to the commercial district of Spadina Avenue where between King and Bloor Streets there is a streetcar in peak periods every 2 to 3 minutes, this book provides an insight to an amazing streetcar system. Illustrations: 234 colour photographs
Honourable Friends
Author : Janet Daley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN : 9780297796145
Book Description
SMITHSONIAN ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR 2022
Author : SMITHSONIAN INSTITIUTE.
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 1588347036
Book Description
One Man Caravan
Author : Robert Edison Fulton
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760353301
Book Description
This adventurous work records Robert Edison Fulton's solo round-the-world tour on a two-cylinder Douglas motorcycle between July, 1932 and December, 1933. First published in 1937.
Flight
Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
Publisher : Carlton Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844429035
Book Description
Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first successful flight, the stunningly illustrated Flight captures the excitement of a century of far-fetched dreams and equally remarkable innovation, from the defeat of Donald Douglas by Boeing's William Allen to Charles Lindberg alone at night in his cockpit on his way to Paris, to British bomber crews over Hamburg, to Chuck Yeager's near disaster and miraculous recovery. What began as a death-defying spectacle turned into both the safest and fastest way to travel and a terrifying war machine. Drawing on the holdings of the National Air and Space Museum, the National Archives and the US Air Force, this is the story of an invention that began with two curious brothers on a chilly and windswept beach and went on to radically change the course of history.
The American Farm Tractor
Author : Randy Leffingwell
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760313701
Book Description
Original ads, historic design drawings, and factory photographs tell the definitive story of the American tractor's development, mechanical innovations, groundbreaking designs, and company histories. Best-selling author Randy Leffingwell researched and photographed restored classics and one-of-a-kind experimental models from coast-to-coast to deliver the goods on American farm tractor. This is the book that started it all! Previous hardcover edition (0-87938-532-4 pub 1991) has sold a staggering 150,000!
Railway Operating Battalion
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Military railroads
ISBN :
Book Description
Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons
Author : Ace Reid
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780292787773
Book Description
Folks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or drought or prickly pears looking for them dad-blamed ole wild cows. In fact, he's so real a fella that it's hard to believe that Ace Reid made him up. This book brings together 139 of Ace Reid's popular "Cowpokes" cartoons, reproduced in large format to show the artistry and attention to detail that characterized Reid's work. Grouped around themes such as work, weather, bankers, and friends, they reveal the distinctive "you might as well laugh as cry" sense of humor that ranch folks draw on to get through hard work and hard times. In the foreword, Washington Post cartoonist Pat Oliphant offers an appreciation of Reid's "Cowpokes" cartoons, noting that "Ace's work has a magic of its own, and it owes nothing to anyone else." Reid's longtime friend Elmer Kelton recounts Ace's life and career in the introduction, describing how a shy boy who grew up on ranch work transformed himself into an artist-entrepreneur who never met a stranger and who made ranch work the subject of his real love, cartooning. This collector's volume belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves the "Cowpokes" cartoons, knows a fella like Jake, or enjoys the dry wit of the American cowboy.
Queen Of This Realm
Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443412570
Book Description
Britain’s greatest queen, Elizabeth I, was also the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd politician; a brilliant scholar; a lover of the arts; and, eventually, an icon. In this unforgettable fictional memoir, Elizabeth recounts the emotional turmoil of her life: the loneliness of power; the heartbreak of her lifelong love affair with Robert Dudley; and the terrible guilt of ordering the execution of her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.
