The Eagle's History of Poughkeepsie
Author : Edmund Platt
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
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Author : Edmund Platt
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
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Author : Dutchess County Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
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Author : Helen Wilkinson Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Names, Geographical
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Author : Joyce C. Ghee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738502366
One hundred years ago, the city of Poughkeepsie was a bustling marketplace for the mid-Hudson Valley, while the town of Poughkeepsie was essentially rural and substantially smaller than the city. Two world wars and the arrival of IBM reversed the roles, at least in part. The town grew larger than the city and soon became the center of retail business for the county. Four- and six-lane highways replaced trolleys and trains. The city, however, remained the center of county government. Poughkeepsie 1898-1998: A Century of Change explores not only how South Road became the new main street but also the whole history of Poughkeepsie, from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Moving through this time period were incoming waves of Irish, Jewish, Italian, Polish, Greek, and Mexican immigrants. The railroads flourished and foundered, and civic, cultural, and social organizations grew.
Author : William P. McDermott
Publisher : Dutchess County Historical Society
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : History
ISBN :
The 1982 issue of the annual Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook, Dutchess County, New York. Since 1914.
Author : Harvey K. Flad
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1438426364
Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.
Author : Poughkeepsie (N.Y.). Christ Church
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Registers of births, etc
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Author : William P. McDermott
Publisher : Dutchess County Historical Society
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN :
The 1983 issue of the annual Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook, Dutchess County, New York. Since 1914.
Author : Blaine Pardoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0472027875
Praise for Lost Eagles "The pilot and observer stories selected have not previously seen much exposure. Not only are they interesting, but I found myself relishing getting to the next chapter to find out what Frederick Zinn was doing during the next stage of his life." ---Alan Roesler, founding member, League of World War I Aviation Historians, and former Managing Editor, Over the Front Praise for Blaine Pardoe's previous military histories (which average 4.5-star customer reviews on Amazon.com): Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I "This painstaking biography of World War I ace Frank Luke will earn Pardoe kudos . . . Pardoe has flown a very straight course in researching and recounting Luke's myth-ridden life. . . . Thorough annotation makes the book that much more valuable to WWI aviation scholars as well as for more casual air-combat buffs." ---Booklist The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate "This is a gem of a story, well told, and nicely laid out with photos, maps, and charts that cleverly illuminate the lost era of ‘gentlemen pirates' at sea . . . [German commerce raider Felix von Luckner's] legend lives on in this lively and readable biography." ---Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy, Naval History Few people have ever heard of Frederick Zinn, yet even today airmen's families are touched by this man and the work he performed in both world wars. Zinn created the techniques still in use to determine the final fate of airmen missing in action. The last line of the Air Force Creed reads, "We will leave no airman behind." Zinn made that promise possible. Blaine Pardoe weaves together the complex story of a man who brought peace and closure to countless families who lost airmen during both world wars. His lasting contribution to warfare was a combination of his methodology for locating the remains of missing pilots (known as the Zinn system) and his innovation of imprinting all aircraft parts with the same serial number so that if a wreck was located, the crewman could be identified. The tradition he established for seeking and recovering airmen is carried on to this day. Blaine Pardoe is an accomplished author who has published dozens of military fiction novels and other books, including the widely acclaimed Cubicle Warfare: Self-Defense Tactics for Today's Hypercompetitive Workplace; Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I; and The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate. Jacket photo: Frederick Zinn's Sopwith aircraft, which crashed during World War I. National Museum of the United States Air Force Archives.
Author : Clyde Griffen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674603257
This important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. The book clarifies for the first time in any mobility study the meaning of shifts in employment through detailed examination of individual occupations. It shows concretely how industrialization altered the structure of opportunity; it specifies how the change affected the occupational niches and paths of mobility found by Irish, German, and British newcomers compared to white and black natives. By reassessing the significance of achieving particular occupations such as clerking and craft proprietorships, the book poses important questions for historical interpretations of gross indices of mobility such as shift from blue-collar to white-collar status. The authors favor comparability in their general analysis of mobility from federal census rolls and city directories, but they refine it through a broad research base, including tax rolls, local newspapers, and voluntary association records. Their study is one of the first to make systematic use of the credit reports on every business in one city from the R. G. Dun & Co. manuscripts. It also provides the first full description of the employment of women, permitting comparison with the opportunities for men. Other distinctive aspects include treatment of the crucial dimension of wealth and income, close attention to shifts in occupations produced by transformations in technology, marketing, and finance, and some disentangling of the influence of religion and nationality upon achievement. The fine lens of this microscopic study has enabled Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen to describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes which shaped that mobility, and, simultaneously, to vivify the working lives of anonymous American men and women.