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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in navy cloth, stamped in gold. This is a 189 pp. book + index on the PP&L Power Company of Eastern Pennsylvania. A rather scarce record book on the Utility Company. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 13 inches by 9.5 inches. Folded in half, resulting in four illustrated panels. Exhibition note by Debra Hughes, Curator of Collections and Exhibits, Hagley Museum and Library. The Man Who Build Washington was a traveling exhibition organized by the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE. McShain's papers are housed at Hagley whose mission is to preserve and interpret the history of business in national live. The National Building Museum is located at 401 F Street NW Washington, DC In addition to the Exhibition, the brochure contained information on a Symposium, a Gallery Talk, and A tour of the Kiplinger Building. John McShain (December 21, 1896 September 9, 1989) was an American building contractor known as "The Man Who Built Washington". His father founded a successful construction company, which he was forced to take over at age 21 following his father's death in 1919. Under McShain's management, the company became one of the leading builders in the United States. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the company worked on more than 100 buildings in the Washington metropolitan area. The company built or was the prime contractor for a number of landmark structures, including the Pentagon, the Jefferson Memorial, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Library of Congress annex, Washington National Airport, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and the 19491952 reconstruction of the White House. McShain also built the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. Covering more than 235 acres along the banks of the Brandywine Creek, the museum and grounds include the first du Pont family home and garden in the United States, the powder yards, and a 19th-century machine shop. On the hillside below the mansion lies a Renaissance Revival garden, with terraces and statuary, created in the 1920s by Louise Evelina du Pont Crowninshield (18771958). Hagley historians only know that the name was already in use well before E.I. du Pont expanded downstream from Eleutherian Mills in 1813 by purchasing the land that became the Hagley Yards. An 1813 document refers to the land as Hagley and it had been called Hagley as early as 1797, when its owner, Philadelphia Quaker merchant Rumford Dawes, applied for insurance on buildings that were said to be located in a place called Hagley on the Brandywine. Dawes had acquired the property in 1783. Since the name Hagley did not appear on the documents transferring ownership at that time, it seems likely that Dawes gave this name to the Brandywine location. It seems likely that Delaware's Hagley was named for an English estate, Hagley Hall that was well known in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is likely that Dawes chose the name based on an English narrative poem entitled The Seasons by James Thomson. Hagley Hall was the seat of Thomson's patron the Baron Lyttelton, and the poem's description of a sylvan dale is strikingly reminiscent of the Brandywine Valley. The Seasons was popular in Philadelphia at the time that Rumford Dawes acquired and named Hagley. The English Hagley estate is located in the West Midlands countryside about ten miles southwest of Birmingham. Perhaps coincidentally, Delaware's Hagley is about 8 miles south of Chadds Ford Township, officially known as Birmingham Township before 1996. At about the same time, Hagley Plantation on the Waccamaw River in South Carolina got its name when the owners, who were admirers of English culture, chose the name Hagley to remind them of the well-known parkland of that name near London. Opened in 1957, the Hagley Museum features exhibits and demonstrations that show the connections between early industrial technology and early American history, focusing on the histories of the du Pont family, DuPont company, explosives and gunpowder, and innovation (through a large collection of American Patent models. There are indoor and outdoor exhibitions, along with restored mills, a workers community, and the original home of the du Pont family with an attached garden. The Museum also explores personal stories of the 19th-century DuPont Company employees, how they lived, and how their lifestyles changed along with new machinery and new production methods. Visitors can ride a narrated bus tour, through the Powder Yard Trail and is the only way to the home. The Eleutherian Mills Historical Library was dedicated on October 7, 1961. It was renamed as the Hagley Library in 1984. Single sheet, printed on both sides.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life as well as American foodways.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Kosher USA' explores the complex encounter between ancient religious principles and modern industrial methods. Drawing on episodes from the lives of the author's own family, it traces how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher. This book adds a significant chapter to the story of Judaism's interaction with non-Jewish cultures and the history of modern Jewish American life, as well as American foodways.

A fine copy of the hundred and fifty item illustrated catalogue of catalogues issued by Quaritch twenty years ago." Trade catalogues represent a vital source of information about our econom -ic past, particularly regarding the history of marketing and material culture. For students of. social systems,attitudes and values,structures of meaning and symbol, few printed forms of evidence are as richly rewarding colourful or interesting as the trade catalogue " Glen Porter the compiler.Subjects include Architecture,Ceramics, Pottery,FloorCoverings, Furniture, Tiles, Lighting,Machinery Paint Wall Papers etc.