Farm Security Administration Photographs in Indiana: a Study Guide

Intended to be used with the Indiana Farm Security Administration Photographs Digital Collection - [LINK]http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/IFSAP[/LINK].This study guide is meant to provide an overall history of the Farm Security Administration and its photographic project in Indiana. It provides a basis for studying the history of the photos taken in Indiana by the FSA photographers

The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati

(print) xii, 335 p. : ill. ; 27 cmPreface ix -- 1. THE PIONEER ROADS AND THEIR STATIONS : FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR 3 -- The City and Its Natural Setting, 3 -- The Little Miami Railroad, 6 -- Other Ohio Lines, 15 -- Westward toward Chicago and the Mississippi, 23 -- Locomotives and Trains in the Early years, 37 -- 2. LINKS WITH THE SOUTH 51 -- 3. THE TERMINAL PATTERN OF HALF A CENTURY 71 -- The Panhandle and the Court Street Stations, 71 -- Central Union Depot, 82 -- Rounding Out the -- Cincinnati System, 91 -- Train Operations and -- Locomotives to World War I, 117 -- 4. GRAND SCHEMES FOR THE NEW CENTURY 141 -- Proposals for a Union Terminal, 141 -- Interurban and Rapid Transit Plans, 159 -- Traffic and Trains in the Extravagant Decade, 176 -- 5. Cincinnati Union Terminal 215 -- Organization, Planning, and Design, 215 -- Construction and Operation, 235 -- Reality and Potentiality, 258 -- Appendixes 285 -- Bibliography 307 -- Index 32

Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present

As the first major U.S. urban center located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati’s early growth depended on the Ohio River, a vital route for the westward drive of U.S. settler colonialism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Over time, with the expansion of railroads and shifting trade routes, the river became less relevant to the success of the city. In this dissertation study, I pick up the history of Cincinnati’s relationship with the Ohio River after it had apparently declined in importance. Through a focus on how Cincinnati elites have advocated for different infrastructural projects along the Ohio River, I track the ways that they have hoped to again make the river productive for the city. In particular, I focus on the creation of infrastructure concerning 1) navigation, 2) flooding, and 3) pollution. By developing infrastructure related to these three areas, local elites hoped to reshape how the Ohio River behaved, making it more amenable to Cincinnati’s overall needs, as well as to spur development in the region. In doing so, I connect these proposals designed to transform the entire Ohio River with plans to redevelop specific stretches of the riverfront around Cincinnati. To explore these two interests simultaneously, I examine the activities of Cincinnati-based groups that have sought to unite the skills of technical experts with those of local developers in order to promote infrastructural solutions to the issues of navigation, flooding, and pollution – groups like the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, the Cincinnati Stream Pollution Committee, the Cincinnatus Association, the Riverfront Advisory Council, and others. In doing so, this study uncovers the entanglement of technocratic expertise and development knowledge in shaping how local elites have maintained their authority in the city and reshaped the urban environment to suit their needs. Through a century of collaboration on infrastructural projects, technical experts and development elites in Cincinnati have been able to transform the riverfront – which had once been a zone of mobility, racial intermixing, and economic opportunity for the city’s poorer residents – into a tightly-controlled area that is increasingly inaccessible to Cincinnati’s low-income residents or small businesses. At the same time, this historical and ethnographic study also places particular emphasis on understanding the role the Ohio River itself has had in enabling these processes to unfold. Far from being an inert bystander, the Ohio River has actively shaped these infrastructural projects along the Cincinnati riverfront, many times being a major contributor to the successful realization of elite objectives around white supremacy, imperialism, urban growth, and public health, among others

A comprehensive listing and classification of free and inexpensive bulletin board aids, free-loan films, filmstrips, recordings, transcriptions and scripts available to the business teacher

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Investment status of railroad securities

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The Urban West at the End of the Frontier

Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence H. Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twenty-four major frontier towns. Cities examined are Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha, Atchison, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Austin, Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Leadville, Salt Lake city, Virginia City, Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Stockton. Larsen bases his analysis of western cities and their problems on social statistics obtained from the 1880 United States Census. This census is particularly important because it represents the first time that the federal government regarded the United States as an urban nation. The author is the first scholar to do a comprehensive investigation of this important source. This volume gives an accurate portrayal of western urban life. Here are promoters and urban planners crowding as many lots as possible into tracts in the middle of vast, uninhabited valleys. Here are streets clogged with filth because of inadequate sanitation systems; people crowded together in packed quarters with only fledgling police and fire services. Here, too, is the advance of nineteenth-century technology: gaslights, telephones, interurbans. Most important, this study dispels the misconceptions concerning the process of exploration, settlement, and growth of the urban west. City building in the American West, despite popular mythology, was not a response to geographic or climatic conditions. It was the extension of a process perfected earlier, the promotion and building of sites—no matter how undesirable—into successful localities. Uncontrolled capitalism led to disorderly development that reflected the abilities of individual entrepreneurs rather than most other factors. The result was the establishment of a society that mirrored and made the same mistakes as those made earlier in the rest of the country. Description Lawrence H. Larsen was professor of American history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he taught for 36 years. He is the author or coauthor of seventeen books, including A History of Missouri: 1953 to 2003 and The Urban South: A History. With a New Foreword by Sandra I. Enrquez. Sandra I. Enríquez is associate professor of history and director of public history emphasis at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a social historian of modern United States history with particular research and teaching interests in Chicanx and Latinx history, urban history, borderlands, social movements, and public history. This Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/kansas_open_books/1039/thumbnail.jp

Localization and decentralization of defense industries in the United States.

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