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Industry on Parade, Sylacauga Saga - Seminar for Executives - A Message from Industry to You
in Prelinger Collection, of United States. Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Collection; produced by National Association of Manufacturers, in Industry on Parade (District of Columbia: National Association of Manufacturers), 7 mins
This documentary features the manufacturing industry.
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in Prelinger Collection, of United States. Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Collection; produced by National Association of Manufacturers, in Industry on Parade (District of Columbia: National Association of Manufacturers), 7 mins
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This documentary features the manufacturing industry.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
National Association of Manufacturers
Publisher
National Association of Manufacturers
Series
Industry on Parade
Topic / Theme
Association and organization conferences, Cotton, Cotton mills, Demographics, Economic conditions, Factories, Industrial design, Manufactured material, Manufacturing industry, Mill towns, American History, Post-war Era (1945–1960), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Ken Burns's The West, 3, The Speck of the Future
written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour 26 mins
By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into...
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written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour 26 mins
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By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. It still seemed too distant, too mysterious, too dangerous. Then gold was discovered in California, and every...
By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. It still seemed too distant, too mysterious, too dangerous. Then gold was discovered in California, and everything changed -- for the West, and for the country. Suddenly, gold-seekers rushed in from every corner of the globe: Chinese peasants, pursuing tales of a 'gold mountain' across the ocean, Mexican farmers and clerks from London, tailors from Eastern Europe and South American aristocrats fallen on hard times. The thin stream of American emigrants crossing the continent became a torrent -- thousands upon thousands of optimistic but inexperienced prospectors, willing to leave their homes and families, and set out on the long trail for California, hoping to strike it rich and return in glory. It had taken half a century for the United States to encompass the vast spaces of the West. Now, the lust for gold would animate the nation to begin to fill them up.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, Peter Coyote, 1941-
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-, Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns's The West
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Coyote, 1941-
Person Discussed
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, 1808-1890, William Swain, 1822-
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Chinese people, Gold, Gold mines and mining, Migration, Miners, Mining communities, Mining industry, Mining towns, Pioneers, Sioux people, California Gold Rush, 1849, American History, Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Chinese, Dakota, Russians, Ukrainians, Rusyn, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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© 1996 The West Film Project, Inc./Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
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Mine 21
directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) o...
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directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
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On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of mod...
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of modern safety precautions. The Department of Labor would eventually rule that “a cigarette lighter taken into a coal mine in violation of Federal regulations touched off a methane explosion,” but “accused the Grundy County Mining Company, the mine’s operator, of failure to evacuate workers from a methane-laden shaft, to adequately ventilate the shaft and to enforce a Federal regulation prohibiting smoking materials in a mine” (New York Times, May 5, 1982). The matter went all the way to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts).
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Field of Study
American History, American Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007
Author / Creator
Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007, Alexa Fults, Kelsey Arbuckle
Date Published / Released
2019, 2020
Publisher
Privately Published
Person Discussed
J. T. Shadrick, Max Fraser, Barbara Myers, Jimmy Holtzclaw
Topic / Theme
Mining towns, Coal mines and mining, Family and Culture, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2019 The University of the South
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Postcard History, Bisbee
in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 128 page(s),
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Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from aro...
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in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 128 page(s),
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Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisb...
Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbee’s seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizona’s greatest copper camp.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Postcard History
Topic / Theme
Mining towns
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013 by Annie Graeme Larkin
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Postcard History, Lower Merion and Narberth
in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 128 page(s),
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First settled in 1682 by William Penn's coterie of Welsh Quakers, the Lower Merion area has since undergone several transformations: from farmland, to the home of Philadelphia's industrial elite, to built-out suburb. Besides the development of the unique and impressive Main Line mansions for which the area is famo...
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in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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First settled in 1682 by William Penn's coterie of Welsh Quakers, the Lower Merion area has since undergone several transformations: from farmland, to the home of Philadelphia's industrial elite, to built-out suburb. Besides the development of the unique and impressive Main Line mansions for which the area is famous, Lower Merion and Narberth have been the scene of dramatic railroad rivalries and advances for the middle class. Lower Merion and Na...
First settled in 1682 by William Penn's coterie of Welsh Quakers, the Lower Merion area has since undergone several transformations: from farmland, to the home of Philadelphia's industrial elite, to built-out suburb. Besides the development of the unique and impressive Main Line mansions for which the area is famous, Lower Merion and Narberth have been the scene of dramatic railroad rivalries and advances for the middle class. Lower Merion and Narberth focuses on the era of the most intense development, between 1900 and 1950, when the character of each individual neighborhood was coming into its own.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Postcard History
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by The Lower Merion Historical Society
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Postcard History, Maynard
in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), 128 page(s),
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Maynard was incorporated in 1871 as a manufacturing community. By 1880, it was one of the most influential towns in Massachusetts. As the population boomed from an expansion in business, postcards became the substantial method of communication. Local photographers took advantage of the events, pictorial venues, an...
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in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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Maynard was incorporated in 1871 as a manufacturing community. By 1880, it was one of the most influential towns in Massachusetts. As the population boomed from an expansion in business, postcards became the substantial method of communication. Local photographers took advantage of the events, pictorial venues, and influx of immigrants and visitors to create many unusual postcards of Maynard. Through vintage postcards, Maynard shows how this town...
Maynard was incorporated in 1871 as a manufacturing community. By 1880, it was one of the most influential towns in Massachusetts. As the population boomed from an expansion in business, postcards became the substantial method of communication. Local photographers took advantage of the events, pictorial venues, and influx of immigrants and visitors to create many unusual postcards of Maynard. Through vintage postcards, Maynard shows how this town, once a farming community, has retained its friendly, small-town character.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Postcard History
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 by Paul Boothroyd and Lewis Halprin
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Postcard History, McDowell County Coal and Rail
in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Postcard History
Topic / Theme
Coal, Railroads
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 by Jay Chatman
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Postcard History, Western Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage
in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 128 page(s),
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The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global econom...
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in Postcard History (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global economics and politics. Western Pennsylvania’s Oil Heritage profiles the history of Pennsylvania oil from its discovery and development to...
The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global economics and politics. Western Pennsylvania’s Oil Heritage profiles the history of Pennsylvania oil from its discovery and development to its impact on the culture, economy, and environment of the oil region. These vintage postcards provide a glimpse into the wide-ranging history of western Pennsylvania’s oil region, from the cradle of the industry at Oil Creek, to the immensely productive Bradford oil field, and on to cities and towns like Oil City, built largely by the black gold.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Postcard History
Topic / Theme
Oil mines and mining
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 by Charles E. Williams
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War Path and Bivouac, or, The Conquest of the Sioux
written by John Frederick Finerty, 1846-1908 (Chicago, IL: Privately Published, 1890), 460 page(s)
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written by John Frederick Finerty, 1846-1908 (Chicago, IL: Privately Published, 1890), 460 page(s)
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
John Frederick Finerty, 1846-1908
Date Published / Released
1890
Publisher
Privately Published
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Battles, Great Sioux War, 1876-1877, Race and Gender, War and Violence
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Wild West Tech, Deadwood Tech
directed by Laura Verklan, fl. 1991, in Wild West Tech (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2004), 42 mins
Touted as one of the 'liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi,' in Deadwood speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption c...
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directed by Laura Verklan, fl. 1991, in Wild West Tech (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2004), 42 mins
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Touted as one of the 'liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi,' in Deadwood speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption collided, and shootouts were as common as the filth that filled the streets. Host Keith Carradine examines the good, bad, and ugly techn...
Touted as one of the 'liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi,' in Deadwood speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption collided, and shootouts were as common as the filth that filled the streets. Host Keith Carradine examines the good, bad, and ugly technologies of the last and richest gold rush town, including stagecoaches and stagecoach robberies; bull whacking and bull trains; gold counterfeiting; saw mills; smelter and cyanide mills; electric marquees; and mortuary science. And we feature forensic analysis of Wild Bill Hickok's death, and say howdy to a few of Deadwood's other famous characters like Calamity Jane.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Carradine, 1936-2009
Author / Creator
Laura Verklan, fl. 1991
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
Wild West Tech
Speaker / Narrator
David Carradine, 1936-2009
Topic / Theme
Mining towns, American History, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Copyright Message
Copyright 2008 A&E Television Networks
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