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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Heritage

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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Heritage

An exhaustive and highly detailed examination of the rich heritage that is the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

$34.00

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Abandoned Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: California Revealed - available now from Fonthill Media

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Abandoned Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: California Revealed

Abandoned Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: California Revealed is an unforgettable nocturnal journey through secret locations hidden in the deserts of California. California has more than its share of abandoned planes, trains, and automobiles.

$23.00

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Schenectady: Trolley Hub of Eastern New York

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Schenectady: Trolley Hub of Eastern New York

This book focuses on the chronology and location of the streetcar and interurban routes partially or wholly in Schenectady. It is hoped that this book can also provide the reader with a brief overview of the geographic development of the “City That Lights and Hauls the World.”

$23.00

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Hyalyn: America’s Finest Porcelain

Thoroughly documented and illustrated with 425 images, Hyalyn: America’s Finest Porcelain is a complete history of Hyalyn Porcelain, Inc., and its successors, Hyalyn Cosco, Hyalyn, Ltd., and Vanguard Studios.

$32.00

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North Carolina’s Moravian Potters: The Art and Mystery of Pottery-Making in Wachovia

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North Carolina’s Moravian Potters: The Art and Mystery of Pottery-Making in Wachovia

North Carolina’s eighteenth and nineteenth-century Moravian potters were remarkable artisans whose products included coarse earthenware, slip-trailed decorated ware, Leeds-type fine pottery, press-molded stove tiles, figural bottles, toys, and salt-glazed stoneware.

$32.00

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Chicago's South Shore Line

Chicago's South Shore Line is a photographic essay of the last interurban electric railroad operating in the United States.

$28.00

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Detroit's Streetcar Heritage

Detroit's Streetcar Heritage documents the city's streetcar era plus scenes of the PCC cars in Mexico City, the Washington Boulevard Line which operated from 1976 to 2003, and the QLINE streetcar which opened in 2017 on Woodward Avenue linking Grand Boulevard with downtown Detroit.

$28.00

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Philadelphia’s Streetcar Heritage

A photographic essay of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, streetcar system. The first electric streetcar line in Philadelphia opened in 1892 and quickly replaced horsecar service by 1897.

$28.00

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NASA Langley Research Center: The First Century To the Moon and Beyond

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NASA Langley Research Center: The First Century To the Moon and Beyond

In its first century and counting, NASA Langley Research Center [LaRC] has had a remarkable history that has stood out not only for the many outstanding achievements in flight and space exploration but the people who made it happen.

$32.00

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Abandoned Alaska: Copper, Gold, and Rust

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Abandoned Alaska: Copper, Gold, and Rust

Photographer Paul Scannell has spent years hiking to the region’s precariously perched mountain-top copper mines and remote gold mining sites with the aim of capturing America’s slowly disappearing frontier history.

$24.00

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Howard Hughes and the Creation of Modern Hollywood - published by Fonthill Media

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Howard Hughes and the Creation of Modern Hollywood

Howard Hughes was an industrialist, aviator, and eccentric, but he was also the most important movie producer during the golden age of Hollywood. At a time when filmmaking was tightly controlled and highly formulaic, Hughes used his enormous wealth to challenge the dictates and restrictions that defined the motion picture industry.

$32.00

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Abandoned Baton Rouge: Stories from the Ruins

In Abandoned Baton Rouge, discover what's been going on in forgotten spaces when no one else was looking. Learn about the establishments that once were, the high times and the low crimes. Meet the people who loved the places and find out what they kept as souvenirs.

$24.00

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Lowell Through Time

Lowell Through Time is a visual exploration of how changes in architecture, industry, commerce, demographics and entertainment shape the experience of this riverfront city.

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Casino Sidemen: Reno Showroom Musicians of the 1950s-1990s

For casinos of Reno and neighboring cities along the folds of the Sierra, the popularity of stage shows with headliners and large orchestras reached their peak during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Gambling on a Dream: The Classic Las Vegas Strip 1930-1955

The real and fascinating story of the Las Vegas Strip - The Entertainment Capital of the World.

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Abandoned Washington DC

Abandoned Washington DC collects more than 350 striking images of decay and devastation, paired with thought-provoking essays detailing an alternate, abandoned—but no less accurate—history of the capital city.

$28.00

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Abandoned Ohio: Ghost Towns, Cemeteries, Schools, and More

Abandoned Maryland offers a thoughtful journey through what we leave behind as well as a glimpse at the light and texture infused entities these giants of their time have become—they still have much to offer before their final demise.

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Abandoned Birmingham

In Abandoned Birmingham, photographer Leland Kent gives the reader an in-depth look at the forgotten buildings and factories throughout the city.

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Abandoned Maryland: Ruin and Restoration

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Abandoned Kentucky

Abandoned Kentucky explores this haunting narrative through its display of photos by abandoned building photographer Jay Farrell.

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Abandoned Tennessee

Abandoned Tennessee explores this haunting narrative through its display of photos by abandoned building photographer Jay Farrell.

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Abandoned Pittsburgh: Steel and Shadows

From the steel-plated inferno of Carrie Furnace and Duquesne Steel Works to the holy shadows that inhabit St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, Abandoned Pittsburgh: Steel and Shadows points a lens into these darkened, forgotten places where a haunting beauty still exists.

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Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears and Ghosts

Does a building have a soul? And once it is empty of people, does it still have a story to tell? Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears and Ghosts continues the series that seeks to explore the Steel City’s industrial past.

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America at Night

This book contains almost 200 photos taken from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s by the General Electric Company.

$19.00

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A Man Called Plenty Horses: The Last Warrior of the Great Plains War - published by America Through Time

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A Man Called Plenty Horses: The Last Warrior of the Great Plains War

This is the story of the civil trials of Plenty Horses for the murder of the last white man to die in the Great Plains War, trials that legally and dramatically agonized over justifying criminal acts committed during warfare.

$32.00

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They Drank to That: Bars, Beer and the Beat of Hamtramck

For decades, the city of Hamtramck, MI, has had a legendary association with bars. Its 2.1 square miles was packed at one point with at least 200 bars, clubs and other places that served alcohol in some form.

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The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allen Poe Collection

Although he is one of the world's most popular authors who continues to thrill and chill readers of all ages, Edgar Allan Poe's life is as enigmatic as his sudden, unexplained death. In a quest for solutions to the mysteries surrounding the poet's life and work, a group of Poe devotees founded the Poe Shrine in 1922.

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Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage - published by America Through Time and available now from Fonthill Media UK

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Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage

Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage is a photographic essay of the Cincinnati, Ohio, streetcar system. Cincinnati's first electric streetcar line was the conversion of the Mt. Adams & Eden Park Inclined Railway Company cable car line to electric operation in 1888, which became part of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company in 1896.

$26.00

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Lancaster, California Through Time

Lancaster, California Through Time enables the reader to explore the community's architectural legacy, which is constantly changing; although many of its earliest structures have disappeared or exist in dilapidated remains, a handful of architectural treasures have endured and are superbly illustrated via a wonderful scope of vintage photographs.

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Château Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870-1920 - published by America Through Time

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Château Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870-1920

What a wonderful gift Margo Miller has given us in Château Higginson, a vivid and absorbing account of one man's efforts to construct a building that would create “a new way for Bostonians—and Americans—to live.”

$26.00

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Monroe Through Time II

Like its predecessor, Monroe Through Time II is presented by the Monroe Historical Society (est. 1959) and portrays the Connecticut community with images that contrast the contemporary setting with the past.

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North Ogden Through Time

The city of North Ogden, Utah, that we know today has seen many changes through the years. Although the majestic Ben Lomond Peak still towers over the city, homes continue to spread further into the foothills.

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America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations: Architecture, Community and History

America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations: Architecture, Community and History takes the reader on a tour of the oldest existing Jewish congregation in each of the 50 states plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

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A Brookline Boyhood in the 1930s and 40s

In A Brookline Boyhood Jim Harnedy takes up a new challenge in his writing career and instead of producing a local history he narrates a lively tale of growing up in the 1930s and 40s in Brookline, a suburb to the southeast of Boston.

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A Guide to the Gold Rush Country of California - available from America Through Time

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A Guide to the Gold Rush Country of California

A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War examines the social, political, and economic challenges that scarred and dramatically changed the city during and after World War I.

$24.00

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Christmas Traditions in Boston - published by America Through Time

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Christmas Traditions in Boston

In this book Christmas Traditions in Boston, Anthony Sammarco outlines the celebration (or lack thereof) of Christmas in the first two centuries after the city was settled in 1630. By the mid 19th century a German immigrant named Charles Follen introduced the Christmas tree to Boston, and shortly thereafter Louis Prang introduced his colorful Christmas cards, the first in Boston.

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The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Nevada They Knew is the story of a legendary friendship. Robert Caples (1908–1979) was Nevada's leading artist of the twentieth century, Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971) its leading novelist.

$26.00

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Naval Air Station Oceana

A once-remote auxiliary air station that sprung from the mud flats of old Princess Anne County near the whistle stop of Oceana, from which it gets its name, Naval Air Station Oceana has advanced in the decades since World War II to become the navy's East Coast master jet base and one of the largest and most advanced air stations in the world.

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Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad

Since 1975, the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad has provided transportation to and within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Northeast Ohio.

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Virginia Beach Through the 20th Century

Virginia Beach Through the 20th Century takes you back to the remarkable people, places and events that gave birth to the “jewel resort of the Atlantic."

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Crescenta Valley History - published by America Through Time

Crescenta Valley History: Hidden In Plain Sight

The Crescenta Valley is a typical suburb of the metropolis of Los Angeles, containing residential neighborhoods nestled in chaparral-covered hills. But hidden in these typical neighborhoods are remnants of an atypical past, a past made up of Hollywood legends, Prohibition-era bootleggers, and pioneers in women's rights.

$21.00

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Troy Through Time

In his latest book, Troy Through Time, local historian Don Rittner looks at the city's rich heritage and with informative captions provides comparative then and now photographs showing the dramatic changes the city has gone through—especially during the past century.

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Connecticut Schoolhouses Through Time

There was a time when you could walk through Connecticut and find schoolhouses scattered across the landscape every few miles. Now in the 21st century, you can still see old Connecticut schoolhouses and imagine what they would have been like in the old times.

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Seaside Heights Before and After Hurricane Sandy and the Fire

The city of Paterson tells a story of a planned city built on industry to supply a nation with a variety of finished goods and products and the ingenuity that propelled the United States to become an industrial superpower well into the twentieth century.

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A Guide to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hingham Volume I

Enjoy these glimpses of Hingham then and now to see for yourself that, although there are many new buildings and altered neighborhoods, many scenes from yesterday are still familiar.

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Idyllwild Through Time

Idyllwild, California, is an extraordinary mountain village. On weekends and holidays, it hosts a flood of visitors. Many are drawn by its reputation as an arts community; more come simply to savor the serenity of the surrounding forested wilderness.

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Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Through Time

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County is a region steeped in the history of our early nation, further punctuated by the defining, tragic drama of the American Civil War.

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Chatham Through Time

Chatham's location, spectacular coastline, bountiful resources of seafood, and a temperate climate attract people. First it was the Monomoyick tribe, then in the 17th century, English settlers who gave it the name Chatham.

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Lower Georgia Street–California's Forgotten Barbary Coast

It was a sailor's dream: more than 100 bars, casinos and whorehouses, just a short boat ride across the Napa River that separated the sprawling Mare Island Naval Shipyard from Vallejo, California.

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Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862

Hood’s Texas Brigade soldiers and Texans who fought at the battle of Antietam (Sharpburg) give their reminiscences about the battle in newspaper articles, diaries, interviews and speeches.

$24.00

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Kinnickinnic Avenue: The Heart of Bay View, WI

Kinnickinnic Avenue, or KK, as it is known by Bay Viewites, witnessed virtually all aspects of local history, including the beginnings of the French fur trade, the settling of the area following the Homestead Act of 1862, America's first labor strike in 1886, as well as the organization of Freemasons and Good Templars.

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The Jefferson Memorial Through Time

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is America's foremost memorial to the nation's third president. As an original adaptation of neoclassical architecture, modeled after Rome's Pantheon, it is a key landmark in the monumental core of Washington, D.C., according to the National Park Service, which administers and maintains the memorial.

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North Carolina Potteries Through Time

Potter, teacher, and writer Jack Troy once said, “If North America has a ‘pottery state,' it must be North Carolina.” North Carolina Potteries Through Time proves to readers that his assessment is correct. Prehistoric Native American potters first made pottery in the region, followed by eighteenth-century English and German settlers.

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A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee during the Great War, 1917–1918

A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War examines the social, political, and economic challenges that scarred and dramatically changed the city during and after World War I.

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Abington Through Time

In Abington Through Time, join historians Don Cann and John Galluzzo, authors of Abington in Vintage Postcards, for a walk up and down the main streets and back roads to see what remains, and what has changed in Abington over the past century and a half.

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Portsmouth Through Time

Let Portsmouth Through Time take you on a journey through this old New England seaport city. Explore several surrounding communities and learn their roles in making seacoast New Hampshire, and Maine across the harbor, the captivating region it is today. In this book, a concise, well-researched blend of history is richly illustrated with 184 images, past and present, contrasting 92 select sites from the coastal cities, towns, and villages that have evolved here.

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Reading Railroad Heritage

Reading Railroad Heritage is a photographic essay of the history of a well-run system up to its acquisition by the Consolidated Rail Corporation in 1976, and its legacy that includes the Reading & Northern Railroad, certain electrified commuter lines operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority in the Philadelphia area, and a sampling of a number of short line railroads that were initiated to preserve rail service.

$26.00

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These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

These Ghostly Archives shows the reciprocal haunting nature of both Sylvia Plath and her archives.

$24.00

Lower Manhattan Through Time

Lower Manhattan is a truly vibrant place, bustling with commerce and crowded with tourists, yet it is also home to many thousands of New Yorkers. It is both modern and old fashioned, stately and quirky at the same time.

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World Trade Center Through Time

The World Trade Center Through Time addresses the fascinating architectural and cultural history behind the evolution and construction of the Twin Towers.

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