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Capital's utopia : Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
- Title
- Capital's utopia : Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 / Anne E. Mosher.
- Author
- Mosher, Anne E., 1959-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Creating the North American landscape
- Subjects
- McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915
- Company towns > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History
- Vandergrift (Pa.) > History
- Vandergrift (Pa.) > Economic conditions
- Steel industry and trade > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History
- Iron and steel workers > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
- Vandergrift (Pa.) > Social conditions
- City planning > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry -- Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel -- The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift -- Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula -- The steel strike of 1901 -- Growing pains for a "model town".
- Call Number
- ISD (Vandergrift) 04-2217
- ISBN
- 0801873819 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2002156774
- OCLC
- 51342476
- Author
- Mosher, Anne E., 1959-
- Title
- Capital's utopia : Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 / Anne E. Mosher.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
- Series
- Creating the North American landscape
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- ISD (Vandergrift) 04-2217