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Lockport legacy : themes in the historical geography of an Illinois canal town / edited by Michael P. Conzen and Adam R. Daniel ; contributors, Max W. Abramowitz ... [et al.].

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Lockport legacy : themes in the historical geography of an Illinois canal town / edited by Michael P. Conzen and Adam R. Daniel ; contributors, Max W. Abramowitz ... [et al.].
Publication
Chicago : Committee on Geographical Studies, University of Chicago, 1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Abramowitz, Max W.
  • Conzen, Michael P.
  • Daniel, Adam R., 1967-
Description
v, 163 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Series Statement
Studies on the Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor ; no. 4
Uniform Title
Studies on the Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor ; no. 4.
Subject
Lockport (Ill.) > Historical geography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-163).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Urban and municipal development, 1836-1900 / Michael M. Benedetti -- The pattern of early town lot sales, 1836-1850 / Stephen H. Longmire -- The first generation : a social history to 1860 / Adam S. Rod -- Geographical and occupational mobility, 1850-1860 / Max W. Abramowitz -- Lockport's captain of industry : Hiram Norton and his business interests / John T. Monckton -- Four canal town merchants : Gaylord, Martin, Lull and Lynd / Mark A. Dodge
  • (Cont.) "A new shipment just in" : an advertising portrait in early retailing / Michelle K. Hemechandra -- West side story : the changing composition of those who lived on the other side of the canal, 1880-1900 / Joshua S. Schreier -- The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal : its construction and effects / Allysa P. Kamish -- Texaco comes to Lockport / José Alfredo Gómez -- The Material Service Corporation reshapes Des Plaines Valley / John H. Kelly -- The progress of public education, 1836-1989 / David J. Lanrock -- Cultural life of Lockport : religious, fraternal and social organizations / Julie M. Carlson -- "Shake Lockport out of the box" : Lockport and Dorothy Dow Fitzgerald / Caroline P.M. Nelson -- Everything in its place : the logic of Lockport's evolved spatial structure / Donald L. Peterson.
ISBN
089065137X :
LCCN
^^^90001711^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library