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Holding on : dreamers, visionaries, eccentrics, and other American heroes / photographs by Harvey Wang ; text by David Isay.
- Title
- Holding on : dreamers, visionaries, eccentrics, and other American heroes / photographs by Harvey Wang ; text by David Isay.
- Author
- Wang, Harvey.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | E169.04 .W356 1995 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Isay, David.
- Description
- 216 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Collection of interviews conducted with people who are clinging to their unique ways of life through old age and changing times ranging from a retired stripper, a mannequin restorer, and the Statue of Liberty's maintenance man.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Steam train" Maury Graham, hobo -- Lawrence W. Davis, Pullman porter -- Robert Shields, world's longest diary -- Moreese Bickham, prisoner -- Miles Mahan, Hula Ville -- Roberta Blackgoat, Navajo activist -- Louis H. Greving, Grotto of the Redemption -- Geneva Tisdale, Woothworth's [i.e. Woolworth's] lunch counter -- Harold C. Cotton, hat blocker -- Prophet Blackmon, preacher -- Tommie Bass, folk doctor -- Donald Bean, dinosaur gardens -- Sylvia Rivera and Seymour Pine, Stonewall riots -- Mackey E. Brown, door-to-door salesman -- Dixie Evans, exotic world -- Dick Falk, press agent --Segundo Mugarra, Basque sheepherder -- Dewey Chafin and Barbara Elkins, serpent handlers -- Leslie Kornfeld and Joe Erber, Mississippi Jews -- James Smith, grain scooper -- Jim Searles, Brooklyn Elite Checker Club -- Hinkel Schillings and Shade Pate, fox hunters -- Marie Coombs, newspaper editor -- Marta Becket and Tom Willett, Amargosa Opera House -- Dan Field, marriage broker -- Hallie Stillwell, Justice of the Peace -- Percy Brigham, scaffold fisherman -- Dick Zimmerman, Dugout Ranch -- Lydia Emery, country doctor -- Stanley Kilarr, record collector -- Marion Walker, Howard & Walker's General Store -- George Preston, Preston's filling station -- Z.L. Hill, Riverside Hotel -- Jim Bishop, castle builder -- Matt Kennedy, Coney Island Chamber of Commerce -- Mariano and Clara Lucca, Columbus Museum -- Mike Gashwazra, religious leader -- Dan Barlow, fundamentalist Mormon -- Evangeline Calvin, mannequin restorer -- Dr. Hepcat, disc jockey -- Bill Seward, Jersey Lilly Bar and Cafe -- Joe Franklin, talk show host -- Fred Bloodgood, side-show pitchman -- Augustina Martínez, healer -- Johnny Tocco, boxing trainer -- Amos Powers, coon dog graveyard -- Charlie DeLeo, maintenance man -- Joe Merrill and Hilda Wilkinson, spiritualists -- Virginia Belle Brewer, Brewer's Bell Museum.
- ISBN
- 0393037541
- LCCN
- ^^^95015724^
- OCLC
- 83918528
- SCSB-10526265
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library