The Pennsylvania Railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections : embracing historical, descriptive and statistical notices of cities, ... on its various lines in Pennsylvania... - Softcover

Sipes, William B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1275772633 ISBN 13: 9781275772632

Verlag: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

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Book by Sipes William B

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Title: The Pennsylvania Railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections : embracing historical, descriptive and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Author: William B Sipes

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP00088300

CollectionID: CTRG10143447-B

PublicationDate: 18750101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: Includes index.

Collation: 281, p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., 2 maps ; 27 cm

Biografía del autor:

William B. Sipes (1831 1905) was a newspaper editor, lawyer, and journalist who served in the Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War as a captain and colonel before resigning in 1864. He was editor of the Pottsville Register and author of The Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry: Its Record, Reminiscences, and Roster, published in 1905.

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• Verlag: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1275772633
• ISBN 13: 9781275772632
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294