The Spencers of Amberson Avenue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spencers of Amberson Avenue write by Ethel Spencer. This book was released on 2010-09-24. The Spencers of Amberson Avenue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This appealing memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. It also introduces a large Victorian house in Shadyside (a Pittsburgh neighborhood) and a middle-class way of life at the turn of the century.Mr. Spencer, who worked—not very happily—for Henry Clay Frick, was one of the growing number of middle-management employees in American industrial cities in the 1880s and 1890s. His income, which supported his family of nine, a cook, two regular nurses, and at times a wet nurse and her baby, guaranteed a comfortable life but not a luxurious one. In the words of the editors, the Spencers represent a class that "too often stands silent or stereotyped as we rush forward toward the greater glamour of the robber barons or their immigrant workers."Through the eyes of Ethel Spencer, the third daughter, we are led with warmth and humor through the routine of everyday life in this household: school, play, church on Sundays, illness, family celebrations, and vacations. Ethel was an observant child, with little sentimentality, and she wrote her memoir in later life as a professor of English with a gift for clear prose and the instincts of an anthropologist. As the editors observe, her memoir is "a fascinating insight into one kind of urban life of three generations ago."The book is richly illustrated with family photographs taken by Mr. Spencer, who was a talented amateur photographer.
Pittsburgh's Shadyside
Pittsburgh's Shadyside - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pittsburgh's Shadyside write by Donald Doherty. This book was released on 2008. Pittsburgh's Shadyside available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The suburb of Shadyside was established in the middle of farmland during the late 1860s when the Shadyside train station opened. As Pittsburgh grew into the worldas preeminent industrial city, Shadyside became the home of many influential men of the industrial age. Rapid change struck Shadyside early in the 20th century when commerce sprouted up around the perimeter of the neighborhood to cater to the residentsa demand for luxury goods and services. Within another decade industry moved in, especially close to the train tracks, and in 1915, the Ford Motor Company assembly plant opened in Shadyside. Through more than 200 vintage photographs, Pittsburghas Shadyside chronicles the personalities, places, institutions, and events that transformed a farming community into an affluent industrial-age suburb and diverse city neighborhood.
From the Steel City to the White City
From the Steel City to the White City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Steel City to the White City write by Zachary L. Brodt. This book was released on 2023-11-21. From the Steel City to the White City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania’s representation at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, the first major step in demonstrating that Pittsburgh was more than simply America’s crucible—it was also a region of developing culture and innovation. The 1893 Columbian Exposition presented a chance for the United States to prove to the world that it was an industrial giant ready to become a global superpower. At the same time, Pittsburgh, a commercial center that formerly served as a starting point for western expansion, found itself serving as a major transportation, and increasingly industrial, hub during this period of extensive growth. Natural resources like petroleum and coal allowed Western Pennsylvania to become one of the largest iron- and steel-producing regions in the world. The Chicago fairgrounds provided a lucrative opportunity for area companies not only to provide construction materials but to display the region’s many products. While Pittsburgh’s most famous contributions to the 1893 World’s Fair—alternating current electricity and the Ferris wheel—had a lasting impact on the United States and the world, other exhibits provided a snapshot of the area’s industries, natural resources, and inventions. The success of these exhibits, Brodt reveals, launched local companies into the twentieth century, ensuring a steady flow of work, money, and prestige.
Allegheny Cemetery
Allegheny Cemetery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Allegheny Cemetery write by Lisa Speranza and Nancy Foley. This book was released on 2016. Allegheny Cemetery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is easy to look at a place such as Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood and think that it encompasses strictly the dead. But a closer look reveals many lives and stories told throughout the pages of time by those who have lived them. To define Allegheny Cemetery as simply a place does not do it justice. It is not only a physical location, but a crossroads in history, and a point in time where each of these lives converge. Images of America: Allegheny Cemetery shares these legacies with the hope that present and future generations will do the same.
English Surnames
English Surnames - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Surnames write by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley. This book was released on 1906. English Surnames available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
