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Within each section the reader will find subsections detailing innovations and advances in that field--for example, Business and finance is made up of Accounting, Banking, Business machines, Exchanges, Hotels, Insurance, Lotteries, Merchandising, Money, Taxes, and Time keeping. This work describes the beginnings of many aspects of daily life in America, covering most innovations through approximately the 1930s. Dedicated to detailing the introduction of various advances or innovations, the book does...

What a dandy! Originally, typewriter manufacturers attempted to achieve the much-desired "noiseless" state by using various methods of muffling the sound -- with covers over the mechanism or with weighted plates to reduce vibration. Eventually it was in modifying the action of the type bars to stop precisely at the platen, which accomplished the best sound reduction. This innovation by C.C. Colby of Quebec, and one of the most prolific of typewriter inventors, Wellington P. Kidder, was sold to...

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction. Subgenre: Clothing + Dress, History / United States / 20th Century. Age: Teen. Publisher: Chelsea House Pub. Pages: 64. Language: English. Format: hardcover. Release Date: May 1, 2009. Date Published: May 1, 2009.

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pnbg968-1930s Czech press molded glass brooch Double click on above image to view full picture Double click on full image to close Quick Overview Item #: j-bg-pn968 Art Deco press molded glass brooch from the 1930s. Czech. We purchased this in Czech Republic and was part of an old manufacturer's sample card. It has survived all of these years in excellent uncirculated condition. Stamped Czecho Slovakia. Be first to ask about this product Quantity in stock:1 $28.00 Add Items to Cart Qty...

Vintage American glassware, locks & keys, dishes, letterpress-type, advertising, jewelry, toys, ephemera and more cool stuff.

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This resource aims to introduce Western audiences to what is perhaps the least known, heard or discussed urban folk-music in Europe. Although this music—Albanian urban song—is the most prominent of Albanian musical genres, it has continuously been overlooked by musicologists in favor of rural folk-music. Some commentators have implied that Albanian urban music was not as genuinely Albanian as the music of its mountains and countryside. But it is no less a part of the country's musical history, particularly...

Take a trip back to one of the most trying decades in American history, an era in which the Great Depression crippled the world economy, the Third Reich rose to power, and the Civilian Conservation Corps worked to replenish our natural resources. Episodes of American Experience featured in this release include, The Crash of 1929, The Civilian Conservation Corps, Hoover Dam, Surviving the Dust Bowl, and Seabiscuit. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Details: Light edge wear and rubbing to dustjacket. Creasing to upper corner of front flap. Former owner's stamp on front end page. ISBN: 0877452423

Description You could scarcely find two more contrasting bottleneck stylists among the most popular artists of the 30s than Casey Bill Weldon and Kokomo arnold. Weldon, billed as the 'Hawaiian Guitar Wizard,' played upbeat, almost hokum, tunes often in the ensemble, and seemed concerned with smooth tone. Arnold usually played solo, with strident tones, generally at a frenetic pace.

This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating...

"Francisco Balderrama and Raymond Rodríguez, the authors of Decade of Betrayal, the first expansive study of Mexican repatriation with perspectives from both sides of the border, claim that 1 million people of Mexican descent were driven from the United States during the 1930s due to raids, scare tactics, deportation, repatriation and public pressure. Of that conservative estimate, approximately 60 percent of those leaving were legal American citizens. Mexicans comprised nearly half of all those...

Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas. The majority (although not all) of Egyptian voices supported...

The miniature car is one of the most popular and enduring toys, almost as old as the machines that inspired them. Some are veritable miracles of technology in miniature, with functioning headlamps and front-wheel drive; others are lovingly crafted to a fine level of detail, with real leather seats and hand-painted finishings. Some rare older models are today worth a fortune, especially if the packaging is intact. Collectible Miniature Cars is a charming trip through the world of the toy car, featuring...

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the...

100 beloved songs from the 1930s, all in the key of C, with melody, lyrics and simplified chords in large notation. Includes: All of Me * Blame It on My Youth * Body and Soul * Easter Parade * The Glory of Love * I Wanna Be Loved * It's De-Lovely * The Lady Is a Tramp * Lazy River * The Nearness of You * Mood Indigo * Stardust * The Very Thought of You * What's New? * Where or When * and many more.