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  • Straw Bonnets: The Union Works, Massachusetts. A Factory Tour. Illustrated

    by E W Carpenter ...
    Straw Bonnets were big business in Southeastern Massachusetts during the Mid Nineteenth Century. This paper describes the business and a tour through the Union Works in Foxborough Massachusetts during the 1860's. The union works was once the worlds largest manufacturer of Straw Bonnets and Hats. ... Read more

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  • Downtown

    My Manhattan

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    In this "beautifully written, sharply observed, and heartfelt" guide to his hometown ( New York Times), legendary New York City journalist Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves.Walking the Manhattan streets he loves, from Times Square to the island's southern tip, Pete Hamill combines a moving memoir of his own days and nights in new York with a lively and ... Read more

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  • Billy Durant

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  • The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country

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  • The Catskills

    Its History and How It Changed America

    by Stephen M. Silverman, Raphael D. Silver ...
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  • Literary Washington, D.C.

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  • Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices

    Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

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