Showplace Of America
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Showplace Of America
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Author : Jan Cigliano
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1991
Showplace Of America written by Jan Cigliano and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
In cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was for 60 years one of the finest residential streets of any city in 19th century America. Showplace of America is the fascinating account of the rise and fall of this elegant promenade, including portrayals of the eminent architects who created its opulent residences and colorful details about the lives of the wealthy people who occupied them. The families who resided within this linear, four-mile neighborhood epitomized Midwestern grandeur in the second half of the 19th century. The 1893 Baedeker's travel guide to the United States labeled it "one of the most beautiful residence-streets in America," as others hailed it "Millionaires' Row," the finest avenue in the west, and the most beautiful street in the world." Modeled after the grand boulevards of Europe, this magnificent neighborhood was distinguished for the prominence of its architects as well as the families who lived there. Local architects Jonathan Goldsmith, Charles W. Heard, Levi T. Scofield, Charles F. Schweinfurth, and Coburn & Barnum and national firms Peabody & Stearns and McKim, Mead & White created houses that were stunning monuments to Cleveland and America's growing prosperity. Ironically, the tremendous success of Cleveland's industry and commerce, which had nurtured the rise of this grand avenue, fostered its fall. Downtown commerce expanded along the avenue at the sacrifice of its leading entrepreneurs' residential have. The houses were demolished as the avenue became what is today--a neglected urban thoroughfare. Photographs and illustrations from the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society and other repositories are published here for the first time, documenting both the glory and decline of the "showplace of America."
America S First Regional Theatre
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Author : J. Ullom
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-14
America S First Regional Theatre written by J. Ullom and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Performing Arts categories.
The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
Becoming America S Playground
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Author : Larry D. Gragg
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Becoming America S Playground written by Larry D. Gragg and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with History categories.
In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.
Performing The Progressive Era
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Author : Max Shulman
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Performing The Progressive Era written by Max Shulman and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Performing Arts categories.
The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre studies to examine the burst of diverse performance venues and styles of the time, revealing how they shaped national narratives surrounding immigration and urban life. Contributors analyze performances in urban centers (New York, Chicago, Cleveland) in comedy shows, melodramas, Broadway shows, operas, and others. They pay special attention to performances by and for those outside mainstream society: immigrants, the working-class, and bohemians, to name a few. Showcasing both lesser-known and famous productions, the essayists argue that the explosion of performance helped bring the Progressive Era into being, and defined its legacy in terms of gender, ethnicity, immigration, and even medical ethics.
Any Friend Of The Movement
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Author : Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2004
Any Friend Of The Movement written by Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
"In the 1920s, a few Cleveland women perceived a need for reliable birth control. They believed that health and social service professionals denied women, especially poor and working-class women, critical health care information. Any Friend of the Movement tells the story of these women, their actions, and the organization they created - the direct forerunner of a modern Planned Parenthood affiliate. The disparate threads of this particular tale include the suicide of a pregnant woman, the gift of a bereaved inventor, smuggling contraceptive supplies across state lines, and sponsoring ice skating galas to fund the work." "Any Friend of the Movement breaks new ground in the history of birth control activism in North America. Meyer argues that private philanthropy and voluntary action on the part of clinics like the Maternal Health Association (MHA) and their clients vitalized the larger movement at its roots and pushed it forward."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Accustomed To Her Face
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Author : Axel Nissen
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-08-01
Accustomed To Her Face written by Axel Nissen and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton starred in dozens of films before and after her signature role as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz; Una Merkel nearly died when her mother committed suicide in 1945. Others are nearly forgotten: Maude Eburne owed her career to a spectacular fall on the Broadway stage in 1914; Greta Meyer, who played the quintessential German maid, came to Hollywood after years in New York’s Yiddish theater—though she wasn’t Jewish.
Small Business Exports And The World Market 1960
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Small Business Exports And The World Market 1960 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Exports categories.
Small Business Exports And The World Market 1960 Hearings Before 86 2 November 17 1960 New York City December 9 1960 New Orleans La December 14 1960 San Fransisco Calif
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Small Business Exports And The World Market 1960 Hearings Before 86 2 November 17 1960 New York City December 9 1960 New Orleans La December 14 1960 San Fransisco Calif written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.
Official Gazette Of The United States Patent And Trademark Office
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Official Gazette Of The United States Patent And Trademark Office written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Trademarks categories.
America As Overlord
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Author : Hal Draper
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2023-02-07
America As Overlord written by Hal Draper and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Political Science categories.
From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and socialist organizer who successfully combined rigorous research and passionate outrage to assess his political era. In this still-indispensable collection of essays written in the 1950s and 60s, Draper grapples with the role of the United States in the world, situating post-war American imperialism in a global picture of capitalist competition and expansion. The essays in this volume include Draper’s discussions of the United States' involvement in Guatemala, Guam, Samoa, Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere, as well as his, more general, socialist guide to national liberation movements.