York county's historical heritage as the capital of the United States, 1777-1778 : including reproductions of the William Wagner collection of early American drawings and the Lewis Miller collection of early American folk art
The Emison families, revised; origin and history of the Kentucky Emisons, with partial genealogies and notes on Emisions [sic] of Virginia, Tennessee, Long Island, and Massachusetts. Also the following collateral families: Baird, Holmes, Clark, Love, Posey-Wade
Carpenters' Co., Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects,
Date of Publication
1957]
Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) illus., facsims. 35 cm.
Notes
Cover title: The beginning of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682.
"[Published] on the occasion of the ... centenaries [of] the opening to the public of the Carpenters' Hall and the founding of the American Institute of Architects."
---Pennsylvania landscapes workshop; stimulating problems in geography of the Commonwealth [by] Raymond E. Murphy [and] Marion F. Murphy. [State College, Pa., Penns Valley Publishers, c1953]
"Bibliographical note": p. [343]-345. Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Chapters: 1 The Beginnings of Western Urbanism // Part One : 1790 - 1815 / 2. The Economic Base / 3. The Emergence of Urban Problems / 4. Urban Society / 5. The seeds of culture // Part Two : 1815 - 1830 / 6. Depression , Recovery, and Expansion / 7. The Changing Social Structure / 8. The Better Life / 9. Toward Urban Maturity / 10. The Urban Dimension of Western Life
Summary
"The rural West has had many historians. Its growth, influence and importance are well known. Yet it is not always understood that almost from the very beginning there was also an urban West. In fact, Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Lexington were laid out and settlement begun before the surrounding area had fallen to the plow. From the earliest days they became centers of economic activity for the whole region, the focuses of cultural life, and scenes of great social change. Built on the spine of the new country, the Ohio Valley, the towns gave a stimulus and sophisication to a young, raw society.This volume attempts to tell the story of the first decades of the urban West. It is written largely out of the newspapers, records, and manuscripts of contemporaries, and as often as possible in their own words." [from the preface]
