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Rock carvings in Norway. [Translated by Marie Killengren] by Anders Hagen
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Acme Novelty Library, Issue 6 by Chris Ware
Caricature by Daniel Clowes
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy
Fireside travels in North America. Maps by V. A. Seward by James A. FitzPatrick
Chicago's Loop (Then & Now: Illinois) by Janice Knox
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The King Who Never Smiled was my favorite as a child. Is the one you have about a king who finally smiles when he rides in a fire engine, losing a shoe in the process? I have not been able to find a copy and would love to get my hands on one.
jeanreader
posted by jeanreader at 10:32 am (EST) on Feb 26, 2009
Just read your review of THE LONG SHIPS PASSING, a history of the great lakes. As you pointed out, the book was written in the 1940's. America was a different country then. Steel was king. And it was because of the Great Lakes & the long ships that carried the iron ore from the mines in Minnesota to the factories in Ohio & Pennsylvania where that ore was refined with limestone (alsso carried by the long ships) & transformed into steel which was shipped to Detroit where the USA lead the world in the manufacture of automobiles. It was a heady world, then. Full of pride & boosterism. I grew up in Cleveland in the 1940's. "The best location in the Nation!!!" (I had moved away before the river caught fire) But that was the way things were, THEN. And Mr. Havighurst wrote his book THEN. And his perspective was the perspective everyone in America had THEN. So take the book for what it is. A history of the great lakes & also a time capsule peek at our
world 60 years ago which of course, is much different than our world today.
MarianV
posted by MarianV at 12:50 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2007
My First Freight Train Ride
Check out the cover I found. It seems to be your version. Mine is a couple of years earlier.
I was a student map cataloger at U of Iowa, and "Iowa Blackie" was a regular in the map room.
posted by DromJohn at 11:34 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2007
posted by sagespot at 10:59 am (EST) on Jun 15, 2006
LLP
posted by LarsonLewisProject at 3:29 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2006
I took a look at your tags & was surprised not to find any of Richard Bissell's titles among the "rivers". Or is it just that (like me) there are stacks more waiting to be catalogued?
posted by gibbon at 8:37 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2005
Regards, Gibbon
posted by gibbon at 8:33 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2005
Best wishes, Gibbon, Bristol UK
posted by gibbon at 2:48 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2005