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Author:

Mosher, Anne E., 1959- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003033140

Title:

Capital's utopia : Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 / Anne E. Mosher.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Vandergrift (Pa.)--History.
Vandergrift (Pa.)--Social conditions.
Vandergrift (Pa.)--Economic conditions.
Company towns--Vandergrift--Vandergrift--History.
City planning--Vandergrift--Vandergrift--History.
Steel industry and trade--History.--Vandergrift--Vandergrift--History.
Iron and steel workers--Vandergrift--Vandergrift--History.
McMurtry, George Gibson,--1838-1915.
Olmsted, Frederick Law,--1822-1903.

Contents:

Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry -- Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel -- The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift -- Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula -- The steel strike of 1901 -- Growing pains for a "model town".

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

ISBN:

9780801873812
0801873819

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51342476

LCCN:

2002156774

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)