Worcester, Massachusetts

"The Heart of the Commonwealth"

Debby DuBay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2009
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-3138-1 (ISBN)

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Worcester, Massachusetts, a birthplace of the American Revolution, is a city of many industrial firsts, including Eli Whitney's cotton gin, Elias Howe's sewing machine, Dr. Russell L. Hawes' machine for folding plain paper into envelopes, and Ester Howland's mass-produced Valentines. Other Worcester firsts include American postcards, new loom designs, the corset, the all-night-lunch, the first national convention advocating women's rights, the railroad passenger car, and a public city park.
See 284 lively, color postcard views and modern photos that help tell Worcester's story, one of the oldest commercial success tales in the country.
Learn how Worcester's beneficial location in the center of Massachusetts, with major highways and a rail system, helped it develop into a world-class city.

Debby DuBay is a retired United States Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam and Desert Storm. She turned her passion for antiques into a second profession as owner of the Limoges Antiques Shop in Rutland, Vermont. An avid porcelain and postcard collector, she lives in Worcester, Mass.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2009
Zusatzinfo	284 color photos
Verlagsort	Atglen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	279 x 216 mm
Gewicht	816 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
ISBN-10	0-7643-3138-8 / 0764331388
ISBN-13	978-0-7643-3138-1 / 9780764331381
Zustand	Neuware