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Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file (11 hr., 8 min.))
Language
English
Description
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented...
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 270 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Purchasing a historic Savannah home unlocks the sweeping story of a Southern Jewish family. As Jason K. Friedman renovated his flat in a grand 1875 town house in his hometown of Savannah, he discovered a portal to the past. Liberty Street takes the reader on Friedman's personal journey to understand the history of the family who built the home. At the center of the story is a sensitive young man pulled between love and duty, a close-knit family straining...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture.
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inventing Loreta Velasquez is a search for the reality behind the woman known as Loreta Velasquez, author of The Woman in Battle, one of only two memoirs by women who claimed to have posed as men to serve in the Civil War. For many years, historians have questioned the authenticity of parts of the book but mostly accept it as genuine"--
Author
Publisher
Verse Chorus Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the worldwide postcard craze coincided with the spread of light, cheap photographic equipment. The result was the real-photo psotcard, so-called because the cards were printed in darkrooms rather than on litho presses, usually in editions of a hundred or fewer, the work of amateurs and professionals alike. They were not intended for tourists, but as a medium of communication for the residents...
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