Evanston
Title | Evanston PDF eBook |
Author | Mimi Peterson |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738551890 |
Enjoy a trip through historic Evanston. See how Davis Street and Sherman and Orrington Avenues appeared around the beginning of the 20th century. Learn how Fountain Square has evolved and how the Merrick Rose Garden is connected. See Northwestern University as it was founded, along with early Evanston's lakefront, city hall, library, and post office. Many of the buildings shown in this book are still standing, while others have been demolished. In some postcard views the stately elm trees of later decades are seen as saplings. The Library Plaza Hotel, North Shore Hotel, and Georgian Hotel are here as well, along with the historic schools, churches, train depots, and, of course, Grosse Point Lighthouse, which all helped shape the city in its formative years.
Friends Disappear
Title | Friends Disappear PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Barr |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2014-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022615646X |
In 1974, middle-schooler Mary Barr and a dozen of her friends boys and girls, black and white sat for a photograph on a porch in Evanston, Illinois. Barr s book, both history and ethnography, emerges from her thinking about this photograph and its deep background. Using government documents, newspaper articles, and census data, Barr provides a history of Evanston with a particular emphasis on its neighborhoods, its schools, and its families. Barr also tracked down all of the living people in her photograph and interviewed them about their experiences in Evanston and beyond. Ultimately, Barr comes to better understand the stories and the lies people tell about their communities, as well as the ways that inequality begets inequality, both in a historical sense and in the daily lives of her far-flung friends. "
Remembering Marshall Field's
Title | Remembering Marshall Field's PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Goddard |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2020-05-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1439670579 |
or more than 150 years, Marshall Field's reigned as Chicago's leading department store, celebrated for its exceptional service, spectacular window displays, and fashionable merchandise. Few shoppers recalled its origins as a small dry goods business opened in 1852 by a New York Quaker named Potter Palmer. That store, eventually renamed Marshall Field and Company, weathered economic downturns, spectacular fires, and fierce competition to become a world-class retailer and merchandise powerhouse. Marshall Field sent buyers to Europe for the latest fashions, insisted on courteous service, and immortalized the phrase "give the lady what she wants." The store prided itself on its dazzling Tiffany mosaic dome, Walnut Room restaurant, bronze clocks, and a string of firsts including the first bridal registry and first book signing.
History of Evanston, Illinois
Title | History of Evanston, Illinois PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Bostwick Hurd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Cook County (Ill.) |
ISBN |
Evanston's Design Heritage
Title | Evanston's Design Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Cohen |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780989459334 |
An illustrated overview of the architects, designers and planners who have influenced Evanston's design history.
The Centenary of American Methodism
Title | The Centenary of American Methodism PDF eBook |
Author | Abel Stevens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
History of Evanston
Title | History of Evanston PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey B. Hurd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1997-05-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780832857393 |