![Item #19177 The Berkshire Hills [Massachusetts]. WPA - Federal Writers Project, American Guide...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19177.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725394871)
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1939. Photography by Edmund F. Hawes. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Arrangement differs from standard American Guide Books with chapters arranged by community with local history and tours included within. Berkshire Sports: Summer and Winter have their own chapters. Background Information:During the.....
New York: Hastings House, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. The publication coincides with the Northwest Territory Celebration and contains the story pf westward migration, Burr’s conspiracy, the city’s role as an agricultural, dairy, paper making center. [the paper used in the books was locally made] and the Greek Revival architecture.The.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This is the only guide top prominently feature the name of a single author. The guide was reprinted [13x] more than any other guide. Background Information:During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were.....
New York: Hastings House, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Not an exhaustive study the book is a solid introduction to the gold and silver rushes during the 19th century. Not found in Adams Six-Guns even though there is mention of western outlaws. During the Great Depression.....
![Item #21672 Key West, Florida [WPA American Guide Series] [Rothstein Photographs] [1941]. WPA -...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21672.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772040061)
New York: Hastings House, 1941. HISTORICAL SUMMARY: THE WPA IN KEY WESTBy the mid-1930s, Key West had famously 'declared bankruptcy' and turned its administration over to the Federal Government. This guidebook is the literary result of that intervention. It captures the city in a state of reinvention, moving away from.....
USA: Progress Printing Company, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A detailed history of a small community. Background Information:During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the.....
![Item #19102 Port Arthur [Texas]. WPA - Federal Writers Project, American Guide Series](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19102.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724428226)
Houston: The Anson Jones Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American.....
San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Unlatching a remarkable trapdoor into the past, this compact and charming document of the Depression era invites repeated browsing and is generously illustrated with striking black-and-white photographs that bring the period to life. San Diego in the 1930s offers.....