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Pittsburg: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)

Autor Randy Roberts, Janette Mauk
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2009
Pittsburg was purposely located in the center of the Cherokee-Crawford coal field of southeastern Kansas in 1876. The city's founders intended for the new mining camp to serve as a convenient shipping point for the tons of bituminous coal that would be extracted from the region. Little did the founders anticipate how quickly Pittsburg would become the dominant city in the rapidly industrialized southeastern corner of Kansas and one of the most populous cities in the state. Immigrants from over 50 ethnic groups came to Pittsburg to provide the necessary labor for the deep-shaft coal mines, the railroads, and many other industries. Pittsburg State University, established in 1903 as a manual training school, is one of the most significant features of modern-day Pittsburg and is widely recognized for excellence in academics and athletics.
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ISBN-13: 9780738561165
ISBN-10: 0738561169
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 168 x 233 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
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Pittsburg was purposely located in the center of the Cherokee-Crawford coal field of southeastern Kansas in 1876. The cityas founders intended for the new mining camp to serve as a convenient shipping point for the tons of bituminous coal that would be extracted from the region. Little did the founders anticipate how quickly Pittsburg would become the dominant city in the rapidly industrialized southeastern corner of Kansas and one of the most populous cities in the state. Immigrants from over 50 ethnic groups came to Pittsburg to provide the necessary labor for the deep-shaft coal mines, the railroads, and many other industries. Pittsburg State University, established in 1903 as a manual training school, is one of the most significant features of modern-day Pittsburg and is widely recognized for excellence in academics and athletics.

Recenzii

Title: Historical photos fill new book
Author: Staff Writer
Publisher: The Joplin Globe
Date: 2/15/2009
Like a librarian who is asked to pick a favorite book, archivists Randy Roberts and Janette Mauk have a hard time picking just one favorite historical photograph of Pittsburg.

They had an even harder time picking the 200 photographs they needed to fill their 128-page book, aImages of Pittsburga (Arcadia Publishing), which comes out today.

The company publishes similar books in communities across the nation using a formulaic approach that allows for a certain number of words and photographs.

aThank goodness they let me stretch a little; I tend to be wordier, a said Roberts, who is the director of special collections at Axe Library at Pittsburg State University.

It was difficult to narrow down the field of 400 to 500 worthy photographs, he said, because each spoke to an important element of the communityas growth, development and history.

Pittsburg was founded in 1876, but the earliest images of it date to 10 years later. The book includes a particularly notable series taken by Hans Robyn in 1895 that has not been collected or published since that time.

Mauk, a self-described aeBay queen, a said she spent several months finding and purchasing photos one at a time on the online auction site.

Some of the earliest images she found feature the Hotel Stilwell and the local newspaper building.

The authors also borrowed several images from unique local collections, including those of the Crawford County Historical Museum, J.T. and Linda Knoll, Bill Powell, and Bob Mishmash.

One of the chapters in particular willresonate with longtime residents. Titled aA Busy Downtown, a it features images of downtown stores such as Penneyas, Woolworthas, Wardas and Ramseyas.

Roberts and Mauk, a digital archivist at Axe Library, had six months to put the project together along with a companion piece that is a postcard pictorial of Pittsburg.

There are similarities among the communities already featured in the series, but each has a distinct aspect as well.

Roberts said Pittsburgas distinction is its resiliency throughout the years a something captured in photographs detailing mining camps, railroad depots and the people who settled the area.

aI was thinking about the nature, the character, of the city of Pittsburg, and I find it pretty fascinating that everyone is concerned about the economic situation right now, and this is nothing new in the history of the community, a Roberts said. aPittsburg has gone through the same kind of transition many times and has survived.a

The bookas images of zinc smelters, with a labor force of several thousand men and their families living in Pittsburg, illustrate that resiliency. Almost overnight, that industry would shut down and move farther west, as did clay products such as tile and brick, and deep shaft and strip mining.

aAnd yet, here we are, a said Roberts.

Some of the authorsa favorite photos include:

n A photo of Littleas at Christmas in 1959, featuring a Girl Scout troop in the upstairs window singing Christmas carols to passers-by below.

n A photo of a coal company delivery truck parked on the street, hauling not traditional lumps but coal mined in huge square blocks stacked up in back.

n A photoof the interior of William C. Peckas store, Queenswear Co. at 319 N. Broadway, filled with beautiful pieces of dinnerware and pottery.

The book may be purchased for $21.99 at the University Bookstore and at Hastings, where the authors will have a book signing from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Title: Photos of historic Pittsburg featured in book
Author: Nikki Patrick
Publisher: The Morning Sun
Date: 2/15/2009
Photos of historic Pittsburg, many of them never published before, are featured in a new book and postcard set published in the aImages of Americaa series by Arcadia Publishing.

Co-authors are Randy Roberts, curator of Special Collections at Axe Library and university archivist at Pittsburg State University, and Janette S. Mauk, who is also employed in Special Collections.

The two will have a book signing from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Pittsburg Hastings store.

aArcadia Publishing contacted Laura Carlson, and she referred them to me, a Roberts said. aThis was in late January or early February in 2008. We signed the contract for the book in late February, and our deadline was Sept. 1.a

Roberts said that all the books in the aImages of Americaa series have a standard format of 128 pages containing 180 to 240 photos, along with 30- to 80-word captions with each.

aWe have a little over 200 photos in our book, a he said.

He and Mauk didnat have to go very far to find them a Axe Library Special Collections has a huge number of Pittsburg photos.

aWe started a massive search and found way more photos than we could use, a Roberts said.

aWhat was hard was deciding which ones to exclude, a Mauk said. aWe could have easily doubled the size of the book, but the size of the format was 128 pages.a

They also obtained about 15 photos from other sources.

aI obtained about 10 images from the Crawford County Historical Museum, as well as some from J.T. and Linda Knoll, Bill Powell and Bob Mishmash, aRoberts said.

The images all had to be digitally scanned, which was Maukas task. It was sometimes challenging.

aThe quality of 1895 technology really lacked what we have today, a she said.

Roberts said the earliest images in the book date to 1887.

aWe have no photos from 1876 through 1886, the first 10 years of Pittsburg, a Roberts said.

aMost communities would have had a photographer, or at least an itinerant who came through and took photos. If anyone out there does have some photos of Pittsburg from those years, Iad like for them to contact me.a

There are also a few more recent images in the book.

aHistory hasnat stopped, a Roberts pointed out.

aI really think this book has something for everybody a history of Pittsburg, genealogy, costumes of the day, etc., a Mauk said.

Sold separately is a set of 15 postcards. Arcadia Publishing chose the images used for the postcards.

aAs far as weare aware of, itas been 30 years or longer that any new postcards have been produced of Pittsburg, a Mauk said.

aPittsburga the book costs $21.99, and the postcard set costs $7.99. They will be available at Hastings and the University Bookstore, as well as through Arcadia Publishing at 888-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Notă biografică

Most of the images in this book were selected from the collections held by the Leonard Axe Library at Pittsburg State University. Additional images were obtained from the Crawford County Historical Museum and from friends of the university. Randy Roberts is an associate professor and the curator of special collections at Pittsburg State University. Janette Mauk is a senior administrative specialist at Pittsburg State University.