The Great Workshop

The Great Workshop

Boston's Victorian Age

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Publication Date: 6th December 2004

Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the communities that eventually became metropolitan Boston were busy forging the nation's industrial future in local mills and factories. The Great Workshop examines the growth of these towns and illustrates a time when Boston was on the cutting edge of a new culture, when its optimistic residents saw themselves as the "hub of the universe," actively building a better world.
Format: Hardcover

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Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the communities that eventually became metropolitan Boston were busy forging the nation's industrial future in local mills and factories. The Great Workshop examines the growth of these towns and illustrates a time when Boston was on the cutting edge of a new culture, when its optimistic residents saw themselves as the "hub of the universe," actively building a better world.
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Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the communities that eventually became metropolitan Boston were busy forging the nation's industrial future in local mills and factories. The Great Workshop examines the growth of these towns and illustrates a time when Boston was on the cutting edge of a new culture, when its optimistic residents saw themselves as the "hub of the universe," actively building a better world.
Details
  • Pages: 176
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Publication Date: 6th December 2004
  • State: Massachusetts
  • Illustration Note: 16-page color section
  • ISBN: 9780738524689
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the communities that eventually became metropolitan Boston were busy forging the nation's industrial future in local mills and factories. The Great Workshop examines the growth of these towns and illustrates a time when Boston was on the cutting edge of a new culture, when its optimistic residents saw themselves as the "hub of the universe," actively building a better world.
  • Pages: 176
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Publication Date: 6th December 2004
  • State: Massachusetts
  • Illustrations Note: 16-page color section
  • ISBN: 9780738524689
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)