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Boxcar Bertha - Paperback
by Dr. Ben L. Reitman / Publisher: Amok Press / ISBN: 0-941693-06-6 / used book-Paperback 1988 /Book of the Month Club Edition / OUT-OF-PRINT / COLLECTIBLE/ republished as 'Sister of the Road, the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha'/ Her name was Boxcar Bertha Thompson (not a real person)and she traveled by open freight car through the 1930's. This is her autobiography as told to Dr. Ben Reitman. Her encounters and stories are vivid, graphic and shocking.
(SEE-'Sister of the Road, the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha')
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Harvey Girls - The Harvey Girls Mapback 1942
by Samuel Hopkins Adams /
Publisher: Dell Publishing #130 /
Copyright 1942 / Paperback / Out of Print / Collectible / Used book. Excellent condition. Top photo is front view and bottom photo is back view. Dell Book #130 (mass market paperback)based on the actual movie, The Harvey Girls staring
Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury and
Ray Bolger. Historical fiction story of the Harvey Girl waitresses at the Fred Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad route.
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Chessie the Railroad Kitten
by Thomas W. Dixon, Jr. /Publisher: TLC Publishing /
ISBN: 0-9622003-1-X / Paperback 1996 / Illustrated with color, black and white photos on glossy paper. History of the advertising campaign featuring this lovable cat for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad from 1934 to present.
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Dining by Rail - The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine-Cookbook
by James D. Porterfield / Publisher: St. Martins Griffin /
ISBN: 0-312-18711-4 / Paperback 1998 / From railroad history to the meals that have been served, this book is excellent for the cook book collector and railroad collector alike.
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My Sisters Telegraph: Women in the Telegraph Office 1846-1950
by Thomas C. Jepsen / Publisher: Ohio University press / ISBN: 0-8214-1344-9 / Paperback 2000 / This book is a look into the missing history of women telegraph operators. Mr. Jepsen's sources are nontraditional and include telegraphers' trade journals,company records and oral and written histories of the operators themselves.
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Dining by Rail - The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine-Cookbook HARDBACK
by James D. Porterfield / Publisher: St. Martins Presss /
ISBN: 0-312-087683 / Hardback 1993 /COLLECTOR'S Item- First Edition Copy/ From railroad history to the meals that have been served, this book is excellent for the cook book collector and railroad collector alike.
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Doc Susie - The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies - Paperback (large print)
by Virginia Cornell / Publisher: Manifest Publications /
ISBN:0-9627896-5-8 / Paperback 1991 / As a young girl Virginia Cornell met Doctor Susan Anderson. Three years of interviews contribute to this biography of a women who searched for health from tuberculosis, success and romance.
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed
by Stephen O'Connor / Publisher: Houghton - Mifflin Company /
ISBN: 0-395-84173-6 / Hardback 2001 / Between 1854 to 1929, 250,000 children were sent west on orphan trains to a new life often to become farm hands. Charles Loring Brace helped organize the Children's Aid Society (CAS) and the infamous orphan trains.
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Orphan Trains to Missouri
by Michael Patrik / Publisher: University of Missouri Press / ISBN: 0-8262-11216 / Paperback 1997 /Ages:Elementray to Junior High/ Missouri Heritage Reader / Touching stories of volunteers who oversaw the placement of orphans as well as stories of the orphans themselves in homes in nineteenth-century Missouri.
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed- Paperback
by Stephen O'Connor / Publisher: Houghton - Mifflin Company /
ISBN: 0-226-61667-3 / Paperback 2004 / Between 1854 to 1929, 250,000 children were sent west on orphan trains to a new life often to become farm hands. Charles Loring Brace helped organize the Children's Aid Society (CAS) and the infamous orphan trains.
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