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Great Lakes booksAnderson, Carlotta R.
Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO ANDReynolds, Terry S.
Summary: In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847--2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs played a major role in the opening and development of the Lake Superior mining district and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 REYLivingston, Patrick.
Contents: Prologue -- Bob-Lo in the river of time -- Amusing times for the twentieth century, 1892-1902 -- Dance fever, 1902-1912 -- Good times and hard times, 1913-1939 -- Under new management, 1938-1949 -- Bob-Lo : a Browning line, 1949-1979 -- Thrills and spills in the amusement business, 1979-1993 -- The thrill is gone, 1993-2006 -- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008
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Dutton, Fred W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUTLong, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
Contents: Blazing the trails of tomorrow -- A grass-roots boyhood -- University days -- Detroit-to-New York pioneer tour -- Revolt at Oldsmobile -- Launching his first company -- Out of debt and on their way -- Chalmers-Detroit, and beginnings of Hudson -- Forecasting future trends -- On their own at last -- A millionaire at thirty -- Wednesday in Georgia -- Hudson's growing pains -- With Pershing on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPIN, ROY D. LONCarney-Coston, Barbara
Summary: In 1886, 11-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need of the skills of his wife, an expert healer. And so Mihaela,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 624.2 HYDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 624.2 HYD1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 624.2 HYD