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ria9780415948869_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and i hardcover
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B9780415948876Paperback / softback. New. In this book Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. paperback
2004G041594886XI4N00Routledge 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Routledge hardcover
6339677Taylor & Francis Group pp. 208 . Papeback. New. Taylor & Francis Group unknown
1950233651950. Clearwater Florida real estate photo archive documenting the early postwar building boom on the Gulf Coast when brokers insurers apartment operators and developers sold a rapidly changing city through new office fronts freshly finished rental courts and sharply modern commercial facades. George Fulmer worked in the middle of that expansion producing assignment photographs for the businesses and properties that turned population growth into visible street level change. The strongest material here fixes Clearwater at the point where land promotion rental housing and mid century design converged: curved corner offices lettered for real estate and insurance palm lined apartment blocks arranged around trimmed courtyards and low modern buildings meant to signal newness efficiency and Florida ease. Rather than treating real estate as an abstraction the archive shows exactly how property was marketed in these years through named firms finished exteriors and staged views ready for display advertising or client use.<br /> Photo archive of 45 items including 24 large format negatives many unique and others duplicate of 11 silver gelatin photos measuring 4" x 5" archive contained in 11 photo studio & some annotated envelopes Clearwater Florida c. 1950 to 1955. Named commissions anchor the file throughout including Al Hungerford Realty Alexander & Gauslin Real Estate Sales Rentals Insurance at 511 Park St. Bob Morrison Realtor and Southwind Apartments. Bob Morrison's office appears as a clean low commercial building with bold lettering across the facade; Alexander & Gauslin occupies a streamlined corner block beside The Owl Diner its window and signs announcing sales rentals and insurance; Al Hungerford Realty stands in a compact modern office with a tiled vertical sign tower and a curved entrance bay marked "Insurance." Southwind appears in repeated exterior views as a two story apartment court with flat rooflines metal balcony rails landscaped beds and residents seated outdoors beneath palms and a striped umbrella while another low residential property sits under large shade trees and Spanish moss suggesting the quieter rental and lodging side of the same market. The sleeves preserve the working identity of the commissions in Fulmer's filing system with handwritten entries including "Hungerford" "Bob Morrison Real Estate Office" "Southwind Apt" and "Alexander & Gauslin Realtor." Supporting material from a local Home Show remains tied to the same sales environment with merchants' booths crowds and display spaces for household goods and services aimed at the buyers renters and homeowners moving into the expanding city. Other home show images depict the culture of events- mixing consumer cuture and rapid expansion with public displays of a theatrical nature including live music and performance and auction styled sales.<br /> <br /> Across Florida's west coast the years after World War II brought surging in migration rising land values and an aggressive local market in homes apartments offices and investment property especially in towns that could sell both sunshine and modern convenience. Clearwater's brokers and builders were part of that larger remaking of the state and this archive holds onto the ordinary but highly perishable evidence of the boom: the offices where property changed hands the apartment courts offered to newcomers and the polished exteriors used to advertise stability and growth. Light wear minor surface handling and expected age toning to prints and negatives with some sleeves creased rubbed or soiled from studio use; overall in very good condition. A focused documentary record of how Clearwater's real estate economy looked branded itself and entered the local visual record during the first great postwar surge. unknown
1951233191951. George Fulmer photographs of Clearwater residents businesses club spaces and service interiors recording how the residential economy of postwar Clearwater Florida functioned during early Sunbelt expansion in the 1950s. Fulmer a WWII U.S. Navy enlisted photographer and Clearwater city photographer for more than six decades worked from a studio beside the courthouse and produced a continuous visual record of the city's built environment commercial life and civic spaces; this group preserves that local documentary practice in a concentrated run of early postwar assignments tied to dining rooms lounges staged programs domestic instruction storefront promotion and everyday services. The material shows the interlocking spaces that supported residential growth in Pinellas County: hospitality rooms utility demonstrations cleaners and tailoring shops club events leisure scenes and communal interiors built for a city expanding through retirement migration consumer services and year-round settlement.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 75 items including 36 silver gelatin photographs and 39 large format duplicate and original negatives ranging from 3 x 4 inches to 5 x 4 inches all contained in 12 original studio envelopes with some annotations by George Fulmer. Clearwater Florida and nearby Pinellas County circa 1951-1953. The most vivid images center on stage performance and organized social programming: women posed onstage around a table with boxed goods and a large lamp presenting household furnishings in a display that links entertainment to domestic consumption; girls lined across a stage in dresses for a group performance; a young female solo performer standing at microphone or center stage; a mixed adult group assembled under stage lighting in what appears to be a presentation or awards moment; and a trio of female performers in matching dance poses. These theatrical scenes are matched by audience and setting views that show older men dining together in booths and at tables large lounge interiors arranged for conversation and gathering office and reception spaces a broad institutional kitchen a man on a ladder opening a ceiling hatch in a decorated hall a child holding a large fish outdoors and exterior views of a corner cleaners and tailoring shop with painted signage reading "EST. 1909 CLEANERS" and "TAILORING." Original studio envelopes retain Fulmer job numbers dates and handwritten identifications including "Hart Cleaners" "BPW Club" "Weekend in Clearwater" "Court Crest Room" "Bank Central Pinellas Largo" and "Pinellas Utility Co. Cooking School" placing the images within the working files of a commercial city photographer covering Clearwater's residential service and promotional life.<br /> <br /> In the years after World War II Florida's Gulf Coast cities grew through in-migration small-business development utility expansion hospitality design and new forms of residential settlement aimed at permanent and seasonal residents alike. Fulmer's photographs place Clearwater within that broader transformation at street level through the rooms services labor and public-facing businesses that made postwar residential growth workable as daily life rather than as abstract development. Some negatives with light damage; photographs very good negatives largely good overall. A coherent single-photographer group of original studio material from George Fulmer's Clearwater practice with negatives prints and job-envelope evidence intact. unknown
75-4834Destin FL: Clements Antiques of Florida Inc. 1998. 4to Stapled Wrap. ca. 15 pp. Color Plates. Very good with Creasing toning. Destin, FL: Clements Antiques of Florida, Inc., 1998 unknown
0428392261.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ria9780323852777_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
200235761AB[Gütersloh], RM Buch und Medien Vertrieb, 2002. 22 cm, 384 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Farbfotos, Karten und Abbildungen, kartoniert, Englische Broschur, Karten auf den Vorsätzen. Ungekürzte Lizenzausgabe leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gut erhalten. Club-Reiseführer.
199841916ABRheda-Wiedenbrück, Bertelsmann Club, 1998. 22 cm, 672 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Farbfotos, Karten und Abbildungen, kartoniert, Englische Broschur, Karten auf den Vorsätzen. Ungekürzte Buchgemeinschafts-Lizenzausgabe, aktual insgesamt leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gut erhalten. Club-Reiseführer.
Madrid, Instituto Histórico de Marina, 1944. 4to. mayor; 150 pp. y 8 mapas plegados. Cubiertas originales.
18905287Various locations in Cuba and Florida 1890. Very good. Twelve cabinet card photographs each measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches on matching mounts measuring 5.25 x 6.5 inches all with manuscript captions on verso. Moderate dust-soiling minor overall wear a few small unobtrusive chips to corners. A dozen original photographs picturing a group of men traveling in Florida and Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. The men seem relatively well-to-do and visit several different locations in each place. Four of the photos emanate from Florida while the remainder picture scenes in Cuba. The photographs are all captioned on the verso which read as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 "In the Court of Ponce De Leon Hotel St. Augustine"<br /> 2 "A frozen fountain in St. Augustine Florida - the white is ice"<br /> 3 "Fishing in St. Augustine"<br /> 4 "A Tree in Tampa Florida where one tree runs up on another takes root up in tree then runs down & takes root in the ground again"<br /> 5 "A Street in Nevaelas Cuba"<br /> 6 "A Country Road in Cuba"<br /> 7 "Natives in Havana"<br /> 8 "In Morro Castle Havana Cuba. Prisoners braking sic rocks"<br /> 9 "On top of Morro Castle Havana Cuba"<br /> 10 "Country Scene in Cuba"<br /> 11 "Country Scene in Cuba" different image<br /> 12 "Plaza at south of the Prado Havana unknown
18103213311810. unbound. very good. Three newspapers with pieces on the declaration of independence of West Florida.<BR> <BR> I: The Boston Patriot. Volume IV No. 19. 4 pages measuring 19 x 13-1/2 inches; minor horizontal fold bisecting all pages. Boston: Isaac Munroe November 3 1810. Lightly rubbed with some fading to the masthead but otherwise a clean clear and easily readable -- a very good copy.<BR> <BR> II: New-England Palladium. Volume 36 No. 48. Friday December 14 1810. 4 pages measuring 21 x 13 inches; minor horizontal fold bisecting all pages lightly toned and foxed but in very good condition. <BR> <BR> III: Portsmouth Oracle. Volume XXII No. 5. Saturday November 3 1810. Four pages measuring 19 x 13.5 inches. Usual folds with light toning and foxing contemporary ink notation upper margin. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> The Boston Patriot contains the declaration of independence of West Florida issued issued by John Rea president of the West Florida convention on September 26 1810. The New-England Palladium has public statements from President James Madison Secretary of State Robert Smith John Rhea etc. on the independence of West Florida. The Portsmouth Oracle has two pieces: an account of the seizure of the fort at Baton Rouge signed by Philemon Thomas and John Rhea and the official statement of independence issued and signed by John Rhea and the members of the Convention. West Florida made up of the Florida Parishes of Louisiana declared independence from Spain in September 1810 and was absorbed into the United States by mid December becoming part of the state of Louisiana.<br/> <br/> unknown
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0428041272.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
82 pages. Features: Nice RKO photo ad advertises 'I Remember Mama', 'Tycoon', 'If You Knew Susie' and 'Magic Town'; 1-page ad for Philco entertainment products; Brother Jazz - The Story of Eddie Condon - with color photos; Affair's End (fiction); How to Have Ancestors; They're Still Expendable - article and photos explain how unemployment, small-business failures and layoffs are hitting veterans harder than the rest of the nation; Fever (fiction); He Clicked for 30 Years - Highlights of the career of photographer George William Harris - article with photos; The Five Dresden Angels (fiction); Man Running (fiction); Demon from the Doldrums - Nature's most destructive force is the West Indian hurricane; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for International Harvester Industrial Power features photo of a large diesel crawler in a Florida limestone quarry; Nice 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Nice vintage 1-page color ad for Kraft Cheeses; Western Electric 1-page color ad shows telephone repairman talking housewife and children at front door; Ballantine Ale 1-page color ad; Half-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers; Pennsylvania Railroad nice 1-page color ad shows comforable scene on-board; Fall Guise - article with six color photos of men's fall college fashions; Nice 1-page DeSoto car ad; A Good Whipping (fiction); Fantastic 1-page 2-color ad for the movie 'Body and Soul' starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks; Nice 1-page color Budweiser ad displays several illustrated plates; Goldwyn ad features colour photo of Danny Kaye; Rislone and Karbout ad features cute color photo of cigarette girl; 1-page ad for Gillette one-piece razors; Smiling Girl (fiction); Nice color 1-page ad for Hamm's Beer; One-page ad for American Overseas Airlines; Luckky Strike ad on back cover includes nice color illustration entitled 'Bright Tobacco' by Fletcher Martin. Couple of chips from top of front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Articles: Crazy Like a Box Top - the golden age dawns for folk who enter guessing contests; How America will Defend Herself - the technique of modern warfare; Silver Scrapper - Florida Tarpon put up a savage fight; Doodles International - a study of the subconscious scribblings of men who make history; Behind the Palestine Reversal - The case for partition - by a member of the U.N. Special Committee; For Young Adults Only - in Madison, WI ex-G.I.s and others form a club to replace USO; Jaunt with Janie - author claims he went to Chile for this story on Jane Greer. Ads include: Nash cars; Bell telephone; Zenith radios adn phonographs; GMC Trucks; B.V.D. sportswear; RCA Victor phonographs; Pabst beer featuring colour photo of artist James Montgomery Flagg; Dodge cars; Plymouth cars; Good Year tires; New York Central railway; Ballantine's Ale; Hudson cars; Goebel beer; Santa Fe Railroad; Budweiser beer (medieval golf illustration); Miller beer; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring roller skater Raven Malone. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
24p. PAMPHLET Very good condition