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The Morning Leader- Bibliography

Port Townsend Public Library call numbers are noted for each title.

Newspapers

Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. New York: Random House, 2001. ISBN: 0375504443 [025.2832 BAKER]

Cloud, Barbara. The Business of Newspapers on the Western Frontier. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992. ISBN: 0874171849 [071.9 CLOUD]

Gordon, John Steele. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable. New York: Walker & Company, 2002. ISBN: 0802713645 [384.1 GORDON]

Martin, Shannon E. and Kathleen A. Hanson. Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. ISBN: 0275959600 [070.172 MARTIN]

Mencken, H.L. Newspaper Days 1899-1906. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1940.  ISBN: 0801853400 [921 MENCKEN]

Work & Labor

Bird, Stewart et al. Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW. Chicago: Lake View Press, 1985. ISBN: 0941702111 [322.2 BIRD]

Borneman, Walter R. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN: 0060503068 [979.8 BORNEMA]

Churchill, Thomas. Centralia Dead March [fiction]. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1980. ISBN: 0915306174 [F CHURCHI]

Derks, Scott. Working Americans 1880-1999. Volume 1: The Working Class. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1891482815 [R973.8 WORKING]

LeMonds, James. Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest. Missoula: Mountain Press, 2001. ISBN: 0878422210 [634.98 LEMONDS]

Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. ISBN 0252064526 [323.4 PRESTON]

Putnam, John. "Racism and Temperance: The Politics of Class and Gender in Late 19th-Century Seattle." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, v. 95, no. 2, Spring 2004; pp. 70-81

Schwantes, Carlos A. Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism and Reform in Washington and British Columbia 1885-1917. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1994, c1979. ISBN: 0893011754 [331.88 SCHWANT]

Wollner, Craig and W. Tracy Dillon, ed. A Richer Harvest: An Anthology of Work in the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0870714651 [810.99795 RICHER]

Zinn, Howard et al. Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. ISBN: 0807050121 [331.892 ZINN]

"Labor and Industries Collections" from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: http://content.lib.washington.edu/laborsearch.html

"The Labor Press Project" from the University of Washington Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies:
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/laborpress/

Maritime & Railroad History

Abdill, George B. Rails West. New York: Bonanza Books, 1960. [625.2 ABDILL]

Bohn, Dave and Rodolfo Petschek. Kinsey Photographer : The Locomotive Portraits. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984. ISBN: 0877013195 [770.92 BOHN]

Bonnett, Wayne. A Pacific Legacy: A Century of Maritime Photography 1850-1950. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. ISBN: 0811800237 [MARITIME 387.7 BONNETT]

Cunliffe, Tom. Pilots: 1. Pilot Schooners of North America and Great Britain. Brooklin, ME: WoodenBoat Publications, 2001. ISBN: 0937822698 [MARITIME 387.224 CUNLIFF]

Grover, David H. The Unforgiving Coast: Maritime Disasters of the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0870715410
[MARTITIME 910.9164 GROVER]

MacTaggart, Ross. The Golden Century: Classic Motor Yachts, 1830-1930. New York: Norton, 2000. ISBN: 0393049493 [MARITIME 623.823 MACTAGG]

Newell, Gordon. Pacific Lumber Ships. New York: Bonanza Books, 1960. [MARITIME 387 NEWELL]

Newell, Gordon. Pacific Steamboats. New York: Bonanza Books, 1958 [MARITIME 387 NEWELL]

Schwantes, Carlos A. Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. ISBN: 0295976918 [979.5 SCHWANT]

Schwantes, Carlos A. Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. ISBN: 0295972106 [385.09795 SCHWANT]

Shields, Ed.  Salt of the Sea: The Pacific Coast Codfish Company and the Last Days of Sail.  Nanoose Bay, BC: Heritage House, 2001. [MARITIME  639.22 SHIELDS]

Snapp, Jeremy S. Northwest Legacy: Sail, Steam & Motorships.  Lozez Island, WA: Pacific Northwest Heritage Press, 1999. [MARITIME 387.54 SNAPP]

Yachting: A Turn of the Century Treasury. Tony Meisel, ed. Seacaucus, NJ: Castle, 1987. ISBN: 1555212085 [MARITIME 797.1246 YACHTIN]

Wood, Charles R. Lines West: A Pictorial History of the Great Northern Railway Operations and Motive Power from 1887 to 1967. New York: Bonanza Books, 1967. ISBN: 0517141302 [625.2 WOOD]

"Transportation Collection" from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: http://content.lib.washington.edu/TransportationWeb/index.html

"Ships and Shipping" database from the Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room:
http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/v2/NWROOM/ships.htm

Life at the turn of the century

Allen, Henry. What It Felt Like: Life in the American Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. ISBN: 0375420630 [973.9 ALLEN]

Anderson, Jean. The American Century Cookbook. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997. ISBN: 0517705761 [641.5 ANDERSO]

Ascher, Abraham. The revolution of 1905. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0804750289 [947.083 ASCHER]

The Automobiles of 1904. Reprinted from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, January 1904. [R629.209041 AUTOMOB Reference Desk]

Barlow, Ronald S. A Price Guide to Victorian Houseware, Hardware & Kitchenware. El Cajon, CA: Windmill Publishing Company, 1992.  ISBN: 0933846037 [R683.82 BARLOW]

Beard, Parcicia. After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN: 0060199393 [921 HYDE]

Chase, Marilyn.  The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. New York: Random House, 2003. ISBN: 0375504966 [614.5732 CHASE]

Clark, Norman H. The Dry Years: Prohibition and Social Change in Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965. [979.7 CLARK]

Courtwright, David T. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0674004582 [362.29 COURTWR]

Gibb, Evelyn McDaniel. Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0870714856 [917.91041 GIBB]

Hoare, Robert. Turn of the Century: An Illustrated History in Color 1899-1913. Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett, 1975. ISBN: 0356050882 [J909.82 HOARE]

Phillips, Jim & Gartner, Rosemary. Murdering holiness: the trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2003. ISBN: 077480906X [345.797 PHILLIP]

Ramsey, Guy Reed. Postmarked Washington: Jefferson, Clallam and Mason Counties. Burtonsville, MD: The Depot, 1978. [Jefferson County Historical Society Library]

Shapiro, Laura. Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century. New York: North Point Press, 1986. ISBN: 0865474869 [641.013 SHAPIRO]

Szasz, Ferenc Morton. Religion in the Modern American West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. ISBN: 0816522456 [978 SZASZ]

This Fabulous Century: Volume 1, 1900-1910. New York: Time-Life Books, 1969. [R973.9 THIS]

The Value of a Dollar 1860-1999. Lakeville, CT: Grey House Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 1891482491 [R338.92 VALUE]

"Social Issues Collection" from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: http://content.lib.washington.edu/Socialweb/index.html

"Historic American Sheet Music" from the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library; 1900-1909 title pages:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/titlepages-1900/1.html

Advertising

Brandt, Frederick R. Designed to Sell: Turn-of-the-Century American Posters in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: The Museum, 1994. ISBN: 0917046382 [741.6374 BRANDT]

Jones, Edgar R. Those Were the Good Old Days: A Happy Look at American Advertising, 1880-1930. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.[659.1084 JONES]

"Emergence of Advertising in America" digital collection from Duke University and the Library of Congress American Memory Project: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ncdhtml/eaahome.html

Women

A Century of Women. Alan Covey, ed. Atlanta: TBS Books, 1994. ISBN: 1570361428 [305.42 CENTURY]

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English. Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1973. ISBN: 0912670207 [610.9 EHR]

Kitch, Carolyn. The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN: 0807849782 [302.23082 KITCH]

Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925: Lives, Memories and Writings. Jean M. Ward and Elaine A. Maveety, eds. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0870713876 [979.5 PACIFIC]

Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Wife. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN: 0060193387 [306.872 YALOM]

American Memory Project "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Minorities

Chang, Iris. The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. New York: Viking, 2003. ISBN: 0670031232 [973.04951 CHANG]

Sandefur, Timothy. "Standing Up for the 'Heathen Chinee.'" Liberty, v.19, no.7, July 2005; pp. 27-32, 34

The "American Indians of the Pacific Northwest" digital collection at the University of Washington:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html

"A History Bursting with Telling: Asian Americans in Washington State," developed by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest: http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curaaw/main.html

"Separate Lives, Broken Dreams: Saga of Chinese Immigration," about the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, from the National Asian American Telecommunications Association, http://www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/

"Through Open Eyes: Ninety-Five Years of Black History in Roslyn, Washington," Ellensburg Public Library, http://epl.eburg.com/roslyn.html

 

Port Townsend & Jefferson County history

Camfield, Thomas W. Port Townsend: An Illustrated History of Shanghaiing, Shipwrecks, Soiled Doves and Sundry Souls. Port Townsend: Ah Tom Publishing, 2000. [979.798 CAMFIELD]

Camfield, Thomas W. Port Townsend: The City That Whiskey Built: An Illustrated History. Port Townsend: Ah Tom Publishing, 2002. [979.798 CAMFIELD]

Clise, Pam McCollum. On the Hill: A History of the Uptown Business District. Port Townsend: [the author], 1995. [R979.798 CLISE]

Freeman, Bill and Freeman, Evelyn. An "Aerial View" of Forts Townsend, Worden and Casey."  [Port Townsend]: [the authors], 2002. [R979.798 FREEMAN]

Gregory, V.J. Keepers at the Gate. Port Townsend: Port Townsend Publishing Co., 1976. [979.798 GREGORY]

Hermanson, James. Port Townsend Memories. [Port Townsend]: The Author, 2001 [979.798 HERMANS]

Hermanson, James. Rural Jefferson County: Its Heritage and Maritime History. [Port Townsend]: The Author, 2001. [979.798 HERMANS]

Jefferson County Historical Society. With Pride in Heritage: Illustrated History of Jefferson County. Portland: Professional Publishing Printing, 1966. [979.798 WITH]

Simpson, Peter and James Hermanson. Port Townsend: Years That Are Gone—An Illustrated History. Port Townsend: Quimper Press, [1979]. [979.798 SIMPSON]

Welsh, William D. A Brief Historical Sketch of Port Townsend, Washington. Port Townsend: Crown Zellerbach Corporation, 1941, rev. 1959. [R979.798 WELSH]

"A Kid's Eye View of Port Townsend and Jefferson County and Its History, " prepared by the students of  LOFT School, 1996. http://www.ptchamber.org/history/index.htm

Teaching guides

Craver, Kathleen W. Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN: 0313307490

Lesson plans from the Library of Congress American Memory Project:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/index.html

 

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