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Aurora
Author(s): Jim Edwards, Wynette Edwards
ISBN: 9780738563749
# of Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
On Sale Date: 10/12/1998
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$21.99
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Book Description:
The history of Aurora, Illinois is one of diversity. This is the first book to trace the city’s early days of its first white settlement through World War I and the early 1920s, as seen through the eyes of its diverse ethnic groups. Immigrants from northern, southern, and eastern Europe, southern Blacks, and Mexicans all came to provide their talents to the massive railroad industry and the dozens of factories in the city, which were producing various products to be used by the entire nation and as well as in the construction of the Panama Canal.
Author Bio: The fascinating story of Aurora’s industries is recalled through the photographs of the workers themselves—many of which have never been published. Also featured in Aurora, Illinois, is a look at a master photographer and his son, who ran the foremost studio in Aurora. An 1887 description of downtown Aurora, written by a high school student who was a contemporary, is also included in this welcome new addition to the Images of America series.
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