New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1945, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S
from top left,New YorkercriticGeorge Chappellviewed the “mooring mast” as a publicity stunt, and believed the building would have been better without it; interior of the building at its grand opening in May 1931; ground-level view of the setbacks Chappell admired;...
HistorianFrederickLewisAllen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestsellingOnly Yesterday(1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: HowardBrubakeralso finished the decade on ...
…Buffalo-based Pierce-Arrow was known for its expensive luxury cars, which were not exactly hot sellers during the Great Depression; moreover, Pierce was the only luxury brand that did not offer a lower-priced car to provide cash flow to the company, and contrary to the claims in this ad...
it was identified first in military personnel in the spring of 1918. It is estimated that over 500 million people or 1/3 of the population of the world at that time became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million around the world with about...
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