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Illinois : a descriptive and historical guide / originally compiled and written by the Federal Writers ̓Project for the State of Illinois.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks F546.F45 1947
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois, compiler.
- Series:
- American guide series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illinois--Guidebooks.
- Illinois.
- Illinois--History.
- Automobile travel--Illinois--Guidebooks.
- Automobile travel.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- History.
- Road maps.
- Tourist maps.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 707 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (including 3 on folded leaves 1. in pocket), portraits ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised with additions in 1946 ...
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., [1947]
- Contents:
- Foreword
- General information
- Recreation
- Illinois : the general background. The Illinoisan, his background ; The land itself ; Before the white man ; The land and the people ; Illinois in World War II ; Religion ; The hub of the continent ; Agriculture ; Labor ; Government and education ; Architecture ; Art ; Literature ; Theater ; Music
- Illinois : cities and towns. Alton ; Aurora ; Bloomington and Normal ; Cairo ; Champaign and Urbana ; Chicago ; Decatur ; East St. Louis ; Elgin ; Evanston ; Galena ; Joliet ; Nauvoo ; Peoria ; Rockford ; Rock Island and Moline ; Springfield
- Illinois : tours
- Abraham Lincoln, "man of Illinois" / Henry Horner
- Fifty books about Illinois
- Chronology
- Congressional Medal of Honor awards.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1939 by Henry Horner, governor of the state of Illinois"--Title page verso.
- The plates are in eight groups.
- "Illinois key tour map" on lining-paper.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-656) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois. Illinois; a descriptive and historical guide.
- OCLC:
- 1517733
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