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Saving America's treasures /

Showcases some of America's priceless historical artifacts, documents, and sites that, because of neglect, age, or lack of funding, are in danger of being lost forever.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Young, Dwight (Author), Frazier, Ian (Author)
Corporate Authors: National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Other Authors: Block, Ira (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2001]
Subjects:
Historic sites > United States.
Historic sites > United States > Pictorial works.
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration > United States.
Architecture > Conservation and restoration > United States.
Archival materials > Conservation and restoration > United States.
Cultural property > Protection > United States.
Historic preservation > United States.
United States > History, Local.
Architecture > Conservation and restoration.
Archival materials > Conservation and restoration.
Cultural property > Protection.
Historic preservation.
Historic sites.
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration.
United States.
Local history.
Pictorial works.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Preserving America's story / Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Founding Fathers' Papers (Nationwide)
  • Congressional Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
  • Star-Spangled Banner (Washington, D.C.)
  • Saving our treasures and ourselves / Ray Suarez.
  • Political leanings : There and then / Thomas Mallon
  • Sewall-Belmont House (Washington, D.C.)
  • Thomas Jefferson's poplar forest (Forest, Virginia)
  • Lewis and Clark Herbarium (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • The Lincoln and Soldiers' Home (Washington, D.C.)
  • Manzanar Internment Camp (Inyo County, California)
  • Harriet Tubman Home (Auburn, New York)
  • Valley Forge winter encampment (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania)
  • Aviation nose art, WW II (Midland, Texas)
  • Old Charleston City Jail (Charleston, South Carolina)
  • Val-Kill Cottage, home of Eleanor Roosevelt (Hyde Park, New York).
  • American diversions : Coney Island reverie / Francine Prose
  • Colonial Theatre (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
  • Babe Ruth's scrapbooks (Cooperstown, New York)
  • Asbury Park Convention Hall (Asbury Park, New Jersey)
  • American Film Archives (Nationwide)
  • Cà d'Zan, home of John and Mable Ringling (Sarasota, Florida)
  • Conservatory of Flowers (San Francisco, California)
  • Schooner yacht Coronet (Newport, Rhode Island)
  • Louis Armstrong Archives (Queens, New York)
  • The Mount, home of Edith Wharton (Lenox, Massachusetts)
  • Vista House at Crown Point (Multnomah County, Oregon)
  • Taliesin, home of Frank Lloyd Wright (Spring Green, Wisconsin).
  • Communities of faith : Searching for higher ground / Phyllis Theroux
  • African Meeting House (Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Mormon Row (Moose, Wyoming)
  • Maui Jinsha Shrine (Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii)
  • San Esteban del Rey Mission (Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico)
  • Prairie churches (Statewide, North Dakota)
  • Breed Street Shul (Los Angeles, California)
  • St. Louis cemeteries, I and 2 (New Orleans, Louisiana).
  • Nation at work : Temples of industry / Henry Petroski
  • Pullman Factory and Town (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Thomas Edison's Invention Factory (West Orange, New Jersey)
  • Portland Observatory (Portland, Maine)
  • Thomas Day House (Milton, North Carolina)
  • Tenth Street Bridge (Great Falls, Montana)
  • Washburn-Crosby "A" Mill (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  • Michigan lighthouses (Statewide, Michigan)
  • B & O Roundhouse (Martinsburg, West Virginia)
  • Teeple Barn (Elgin, Illinois).
  • Land of the free : On this site / Ian Frazier
  • Castle Clinton (New York, New York)
  • Mesa Verde cliff dwelling sites (Mesa Verde, Colorado)
  • Native American artwork (Washington, D.C.)
  • Angel Island Immigration Station (Marin County, California)
  • Ybor City (Tampa, Florida)
  • Afterword / Richard Moe.