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UNINA9910591175003321 |
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Autore |
Bross Kristina |
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Titolo |
Little Else Than a Memory : Purdue Students Search for the Class of 1904 / / edited by Kristina Bross ; the Honors College, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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2014 |
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West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classificazione |
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HIS036060HIS036090HIS049000 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nonfiction |
History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""A Tale of Two Satterfields: The Power of a Purdue Education""; """"The Only Colored Drug Store"": Richard Wirt Smith's Success Story, 1904�1911""; ""Emil Farkas and William Raymond Davis: Windy City Boys""; ""Joseph Burke Knapp: ""A Barnacle on the Ship of Progress""""; ""Fitting In but Sticking Out: The Life of an Immigrant Student at Purdue in 1904""; ""Far from Home and Far from Normal: The Experience of an International Student on an American College Campus at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"" |
""Lyla Vivian Marshall Harcoff: The Pursuits of a Small-Town Dreamer""""""The Eternal Feminine"": An Examination of the Life and Times of the Twentieth-Century New University Woman through Cecil Clare Crane""; ""The Lost Bandsman and His Band""; ""Just Harry""; ""Epilogue: Purdue's Past through Purdue's Present""; ""Biographical Cameos"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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* For anyone who loves Purdue University, the essays in the book provide in intriguing glimpse into the history of the University.* A fascinating example of micro-history, with the stories of individual |
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