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Herbert "Skippy" Leroy Thompson
Herbert "Skippy" Leroy Thompson
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
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Infamous Beauties: The Story Of The Lake 'N Sea Speedboats, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Infamous Beauties: The Story Of The Lake 'N Sea Speedboats, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
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Infamous Beauties: The Story of the Lake 'n Sea Speedboats concerns the manufacture of the Lake 'n Sea boat line from 1956-1963 by the LakenSea, a division of Southern Plastic Corporation (1956-1957), the Chris-Craft Corporation (1957-1958), Parsons Corporation (1958-1960) and Michigan Fiberglass Company (1960-1963).
Plant City, Florida, 1885-1940: A Study In Southern Urban Development, Mark W. Kerlin
Plant City, Florida, 1885-1940: A Study In Southern Urban Development, Mark W. Kerlin
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This study investigates the development of Plant City, Florida as a railroad town developing on the Southwest Florida frontier from 1885-1940. The study chronicles the town's origins and economic, political, and social development in relationship to the broader historical theories of southern urban development, specifically those put forward in David Goldfield's pioneering work, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region 1607-1980. Goldfield contended that southern cities developed differently than their northern counterparts because they were not economically, politically, philosophically and culturally separated from their rural surroundings. Instead, they displayed and retained the positive and negative attributes of southern society …