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Boulder, Colorado: First Flatiron Press, ISBN 0-9606706-0-2.
Baker was the architect of a number of cemeteries in France in the aftermath of the First World War, including Delville Wood Cemetery ‎ and Memorial and the nearby South African War Memorial, the London Cemetery and Extension, Adanac Military Cemetery for the Canadians, the AIF Burial Ground for the Australian Imperial Force, a memorial within the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Courcelette British Cemetery, Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Guards Cemetery, Les Bouefs, Ovillers Military Cemetery and Quarry Cemetery.

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Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.
At Madison Square, location of the Flatiron Building, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street.
He also designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D. C.
The strip contained a number of references to contemporary events, such as the 1904 election of Theodore Roosevelt ; the recently built Flatiron Building ( 1902 ) and St. Regis Hotel ( 1904 ) in New York City ; and the 1904 – 1905 Russo-Japanese War.
Burnham's other works included overseeing the design for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designing the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York City.
The Flatiron Crossing Mall is a large shopping and entertainment center, anchored by Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, Macy's, The Great Indoors and Best Buy.
The Flatiron Building ( c. 1830 ), constructed as a business building in thriving 19th-century Brownsville, is one of the oldest, most intact iron commercial structures west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Throughout two decades, via private and public grants, BARC has restored the Flatiron Building as an historic asset to Brownsville.
The Flatiron Building Heritage Center, located within the building at 69 Market Street, holds artifacts from Brownsville's heyday, as well as displays about the community's important coal and coke heritage.
To the north of Chelsea is the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, also known as " Clinton ," to the northeast is the Garment District, to the east are NoMad and the Flatiron District, to the southwest is the Meatpacking District and to the southeast is the West Village.
By comparison, the 13th Precinct ( Flatiron District, Stuyvesant Town and Union Square ) recorded three murders in 2007 and the 20th Precinct ( the Upper West Side ) recorded none.
The company raised about $ 250 million, including $ 28 million from a group of investors in 1999 which included Flatiron, Oak and Chase.
Image: Steichen flatiron. jpg | Edward Steichen, Flatiron Building, 1904
The Flatiron Building ( or Fuller Building, as it was originally called ) is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper.
As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name " Flatiron " derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York City.
The site on which the Flatiron Building would stand was bought in 1857 by Amos Eno, who would shortly build the Fifth Avenue Hotel on a site diagonally across from it.
The building, which would be the first skyscraper north of 14th Street, was to be named the Fuller Building after George A. Fuller, founder of the Fuller Company and " father of the skyscraper ", who had died two years earlier, but locals persisted on calling it " The Flatiron ", a name which has since been made official.
The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling.
Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building ( 1902 – 1908 ), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception: like a classical Greek column, its facade – limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise – is divided into a base, shaft and capital.

Photographic and History
* Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
* " Shootout at Fly's Photographic Studio ", a History Bites episode
* Hazard Kentucky and Perry County: A Photographic History
* A Photographic History of Trinidad, California
* Photographic History of Fowler
* Photographic History of Plains
* Grobbel, Mike ; Arnold, Wesley E. Through the Years -- a Photographic History of Center Line, Michigan.
North Webster: A Photographic History of a Black Community ( with photographic restorations by John Nagel ).
The term First World War was used in the book The First World War: A Photographic History, edited by playwright and war veteran Laurence Stallings and published in 1933.
* Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, London: Phaidon, 2002.
* Steven Kasher ; The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History ( 1954 – 1968 ) Abbeville Publishing Group ( Abbeville Press, Inc .), 2000
* Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
* link to David J. Marcou's article " From Luxembourg and America to the World: Edward Steichen's Photographic Legacy " relating to Mr. Steichen's Wisconsin background, in particular, can be found on La Crosse History Unbound Website.
* Full annotated texts of all Acts and Resolves passed by the Congress of the United States relating to the Pacific Railroad ( 1862 – 1874 ) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
* REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD AND TELEGRAPH Including a Minority Report & Proposed Pacific Railroad Acts, 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Report # 358 ( 1856 ) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
( April 4, 1864 ) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
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( 99 U. S. 402 ) 1879 Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
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* Legislative History of the First Transcontinental Railroad Congressional Globe ( 1850 – 1873 ) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Michelle L. Woodward, " Between Orientalist Clichés and Images of Modernization: Photographic Practice in the Late Ottoman Era ," History of Photography, Winter 2003, Vol.
After passing to various other owners, they were discovered and appreciated by Edward Bailey Eaton ," who set in motion " events that led to their importance as the nucleus of a collection of Civil War photos published in 1912 as The Photographic History of the Civil War.

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