Capital's utopia
Subtitle: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
By: Anne E. Mosher.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915.; Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.; Company towns -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History.; City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History.; Steel industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History.; Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History.; Vandergrift (Pa.) -- History.; Vandergrift (Pa.) -- Social conditions.; Vandergrift (Pa.) -- Economic conditions.
Table of contents: title: Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry; title: Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel; title: The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift; title: Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula; title: The steel strike of 1901; title: Growing pains for a "model town".