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Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated History of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
by South Shore & South B Chicago
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0253334187
- ISBN 13
- 9780253334183
- Seller
-
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. 138pp/illus/end-paper maps. Known as the "Little Train that Could," the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad has served as a major commercial and recreational transportation link for ninety years. The South Shore Line has reflected the triumphs and misfortunes of the Calumet Region throughout the twentieth century. For its first two decades, it survived good times and bad until its landmark purchase by Samuel Insull's Midland Utilities in 1925. Insull launched an aggressive marketing campaign producing booklets, movies and in particular a set of colorful, artistic posters witch attracted many from Illinois to the sand dunes and steel mills of Northwest Indiana. It also reproduces thirty-eight known surviving posters. Gift inscription on ffep. Text clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012056
- Title
- Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated History of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
- Author
- South Shore & South B Chicago
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0253334187
- ISBN 13
- 9780253334183
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington, IN
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Railroads, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Railroads;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia
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