Online Articles & Essays
Essays | Articles | Book Excerpts | Poems
Essays
- McShane, Steve. "The Magic City of Steel."
Articles
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Flower, Elliott. "Gary, the Magic City." Putnam's Magazine Vol. 5, no. 6 (1909): 643-653.
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Fuller, Henry B. "An Industrial Utopia: Building Gary, Indiana, to Order." Harper's Weekly 51 (October 12, 1907): 1482-1483, 1495.
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"Gary: The Largest and Most Modern Steel Works in Existence." Scientific American vol. 101, no. 24 (December 11, 1909): 441, 450-451.
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Hendrick, Burton J. "Children of the Steel Kings." McClure's Magazine vol. 41, no. 5 (1913): 61-69.
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Book Excerpts
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Cannon, Thomas H., H. H. Loring, and Charles J. Robb, eds. History of the Lake and Calumet Region of Indiana: Embracing the Counties of Lake, Porter and LaPorte. Indianapolis: Historians' Association Publishers, 1927. 455-458, 793-797.
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Cotter, Arundel. United States Steel: a Corporation with a Soul. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. 160-165, 182-183.
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Fitch, John A. The Steel Workers. Philadelphia: Press of Wm. F. Fell Co, 1911. 42-51, 57-63.
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Mohl, Raymond A. and Neil Betten. Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1950. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. 3-5,10-21, 22-23.
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Moore, Powell. The Calumet Region: Indiana's Last Frontier. Indiana Historical Collections 39. [Indianapolis], Indiana Historical Bureau, 1959. 257-267, 274-276.
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Reps, John W. The Making of Urban America: a History of City Planning in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965. 427-428.
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Poems
- Sandburg, Carl. "The Mayor of Gary." Smoke and Steel. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. 25.
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