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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnelsby Jill Jonnes

✍ Scribed by Review by: Carol Poh

Book ID: 124494010
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 450 KB
Volume: 49
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-165X
DOI: 10.2307/40061641

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