Changing the skyline; an autobiography / with the collaboration of Webb Waldron and a foreword by Bob Davis.

Main entry:

Starrett, Paul, 1866-, author.

Title & Author:

Changing the skyline; an autobiography / with the collaboration of Webb Waldron and a foreword by Bob Davis.

Publication:

New York, [NY] ; London : Whittlesey House ; McGraw-Hill Book Co.
[©1938]

Description:

xvi, 319 pages : including frontispiece (portrait), illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
A prairie boyhood -- Early life in Chicago -- Skyscrapers -- Magic city -- Getting started -- I become a builder -- Promoted to New York -- Publishers and architects -- Blood and steel -- Getting the job -- Jobs we didn't get -- Speed -- Subways and ships -- Building under foreign skies -- Labor unions -- We build for Henry Ford -- Men -- Hotels and hotel men -- Launching under my own name -- New adventures in building -- The climax -- An age of individualism.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Starrett, Paul, 1866-
Building United States.
Construction États-Unis.
Building
United States

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Autobiographies

Added entries:

Waldron, Webb, 1882-1945.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 45261
Call No.: W4530; ID:89-B462
Status: Available

Location: Library main 45262
Call No.: 835; ID:89-B462
Status: Available

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