The City, the Fire, the Ruins: Du Pont Powder Plant, Hopewell, Va

by J. A. Sargeant

$200 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Petersburg, VA: Franklin Press Co., Printers for the author, 1916. First edition. Oblong 8vo 13 cm . 16 pp. Illustrated from photographs, new housing and business, crowded street scenes, railroad trains and tracks, etc. Viewbook and description of a city of 35,000 built in just under a year. Cover title: Hopewell, Virginia, Powdertown, Illustrated: The City, the Fire, the Ruins, the Du Pont Powder Plant.” OCLC locates two copies Hagley, Wisconsin

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