Jack Sanders: Ridgefield, 1900-1950

Ridgefield, 1900-1950


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Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates, village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes. Ridgefield: 1900-1950 offers more than two hundred of these glimpses of a bygone time of affluence and change-what one historian has called Ridgefield's golden era.

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Author: Jack Sanders
Number of Pages: 128 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2003
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publication Country: Charleston, SC, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780738511726
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