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Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literature of American Local History  a Bibliographical Essay

Download or read book The Literature of American Local History a Bibliographical Essay written by Herm. E. Ludewig and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literature Of American Local History  A Bibliographical Essay

Download or read book The Literature Of American Local History A Bibliographical Essay written by Hermann Eduard Ludewig and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America

Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Books relating to America  From its Discovery to the Present Time

Download or read book A Dictionary of Books relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book Artists in Ohio  1787 1900

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  • Author : Mary Sayre Haverstock
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780873386166
  • Pages : 1096 pages

Download or read book Artists in Ohio 1787 1900 written by Mary Sayre Haverstock and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-volume guide to the early art and artists of Ohio. It includes coverage of fine art, photography, ornamental penmanship, tombstone carving, china painting, illustrating, cartooning and the execution of panoramas and theatrical scenery.

Book Frontiers of Freedom

Download or read book Frontiers of Freedom written by Nikki Marie Taylor and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations. While those identities presented a crossroad of opportunity for native whites and immigrants, African Americans endured economic repression and a denial of civil rights, compounded by extreme and frequent mob violence. No other northern city rivaled Cincinnati's vicious mob spirit. Frontiers of Freedom follows the black community as it moved from alienation and vulnerability in the 1820s toward collective consciousness and, eventually, political self-respect and self-determination. As author Nikki M. Taylor points out, this was a community that at times supported all-black communities, armed self-defense, and separate, but independent, black schools. Black Cincinnati's strategies to gain equality and citizenship were as dynamic as they were effective. When the black community united in armed defense of its homes and property during an 1841 mob attack, it demonstrated that it was no longer willing to be exiled from the city as it had been in 1829. Frontiers of Freedom chronicles alternating moments of triumph and tribulation, of pride and pain; but more than anything, it chronicles the resilience of the black community in a particularly difficult urban context at a defining moment in American history.

Book The Franklin Journal and American Mechanics  Magazine

Download or read book The Franklin Journal and American Mechanics Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Franklin Institute

Download or read book Journal of the Franklin Institute written by Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59.

Book Book Catalogue

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1851
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 676 pages

Download or read book Book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Robert Clarke & Co and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Watches of the Night

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  • Author : Peter C. Baldwin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-12-15
  • ISBN : 0226036030
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book In the Watches of the Night written by Peter C. Baldwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors—scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike—in the nocturnal city. Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.

Book Lessons in Likeness

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  • Author : Estill Curtis Pennington
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0813126126
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Lessons in Likeness written by Estill Curtis Pennington and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1802, when the young Kentucky artist William Edward West began to paint portraits while on a downriver journey, and 1920, when the last of Frank Duveneck's students worked in Louisville, a large number of notable portrait artists were active in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. In Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920, Estill Curtis Pennington charts the course of those artists as they painted a variety of sitters drawn from both urban and rural society. The work is illustrated, when possible, from The Filson Historical Society collection of some four hundred portraits representing one of the most extensive holdings available for study in the region. Portraiture involves artists and subjects, known as sitters, and is an art that combines elements of biography, aesthetics, and cultural history. Private portraits often attract an oral history that enlivens the more colorful aspects of local tradition and culture. Public portraits of towering figures such as George Washington, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln were often reproduced in printed format to satisfy popular demand and subsequently attained an iconic, timeless status. Lessons in Likeness is organized in two parts. Part One, the cultural chronology, serves as a backdrop to the biographies of the portrait artists. This section identifies stylistic sources and significant historical moments that influenced the artists and their milieus. Rather than working in isolation, portrait artists were connected to the world around them and influenced by prevailing trends in their trade. Early in the nineteenth century, for instance, Matthew Jouett journeyed to Boston for study with Gilbert Stuart, and upon his return to Kentucky painted in a style that subsequently influenced an entire generation. Later artists, notably Oliver Frazer and William Edward West, studied the lessons of Thomas Sully in Philadelphia. Sully popularized the lush, warmly colored, and highly flattering style of portraiture practiced by many of the itinerant artists whose careers were facilitated by the introduction of steam and rail travel. The Civil War provoked a dramatic shift in the cultural terrain, further augmented by the rise of photography and the emergence of academic art centers. Painters who had previously worked with a master painter, or learned on their own, were now able to study at established schools, especially in Cincinnati, which became one of the leading centers for the teaching of art in late nineteenth-century America. Several of the teachers there, Frank Duveneck and Thomas Satterwhite Noble in particular, had firsthand experience with avant-garde European styles, notably the realism and naturalism practiced in Munich and Paris in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and then taught in the art schools of New York and Philadelphia. Part Two profiles the artists from this area and period who have appeared in previous art historical literature and have an identifiable body of work represented in public and private collections. Individual biographies provide details of the artists' lives, sources for further study, and locations of works in public collections.

Book Bourbon s Backroads

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  • Author : Karl Raitz
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-06-29
  • ISBN : 0813182565
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Bourbon s Backroads written by Karl Raitz and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky's landscape is punctuated by landmark structures that signpost bourbon's venerable story: distilleries long-standing, relict, razed, and brand new, the grand nineteenth-century homes of renowned distillers, villages and neighborhoods where distillery laborers lived, Whiskey Row storage warehouses, river landings and railroad yards, and factories where copper distilling vessels and charred white oak barrels are made. During the nineteenth century, distilling changed from an artisanal craft practiced by farmers and millers to a large-scale mechanized industry that practiced increasingly refined production techniques. Distillers often operated at comparatively remote sites—along the "backroads"—to take advantage of water sources or river or turnpike transport access. As time passed, steam power and mechanization freed the industry from its reliance on waterpower and permitted distillers to relocate to urban and rural rail-side sites. This shift also allowed distillers to perfect their production techniques, increase their capacity, and refine their marketing strategies. The historic progression produced the "fine" Kentucky bourbons that are available to present day consumers. Yet, distillers have not abandoned their cultural roots and traditions; their iconic products embrace the modern while also engaging their history and geography. Blending several topics—inventions and innovations in distilling and transport technologies, tax policy, geography, landscapes, and architecture—this primer and geographical guide presents an accessible and detailed history of the development of Kentucky's distilling industry and explains how the industry continues to thrive.

Book A History of Industrial Power in the United States  1780 1930  Steam power

Download or read book A History of Industrial Power in the United States 1780 1930 Steam power written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: