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Book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library

Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library written by Duke University. Library and published by Ams PressInc. This book was released on 1970 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library

Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library written by Nannie M. Tilley and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library

Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library written by Earl Gregg Swem and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library

Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library written by Duke University. Trinity College Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R  Perkins Library  Duke University

Download or read book Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R Perkins Library Duke University written by Duke University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R  Perkins Library   Duke University

Download or read book Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R Perkins Library Duke University written by Durham. Duke University Library and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine Before the Plague

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Rogers McVaugh
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-11
  • ISBN : 9780521524544
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Medicine Before the Plague written by Michael Rogers McVaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.

Book Where We Find Ourselves

Download or read book Where We Find Ourselves written by Margaret Sartor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed into his temporary studios a clientele that was both racially and economically diverse. After his death in 1922, his glass plate negatives remained stored in his darkroom, a tobacco barn, for fifty years. Slated for demolition in the 1970s, the barn was saved at the last moment--and with it, this surprising and unparalleled document of life at the turn of the twentieth century, a turbulent time in the history of the American South. Hugh Mangum's multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the open-door policy of his studio to show us lives marked both by notable affluence and hard work, all imbued with a strong sense of individuality, self-creation, and often joy. Seen and experienced in the present, the portraits hint at unexpected relationships and histories and also confirm how historical photographs have the power to subvert familiar narratives. Mangum's photographs are not only images; they are objects that have survived a history of their own and exist within the larger political and cultural history of the American South, demonstrating the unpredictable alchemy that often characterizes the best art--its ability over time to evolve with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or expectations of the artist.

Book The Photographic History of the Civil War    2

Download or read book The Photographic History of the Civil War 2 written by Francis Trevelyan 1877-1959 Miller and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Marine Sciences Research

Download or read book Marine Sciences Research written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Biology and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vinegar Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Tyler
  • Publisher : Hogarth
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 0804141274
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Vinegar Girl written by Anne Tyler and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There’s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying – as usual – on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men’s touchingly ludicrous campaign to bring her around?

Book Piety in Pieces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
  • Publisher : Open Book Publishers
  • Release : 2016-09-26
  • ISBN : 1783742364
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Piety in Pieces written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?

Book Defining Digital Humanities

Download or read book Defining Digital Humanities written by Dr Edward Vanhoutte and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. It provides a historical overview of how the term ‘Humanities Computing’ developed into the term ‘Digital Humanities’, and highlights core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline.

Book Civil War Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Brackman
  • Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2010-11-05
  • ISBN : 1571208097
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Civil War Women written by Barbara Brackman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North and South, black and white - the story of the War Between the States is embedded in the soul of every American. In her second book on quilts and the Civil War, Barbara Brackman introduces 9 women who lived during those turbulent times, matching each woman to a quilt that she might have made herself. 9 projects adapted from period quilts, with patterns and instructions. Excellent reference book for Civil War re-enactors; offers creative activities related to each woman’s story. Fascinating information about 9 real-life American women and their experiences during the Civil War, from abolitionist speaker Lucy Stone to freed slave Susie Taylor King to Confederate spy Belle Edmondson. Make a reproduction quilt and forge a personal link to the women of the Civil War!

Book Maps of Missions

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book Maps of Missions written by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary for Library and Information Science

Download or read book Dictionary for Library and Information Science written by Joan Reitz and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is an english-language resource for terminology used in all types of libraries. With more than 4,000 terms and cross-references, the dictionary's content has been carefully selected and includes terms from publishing, printing, literature, and computer science.