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Book Lawn Tennis as Shown by 19th Century Photography

Download or read book Lawn Tennis as Shown by 19th Century Photography written by Brandt Rowles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a photographic record of early lawn tennis.Tennis in the 19th Century was mostly played by the upper social classes, although some homeowners of moderate income did build private courts. Their courts often were sloped, cow-pasture bumpy, and included hazards such as boulders and trees. Ordinary people mostly wore their formal street clothes to play the game.The photographs in this book show a far different look to the game than that of today.The book looks into the faces of these long dead people and enters the landscapes of their distant years.

Book Early Lawn Tennis in Great Britain as Shown by Photographic Images

Download or read book Early Lawn Tennis in Great Britain as Shown by Photographic Images written by Brandt Rowles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a photographic celebration of early lawn tennis, Lawn tennis in the 19th Century was essentially a game played by the upper social classes, although some homeowners of moderate income did build tennis courts on their property. Courts at the large country manors and estates were established on or near the croquet lawns and often provided a reasonable surface for play. The courts of lesser houses often were sloped, had uneven surfaces and included hazards such as boulders, shrubbery and trees. Players would wear their ordinary every-day clothes to play a game. The photographs in this book show a game very different from that of today. We will look into the faces of these departed people and enter the sunny landscapes of their distant years. Enjoy your journey back through time.

Book American Lawn Tennis

Download or read book American Lawn Tennis written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quirky Guide to Birmingham

Download or read book The Quirky Guide to Birmingham written by R. J. Hutcheson and published by Quirky Guides Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Break from the shackles of traditional guidebooks and bid farewell to the crowds. Free your mind of dull comparisons with Venetian canals. You deserve better and this is the quite interesting stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know. From City Centre to open road, more than 100 unconventionalities await you and they’re all free to see. It’s the street museum of the marvellously mundane, the gratis gallery of graveyards and graffiti. Box fresh oddities are revealed. Age old myths flaunted on shiny plaques are exposed. Uncover astonishing life stories and tragic deaths of Brummies you may not have heard of but won’t be able to forget. If you prefer sofa centric exploration, every chapter is brought to life with exclusive photographs and illustrations.

Book Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs

Download or read book Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs written by Lisa Hodgkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the century, Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs presents iconic garments, using sources from the period, to provide commentary and detailed description of the styles of the time. Previously unpublished vintage photographs show women across the social spectrum wearing items such as the Garibaldi shirt, the cuirass bodice, the Mother Hubbard, bicycle bloomers, and much more. Names, dates and functions of garments are examined in detail, and ties are established between social and historical contexts and the evolution of clothing styles. This illustrated book is for readers who want to identify and understand specific clothing items as well as gain insight into the mind-set of fashionable women from Victorian-era America. Dress history scholars, costume designers, curators of costume collections, social and cultural historians and those who appreciate vintage photographs can learn about elements of late 19th century women's dress and thereby develop an understanding of what was fashionable, and why.

Book The Directory of Museums   Living Displays

Download or read book The Directory of Museums Living Displays written by Kenneth Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tennis and the Newport Casino

Download or read book Tennis and the Newport Casino written by International Tennis Hall Of Fame & Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of American tournament tennis began in 1881 when the Newport Casino hosted the first U.S. National Singles Championship (forerunner of the United States Open) and annually thereafter until 1915. Tournament tennis has been played here ever since, including the present-day Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, an event on the ATP World Tour. A National Historic Landmark, the Newport Casino today houses the world's most complete museum devoted to the sport of tennis and the history of the building. In addition, the site hosts the opening nights of the Newport Folk Festival and Jazz Festival, is home to the recently renovated Casino Theatre, has a court tennis facility, and serves as a destination for visitors worldwide.

Book The British Journal of Photography

Download or read book The British Journal of Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spring Grove State Hospital

Download or read book Spring Grove State Hospital written by David S. Helsel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1797, Spring Grove State Hospital, now known as Spring Grove Hospital Center, is the second oldest continuously operating state psychiatric hospital in the country. This volume will reveal through a broad array of poignant historic images the extensive, complex, and fascinating history of Marylands oldest hospital. Included are interior and exterior photographs of many of the hospitals historic buildings, as well as depictions of daily life at the hospital during a bygone era. The institutions historic pedigree includes its role as a hospital for soldiers and sailors wounded in the Battle of North Point during the War of 1812, and Spring Groves Main Building may have been used to quarter soldiers during the Civil War. Once a largely self-contained asylum, Spring Groves history is closely tied to the crusader Dorothea Dix, as well as to many more recent treatment advances.

Book Inventing the 19th Century

Download or read book Inventing the 19th Century written by Stephen van Dulken and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid picture of the Victorian Age unfolds as inventions from the ground-breaking - such as aspirin, dynamite, and the telephone - to the everyday - like blue jeans and tiddlywinks - are revealed decade by decade. Together they provide a vivid picture of Victorian life."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Download or read book The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden written by Neil DeMause and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conveniently sized to fit in a pocket or bag, this reference includes more than 100 places to visit in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and nearby Botanic Garden. Eleven walking tours cover numerous sites in the Park, including the Zoo and the famed Cherry Walk. Beautiful full-color illustrations and photographs identify various birds and flowers; 20 pages of maps help you navigate and find restrooms and public services.

Book The Photographic News

Download or read book The Photographic News written by Sir William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mid Atlantic Country

Download or read book Mid Atlantic Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Index to the Times

Download or read book Official Index to the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

Book Lesbian Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maggie Magee
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-05-13
  • ISBN : 1134898738
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Lesbian Lives written by Maggie Magee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating a lesbian-specific psychology. Rather, they focus on a set of interrelated issues of far greater salience in our time: the developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and of having lesbian relationships. Their consideration of these issues leads to a rigorous review of major psychoanalytic and biological theories about female homosexuality and a probing examination of current notions of gender identity. These tasks set the stage for Magee and Miller's own model of psychologically mature sexuality between members of the same sex. The developmental and clinical issues taken up in specific chapters of Lesbian Lives include the challenges facing lesbian adolescents; the psychological and social significance of "coming out"; the various meanings and contexts of coming out as a gay or lesbian analyst; the interaction of individual psyche and social context in clinical work with lesbian patients; and the history of homosexual therapists and psychoanalytic training. The chapter on "Bryher," the lesbian-identified life partner of the poet Hilda Doolittle (Freud's patient "H.D."), relying on unpublished documents, is not only a wonderful exemplification of themes developed throughout the work, but an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic history. Lesbian Lives is a heartening sign of the generous scholarship and humane impulse that are transforming psychoanalysis in our time. In writing infused with an experiential immediacy born of personal participation in the stories they tell, Magee and Miller weave a multiplicity of narratives into a fabric of explanation far richer, far more colorful --far truer to lived experience--than anything psychoanalysis has heretofore offered on the subject.

Book Heavyweight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jordana Moore Saggese
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2024-07-05
  • ISBN : 1478059648
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Heavyweight written by Jordana Moore Saggese and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking closely at the “shadow archive” of portrayals across fine art, vernacular imagery, and public media at the turn of the twentieth century, shedemonstrates how the images of boxers reveal the racist stereotypes implicit in them, many of which continue to structure ideas of Black men today. With a focus on both anonymous fighters and notorious champions, including Jack Johnson, Saggese contends that popular images of these men provided white spectators a way to render themselves experts on Blackness and Black masculinity. These images became the blueprint for white conceptions of the Black male body—existing between fear and fantasy, simultaneously an object of desire and an instrument of violence. Reframing boxing as yet another way whiteness establishes the violent mythology of its supremacy, Saggese highlights the role of imagery in normalizing a culture of anti-Blackness.