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Book Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity

Download or read book Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity written by Andrew M'Makin and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity

Download or read book Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity written by John Caspar Wild and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity

Download or read book Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity written by John Caspar Wild (lithographer.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philadelphia on Stone

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  • Author : Erika Piola
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 027105252X
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Philadelphia on Stone written by Erika Piola and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878"--Provided by publisher.

Book John Caspar Wild

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  • Author : John William Reps
  • Publisher : Missouri History Museum
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1883982553
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book John Caspar Wild written by John William Reps and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer, produced some of the earliest known depictions of urban America in the nineteenth century. This heavily illustrated book presents artist Wild's paintings and prints, and a catalogue raisonné identifies all of his known works"--Provided by publisher.

Book Narrating the Landscape

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  • Author : Matthew N. Johnston
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 0806154969
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Narrating the Landscape written by Matthew N. Johnston and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period’s landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age’s defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology. Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature, reports of geological surveys, ethnographic studies: all of these new print vehicles brought new meanings to the interplay of time, space, and place as American continental expansion peaked. Instrumental to that project of national and industrial growth, these commercial and scientific publications introduced readers, travelers, and citizens to a changing North American landscape made more accessible by new travel routes blazed between 1825 and 1875. More fundamentally, as Johnston shows in his nuanced analysis, by simulating new temporal frameworks through their presentation of landscape, these print materials established new models of consumption and new kinds of knowledge critical to expansion. Johnston relates these sources to traditional art historical subjects—the landscapes of the Hudson River school, luminist paintings by John Kensett and William Trost Richards, Native portraits painted by George Catlin, and photographs by Timothy O’Sullivan—to show how key discourses associated with expansion shifted away from picturesque strategies pairing imagery and narrative toward entirely new forms that gave temporal structure to viewers’ experience of an emerging modernity. Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

Book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress

Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accession list of atlases received by the Library of Congress from 1909-1973. Volumes 3-6 each contain their own index.

Book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress  Titles 4088 5324

Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress Titles 4088 5324 written by Library of Congress. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress

Download or read book A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress

Download or read book A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Division of Maps and Charts and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Settlement of the Estate  General George Washington

Download or read book Final Settlement of the Estate General George Washington written by Stanislaus Vincent Henkels and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philadelphia Stories

Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.

Book City Water  City Life

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  • Author : Carl Smith
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 022602265X
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book City Water City Life written by Carl Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.

Book A Checklist of American Imprints for 1838

Download or read book A Checklist of American Imprints for 1838 written by and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 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 1884 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: