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Book Logic  Or  The Art of Thinking

Download or read book Logic Or The Art of Thinking written by Antoine Arnauld and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wars on the Seaboard

Download or read book The Wars on the Seaboard written by Charles Card Smith and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World

Download or read book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World

Download or read book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World written by J.B. Lippincott Company and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 2934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Port Royal Cemetery   Concession A  Lot 10  South Walsingham Township  Norfolk County

Download or read book Port Royal Cemetery Concession A Lot 10 South Walsingham Township Norfolk County written by Poole, Pat and published by [Delhi, Ont.] : Norfolk County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society. This book was released on 1990 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States  Illustrations

Download or read book Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States Illustrations written by Francis Trevelyan Miller and published by Hartford, Connecticut. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is undoubtedly the most valuable collection of historic photographs in America. It is believed to be the first time that the camera was used so extensively and practically on the battle-field. It is the first known collection of its size on the Western Continent and it is the only witness of the scenes enacted during the greatest crisis in the annals of the American nation. As a contribution to history it occupies a position that the higher art of painting, or scholarly research and literal description, can never usurp. It records a tragedy that neither the imagination of the painter nor the skill of the historian can so dramatically relate. The existence of this collection is unknown by the public at large. Even while this book has been in preparation eminent photographers have pronounced it impossible, declaring that photography was not sufficiently advanced at that period to prove of such practical use in War. Distinguished veterans of the Civil War have informed me that they knew positively that there were no cameras in the wake of the army. This incredulity of men in a position to know the truth enhances the value of the collection inasmuch that its genuineness is officially proven by the testimony of those who saw the pictures taken, by the personal statement of the man who took them, and by the Government Records. For forty-two years the original negatives have been in storage, secreted from public view, except as an occasional proof is drawn for some special use. How these negatives came to be taken under most hazardous conditions in the storm and stress of a War that threatened to change the entire history of the world is itself an interesting historical incident. Moreover, it is one of the tragedies of genius. While the clouds were gathering, which finally broke into the Civil War in the United States, there died in London one named Scott-Archer, a man who had found one of the great factors in civilization, but died poor and before his time because he had overstrained his powers in the cause of science. It was necessary to raise a subscription for his widow, and the government settled upon the children a pension of fifty pounds per annum on the ground that their father was "the discoverer of a scientific process of great value to the nation, from which the inventor had reaped little or no benefit." This was in 1857, and four years later, when the American Republic became rent by a conflict of brother against brother, Mathew B. Brady of Washington and New York, asked the permission of the Government and the protection of the Secret Service to demonstrate the practicability of Scott-Archer's discovery in the severest test that the invention had ever been given. Brady was an artist by temperament and gained his technical knowledge of portraiture in the rendezvous of Paris. He had been interested in the discoveries of Niepce and Daguerre and Fox-Talbot along the crude lines of photography but with the introduction of the collodion process of Scott-Archer he accepted the science as a profession and, during twenty-five years of labor as a pioneer photographer, took the likenesses of the political celebrities of the epoch and of eminent men and women throughout the country. Brady's request was granted and he invested heavily in cameras which were made specially for the hard usage of warfare. These cameras were cumbersome and were operated by what is known as the old wet-plate process, requiring a dark room which was carried with them onto the battle-fields. The experimental operations under Brady proved so successful that they attracted the immediate attention of President Lincoln, General Grant and Allan Pinkerton, known as Major Allen and chief of the Secret Service. Equipments were hurried to all divisions of the great army and some of them found their way into the Confederate ranks. To be continue in this ebook...

Book The Shipowner s and Shipmaster s Directory to the Foreign Port Charges     together with the sailing directions  depths of water  descriptions of the ports     Also the London printed rates of freight     Brought up to September  1844

Download or read book The Shipowner s and Shipmaster s Directory to the Foreign Port Charges together with the sailing directions depths of water descriptions of the ports Also the London printed rates of freight Brought up to September 1844 written by James DANIEL (Writer on Port Charges.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Western Atlantic Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Western Atlantic Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure written by Victoria Sandz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreck's name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.

Book Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States

Download or read book Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States written by United States. Department of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy

Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy written by United States. Navy Dept and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Secretary of the Navy

Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Navy written by United States. Navy Dept and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy

Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shipowner s and Shipmaster s Directory to the Foreign Port Charges     Together with the Sailing Directions  Depths of Water  Descriptions of the Ports     Also the London Printed Rates of Freight     Brought Up to September  1844

Download or read book The Shipowner s and Shipmaster s Directory to the Foreign Port Charges Together with the Sailing Directions Depths of Water Descriptions of the Ports Also the London Printed Rates of Freight Brought Up to September 1844 written by Directories. - Ports and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chrisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 2030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book House Documents  Otherwise Publ  as Executive Documents

Download or read book House Documents Otherwise Publ as Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Slave s Little Friends

Download or read book The Slave s Little Friends written by Carme Manuel and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children “to feel right,” and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters. Reading was equated with knowledge and knowledge was equated with moral responsibility, and therefore reading about “the abominations of slavery” became an act of emotional personal transformation. Children were thus turned into powerful agents of political change and potential activists to spread the abolitionist message. Invited to comply with a higher law that entailed the breaking of their nation’s edicts, they were morally rewarded by the Christian God and approvingly applauded by their elders for their violation of these same American regulations. These texts enclosed immeasurable value for young nineteenth-century Americans to fulfill a more democratic and egalitarian role in their future. Undoubtedly, abolitionist writings for children took away American children’s innocence and transformed them into juvenile abolitionists and empowered compassionate citizens.