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Book Saint Stephen s Catholic Cemetery

Download or read book Saint Stephen s Catholic Cemetery written by Joseph F. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia

Download or read book Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Common Council  of the City of Philadelphia  for

Download or read book Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia for written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Board of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia

Download or read book Report of the Board of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1870 has appended: Remarks on the origin and mode of progression of yellow fever, in Philadelphia . . . in the months of July, August, and September, 1870. By R. LaRoche, M. D. . . . Philadelphia, 1871.

Book The metropolitan catholic almanac and Laity s directory

Download or read book The metropolitan catholic almanac and Laity s directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Message     Containing the Reports of the Departments

Download or read book Annual Message Containing the Reports of the Departments written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baptisms and Burials from the Records of Christ Church  Philadelphia  1709 1760

Download or read book Baptisms and Burials from the Records of Christ Church Philadelphia 1709 1760 written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ Church was established in 1695 and was the first Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For a number of years it served the entire Anglican community, and by 1760, when St. Peter's was split off from it, more than 10,000 baptisms and burials were recorded in its registers. These registers are intact from 1709, and the baptismal and burial records are abstracted in this work and arranged alphabetically by surname.

Book The Presbyterian Church N Philadelphia

Download or read book The Presbyterian Church N Philadelphia written by William Prescott White and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861 1865

Download or read book Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861 1865 written by Frank Hamilton Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Weekly Mercury

Download or read book The American Weekly Mercury written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Art in Philadelphia

Download or read book Public Art in Philadelphia written by Penny Balkin Bach and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public art is a manifestation of how we see the world-the artist's reflection of our social, cultural, and physical environment." Thus, Penny Bach introduces this fascinating history of public art in Philadelphia, narrated throughout with surprising anecdotes, biographical sketches, and more than 450 illustrations. She explores the artistic, historical, political, and social trends and events that caused the city to acquire such a rich and diverse collection of public art. Philadelphia's tradition of public art reveals the origins of our cyclic longing for public expression: the spiritual roots of Native American culture, the utilitarian needs of the colonial period, the civic glorification of American patriotism, the planning instincts that emerged from the industrial era, and the pursuit of originality and invention in the twentieth century. Guiding the reader through a chronological tour of the city's aesthetic holdings, Public Art in Philadelphia provides a sort of history of American monumental art in microcosm and offers a way to appreciate the public art we encounter, whether it is cast, carved, built, assembled, or painted.As the nation's first capital, Philadelphia began early to commemorate heroics figures, popular leaders, patriotic ideals, and historic events. From Lazzarini's marble figure of Benjamin Franklin to Pinto's Fingerspan in Fairmount Park, form Laurel Hill Cemetery's celebrated sculpture garden to Lipchitz's controversial Government of the People, and from William Penn atop City Hall to the colorful murals by the Anti-Graffiti Network, public art has continued to enhance, define, and challenge Philadelphians' perception of their city.With perhaps the largest collection of public sculpture in the world, Philadelphia's art acquisitions span the history of the United States. Bach examines the gradual transformation over three centuries of style, theme, and reception of statues, murals, and other art forms. Shorter thematic essays make "connections" between works, ideas, artists, and civic missions. A catalogue focuses on more than 200 individual works, noting the materials, dimensions, location history, and commissioning process, and suggesting the vast range of public art. The armchair tourist, for example, can visit Dickens and Little Nell in Clark Park, the John Wanamaker's Eagle, the All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors in Fairmount Park, or the Julius Erving Memorial on Ridge Avenue, among many others. A set of maps encourage readers to view the works in their public context.Public Art in Philadelphia offers a unique tour of both the familiar and the overlooked treasures that give meaning to the public environment, that reconnect art to daily life, and that remind Philadelphia's visitors and residents of what was considered important to previous generations. Author note: Penny Balkin Bach is Executive Director of the Fairmount Park Art Association, the nation's first non-profit organization dedicated to the integration of art and urban planning. She is also the author of Form and Function: Proposals for Public Art for Philadelphia.

Book Nicolaus Steno

    Book Details:
  • Author : Troels Kardel
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-13
  • ISBN : 3642250793
  • Pages : 743 pages

Download or read book Nicolaus Steno written by Troels Kardel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achievements in anatomy and geology, of his encounters with Swammerdam, Malpighi and with members of the newly established Royal Society of London and the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, and with the philosopher Spinoza. It further treats Stensen’s religious conversion. The book includes the full set of Steno's anatomical and geological scientific papers in original language. The editors thoroughly translated the original Latin text to English, and included numerous footnotes on the background of this bibliographic and scientific treasure from the 17th century.

Book Thomas Holme  1624 1695

Download or read book Thomas Holme 1624 1695 written by Irma Corcoran and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The odyssey of Thomas Holme, William Penn's first surveyor general, began when Holme enrolled in the war against Charles I and proceeded through England, and, finally, to William Penn's Province of PA. He was a captain in Cromwell's army, a Quaker minister, author, and administrator, and landholder and merchant. It was from this life that William Penn drafted him to be the first surveyor general of his province. There he laid out the city of Phila., oversaw the surveying and settlement of southeastern PA, and participated in the formation of the gov't. that has been called the protopye of the gov't. of the U.S. Throughout the struggles of the first dozen years of PA he was a partisan and defender of the interests of William Penn. Maps.