Download or read book The Nineteenth Century Parks of Hartford written by John Alexopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Souvenir of the Public Parks of Hartford Conn written by Hartford (Conn.). Board of Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Hartford of the Nineteenth Century written by Helen Post Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hopes and Expectations written by Barbara J. Beeching and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s. Based on a treasure trove of more than two hundred personal letters written in the 1860s, Hopes and Expectations tells the story of three young African Americans in the North. Living on Marylands eastern shore, schoolteacher Rebecca Primus sent home weeklies to her parents in Hartford and also corresponded with friend Addie Brown, a domestic worker back home. Addie wrote voluminously to Rebecca, lamenting their separation and describing her struggle to achieve a semblance of security and stability. Around the same time, Rebeccas brother, Nelson, began writing home about his new life in Boston, as he set out to make a name and a career for himself as an artist. The letters describe their daily lives and touch on race, class, gender, religion, and politics, offering rare entry into individual black lives at that time. Through extensive archival research, Barbara J. Beeching also shows how the story of the Primus family intersects with changes over time in Hartfords black community and the country. Newspapers and census tracts, as well as probate, land, court, and vital records help her trace an arc of local black fortunes between 1830 and 1880. Seeking full equality, blacks sought refinement and respectability through home ownership, literacy, and social gains. One of the many paradoxes Beeching uncovers is that just as the Civil War was tearing the nation apart, a recognizable black middle class was emerging in Hartford. It is a story of individuals, family, and community, of expectation and disappointment, loss and endurance, change and continuity. This is a powerful book and a truly important story. Beeching provides a richly detailed survey of life in Connecticut, the political and racial climates at various historical moments, and the web of intraracial and interracial networks that informed the Primus family experiences. Multifaceted and thoroughly absorbing, Hopes and Expectations will reintroduce people to a New England that they thought they knew. Lois Brown, author of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution
Download or read book Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works a Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches by Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Register of Historic Places written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Connecticut Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Places of Invention written by Arthur P. Molella and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right time, or is it more than that? How does “place”—whether physical, social, or cultural—support, constrain, and shape innovation? Why does invention flourish in one spot but struggle in another, even very similar location? In short: Why there? Why then? Places of Invention frames current and historic conversation on the relationship between place and creativity, citing extensive scholarship in the area and two decades of investigation and study from the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The book is built around six place case studies: Hartford, CT, late 1800s; Hollywood, CA, 1930s; Medical Alley, MN, 1950s; Bronx, NY,1970s; Silicon Valley, CA, 1970s–1980s; and Fort Collins, CO, 2010s. Interspersed with these case studies are dispatches from three “learning labs” detailing Smithsonian Affiliate museums’ work using Places of Invention as a model for documenting local invention and innovation. Written by exhibition curators, each part of the book focuses on the central thesis that invention is everywhere and fueled by unique combinations of creative people, ready resources, and inspiring surroundings. Like the locations it explores, Places of Invention shows how the history of invention can be a transformative lens for understanding local history and cultivating creativity on scales of place ranging from the personal to the national and beyond.
Download or read book Great Expectations written by Barbara Jean Beeching and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Musician and Teacher in Nineteenth Century New England written by Terese Volk Tuohey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a need for historical studies in music education that focuses on the common person. Historians in general have been doing this for years, but music education history has yet to catch up to the field. Although there have been many biographies and biographical studies about the more well-known music educators, little has been done investigating what teaching was like for the average teacher, and even less is known about teaching music in the early years of music education in the United States. A Musician and Teacher in Nineteenth Century New England: Irving Emerson, 1843-1903 argues that understanding history requires knowledge of the people who lived during the time. This bookfocuses on what Irving Emerson’s life was like as a musician and music teacher during this early and critical period of music education. During this time in history, the growth of music as a curricular study in the United States, from singing schools to classroom singing and note-reading, paralleled Emerson’s teaching career. It was because of the groundwork established by music teachers like Irving Emerson that the music curriculum developed in the twentieth century to include music appreciation, instrumental music ensembles and marching band, along with general music classes and choral music education. This is an invaluable resource to music educators, musicians, and historians alike in understanding the beginnings and formation of what is today music appreciation in the education system.
Download or read book Gervase Wheeler written by Renée Tribert and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gervase Wheeler was an English-born architect who designed such important American works as the Henry Boody House in Brunswick, Maine; the Patrick Barry House in Rochester, New York; and the chapels at Bowdoin and Williams colleges. But he was perhaps best known as the author of two influential architecture books, Rural Homes (1851) and Homes for the People (1855). Yet Wheeler has remained a little known, enigmatic figure. Renée Tribert and James F. O'Gorman's study sheds new light on the course of Wheeler's career in the states, and brings crucial issues to the fore—the international movement of ideas, the development of the American architectural profession, the influence of architectural publications on popular taste, and social history as expressed in the changing nature of the American house. Wheeler's career is traced chronologically and geographically and the book is lavishly illustrated with over fifty images, including building plans and historical photographs.
Download or read book Domesticating the Street written by Peter C. Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American city streets at the turn of the century were chaotic places where pedestrians, peddlers, vehicles, and playing children competed noisily for space. How did this scene disappear in so many urban areas, replaced by a modern streetscape dominated by traffic? Domesticating the Street locates this important change in the Progressive Era, when growing alarm about the impact of the urban environment inspired attempts to make public space conform to the values of the middle-class home. Taking the city of Hartford, Connecticut as a case study, Peter C. Baldwin examines reformers' efforts to fight the litter, prostitution, child labor, and peddling that made streets so anti-thetical to Progressive ideas of decorum. Though these reformers failed, finally, to purify the streets, business-oriented individuals and groups developed a different strategy, dividing public space into a complex system of thoroughfares, pleasure drives, side streets, public markets, landscaped parks, ball fields, and playgrounds. Vice and crime weren't eliminated, but they were displaced to marginal streets and off-street alternatives. This successful reform movement culminated in the adoption of land-use zoning regulations in the 1920s. Hartford's reform of its public space predated the flood of automobile traffic so often blamed for transforming the streets. In order to understand fully the current condition of American public spaces, Baldwin suggests, we need to look at the complex moral and commercial reform tradition that made it possible -- not simply at the effects of technology.
Download or read book Research Papers written by Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philanthropic fields of interest pt 1 Areas of activity pt 2 Additional perspectives written by Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
