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Book Where We Find Ourselves

Download or read book Where We Find Ourselves written by Margaret Sartor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed into his temporary studios a clientele that was both racially and economically diverse. After his death in 1922, his glass plate negatives remained stored in his darkroom, a tobacco barn, for fifty years. Slated for demolition in the 1970s, the barn was saved at the last moment--and with it, this surprising and unparalleled document of life at the turn of the twentieth century, a turbulent time in the history of the American South. Hugh Mangum's multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the open-door policy of his studio to show us lives marked both by notable affluence and hard work, all imbued with a strong sense of individuality, self-creation, and often joy. Seen and experienced in the present, the portraits hint at unexpected relationships and histories and also confirm how historical photographs have the power to subvert familiar narratives. Mangum's photographs are not only images; they are objects that have survived a history of their own and exist within the larger political and cultural history of the American South, demonstrating the unpredictable alchemy that often characterizes the best art--its ability over time to evolve with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or expectations of the artist.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : United States National Museum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 702 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moody s Analyses of Railroad Investments

Download or read book Moody s Analyses of Railroad Investments written by John Sherman Porter and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American government securities); 1928-53 in 5 annual vols.:[v.1] Railroad securities (1952-53. Transportation); [v.2] Industrial securities; [v.3] Public utility securities; [v.4] Government securities (1928-54); [v.5] Banks, insurance companies, investment trusts, real estate, finance and credit companies (1928-54).

Book The Central and East European Population since 1850

Download or read book The Central and East European Population since 1850 written by F. Rothenbacher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 1523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of three on demographics. All major fields of demographic change are covered. Population figures are given for each population census by sex, civil status and age. Major demographic developments within the family are described providing a commentary on the main population structures and trends.

Book The Benin Massacre

Download or read book The Benin Massacre written by Alan Maxwell Boisragon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subversive Influences in Riots  Looting  and Burning

Download or read book Subversive Influences in Riots Looting and Burning written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark

Download or read book The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark written by Donald Senior and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passion is the climactic event in each of the gospels. This volume elucidates the passion in its historical background and explores its theological breadth and depth. With scholarly finesse and pastoral awareness, the author sets the vibrant message of the passion speaking to our lives and times.

Book Subversive Influences in Riots  Looting  and Burning  October 25 26  31 and November 28  1967  including index

Download or read book Subversive Influences in Riots Looting and Burning October 25 26 31 and November 28 1967 including index written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Title line Inventory of the County Archives of California

Download or read book Title line Inventory of the County Archives of California written by Historical Records Survey (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

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  • Author : United States Naval Observatory
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  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Publications written by United States Naval Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventory of the County Archives of South Carolina

Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of South Carolina written by South Carolina Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859   1914

Download or read book French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859 1914 written by Stephen S Roberts and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859 the French navy was at a high point, having fought alongside the British in the Crimean War and developed a formidable fleet of fast wooden-hulled steam ships of the line. But in that very year the world’s navies had to start over again when French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme introduced the ironclad battleship. The French navy then went through three tumultuous phases. In the 1860s and 1870s it focused on building a new traditionally-structured fleet in which wooden-hulled battleships gave way to iron and steel ships with massive guns and armour. In the 1880s and 1890s this effort was disrupted by a vigorous contest between battleship sailors and advocates of fast steel cruisers and small torpedo craft, leaving France by the end of the 1890s with few new battleships (none as large as the best foreign ships) but some two hundred torpedo boats. The Fashoda crisis in 1898 revealed the weakness of the French navy and between 1900 and 1914 the French focused on building a strong battle fleet. In 1914 this fleet remained well behind those of Britain and Germany in numbers, but taken individually French warships remained among the best in the world. This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 January 1859 and World War I. It includes everything from the largest battleships to a small armoured gunboat that looked like a floating egg. The ships are listed in three separate parts to keep contemporary ships together and then by ship type and class. For each class the book provides a design history explaining why the ships were built, substantial technical characteristics for the ships as completed and after major reconstructions, and selected career milestones including the ultimate fate of each ship. Like its predecessors written jointly with Rif Winfield, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786 and French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861, with which it forms the third in a trilogy, it provides a complete picture of the overall development of French warships over a period of almost three centuries.

Book Annual Report on the Mineral Industries of Canada

Download or read book Annual Report on the Mineral Industries of Canada written by Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Engineering Board of Review of the Sanitary District of Chicago on the Lake Lowering Controversy and Remedial Measures

Download or read book Report of the Engineering Board of Review of the Sanitary District of Chicago on the Lake Lowering Controversy and Remedial Measures written by Chicago Sanitary District. Engineering Board of Review and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christianity in China

Download or read book Christianity in China written by Xiaoxin Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.

Book Statistical Report

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  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Statistical Report written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: