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Book Memoir Prepared at the Request of the Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York  and Presented to the Mayor of the City at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals

Download or read book Memoir Prepared at the Request of the Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York and Presented to the Mayor of the City at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Download or read book Views and Viewmakers of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.

Book Overcoming Niagara

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Dorothy Larkin
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2018-02-01
  • ISBN : 1438468237
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Overcoming Niagara written by Janet Dorothy Larkin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the nineteenth-century canal age in the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon. In Overcoming Niagara Janet Dorothy Larkin analyzes the canal age from the perspective of the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland between 1792 and 1837. She shows what drove the transportation revolution, not the conventional story of westward expansion and the international/metropolitan rivalry between Great Britain and the United States, but a dynamic connection, cooperation, and healthy competition in a transnational-borderland region. Larkin focuses on North America’s three most vital waterways—the Erie, Oswego, and Welland Canals. Canadian and American transportation leaders and promoters mutually sought to overcome the natural and artificial barriers presented by Niagara Falls by building an integrated, interconnected canal system, thus strengthening the borderland economy and propelling westward expansion, market development, and the Niagara tourist industry. On the heels of the Erie Canal’s bicentennial in 2017, Overcoming Niagaraexplores the transnational nature of the canal age within the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland, and its impact on the commercial and cultural landscape of this porous region.

Book Secretary of State  1825 1829

Download or read book Secretary of State 1825 1829 written by Henry Clay and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Secretary of State Henry Clay and the Adams administration, 1827 is a year of crisis. Turbulent relations with Latin America are marked by the seizure of American trading vessels off Montevideo. Border strife with Britain threatens in northern Maine, while American retaliation for the closing of the British West Indies to U.S. trade provokes warnings of war from the opposition in Congress. With the campaign for the next presidency in full swing, Clay is again forced to defend himself against Andrew Jackson's charges of "bribery and corruption." Opposition gains in the fall elections foreshadow Jackson's 1828 victory, but at year's end, the resilient Clay continues to hope. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Book Art and the Empire City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0870999575
  • Pages : 658 pages

Download or read book Art and the Empire City written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Book Dictionary of Books  relating to America  From its Discovery to the Present Time

Download or read book Dictionary of Books relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book Prints and Printmakers of New York State  1825 1940

Download or read book Prints and Printmakers of New York State 1825 1940 written by David Tatham and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, New York has been a microcosm of the art and craft of American printmaking. Until 1825, printmaking in America was almost entirely an artisan's craft. Then, with the arrival of lithography, the realization arose that printmaking could also be a fine art. The essays published in this collection contribute to the body of scholarship by identifying important but hitherto insufficiently studied aspects of the graphic arts and treating them authoritatively. Their subjects concern prints in New York State, whose great metropolitan city was, after 1825, the acknowledged center of nearly everything important in the graphic arts in the U.S. The history of American prints from 1825 on is enormously rich, yet until the 1970s it was the least studied and understood aspect of the history of art in North America. It is a history more deeply rooted in popular culture and more closely tied, for a long time, to the world of commerce than the other arts. The usually small-scale, sometimes ephemeral, and often highly subtle (or highly unsubtle) nature of prints makes it easy to overlook them. The collection of essays included here were originally presented at the Twelfth Annual North American Print Conference, held in 1981 in Syracuse, New York. Locally organized, these conferences have been held during the last decade throughout the U.S. and Canada to further the study of the history of the pictorial graphic arts in North America. Contributors include several leading historians of the graphic arts of nineteenth-century America. Their chapters bring to life and flesh out figures who were previously little more than names, establish facts that correct long-held erroneous assumptions, introduce many prints of exceptional interest that have remained out of the public view for generations, and provide a rich, new context for many familiar images.

Book Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America

Download or read book Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America written by Thomas Budd and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Prices Current

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Book The History and Topography of the United States of North America

Download or read book The History and Topography of the United States of North America written by John Howard Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enterprising Waters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brad L. Utter
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2020-03-01
  • ISBN : 1438478267
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Enterprising Waters written by Brad L. Utter and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the story of the Erie Canal from its inception to today. One of the largest public works projects in American history, the Erie Canal inspired a nationwide transportation revolution and directed the course of New York and American history. When completed in 1825, the engineering marvel unlocked the Western interior for trade and settlement, boomtowns sprang up along the canal’s path, and New York City grew to be the nation’s most powerful center of international trade. Millions of people poured into New York (and some through it) to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities provided by the canal, influencing settlement and the social, political, and commercial landscapes of America. Produced in honor of the bicentennial of the beginning of construction of the canal, Enterprising Waters—a companion catalog to the New York State Museum’s exhibition of the same name—includes reproductions of objects and images from the collections of more than thirty-five different institutions and individual lenders. It also contains reproductions of fifty-nine works of art used in the companion exhibition “Art of the Erie Canal.” Themes of politics, engineering, commerce, life on the canal, and more are paired with full color images of artifacts, documents, and images to bring this unique American story to life, from its inception to today. “Enterprising Waters is, like the Erie Canal itself, an ambitious achievement. Its spectacular visual images vividly portray the waterway’s material world as well as its artistic legacy, while the accompanying text concisely covers two centuries of Erie Canal history. No matter how much, or how little, readers know already about New York’s artificial waterways, they can learn from (and enjoy!) this beautiful catalog.” — Carol Sheriff, author of The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862 “A fine presentation in words and images of the great project that inspired New York and the nation.” — Gerard Koeppel, author of Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire

Book New York City Mayors

Download or read book New York City Mayors written by Ralph J. Caliendo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the American library of     George Brinley  by J H  Trumbull    Special ed

Download or read book Catalogue of the American library of George Brinley by J H Trumbull Special ed written by James Hammond Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr  George Brinley of Hartford  Conn

Download or read book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr George Brinley of Hartford Conn written by George Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr  George Brinley

Download or read book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr George Brinley written by George Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: