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Book Souvenir Spoons of America

Download or read book Souvenir Spoons of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Weekly Market Letters

Download or read book Weekly Market Letters written by Clapp & Company, New York and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Souvenirs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Hitchcock
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-09-16
  • ISBN : 1351740148
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Souvenirs written by Michael Hitchcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: Souvenirs, broadly conceived, are generally thought to be the material counterpart of travels, events, relationships and memories of all kinds. The material items classed as souvenirs discussed in this text have memorial functions, usually connected with the owner's travels. But not all of the items are souvenirs of tourism; they are also souvenirs of other past phenomena, such as political events (suffragettes), colonial history (India), former artistic pre-eminence (Awaji Ningyo puppetry) or former ways of life (South American ceramic archaisms). The authors do not necessarily focus on material souvenirs in their memorial function as prompters of memory. They also use their case studies as starting points for the discussion of many interesting contemporary phenomena, such as cottage industries for economic development in Mexico and Ainu, as devices to invigorate or maintain artistic practices, as emblems of cultural conformity (Surrealists) or as symbolic weapons in national and international political arguments. A key focus of many of the chapters is the question of meaning: what is the meaning of any particular souvenir or collection, and for whom does it bear that meaning?

Book The Spirit of  76

Download or read book The Spirit of 76 written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress  at Washington  Under the Copyright Law     Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office

Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 2666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries  Books  Dramatic Compositions  Maps and Charts

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries Books Dramatic Compositions Maps and Charts written by Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geyer s Stationer

Download or read book Geyer s Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Part 1   B  Group 2  Pamphlets  Etc  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 B Group 2 Pamphlets Etc New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pictorial Souvenirs   Commemoratives of North America

Download or read book Pictorial Souvenirs Commemoratives of North America written by Frank Stefano and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by and published by Jon Orwant. This book was released on with total page 2204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lives They Left Behind

Download or read book The Lives They Left Behind written by Darby Penney and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum—the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny’s careful historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us.” —Oliver Sacks “Fascinating. . . . The haunting thing about the suitcase owners is that it’s so easy to identify with them.” —Newsweek When Willard State Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New York State’s largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients was discovered. Using the possessions found in these suitcases along with institutional records and doctors’ notes from patient sessions, Darby Penney, a leading advocate of patients’ rights, and Peter Stastny, a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker, were able to reconstruct the lives of ten patients who resided at Willard during the first half of the twentieth century. The Lives They Left Behind tells their story. In addition to these human portraits, the book contains over 100 photographs as well as valuable historical background on how this state-funded institution operated. As it restores the humanity of the individuals it so poignantly evokes, The Lives They Left Behind reveals the vast historical inadequacies of a psychiatric system that has yet to heal itself.

Book Masonic Temples

    Book Details:
  • Author : William D. Moore
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781572334960
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Masonic Temples written by William D. Moore and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape. As representations of King Solomon’s temple in ancient Jerusalem erected in almost every American town and city, Masonic temples provided specially designed spaces for the enactment of this influential fraternity’s secret rituals. Using New York State as a case study, Moore not only analyzes the design and construction of Masonic structures and provides their historical context, but he also links the temples to American concepts of masculinity during this period of profound economic and social transformation. By examining edifices previously overlooked by architectural and social historians, Moore decodes the design and social function of Masonic architecture and offers compelling new insights into the construction of American masculinity. Four distinct sets of Masonic ritual spaces—the Masonic lodge room, the armory and drill room of the Knights Templar, the Scottish Rite Cathedral, and the Shriners’ mosque – form the central focus of this volume. Moore argues that these spaces and their accompanying ceremonies communicated four alternative masculine archetypes to American Freemasons—the heroic artisan, the holy warrior, the adept or wise man, and the frivolous jester or fool. Although not a Freemason, Moore draws from his experience as director of the Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library in New York City, where heutilized sources previously inaccessible to scholars. His work should prove valuable to readers with interests in vernacular architecture, material culture, American studies, architectural and social history, Freemasonry, and voluntary associations.