Author: Washington D.C., metrop. mechanics' instPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A record of the first exhibition of the Metropolitan mechanics' institute, held in the east wing of the Patent office
Author: Washington D.C., metrop. mechanics' instPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The First Smithsonian Collection
Author: Helena E. WrightPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 193562363X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015 Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016 In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution, it was also the first public print collection in the nation, and it presented an important symbol of cultural authority. The prints formed part of the library of Vermont Congressman George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882), a member of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents. The uncertainty of the Smithsonian's mission in the early years complicated its motivation for purchasing the collection, especially given Marsh’s position as a Regent in financial difficulty. After a serious fire in 1865, portions of the collection were deposited at the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Efforts to reclaim it began in the 1880s, as a new generation of Smithsonian staff expanded the National Museum, but they achieved only mixed success. Through the story of the Marsh Collection, the book explores the cultural values attributed to prints in the 19th century, including their prominent role in expositions and their influence on visual culture at a time when collecting styles were moving from an individual’s private contemplation of artworks to wider public venues of exposition in museums and reception by multiple audiences. The history of this first Smithsonian collection enlivens an important stage in the development of American cultural identity and in the formation of the Smithsonian as a national institution.
Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide (1024 BCE to 1899):
Author: William ShurtleffPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914691
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 1283
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 351 color photos or illustrations, Free of charge in digital format on Google Books,
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the United Kingdom and Ireland (1613-2015)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko AoyagiPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 333 color photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of Periodical Works Belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, January 1, 1866
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Painted Journeys
Author: Peter H. HassrickPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152680
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution—where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture. Originally from New York State, Stanley journeyed west in 1842 to paint Indian life. During the U.S.-Mexican War, he joined a frontier military expedition and traveled from Santa Fe to California, producing sketches and paintings of the campaign along the way—work that helped secure his fame in the following decades. He was also appointed chief artist for Isaac Stevens’s survey of the 48th parallel for a proposed transcontinental railroad. The essays in this volume, by noted scholars of American art, document and reflect on Stanley’s life and work from every angle. The authors consider the artist’s experience on government expeditions; his solo tours among the Oregon settlers and western and Plains Indians; and his career in Washington and search for government patronage, as well as his individual works. With contributions by Emily C. Burns, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Melissa Speidel, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Emily C. Wilson, the essays in this volume convey the full scope of John Mix Stanley’s artistic accomplishment and document the unfolding of that uniquely American vision throughout the artist’s colorful life. Together they restore Stanley to his rightful place in the panorama of nineteenth-century American life and art.
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Bibliography of North American Conchology Previous to the Year 1860
Author: William Greene BinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
History of Soy Sauce (160 CE To 2012)
Author: William ShurtleffPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914446
Category : Fermented soyfoods
Languages : en
Pages : 2523
Book Description