Author: John Lowell Pratt
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780517489703
Category : Digital electronics.
Languages : en
Pages :

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Representative prints trace the chronological history of America up to the end of the 19th century

Author: N. Currier (Firm)
Publisher: [New York] : Promontory Press
ISBN: 9780883940310
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Winifred Morgan
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133073
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.

Author: Stephen F. Mills
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135958866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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American landscapes are some of the best-known images in the world: we recognize Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, the Manhattan skyline, and the streets of San Francisco in a thousand advertisements and TV shows. But how have these places come to be as they are, and why are some places familiar while others are quite unknown? The American Landscape introduces the reader to the changing face of the American environment, tracing the way in which the present array of forests and farms, parks and superhighways, cities and suburbs have come about, and how these changes have been thought about, painted, turned into movie sets, etc.

Author: Lee Clark Mitchell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400856159
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensions Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Dennis G. Waring
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819565082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.

Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1642

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Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries
Publisher: Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999575
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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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