Author: Minnesota State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Minnesota State Fair
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Official Directory of the Grounds with Map
Author: Minnesota State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota State Fair
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Official Map and Directory of State Fair Grounds, Sacramento, California
Author: California. State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Fairs
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Guide to the World's Fair Grounds and Buildings and Official Directory with Map and Illustrations
Author: John Joseph FlinnPublisher:
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Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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Author: Wisconsin Control Data
Author: Guide to the World's Fair Grounds and Buildings and Official Directory with Map and Illustrations. October ...
Author: John Joseph FlinnPublisher:
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Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
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The Shape of Texas
Author: Richard V. FrancavigliaPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Gaining Ground
Author: Nancy S. SeasholesPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
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