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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Pamphlets on Overland Mail
Author: The Overland Mail, 1849-1869
Author: Le Roy Reuben HafenPublisher: Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Butterfield Overland Mail
Author: Waterman L. OrmsbyPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789125588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby’s reports, which soon appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed. “A most interesting account of the first westbound trip of an overland mail stage.”—Southern California Historical Society Quarterly “The best narrative of the trip and one of the best accounts of western travel by stage.”—Pacific Historical Review “If other travelers had been as careful and observant as Ormsby we should know vastly more about our country and the ways of our fathers than we do...The book is fascinating. It will prove interesting to all who care for travelogues, the history of the West, and particularly to those interested in our economic history.”—Journal of Economic History
Bradshaw's railway &c. through route and overland guide to India, Egypt, and China; or The traveller's manual [&c. Title varies. Afterw.]. Bradshaw's through route overland guide to India, and colonial handbook [afterw.] Bradshaw's through routes to the capitals of the world and overland guide to India, Persia, and the Far East [afterw.] Bradshaw's through routes to the chief cities of the world. [Issues for 1858-62, 65, 69, 71/2, 73/4, 75/6, 78/9, 84, 98, 1903, [07] 13].
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Author: George BradshawThe American Postal Network, 1792-1914 Vol 2
Author: Richard R JohnPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040251048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
Ames Library Pamphlet Collection
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A collection of monographs related to Indian history and civilization, as well as the British experience in India, from the 18th through the 20th centuries; includes some non-Indic material.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Board of Trade
Author: Great Britain. Board of Trade. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki HuhtamoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.