Author:
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 9780896582262
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book explores historical information, fascinating details about the owners and architects, and specifics of the architecture.
The Grace and Grandeur of Natchez Homes
Author:
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 9780896582262
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book explores historical information, fascinating details about the owners and architects, and specifics of the architecture.
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 9780896582262
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book explores historical information, fascinating details about the owners and architects, and specifics of the architecture.
The Majesty of Natchez
Author: Steven Brooke
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781565541580
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Beautiful exterior shots and rare interior photos perfectly complement the stories behind some of the most famous homes in Natchez, one of the best-preserved bastions of the Old South. Steven Brooke is an internationally acclaimed architectural photographer who has received a National Honor Award for Photography from the American Institute of Architects.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781565541580
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Beautiful exterior shots and rare interior photos perfectly complement the stories behind some of the most famous homes in Natchez, one of the best-preserved bastions of the Old South. Steven Brooke is an internationally acclaimed architectural photographer who has received a National Honor Award for Photography from the American Institute of Architects.
It Happened in Mississippi
Author: Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493004565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
It Happened in Mississippi takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Magnolia State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493004565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
It Happened in Mississippi takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Magnolia State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
First Lady of the Confederacy
Author: Joan E. Cashin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
The Great Houses of Natchez
The Majesty of Natchez
Author: Brooke, Steven
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455608164
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455608164
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Architecture and Interior Design Through the 18th Century
Author: Buie Harwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
For courses in History of Architecture, Interior Design, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts. Exceptionally comprehensive, this single-source text/reference allows students to compare and contrast architecture, interior design, interior architectural features, design details, motifs, furniture, space planning, color, lighting, textiles, interior surface treatments, and decorative accessories through many centuries from antiquity to the 18th century from the many regions of the world. Additionally, it includes later interpretations of architecture, interiors, and furniture to illustrate the evolution of each stylistic influence, and examples of costumes. The volume is extensively illustrated and features many diagrammed illustrations with explanatory notes highlighting specific design features.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
For courses in History of Architecture, Interior Design, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts. Exceptionally comprehensive, this single-source text/reference allows students to compare and contrast architecture, interior design, interior architectural features, design details, motifs, furniture, space planning, color, lighting, textiles, interior surface treatments, and decorative accessories through many centuries from antiquity to the 18th century from the many regions of the world. Additionally, it includes later interpretations of architecture, interiors, and furniture to illustrate the evolution of each stylistic influence, and examples of costumes. The volume is extensively illustrated and features many diagrammed illustrations with explanatory notes highlighting specific design features.
The Great Houses of Natchez
Author: Mary Warren Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878053056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Examines the architecture, history, and interior style of fifty-nine antebellum houses
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878053056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Examines the architecture, history, and interior style of fifty-nine antebellum houses
Natchez
Author: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Two hundred stunning photographs complement a beautiful celebration of architecture, lifestyle, history, and interior design in a study of some of the great antebellum houses that mark the architectural heritage of Natchez, Mississippi. 12,000 first printing.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Two hundred stunning photographs complement a beautiful celebration of architecture, lifestyle, history, and interior design in a study of some of the great antebellum houses that mark the architectural heritage of Natchez, Mississippi. 12,000 first printing.
Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects
Author: Richard Anthony Lewis
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807142182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here. Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs's life and career, situating his work along the line of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and paintings to later twentieth-century photographs by John Clarence Laughlin, among others. Providing the family lineage and construction history of each home, Lewis discusses photographic techniques Tebbs used in his alternating panoramic and detail views. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos. His frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura to many of the images -- an effect compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist. This noticeable vacillation between objectivity and sentiment, Lewis shows, suggests unfamiliarity and even discomfort with the legacy of slavery. Poised on the brink of social and political reforms, Louisiana in the mid-1920s had made significant strides away from the slave-based agricultural economy that the plantation house often symbolized. Tebbs's Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a burgeoning national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. Select plantations included: Ashland/Belle Helene, Avery Island, Belle Chasse, Belmont, Butler-Greenwood, L'Hermitage, Oak Alley, Parlange, René Beauregard House, Rosedown, Seven Oaks, Shadows-on-the-Teche, The Shades, and Waverly.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807142182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here. Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs's life and career, situating his work along the line of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and paintings to later twentieth-century photographs by John Clarence Laughlin, among others. Providing the family lineage and construction history of each home, Lewis discusses photographic techniques Tebbs used in his alternating panoramic and detail views. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos. His frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura to many of the images -- an effect compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist. This noticeable vacillation between objectivity and sentiment, Lewis shows, suggests unfamiliarity and even discomfort with the legacy of slavery. Poised on the brink of social and political reforms, Louisiana in the mid-1920s had made significant strides away from the slave-based agricultural economy that the plantation house often symbolized. Tebbs's Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a burgeoning national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. Select plantations included: Ashland/Belle Helene, Avery Island, Belle Chasse, Belmont, Butler-Greenwood, L'Hermitage, Oak Alley, Parlange, René Beauregard House, Rosedown, Seven Oaks, Shadows-on-the-Teche, The Shades, and Waverly.