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Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Story of the Sesqui-centennial Celebration of Pittsburgh, July 4, September 27 to October 3, and November 25, 1908
Author: American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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The Sesqui-centennial International Exposition
Author: Erastus Long AustinPublisher:
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Category : Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates LowryPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Charlestown Navy Yard, Historic Resource Study, Volume 3 of 3, 2010
Author: Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania
Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher:
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Category : Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Allegheny River flows through the counties of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Clarion, Venango, Forest, and Warren.
Women of the West
Author: Max BinheimPublisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Author: Linda P. GrossPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738538884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Held in Philadelphia from May 10 through October 10, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition celebrated the 100th anniversary of American independence. Philadelphia hosted 37 nations in five main buildings and 250 additional structures on 285 acres of land. The celebration looked backward to commemorate the progress made over the 100-year period, and it announced to the world that American invention and innovation was on a par with that of our foreign counterparts. Patriotism abounded, as did messages of industrial and commercial prowess that promised a brighter future for all. Over nine million people attended this awesome consumer spectacle, an event that set the tone for a long series of world's fairs yet to come.
Designing the Centennial
Author: Bruno GibertiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813122311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Designing the Centennial is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the planning of America's first important world's fair -- the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The conflicts between the players -- scientists and engineers, planners and politicians, organizers and their audience -- demonstrate wider cultural clashes between a traditional view of things as object lessons and our more current understanding of things as commodities. Bruno Giberti uses the official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to examine the concept of world's fairs, contrasting the 1876 event with other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exhibitions and related institutions. The author goes beyond previous works on world's fairs by investigating the design process and by considering the nature of display -- what people were looking at and how they were looking.
Betas of Achievement
Author: William Raimond BairdPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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